Matt, The paddler was an older gentleman who did much of the coach training for Ecomarine back in the late 80's. He was doing a course at Tofino with Dan Lewis(he was in a beat-up old Solander original) I forget the year and am at home so will get it when I get to my paddling logs at work. I think it was either a M-II or MAX. Don't remember the color. It was a 5-day instructor training program and we were surfing out at Long beach on a 4-5' day, long period. Most of the other students were having a time in the big conditions and lots of swimming/ chaos was going on. For me, being a ww paddler/ instructor converting to sea paddling, this was a hoot. I was ripping it up in my Prijon seayak! After a number of years 'training' at the LaPush surf pummel this was FUN!!!! Anyway this fellow took a pretty big wave in, it got steep, closed out and he did a bit of a 'sando' (endo when the bow strikes the sand). He flipped and rolled up and I remember he was right up against the forward combing about as far forward as possible. He kept his cool in front of the students but wasn't very happy. We were all impressed with his ability to maintain 'cool' out in those conditions. In de-briefing the day I remember we all agreed that this was a day when you probably would NOT take out students, due to the big conditions. hope this helps. I'll get the exact dates in a couple hours. steve http://mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 06:11:12 PDT
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