On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:23:03 -0500, "WhiteRabbit" <whiterabbit_0117_at_charter.net> said: > Taking the devils advocate. All the legs do is anchor the lower body. > > It is a wide wide world, but I have never seen or heard of a paddler > actually using their leg power to rotate their hips in the seat. Most > keep their butt relatively still in the seat and rotate at the base > and lower part of the spine. Alas Fred Mechini's excellent website with lots of videos has gone missing. I did find a couple photos of Nashan Baggaley - a double olympic silver medalist. Look at the final bottom 2 photos in his gallery http://www.nathanbaggaley.com.au/pages/gallery.php Note the knee position in each photo - one stroke on the right, one on the left. In both photos he's nearing or just finishing a stroke and his leg, on the side he's paddling on, is nearly straight and the other side is high and ready to drive another stroke. -- Kirk Olsen *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Sep 07 2004 - 07:23:13 PDT
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