Olympic style sprint kayaking does actually involve having your hips rotate in the seat. The seats are quite low and smooth and permit your butt to move. A friend of mine actually mounted his seat on lazy-susan bearings allowing his whole seat could rotate. Torso rotation, twisting above the hips, is still part of it, but the movement is initiated by your legs moving your hips. 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. Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.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 Tue Sep 07 2004 - 07:48:08 PDT
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