Mike wrote: >In my Ellesmere, the bucket seat prevent me from getting any >effective motion in my butt - I can't slide around much. Hence, I >only push on the footpegs enough to ensure that I am secure. If I'm >paddling normally, that means virtually no pressure on the footpegs >at all. Only if I'm paddling hard does the foot pressure get >noticable and that's only to secure my body. Any muscle action above >that would be wasted. > >The moral of the story is that if you want to use foot pressure to >increase your paddling speed, you have to have a seat that allows >your butt to slide, just like the K1 racers. If not, you're just >tiring yourself for nothing. I haven't met very many instructors >that understand this, hence they teach pushing on the footpegs >regardless. Well, I think there are shades of gray here that shouldn't be ignored. At the hips, it's the rotation of the skelleton not the skin of your cheeks that counts. Yes, if you want to rotate your pelvis beyond that which your skin/wet suit allows a mechanical device to permit the hips to rotate will help. But (butt?) some motion is better than no motion, so don't think that you have to have a swivel or sliding seat to bring you legs into play - at least to some useful degree. Cheers, Carey *************************************************************************** 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 - 09:56:40 PDT
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