Colin said: Sprint boats never have back bracing - in order to drive with your legs you need to be able to move glutes and lower back around in the seat. I am corrected. When I raced sprint boats there were no back braces as such. But some of the seats had a very high back behind the scoop. This acted to keep the butt in the seat but allowed movement. I noticed that some boats did not have this feature. If memory serves, after more than thirty years it probably doesn't, the pushing leg would lift my rear a little and gravity would bring it back, following the contour of the high seat back. This back wasn't more than a couple of inches higher than the left and right edges of the seat. So it wasn't even close to a back brace but had the effect of holding the body in place. The boats I raced were wood, made in Denmark. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 08 2004 - 07:47:48 PDT
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