Michael Daly wrote: > I don't think many of these terms are ideal. I try to describe > things without them. BTW - I really hate, and avoid, the term "head > dink". It's a totally useless term, neither descriptive nor > referencing any common behavior. Maybe Americans dink, but I don't > know any Canadians that do (we share a border, but not an entire > language). I thought it was the English and the Americans who were one people divided by a language. Oh, well... As Roger Schumann says, I'm not the head dink, but sometimes I get to be the assistant dink. When you do a brace, does your head stay centered on your shoulders, or does it move towards the working knee? If it moves--it does, doesn't it?--do you encourage your students to do the same? Do you have a name for that movement? Some people call that a head dink. What do Canadians call it? Of course, Derek says you can dislocate your neck dinking, and we all know that whatever Derek says is ..... right? -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA *************************************************************************** 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 29 2004 - 06:50:17 PDT
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