Tom said: > I'll have to pay attention to this next time I paddle, but it > seems to me here on land that my elbow stays below my > shoulder in normal strokes. The operative word here is "normal". We had a young 30 something paddler practicing with us once and he was trying to practice bracing while using a paddle float on the end of his blade. A wave knocked him over and his paddle and float stayed on the surface while his body went down. He did not let go of the paddle shaft and wound up dislocating his shoulder. Steve Holtzman *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Jan 15 2005 - 17:55:56 PST
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