Re: [Paddlewise] Pawlatta, C to C, Sweep roll

At 02:34 PM 4/11/2005 -0400, Steve Cramer wrote:
>John Fereira wrote:
>
>>A good exercise for this is to practice rotating the kayak with your 
>>hips/knees while holding onto the bow of someone elses boat or the side 
>>of a pool.  When I'm teaching beginners how to "hip snap" I have them do 
>>the following.
>>Grab onto the bow of another boat or the side of the pool and lean over 
>>until your head is in the water. Then try rotating the boat over as far 
>>as possible with your hips/knees.  Then, without taking your head out of 
>>the water try to rotate the boat back upright as much as possible.
>
>Adding to the last sentence of John's comment, I've found it useful to 
>stress rotating the boat to upright and ignoring bringing the body and 
>head out of the water. The C-to-C encourages a model of the body movement 
>as physically analogous to grabbing the end of a hammer handle and 
>bringing it from horizontal to vertical by a twisting motion of the 
>forearm. In other words, the torso moves through an arc in a plane 
>perpendicular to the line of the kayak. If you can stop worrying about 
>getting your body up (yes, I do realize that that's the purpose of the 
>exercise...) and leave it there supported by the water, the boat can 
>rotate better around its long axis and pull you our of the water. That's 
>how it feels when you do it right.

Exactly.  When practicing "boat rotation" at pool sessions I'll suggest 
looking at the bottom of the pool and keeping your face in the water until 
the boat is rotated upright.  Another aid I've found helpful is to use one 
of those foam kick boards.  Try rolling up while holding onto a foam kick 
board (an inflatable paddlefloat works as well) and you pretty much have to 
rotate the boat upright before you can lift your body out of the water.
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