I've learned to roll in one direction. My roll is essentially a whitewater style C to C. I've practised the roll to the point that it is relatively instinctive. My next step is to move the roll to the other side. Are there any good tricks or tips for this? Derek --------------------------------------------------------------- Please limit all email attachments sent to this address to a maximum of 0.5MB. All email attachments that are larger then 0.5MB will automatically be deleted. --------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ: 262152266, AIM: GlamourpetsD, MSN: [my email address], Yahoo Messenger: glamourpets --------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Derek wrote: > I've learned to roll in one direction. My roll is > essentially a whitewater style C to C. I've practised > the roll to the point that it is relatively > instinctive. My next step is to move the roll to the > other side. Are there any good tricks or tips for > this? > A sense of humor will be a great help! Bob *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Derek wrote: > My next step is to move the roll to the > other side. Are there any good tricks or tips for > this? Don't think too much about it - just do it. If you try to think about it too much, you'll get twisted around and all bass-akwards. Mike *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Derek said: I've learned to roll in one direction. My roll is essentially a whitewater style C to C. I've practised the roll to the point that it is relatively instinctive. My next step is to move the roll to the other side. Are there any good tricks or tips for this? I believe rolling is one of those things that is learned with individual variations so it's hard to generalize the whole process. In my case, I was a whitewater paddler for many years, mostly slalom racing. So it was good to have a roll on both sides, just to be able to get back into blue skies as quickly as possible. My "onside" roll is on the right - a C to C sort of thing. On the left my roll is a total layback sweep roll. I never intended for it to be different, it just works that way. When I was learning to roll on the left it seemed as though I was learning a totally new skill and not transfering one I already had. Just to give a full explanation - my left leg has no working muscles, so the difference may very well be because there is no assist by driving the knee up at the end on that side. I doubt that any of this will help anyone learn to roll on the offside, except to perhaps take away some of the frustration if you don't realize that it may be like learning the roll anew. 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/ ***************************************************************************
Derek, I am pretty much self taught in the rolling department. also have a good friend that rolls and watches and critiques my rolls. I started in about 1 foot of water, working on the last part of the roll. In my case that was the sweep, lay-back/sit-up portion. ("hip-snap" in there somewhere too) This got me weaned from trying to pull myself up with the wrong knee instead of pulling the boat up with the right one. Also bringing my head up last. I worked to deeper and deeper water and started my roll closer and closer to inverted. This built muscle memory for the last and most critical part of the roll. Working it the same way on the off side should be pretty easy, and if you miss, you don't need to bail out, just prop up on an elbow and think it over a bit. Good luck! Tony Olsen http://kayakbytes.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
An article appeared in this week's Broward-Palm Beach New Times about a kayaker that almost bought it in the Port Everglades channel. According to everything that I know (including direct talks with the kayaker in question) this is a fairly accurate appraisal of the event. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2007-03-08/news/ten-seconds-to-eternity/ Rgds, Jeff Bingham *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
There are similar tales of paddlers in busy channels here in CT, too. And they're used as ammo by certain legislators to try to force us to register our boats. The difference here is that commercial captains are lobbying for registration for that reason, too. Darwin may sort a few out, but the rest of us will pay for it in the end. Wayne Jeff Bingham wrote: > An article appeared in this week's Broward-Palm Beach New Times about a > kayaker that almost bought it in the Port Everglades channel. According to > everything that I know (including direct talks with the kayaker in question) > this is a fairly accurate appraisal of the event. > > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Smith wsmith16_at_charter.net Check out my website!: http://webpages.charter.net/wsmith16/home.html *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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