Elite racers-kayak tragedy: In the referenced account, I didn't see anything about rolling skills, as well as failure to dress for immersion. Hard to brace and get best leverage for turning and rolling with those little short racing paddles. As a former white water paddler, I learned to roll as a manditory entry skill for white water paddling. I capsized many times in class- 5 rapids, but I never had to swim... even once when the spray skirt blew off due to impact compression. The rolling standard is curiously absent from the sea kayaking requisit skill list. Going fast gets all the emphasis, even when the paddlers are headed out to battle the worst conditions the Sea Gods have saved up for us! When heading out into the roughest conditions you can find, it is a serious failure to be totally unprepared to make a fair fight of it! Chuck Sutherland *************************************************************************** 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 Oct 10 2007 - 13:18:43 PDT
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