RE: [Paddlewise] Your rolling stories

From: <rebyl_kayak_at_energysustained.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:32:23 +0000
Mark wrote: 
>I was wondering, with the list being so quiet, maybe some 
>one out there would like to share their tales of 
>unexplained capsizes and rolling success!?! 

G'Day 

Not much of a story but all my best rolls were done when I needed them, usually in the surf, and my worst when I was practising and thinking how to do them. Suspect that the practice and thinking are a necessary part of the whole process. But why is it that I can do perfect sweep rolls when I'm accidentally trashed in the surf according to onlookers, and yet when I try to do them deliberately in flat water, five times out of ten they will fail and I have to revert to a Pawlatta? 

Wish they would work to order - clearly a huge amount yet to learn! 

All the best, PeterO 
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