On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Craig Jungers wrote: > This is what's confusing for me. The dynamics of a standing wave > seem far > simpler (to me) than ocean surf and I'm having a hard time picturing > all the > motions. To my way of looking at it the dynamics of surf and standing waves are exactly the same if you use the water as your frame of reference. When you are sitting in front of an on coming surf wave, you are essentially motionless to the water underneath your boat with the wave coming towards. When you are drifting down a river coming towards a standing wave, again you and your boat are essentially motionless relative to the water below your boat. Obviously you may be moving relative to the water under the boat, but in both cases it is the water under your boat that you are dealing with at any given moment, so if you use that as your frame of reference you can get a handle on what is happening. In both ocean surf and river standing waves, the wave is approaching you and the chunk of water your boat occupies. In both cases you want to lean towards the wave. On a river this is called leaning down river, but it is really exactly the same thing as you do on surf. Typically we use the river/ocean bottom as our frame of reference, but to the water both surf and river waves are traveling through the water. Instead of thinking of approaching a wave in a river, think of the wave approaching you and you will see you deal with exactly as you would in surf. Nick Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 54 South Rd Groton, CT 06340 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 27 2009 - 10:00:10 PDT
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