I wrote: > I think that will be an unneccessarily complicated way to figure your arm weight. > If you weigh your hand after supporting your shoulder where it pivots and add the paddle weight actually being lifted you should get how much weight you are > effectively lifting. You could weigh your hand at the average arm angle > (during your stroke) to get an average weight for it during the stroke. > Each hand should probably be done separately. The paddle should probably also > be weighed too when you weigh your upper hand by supporting the lower hand > on a box with the paddle at the average angle the upper hand is lifting it through. Niels wrote: >>>>>A few points: - Your arm is ALREADY supported at the shoulder - by the shoulder. There's no need to further support it. - Unless there's a big difference between your arms, there's little reason to weigh them seperately. - There's little reason to weigh your paddle seperately, if you going to add up the weights of arms and paddle anyway.<<<<<< Support it so you can't cheat and add some body weight transferred to you hand by your body. I meant there might be a difference in how high you lift the paddle with each arm. Possibly the extra lift from cocking your wrist back wuth a feathered paddle. I was suggesting the hand and paddle be weighed together but in such a way that you are only weighing the part of the paddle you are lifting with that hand. *************************************************************************** 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 Fri May 06 2011 - 04:33:54 PDT
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