"Peter Clinch" wrote in message
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Peter wrote:

A pawlata roll is quite easy to do without a hip-flick. In fact that's
one of the nice things about it: less co-ordination required and you're
using leverage rather than brute power so are less likely to do a
naughty to a shoulder too. Not great if you're in a Big Hurry, but more
likely to work if you're not.

Our club starts folk off on pawlatas and then progresses to screws after
that's fairly bombproof. Must say I'm not getting very far with reverse
screws at the moment: back to that "which way is up? what do I do now?
what am I doing here?" feeling I had first time I was trying pawlatas
unassisted!


It is interesting that you teach pawlata first.... I don't anymore for the
reason that people seem to rely on the leverage, and that turns into brute
force with the screw roll. I prefer to teach a non-brute force method of
doing the screw roll, which protects the shoulders etc.

Since I changed to this way of teaching, my success at getting people to
roll has rocketed... the most impressive "victim" went from not started
rolling to rolling in 15 minutes. She of course was an exception, but we
seem to get most people going in a few pool sessions.

Reverse Screw: the thing I did wrong for ages is I was pulling the blade
down in the water, rather than sweeping it out. This gave me a reverse roll,
but quite a weak one. Sweeping it round, and bingo... a much better, safer
roll. I still don't like back deck types of rolls, but they definitely have
their uses.

Peter

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