"Wilko" wrote in message
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Pepe wrote:

Hey ya'll me and my bud matt finally decided to learn to roll an open
boat and this past Monday
went to the GCA (Ga Canoe Assoc) roll practice pool session to start
training. I am a very visual person and decided that it would be a good
idea to video the training so we/I could learn from it. The link below is
a low res video I did with my digital Nikon still camera of my bud Matt
while he practiced and Allan Hedden was behind shaking and upsetting the
boat to simulate rough water. I won't be starting my practice for a
coupla weeks and I find this video very helpful to learn the techniques
besides it's also fun to watch. Czeck it out at

http://www.loshombresdelrio.com/combat_roll_training/

Its WMV video and it's 2.7 Mb. It'll take a few seconds to load if you
have DSL but on dial up it could take quite a bit longer.

Thanks for sharing, Pepe! That was fun to watch. I still remember the
first time I saw an open boater flip and roll up instantly on a river
(That was Steve Frazier, who's recently departed from canoeing alltogether
:-( ).

That's something else than throwing a playboat around. :-)


Hey, Pepe; can you make another video like that, but from the offside (the
side the paddler is falling over onto)? I'd like to see more of how he sets
up for the roll as he is going over.

--riverman