"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per Jeremy:
Another spin on the same idea is that with 0 offset, both blades might hit
the wave at the same time. The result can be quite a jolt.
With some offset, this is hard to do.

Working on that.... It also would seem that with the offset, if one blade
accidentally hit the wave face - as in the paddle being held out horizontally -
the paddle would pivot around the paddler as the other blade sliced into the
wave rather than clothes lining the paddler.

Exactly. Or breaking, if it were so inclined, although usually my nose is
the softer of the two.