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I would have to agree. Skulling for support with your body to the ear
in the water is great for impressing girls. It also defines where you
can put the boat on that plane. ( everywhere ) . Practically though, it
has no real purpose. It does make side surfing with a high brace seem
easy.

Sculling from that position and being able to recover from that position is
a big help in rolling. In fact some of my students have realised that in
carrying out a roll, if they can get the boat to that sculling position, a
couple of scull strokes can get them up. On a recent test one of them got
his paddle all wrong and ended up having run out of downward sweep and was
still upside down. he sculled a couple of times and flicked up. The examiner
questioned it, but nonetheless he had rolled using a sculling stroke.

Ewan Scott