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eskimo roll
Mary Malmros wrote:
reasons that are unclear to me, sea kayakers seem to regard the roll as an incredibly advanced technique that you have to build up to for years and years. They do? Not true of the ones I know, and I'm in an active and reasonably large SK club. In whitewater boating, working on a roll starts right away As it does for sea kayaking, IME. just get worse. And you _do_ want a reliable roll before you venture into the surf, because it is not a good place to swim. I actually got my "roll in anger" greatly improved in /moderate/ surf. For a relative beginner it's more a case of when, rather than if, you go over, and so you get quite a bit of practise of doing it for real. Moderate surf on a sandy beach away from nasty rips is, IMHO, quite a good place to get better at unplanned "real" rolls, and you get some fun riding the waves into the bargain. For the sort of surf you'd be going through because you've no realistic choice, the above "not good" is completely right though. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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