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Re: Off Topic: Rolling
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 1/23/2011, 3:33 pm
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: Rolling (Dave Gentry)

: Oddly, though, there is some actual truth to that, too, at least in
: sea kayaking circles. I learned whitewater kayaking first, and
: learned to roll long before I hit the river. This was the
: standard, and *every* whitewater boater I met also knew how to
: roll (though many of the newer ones couldn't pull it off when
: they needed to).

: When I moved to sea kayaking, I was taken aback, and amazed even,
: at how few of them knew how to roll - and Dubside is definitely
: a rock star there!

Dubside deserves that rep too, though he doesn't act like it, nice guy :)

Helps much if you learn this stuff when you're young and flexible, which I didn't, was building boats professionally then and far to busy to actually use one.

Bill H.

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Les Cheeseman -- 1/20/2011, 4:27 pm
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Stephen Troy -- 1/20/2011, 4:52 pm
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JohnK -- 1/20/2011, 5:38 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 1/20/2011, 8:19 pm
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Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/21/2011, 10:51 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 1/21/2011, 11:28 am
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Mike Bielski -- 1/21/2011, 1:42 pm
Go Mike (Again)
Kurt Maurer -- 1/21/2011, 7:20 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 1/21/2011, 2:17 pm
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Roy Martin (fadedred) -- 1/21/2011, 9:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/22/2011, 1:04 am
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Roy Martin (fadedred) -- 1/22/2011, 8:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/23/2011, 12:28 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/23/2011, 9:03 am
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Dave Gentry -- 1/23/2011, 10:04 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/23/2011, 3:33 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/21/2011, 3:14 pm
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Len Thunberg -- 1/28/2011, 11:24 pm
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Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/29/2011, 10:28 am
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Eric -- 1/21/2011, 12:08 pm