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Re: Other: Self-rescue
By:Sean Dawe
Date: 4/23/2013, 10:21 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Self-rescue (Mark Joyse)

Actually, I find that wearing a PFD (and a drysuit) does have an effect on your rolling!! When I take my boat to the pool during the winter for rolling practice, I never wear a PFD. Because there is very little buoyancy from just your body, the first part of the roll, i.e., getting inverted, is very easy. After doing this for several months, I think your roll starts to adapt to that.

These past few weeks, the salt water has warmed up a few degrees (about 3 celcius right now) so I've gone back to rolling on the ocean. Of course, I have on my PFD and my drysuit so there is quite ample buoyancy. I like to do Greenland rolls - which tend to be a bit slower - so as I enter the water, I find that the extra flotation of the PFD and suit dramatically affect my ability to get "upside down". I am guessing that the "freedom" of pool rolling is spoiling me. Now that we are back to our weekly open water practices, I suspect that I will regain that "old feeling" and my open (cold) water rolling will be back to normal!!

Sean

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ancient kayaker -- 4/18/2013, 9:42 pm
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Paul Davies -- 4/18/2013, 11:47 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 4/19/2013, 12:13 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 4/19/2013, 2:19 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 4/19/2013, 2:24 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/19/2013, 8:26 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 4/19/2013, 2:24 am
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Jay Babina -- 4/19/2013, 8:18 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/19/2013, 8:31 am
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Mark Joyse -- 4/19/2013, 9:46 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/19/2013, 10:52 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/21/2013, 3:52 am
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Sean Dawe -- 4/19/2013, 1:08 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 4/19/2013, 4:00 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 4/19/2013, 9:58 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 4/20/2013, 9:54 am
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Mark Joyse -- 4/20/2013, 10:39 am
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Sean Dawe -- 4/23/2013, 10:21 am
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Mike Bielski -- 4/20/2013, 10:14 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 4/21/2013, 3:31 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/21/2013, 10:07 am
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Bob Johns -- 4/20/2013, 1:38 am
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Etienne Muller -- 4/20/2013, 4:20 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/24/2013, 4:38 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 4/24/2013, 8:15 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/25/2013, 10:09 am
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Mike Savage -- 4/25/2013, 2:12 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/28/2013, 1:24 am