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Sea Kayaks Techniques Bulletin Board
Re: rolling...or not
Posted By: Brian Nystrom In Response To: rolling...or not (Tom)
Date: Friday, 7 March 2003, at 12:37 p.m.
A good instructor will pick up on your strengths and weaknesses and adapt his teaching technique you you, rather than forcing you to do a specific roll. Some instructons get locked into one teaching method and one roll technique and that's all they teach. That's not what you need.
The C-C is a whitewater roll. It requires a hard hip snap, good timing and reasonable flexibility. While some people can pick it up quickly, in many cases, it can be futile trying to teach it to a beginner. I can do them, but I don't see any real value in it for sea kayaking and I can't recall an instance where I've used one on the water. Sweep rolls (such as the screw roll) are just as fast, they're often easier to learn and they're more forgiving of a beginner's mistakes.
Since laybacks work for you, I would suggest starting with an extended paddle layback roll (Pawlata, standard Greenland roll). Once you've got that nailed on both sides, work on doing it with progressively less extention until you can do it from your normal paddling position. If your current instructor is unwilling to do this with you, find another instructor, preferably someone who's a sea kayaker.
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