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Sea Kayaks Techniques Bulletin Board
Re: First Roll
Posted By: Ed Deery In Response To: First Roll (KenC)
Date: Tuesday, 6 July 2004, at 10:23 p.m.
: 1. blade angle. I’m baffled why it behaves differently after what I think is
: an identical setup.A few degrees difference in the blade angle makes the difference between stall, lift, and dive. I often do a short test sweep to make sure I have the blade angle right before I commit to the roll. If it doesn't feel like it's biting the surface of the water, I reposition and try again. You're probably already getting attuned to the feel of the sweep when the blade is properly positioned, and it sounds like you're calm enough when upside down for the test sweep to work for you. Make sure you're getting the paddle up into the air, then sweep along the surface of the water. Even with correct blade angle, the surface tension of the water gives you a lot more lift than sweeping under water.
: 2. left-side roll. Should be just a mirror image setup (shouldn’t it??), but
: it wasn’t working out that way for me. Practice makes perfect, I suppose.With a feathered paddle, your wrist angles will be different to get the desired blade angle when you switch sides. I almost felt like I was learning all over again when I started working on my offside roll.
: 5. I’ll try the same roll, but with a Greenland paddle.
You'll find blade angle is much less critical with the GP than with the Euro paddle. It does sound like you're trying to learn a lot of moves at once, however. If that's the way you learn, great. If nothing seems to work after awhile, I'd suggest focusing for awhile on a much shorter list of rolls until you get them working consistently. Then increase your repertoire.
Everything changes when you hit that first roll, doesn it?
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