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Sea Kayaks Techniques Bulletin Board
cant is the most natural blade orientation
Posted By: mike allen In Response To: Re: Greenland paddle (Kris Buttermore)
Date: Friday, 30 June 2006, at 7:53 p.m.
: If your paddle is well carved and sized - your grip* should pretty much
: automatically take care of the cant too.: For me it's a natural thing
i think it is natural for everyone because any inner cant requires the least twisting and reorienting of the paddle. and abt a 22.5 deg cant requires no twisting at all.
(like do you twist the paddle more with no cant, or do you twist less when you cant - something has gotta give - (maybe the english))
as 45deg is the most natural feather for a euro that hits the water at around zero deg cant, it is natural that a gp with no feather and initiating at say a 22.5 deg inner cant in one side that your hands reorient with the least wrist twisting etc to get the same 22.5 deg inner cant on the other side.
(((((or you have the horrific horrific choice keeping one hands grip permanently and unchangingly oriented on the loom and letting the other slip a bit.but i know, no self respecting gper would ever contemplate that, heh heh)))
other shapes and sizes of paddlers and boats will modify the angles above slightly.
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