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Re: Rockin -then rollin; Groovin -then movin
Posted By: risto lappalainen In Response To: Rockin -then rollin; Groovin -then movin (mike allen --->)
Date: Monday, 11 September 2000, at 11:11 a.m.
I guess from the responses (put together) it is safe to conclude:
1) rolling up on the windward side is definitely what one would want to do.
2) it pays to wait a sec or even longer to get the up-down rhytm of the waves (and from this one also gets the orientation - windward - if one lost track when flipped over).
3) having set up one should wait and time the roll to begin after a crest ie. when one has begun to fall: then one might with luck be coming up in the through, with one's paddle bracing in the rising face of the next set.
4) if the off-side roll is much weaker, then one should work some more on it in order to have the choice should it come to that.
Of course 2) and 3) are problematic as it is against all human instincts to pause a while in the "washing machine", when flipped upside down. Even if one doesn't do a panic exit, one probably would do a reflexive roll on the better side.
But I wonder, do moderate winds and swells really only have a "minimal effect" as Jed suggests?
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