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Re: More technique queries
Posted By: Dan In Response To: More technique queries (Jo Lefler)
Date: Monday, 6 November 2000, at 8:57 p.m.
. Can anyone
: detail more drills and exercises to help my techniques along, that I can
: execute solo safely? Extensive reading and web surfing haven't given me
: any help. Thanks in advance.Hello Jo!
An additional suggestion to the list of excellent advice you've received so far; this one from my own experience attending sea kayak rolling classes here in western Montana this summer on our make-believe sea, Flathead Lake. Anytime you're practicing intentional capsizes and wet exits, which often seem a requisite part of learning to roll, I suggest that you use ear plugs (as well as nose plugs) to keep the ears protected against ingress of cold water. I ended up fighting an ear infection for weeks following the classes. That part was bad enough, but even barring the contracting of an ear infection, the nausea, disorientation, and dizziness that is experienced during the class brings your hoped-for progress to a virtual halt. I guess I should add that I am definitely a water baby and was discouraged that anything could dampen my enthusiasm having an excuse to be submerged. A sports medicine M.D. friend of mine, tells me that the sure-fire prescription for making someone dizzy, disoriented, and nauseous is to put water into their ear canals which is even only a degree and a half above or below normal body temp. I didn't ask him how he was so knowledgable about that "Rx".
By the by, I'm in favor of the good look around (and reorientation) you can enjoy by use of a face mask when learning wet exiting and rolling!
Best of safe paddling!
Dan
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