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Re: More technique queries

Posted By: Shawn Baker
Date: Tuesday, 7 November 2000, at 1:31 p.m.

In Response To: Re: More technique queries (Dan)

: . Can anyone

: 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.

Ugghh!!! Learning to roll on Flathead Lake? Brrr...
I'm a big fan of learning somewhere warm, and then just rolling at Flathead!!

By the way, I just took a new job, and they're going to have me move to Kalispell in a year--we'll have to get together and play when the waves kick up!

: 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

Messages In This Thread

More technique queries
Jo Lefler -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 5:43 a.m.

Re: More technique queries
David -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 9:34 a.m.

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Hugh -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 11:10 a.m.

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M. Hamilton -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 12:22 p.m.

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Brian Nystrom -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 3:18 p.m.

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Shawn Baker -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 3:27 p.m.

Re: More technique queries
M. Hamilton -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 6:50 p.m.

Smoke before fire
Jed -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 7:56 p.m.

Re: More technique queries
Dan -- Monday, 6 November 2000, at 8:57 p.m.

Re: More technique queries
M. Hamilton -- Tuesday, 7 November 2000, at 12:22 a.m.

Re: More technique queries
Shawn Baker -- Tuesday, 7 November 2000, at 1:31 p.m.

Re: More technique queries
Robert Woodard -- Tuesday, 7 November 2000, at 10:21 a.m.

Re: Being alone
Ray -- Wednesday, 8 November 2000, at 10:09 a.m.

Re: Being alone
M. Hamilton -- Wednesday, 8 November 2000, at 2:56 p.m.

Re: More technique queries
Don Beale -- Wednesday, 8 November 2000, at 6:45 p.m.

Re: More technique queries
Martin Glader -- Thursday, 9 November 2000, at 6:27 a.m.

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