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Sea Kayaks Techniques Bulletin Board
As an instructor you need to do them all *LINK*
Posted By: C.Spelius In Response To: Re: A matter of opinion - lay back or to the side? (M. Hamilton)
Date: Thursday, 25 January 2007, at 5:12 p.m.
I have been teaching kayakers to roll since the 1970s and have long ago abandoned the “one size fits all” approach to teaching the kayak roll. At the Expediciones Chile kayak school in Patagonia, Chile we require every instructor to learn all FIVE major types of kayak rolls and then be prepared to teach them to our students. What roll a student gets taught depends on the flexibility, athleticism, type of boat and previous instruction that a student may have received. We try to customize the instruction as much as possible.
By demanding a complete mastery of all of the types of kayak rolls by our instructors we now avoid a lot of the arguments about what kayak roll is more or less superior. At an Expediciones Chile rolling clinic it is not uncommon to find our beginner students learning different kayak rolls in the same class. For an overview of this all inclusive teaching philosophy see the Five Types of Kayak Rolls link below. (We will becoming out with a similar series for sea kayakers this year.)
Chris
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