SNIP
: It might be more difficult with a greenland stick, but
: with a euro blade it was pretty bomb proof but takes a second or two
: longer to set up the paddle. My first off side roll may have been a
: vertical storm roll now that I think about it...
Woody,
It's also quite simple with a Greenland stick, held extended. A very easy way to roll in this manner is to perform an underwater draw stroke (rotate the paddle sideways, to slice away from the kayak, rotate the blade back (parallel to the keel) and then pull it toward you).
The vertical sculling roll is one of the standard rolls performed at the Greenland rolling events. The Greenlanders, however, don't bother with switching hands for this technique, and roll up on the same side they capsized on (unless just playing around with practicing very slow rolls, using the paddle's buoyancy to slow the capsize). They also require a sculling recovery, and do not give points for the draw-stroke recovery I mentioned above (too easy?)
BTW, this roll is historically another method to deal with rolling up while entangled with line. For "storm" conditions, the Greenlanders generally use an extended sweep (layback) roll or a "storm" roll, which is a low brace sweep (palms face down) with the inboard blade kept in contact with, and then levered off the hull, into a forward leaning recovery. A picture of the cross-arm variant of the storm roll is posted at http://www.qajaqusa.org/cgi-bin/GreenlandTechniqueForum_config.pl/read/932.
Greg Stamer
*NM*
