Rolling in Holes

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Re: Rolling in Holes

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Nor, for that matter is this problem actually specific to canoeists...
That's world-class amazing.
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Re: Rolling in Holes

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Whatever your level, ww paddling takes a set of cojones.
Paddling is easy, organizing shuttles is hard.
Not misplacing all your crap in somebody else's car seems to be even harder
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Yeah, at 38s he switches to lefty to have his onside roll on the downstream side. But at some point when his boat is flipping around into the 50s range, he's switched back to righty and ended up trying offside rolls.

Maybe you lose track of what's pointing where and which side is which after a while, or maybe you just wear out to the point where another roll in the hole is only going to lead to another, and another. If you're going to roll up and surf out, it probably needs to happen sooner rather than later, or you just wind up tired and riding your downsteam brace/roll, but probably not getting anywhere. Speculative discussion, I don't paddle like that, just wish I did.

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Re: Rolling in Holes

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Rolling to your normal/onside in a hole, usually I don't think about it much, nor setup. Tuck, get calm, then place the paddle across the deck/gunwales and the boat automatically rolls up. Be ready not to windowshade again.
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Re: Rolling in Holes

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TheKrikkitWars wrote:Keep Calm and Roll More... 95% of the time, it's about being willing to take a long, hard beating and just keep trying to roll, until the thrashing gets you into the outflow and straightens you up enough to roll...

Taking a beating is a massively overlooked skill and it's one which makes a big difference to your confidence too...

Nor, for that matter is this problem actually specific to canoeists...

Hey, that beatdown took place right here in Michigan on the Black River.
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