Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 08:15:04 -0800 (PST)
From: George Dyson <gdyson@janice.cc.wwu.edu>
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
Subject: re: paddling, about Wings!
In-Reply-To: <950323184550_59112329@aol.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950324080835.6956B-100000@janice.cc.wwu.edu>
Wing paddles (and wing paddlers) do seem to win races.
If anyone has watched that 1991 Scientific American Frontiers TV segment
where Greg Barton paddles 2 baidarkas vs an olympic training K1 and a
(Kevlar) Seda Glider, he was using a wing paddle. (8.1 knots in the
baidarka, at a steady, controlled by heart rate and not all-out pace).
The wing paddle seems to help allow him to get the entire range of swing
of his massive torso into the full power of his stroke.
George B. Dyson Fairhaven College / MS 9118
gdyson@henson.cc.wwu.edu Western Washington University
(360) 734-9226 Bellingham, WA 98225-9118