Subject: Re: [baidarka] baidarka speeds
From: William Nettles (netttles@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Sep 26 2004 - 13:02:38 EDT
To carry the hand paddlesfor swimmers comparison a little farther, which is
probably similar to the Aleut/Euro paddle difference.
When most swimmer's put on hand paddles they swim stronger but not all that
much faster. It builds muscle and aggravates every bad thing about your
stroke and injuries.
But when a swimmer puts on even the shortest fins, their speed picks up and
its less work.
So the Aleut paddles must be similar to a good swimming stroke working with
the water.
Do the Aleut paddles go deeper into the water than the Europaddles?
> From: James Mitchell <baidarka@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:48:37 +0900
> To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] baidarka speeds
>
> To me, most of the Euro paddles are based on "catch". They want to stop
> the water, provide a solid anchor against which you pull yourself
> forward. They are best for a strong European-frame paddler. The
> Greenland and Aleut paddles are based more on "flow". They want to use
> their design shape to direct the flow of the water so as to provide a
> moving resistance against which the paddler pulls. This moving
> resistance makes the traditional paddles easier on the body, more
> fluid, part of the natural flow of the body. Traditional paddles don't
> "catch" the water, they flow through the water.
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