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I do the "pulling the blade through the water" thing. Actually the way New

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Lame or What? Whitewater Exercise Video ga_creeker New
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Is he a standing dumbell, or a Russian twit? Why not just paddle? That's the great thing about paddling, ezwater New
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The giveaway was when he talked (a couple of times) about pulling the paddle through davegg New
Date: Jun 10 2008, 13:12 GMT
From: GRITS

I learned to do a forward stroke was to plant the blade forward of your feet, then turn your torso to pull the blade along the side of the boat, keeping your top hand roughly in front of your forehead and your elbows in. Pushing down with the top hand (if you need to) will help maintain your technique.Keep the shaft as close to the boat as possible; if you're short like me, then depending on how low you're sitting in the water, your bottom hand might go into the water. Slice blade out of the water at your hip. Not that I *have* good technique all the time but when I do it right, I've recieved compliments on my forward stroke from paddlers I respect.

I've seen the "push the top hand technique" but I don't use it becuase what happens is that my blade then goes up through the water in a pry, instead of back. Dunno if that happens to everyone but it does to me. It was good for flatwater paddling, though, because the paddles are so long and the blades are so far away from the boat, I can push with the top hand in conjunction with the torso turn without a problem.

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