In time honoured fashion....There is NO place in modern river running for sculling for support.
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In time honoured fashion....There is NO place in modern river running for sculling for support.
Simon Westgarth wrote:For the hole and wave example, simply sit up and pull on your paddle blade. Modern boats edge very easily and so long as your weight is balanced over the edge of the boat, you'll not been to place your weight on the blade and scull. In terms of aiding the recovery of a roll, sculling the final part is an option if your main attempt did not work. Yet in terms of the traditional teaching and use of sculling for support to stabilise yourself in a hole, and thus placing your weight onto the active blade, this has NO place in modern white water kayaking.
Buuuut... (devil's advocate) if you were using your paddle to move yourself then you weren't sculling as such were you? You were just paddling on one side while keeping your boat on edge. Sculling for support keeps you stationary.Justin wrote:I'd have to agree as well, I once found myself caught in a very shallow hole on the Nile in Uganda and only for being able to scull my way back to where it flushed I would have had a very nasty swim out.
Yup, sculling is pointless. How is sculling supposed get you out of a hole?muirs wrote:Buuuut... (devil's advocate) if you were using your paddle to move yourself then you weren't sculling as such were you? You were just paddling on one side while keeping your boat on edge. Sculling for support keeps you stationary.
I agree, one should always drink in moderation;-)Yup, sculling is pointless.