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| ====== Nicholas Cryder: Advanced Surfski Balance ====== | ====== Nicholas Cryder: Advanced Surfski Balance ====== | ||
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| If your balance paradigm relies on reaction, then you are essentially juggling. This works fine with many scenarios like flat water or even medium size downwind… but truly messy, rough water adds many more balls moving in many different directions. The brain can only do so much, and eventually you drop a ball and in you go. Not good.\\ | If your balance paradigm relies on reaction, then you are essentially juggling. This works fine with many scenarios like flat water or even medium size downwind… but truly messy, rough water adds many more balls moving in many different directions. The brain can only do so much, and eventually you drop a ball and in you go. Not good.\\ | ||
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| - | If however your balance paradigm is based on connection, then you are using a premeditated skill that mitigates the need to react to what the water is doing. You paddle on your own terms, despite what the water is doing. It makes a world of difference in rough water. | + | If however your balance paradigm is based on connection, then you are using a premeditated skill that mitigates the need to react to what the water is doing. You paddle on your own terms, despite what the water is doing. It makes a world of difference in rough water. (Ed.- //We believe that this will help you in other situations also. Glassy water, even without large wave action, can also throw many paddler's depth perception off and incline them toward reactive paddling//) |
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| - MANY paddlers are self-cursed by bad footwork, as the foot pressure comes off before the paddle is even out of the water… so the exit is sloppy and exerts rolling force on the ski, and then when the catch happens the foot pressure isn't there so the ski isn't listening to the paddler. | - MANY paddlers are self-cursed by bad footwork, as the foot pressure comes off before the paddle is even out of the water… so the exit is sloppy and exerts rolling force on the ski, and then when the catch happens the foot pressure isn't there so the ski isn't listening to the paddler. | ||
| - A powerful catch is the best brace. But your catch is only as good as your footwork. Make sure that you have 100% foot pressure on the board before that paddle goes in the water. This means you have to keep your drive leg down at the end of your stroke with your hip back until you make the opposite side catch and unload all your torso's energy on the fully submerged blade. | - A powerful catch is the best brace. But your catch is only as good as your footwork. Make sure that you have 100% foot pressure on the board before that paddle goes in the water. This means you have to keep your drive leg down at the end of your stroke with your hip back until you make the opposite side catch and unload all your torso's energy on the fully submerged blade. | ||
| - | - If you must brace, always finish the brace with a powerful catch on the opposite side. Most paddlers fall in at the end of the brace when the ski slows down and the brace looses leverage or the paddle sinks. When the ski starts to slow, sweep the brace forward and then slam the opposite side catch. **BANG!** You are back in control and connected again. | + | - If you must brace, always finish the brace with a powerful catch on the opposite side. Most paddlers fall in at the end of the brace when the ski slows down and the brace looses leverage or the paddle sinks. When the ski starts to slow, sweep the brace forward (Ed. //suspect he either meant "backward" or sweep the recovery side forward while bracing? because otherwise the side opposite of the brace is not really positioned for its catch//) and then slam the opposite side catch. **BANG!** You are back in control and connected again. |
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