Just a quick reminder. When sculling for support you want your blade to slide across the surface of the water so it’s important to keep your arms in against your body and LOW. If your outer arm (The one one away from the supporting blade) is too high, you will not get much support because your blade will be angled into the water and not parallel to the surface.

When first trying to scull it’s easy to get caught up in the tension and fear of “falling over”. So we tend to shorten our strokes which by necessity causes us to speed up our strokes, which in turn causes us to work too hard to stay up as well as increases our nervousness. It’s a vicious circle. What you want to do is move your blade slowly and deliberately in WIDE arcs. Then slowly put a bit of weight on the blade and increase your lean only as you feel comfortable to do so. Again, If you keep your arms low, keep the blade parallel to the surface, and you use slow wide strokes you should immediately notice you have much more support with much less work.

Good Luck Out There!

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