Mary’s New Roll
Published March 15, 2006 | 
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round – dead or alive
Ok so spring is here. Apart from Wisconsin of course. The north half of the state was buried in snow just a few days ago and down here in the more temperate south are expecting up to 8 inches of snow tonight. Anyway as I was saying, spring is here!
The big pay off of last nights pool session was that Mary got her plain old normal sweep roll with the GP. As most of you know, her first success was when she switched from a standard Euro and then learned the extended paddle roll with the GP. She’d been working on that quite awhile. Then last night in a short flurry of me going “ok, shorten it up 3 inches, shorten it up 3 inches,shorten it up 3 inches,shorten it up 3 inches. .” suddenly she was rolling with a standard grip. It got a bit harder after she realized she was actually doing it, but in the end she had 3 successful sweep rolls. Of course it’s now time to practice, practice, practice. . Hey, did’nt we just do that??
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3 Responses to Mary’s New Roll
That’s great! Congrats to Mary!
Way to go! What’s next, crook of the elbow? armpit? butterfly? (butterfly’s really pretty…)
Hey guys,
Thanks a bunch!!!! It’s always great to get the “way to go!” from fellow kayakers. It’s taken a while. Bonnie, you asked what is next? Well, at Derrick’s nudging to move to a Euro, I tried and pulled it off first try!!! Next one I blew, too shocked I guess. I got one more before we had to go.
Again thanks a bunch.
Mary