http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/09/30/the-j-lean-is-dead/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/09/30/the-j-lean-is-dead/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:49:53 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9022 So Nancy Salsbury of Rutabaga is working on ideas for next year’s Canoecopia.  She sent out an email asking paddlers for ideas for workshops.  In amongst the hundreds of good ideas was a reply by a great coach which said, “How about one called “The J-Lean is Dead!”.   OK, so I must have missed a meeting. [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/09/30/the-j-lean-is-dead/feed/ 6 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/06/28/turning-your-kayak-in-wind-a-first-step/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/06/28/turning-your-kayak-in-wind-a-first-step/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:02:00 +0000 derrick http://cheesestate.com/quixotica/?p=68 I've heard many stories of folks padding straight out into a lake on a windy day and not being able to turn around and get back into shore. This is because the wind rarely seems to be "going our way". It's always coming at us at some crazy angle and pushing us exactly where we don't want to go.]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/06/28/turning-your-kayak-in-wind-a-first-step/feed/ 0