themadindian

Sadly this is my lowest mileage year in 6 years, just totaled my paddling from my garmin and it was 103 miles, I was getting worried I...

As close as I can come to answering your "constrained" question. I've several times been asked, why is it referred to as freestyle...

"Freestyle" is a broad term. It shouldn't matter if you're tripping, paddling twisty streams or whatever, the above statement should be...

As to "functional" being a relatively new term, it is, sort of. As I understand it, the early development of freestyle (originally...

Perhaps Marc Ornstein will chime in but for me the difference between functional freestyle and functional paddling is that when I'm...

In case anyone has any interest. Here are some photos of my SOF builds from this summer season

I knew that was going to come back to haunt me. In my defense, I was trying (and failed) to point out that you can get leverage from...

I take it you are asking about heeling from a centralized solo seat. I'll make some points, probably repeating what others have said...

tketcham has it right. Heel is one factor but equally important is pitch. Canoes steer, primarily from the stern. Pitching the bow down...

I don't think that a half inch of rocker difference will affect heeled maneuvers all that much with the Cirrus (2.5/2.0 inches)...

I unfortunately didn't have the camera running when we had gone back up it. It's too bad, there was some good moments 😄

This makes me feel like a movie star, you can see me paddle out of the frame in the first few seconds of the video! :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO:

Is it okay to post this here, it's the video from the L3/4ish students on the Mullica, didn't seem to make sense to start another thread

Glenn, what an excellent photo journal! It was great to read it and re-live the week. And it was great to spend time with you on the...

I knew you were attending the instructional event, Keith, and thought I might see you during the hour I was visiting the YMCA site, but...