Paddling advice for long, flat, skinny boats

[Alan Gage]

They also seemed to help me with hip rotation

This is something I've never really felt like is a thing with canoe paddling. Maybe more so with kayaks but I've never felt the benefit with the canoe stroke nor does it appear most other paddlers use it either from what I can see. But I was never a good racer so maybe that's what was holding me back.

I've had boats with foot straps. I never felt like I utilized them all that much. Perhaps the biggest benefit I felt was edging tender racing boats as the strap on the foot away from the lean gives you a bit of a stabilizing anchor point.

Alan

 

[Tryin']

This is something I've never really felt like is a thing with canoe paddling. Maybe more so with kayaks but I've never felt the benefit with the canoe stroke nor does it appear most other paddlers use it either from what I can see. But I was never a good racer so maybe that's what was holding me back.

I've had boats with foot straps. I never felt like I utilized them all that much. Perhaps the biggest benefit I felt was edging tender racing boats as the strap on the foot away from the lean gives you a bit of a stabilizing anchor point.

Alan

That is good to know. I am taking my very first steps into the race world, and as we know, the first steps are loaded with appeals to authority followed by confirmation bias.

I have been watching the K2N Paddle School channel quite a bit, and he is dogmatic about hip rotation.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeP4q4Z3FQpY44e73GzFWGYGZY97hXYln&si=Znd5xneWi9YFFtsr