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I wonder if I can convince my wife that we need to enlarge the pond?
Earl, you're gonna fit right in here.
I wonder if I can convince my wife that we need to enlarge the pond?
You do kknow of course, that another name for a canoe is a "divorce boat".I can't bicker with my wife otherwise she will never get in the canoe again. And I need someone to help paddle!!
Hey Earl,I will preface this by saying we are absolute newbies, and our paddling skills are only one step above just flailing the paddle in the water ...
Yes this is important stuff! On the rare occasion when I paddle tandem (I'm in the stern), the bow paddler is generally lacking in experience and/or they have always paddled bow and do not have eyes in the back of their head. I find they often start to increase their stroke rate, doing so makes it harder for the stern paddler to apply correction strokes while maintaining sync with the bow paddler. In addition the faster their stroke rate the sloppier it gets and now you are both out of sync and tending to turn their power stroke into a sweep speed of their.The timing of strokes shouldn't be overlooked.
Whether it's just forward strokes or it's correction strokes, your stern strokes need to be in time and complimentary to the bow strokes.
strokes that are not in time are inefficient which causes the need to exaggerate the correction stroke.
That concept is really evident when pivoting the boat. You can each apply the proper stroke with flawless form but if you are not in time with each other you are not using physics to it's fullest.
Remember, you are a tandem and not 2 independent paddlers. Work all strokes in perfect timing with each other.