Question For Xeno

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-Slow Boat+Nov 18 2005, 02:06 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Slow Boat @ Nov 18 2005, 02:06 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->So to rotate the sculls:<br /><br />Do you twist them with your wrist...<br /><br />or<br /><br />Rotate them onto the feather by opening your grip and then squaring them by closing your grip (keeping your wrists straight)?<br /><br /><br />Thanks for helping the newbie. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Yes.

[[old] Slow Boat]

Guess the newbie is being the subject of ridicule.<br /><br />I'm asking because I don't know.<br /><br />Based on the "helpful replies" I know to take my questions elsewhere in the future.<br /><br />Thanks to the few people on this post who tried to help. To the people who mock beginners, you're only hurting the sport and your business because people are willing to spend big after tax dollars to learn, but only if they are treated respectfully. <br /><br /><br />

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-Slow Boat+Nov 18 2005, 07:04 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Slow Boat @ Nov 18 2005, 07:04 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Guess the newbie is being the subject of ridicule.<br /><br />I'm asking because I don't know.<br /><br />Based on the "helpful replies" I know to take my questions elsewhere in the future.<br /><br />Thanks to the few people on this post who tried to help.  To the people who mock beginners, you're only hurting the sport and your business because people are willing to spend big after tax dollars to learn, but only if they are treated respectfully. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />SB,<br /><br />You're not suggesting that what I said was "mocking" you are you? If so, well, it could be a long day for you, but if not, here's why I said what I did.<br /><br />To feather the blade you rotate the wrist a bit, and open the fingers a bit to let it go flat, then to square, you reestablish your grip while flattening the wrist for the catch.<br /><br />This had also been discussed in considerable detail in this very thread earlier.<br /><br />So build up those calluses, but not too much, and continue to join in the fun.<br /><br />cha-ching! <br /><br />Cheers!

[[old] Byron Drachman]

Hi Slow Boat,<br /><br />Here is another discussion on feathering:<br /><br /><a href='http://www.ottawarowingclub.com/what/how2.scull.4.html' target='_blank'>http://www.ottawarowingclub.com/what/ho ... tml</a><br /><br />I think I do it closer to the way Paul describes it.<br /><br />Byron<br />