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[billvoss]

For this to work, you must be committed to a "control hand" that does not shift position.

The above is the only part I disagree with. Though just like picking one roll on one side, picking one hand in one position would probably make learning easier at first.

In addition, during all this practice, you will develop a feel for pressure on the paddle blade and your body will begin to figure out how to rotate the blade until the desired pressure is achieved - all without thinking about it.

Exactly.

[leong]

Not to guild the Lilly, here's an interesting discussion about feather angle http://www.surfski.i...y-required.html

Feel free to argue with them, not with me. I’m agnostic on this subject; however, a 52-degree feather angle seems to work best for me.

Leon

[subaruguru]

Hey Leon,

I hesitate to simply question your semantic, or maybe spelling error re: "gild the lily", but now wonder if maybe you were right, as this was before my time:


See ya soon.
Ern

[leong]

Hey Leon,

I hesitate to simply question your semantic, or maybe spelling error re: "gild the lily", but now wonder if maybe you were right, as this was before my time:


See ya soon.
Ern

Ern,

I graduated HS with Bill Shakespeare and joined his guild so I got used to this spelling.

Leon

[GCosloy]

Shakespeare as far as I know never joined the union (guild).

Shakespeare didn't coin the term 'gild the lily', but he came as close to doing so in King John, 1595:

SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.