Greenland Style Rolling, 2-11-09 from Paul Stivers on Vimeo.
Here's a follow-up video. Better camera. Better lighting. Minor narration only on the Eskimo roll. For additional narration, refer to the video immediately below, "Greenland Style Rolling, 2-05-09."
My hand position is better on the Eskimo roll in this video on 2-11-09 than in the video below on 2-5-09. My hands are closer to my shoulders as I finish the sweep. I can still see a few problems with my form, on the low brace as well as on the Eskimo roll. Familiarizing myself with features in Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 trial download. Problem retaining the wide screen format on the video. Oh, so much to learn.
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Greenland Style Rolling, 2-05-09 from Paul Stivers on Vimeo.
This is just a quick, 3 minute video before a rolling class. Some explanation on what to do during the sweep on the Eskimo roll. Don't do what I do on the hand position, though!
I'll certainly re-do this video later.
Edits to the narration:
1. All of the rolls shown are back finishing rolls. For these rolls, it's important to lay all the way back on the back deck with head way back and chin pointing to the sky. I made no mention of this during the butterfly roll, but it applies to all of the back finishing rolls.
2. At 00:58 into the video, a more complete explanation would be, "Ideally while upright I want to set up with my chest and head as close to the deck as possible and hold that position as I roll upside down. If my torso does straighten out when I go upside down, I want to use your stomach muscles to curl back up close to the surface of the water.
3. During the last Eskimo roll, at 02:00 into the video, when I say, "hear's where I loosen up," a more complete explanation would be, "Here's where my torso meets resistance. I stop here for demonstration purposes, loosen my grip in an exaggerated manner, re-grip lightly and sweep on through, rolling the boat up. Normally one would loosen the grip momentarily right after reaching the paddle out of the water, then grip lightly and perform one continuous, smooth sweep."
Paul-found your videos to be very instructive. I am having an issue with my setup underwater where my paddle does not reach to the surface and is not flat on the water. My friends tell me that my non-control hand is not close to my chest when I start my roll and that is causing my control hand to not place the paddle flat on the water. I also feel like I am too straight up underwater and not close enough to the surface when I start. Any thoughts? Also what are you doing with your knees prior to starting the sweep. Do you only engage the rolling knee once you start the sweep? Many thanks. Ed
Paul,
Your video and narration are very instructive. I have the problem that you mention. When I roll underwater I seem to lose my initial tuck and wind up too low below the water. When you curl up to get your body closer to the water what is the position of your knees at that point. Also when you reach up to bring your hands above the surface of the water is only your control hand actually out of the water and your non-control hand next to your body? Finally at what point do you engage your rolling knee? Many thanks for your video and assistance.
Hi Ed. I bring both hands up and out of the water on the initial setup. Ideally if I have my torso pretty close to the surface of the water then my control hand (make sure we have the same definition. If I set up on the right, my control hand is my right hand. AKA, inboard hand.) is pretty close to my shoulder at the start. This is the case in the video of 2-11-09. But if I'm lazy and don't curl up with my torso, I will reach to the surface with both hands. That is definitely text book, to get the entire paddle out of the water and onto the surface. You can see that especially in the earlier video of 2-05-09.
As you are sweeping you then draw your torso toward the paddle, and therefore closer to the surface of the water, by bringing your hands toward your shoulders. Your control hand naturally comes to your shoulder earlier in the sweep, and then your outboard hand continually as you move through the sweep.
When I am first upside down, my thighs are slightly flexed to hold myself in the boat. Same thing as I curl my torso toward the surface. I'm just hanging upside down by the thigh braces. Nothing special. I engage my rolling knee in a serious way at about 13 of the way through the sweep, as I start rolling the boat up.
Hope that helps. I hope to get some thorough roll videos/lessons out a little later.
Paul
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