Originally Posted By Jimshaw
After mastering the solo canoe and C stroke I began using only a perfectly straight stroke, but I rotate the blade in my hands, as the paddle moves through the water


I was taught that by a local outfitter. After many trips with my wife, where I struggled to keep the boat straight by changing sides with my paddle, he came cruising by me one day with his wife in the front on the boat sitting there like Queen Nefertiti just enjoying the view and him casually paddling on one side of the boat and keeping it straight as an arrow, and turning where he wanted to go, I asked him how he did it. He gave two great pieces of advice:

"Tell your wife to keep her paddle in the boat." and "Learn to twist the paddle at the end of your stroke to steer the boat".

The really hard part was (and still is) getting that first piece of advice to work. laugh
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