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Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
By:Ken Blanton
Date: 8/28/2011, 10:39 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Footbraces redux (Bryan Hansel)

Oh I'm not saying there's no rotation ... there's always a little ... just not much. I think tightness at the seat is less of a factor than the reduced ability of the legs to pump due to stuff like ... low decks, thigh braces, wedging your knees in via splayed legs, relatively straight leg position relative to a ski (or straight as a board due to a masik), back bands that limit lower lumbar rotation etc. Sure you can pump a little ... sure it helps ... but IMO you can't get nearly the degree of leg action that ya can when you're not restricted by the deck. I think we agree on the principle although not on the benefit.

Ken Blanton

: I don't agree with this at all. If you set up your seat and cockpit
: to allow for hip rotation and leg pumping, you get hip rotation
: and leg pumping, albeit not as much as you would on a ski, but
: it's there. It's not what I'd call minimal, and it certainly
: increases the force to the stroke. You'd have to have a pretty
: tight cockpit to only have minimal ability to rotate. How tight
: is your cockpit?

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Strip: Footbraces redux
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 8/25/2011, 2:29 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Mike Bielski -- 8/25/2011, 6:11 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux *PIC*
Sean D -- 8/25/2011, 10:08 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Will N To Go -- 8/25/2011, 4:57 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Reg Lake -- 8/25/2011, 9:48 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bill Hamm -- 8/26/2011, 2:00 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bryan Hansel -- 8/26/2011, 10:59 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bill Hamm -- 8/27/2011, 1:42 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Ken Blanton -- 8/27/2011, 5:05 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bryan Hansel -- 8/28/2011, 8:41 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Ken Blanton -- 8/28/2011, 10:39 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bryan Hansel -- 8/28/2011, 11:07 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
eric Ogata -- 8/28/2011, 3:21 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces/Torso Rotation
Bryan Hansel -- 8/26/2011, 11:18 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces/Torso Rotation
Bill Hamm -- 8/27/2011, 2:01 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces/Torso Rotation
Bryan Hansel -- 8/27/2011, 9:47 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces/Torso Rotation
Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2011, 2:07 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces/Torso Rotation
Bryan Hansel -- 8/28/2011, 8:44 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces/Torso Rotation
Bill Hamm -- 8/29/2011, 1:57 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Sean D -- 8/26/2011, 12:22 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Will N To Go -- 8/26/2011, 8:33 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bill Hamm -- 8/27/2011, 1:45 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Will N To Go -- 8/29/2011, 1:20 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bill Hamm -- 8/29/2011, 2:01 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Mike Savage -- 8/27/2011, 9:00 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux/forward stroke
Bryan Hansel -- 8/27/2011, 11:57 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux/forward stroke
Will N To Go -- 8/29/2011, 12:57 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux/forward stroke
Will N To Go -- 8/29/2011, 3:35 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Kevin -- 8/25/2011, 7:43 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Ken Blanton -- 8/27/2011, 4:38 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Mike Bielski -- 8/27/2011, 4:42 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2011, 2:11 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2011, 2:17 am
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Ken Blanton -- 8/25/2011, 3:50 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Kurt Maurer -- 8/25/2011, 7:11 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 8/25/2011, 8:36 pm
Re: Strip: Footbraces redux
Kurt Maurer -- 8/25/2011, 9:16 pm