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stern dips? 19 years 7 months ago #7616

I have recently decided that I want to do playboating. I have read around and all the guides say that stern dips (or squirts) are the best way to start. I can get the stern under the water but I can't get it very far down. is it my technique or would a shorter boat help (currently paddling a dagger juice 6.9)

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stern dips? 19 years 7 months ago #7802

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its your technique

it sounds like your letting the stern drive back to the surface. You need to hold the same angle of your edge all the way round the steeper the intial angle you can hold the longer you can keep it going.

keep on practising and you should get it nailed in no time!

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stern dips? 19 years 7 months ago #7805

yeah boat is definately not the problem. The hard thing about stern squirts is that it goes against everything you learned about pealing out: you lift your down stream edge...

But after you get it figured out, they are great fun.

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stern dips? 19 years 6 months ago #8107

should i be doing it on moving water because so far I've been doing it on flat water? :ask:

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stern dips? 19 years 6 months ago #8110

Flatwater is ok.

You don´t get much written information about the sternsquirt, because it is almost unexplicable (and this doesn´t mean difficult). Most of those who do it properly don´t explain, but go with the feel.


What does that blade do ?:
You start (obviously) with a partial sweep of the stern (A bastardised hybridstroke) , slide the blade into Duffek-startposition, after you´ve used that Duffek (rotated around it) again you go to short backsweepand and like this you go on.


Body: Of course youcan´t be all the wayforvard,but tryto have a good form even , whenvertical.

Head: Eyes on teh price and shoulders lead..

Rule: Only one blade allowed,otherwise bad form

Check the techniquevideo on this same site.

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stern dips? 19 years 6 months ago #8128

flatwater is ok, but i would say its definelty harder on flatwater than in a current. If your just learning them, current is athe place to be. Heres how i usually do them in current.

1. find an eddy with a pretty good eddyline
2. Eddy out as normal and make sure that you start to turn before you do anything else, ive found this gives you more momentum to get vertical.
3. When you feel your boat start to rotate so your a little less than perpendicular to the rivers edge, quickly switch edges and do a stern sweep stroke on the downstream side of our boat, make sure to maintain your edge.
4.Enjoy being vertical.

This usually seems to work for me , and with the slicy ends of the juice, i bet youll get it fairly quick.

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stern dips? 19 years 6 months ago #8175

thanks I'll try that tonight and tell you if it works or not :banana:

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that boat will do it on flat water easily you just cant let it flatten off the angle as the boat will always find the line of least resistance back to the surface your best bet is to watch playboating by ken whiting or ejs basic playboating which both give good demos and instructions on dvd oh and then you can move on to more moves in the dvd!

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stern dips? 19 years 6 months ago #8257

I found that where you you point your head really makes a difference y'know with the whole trunk rotation; so, when you reach back for the sweep look at the blade. This will help "wind up" your body so you have a lot of rotational power to get the stern down. And lots of edge too :grin:
If you just keep practising edging then you'll get vertical in no time ;-)

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