05-12-2007, 05:56 PM
Remember the "Paddle-Pusher-Fins".
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They strapped onto your ankle, and folded in when you moved your foot forwards through the water ... then when you "step forwards" and sweep your leg and foot towards the rear, the fin would swivel out and lock sticking out sideways, so you would mover forwards in your tube. .... theoretically .... but they were a slow means of propulsion.
Well there were some tubers happy using them in brush (where they didn't want to go very far in the first place) for fishing and they would use table tennis bats as mini oars to speed things up when the paddle pusher fins were too slow. But they were going opposite to the direction we go with fins.
Never tried it myself - always need my hands for something trivial, like fishing [
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They strapped onto your ankle, and folded in when you moved your foot forwards through the water ... then when you "step forwards" and sweep your leg and foot towards the rear, the fin would swivel out and lock sticking out sideways, so you would mover forwards in your tube. .... theoretically .... but they were a slow means of propulsion.
Well there were some tubers happy using them in brush (where they didn't want to go very far in the first place) for fishing and they would use table tennis bats as mini oars to speed things up when the paddle pusher fins were too slow. But they were going opposite to the direction we go with fins.
Never tried it myself - always need my hands for something trivial, like fishing [
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