: Flutter? That's (always) a technique thing - typically related to
: overpowering/powering too soon/forcing the blade take a less than optimal
: path - or combinations of these.

I can quite believe that I overpower - but the sort of paddling I do does tend
to mean that I expect to accelerate to full speed inside two or three strokes
otherwise I am just not going to rockhop safely. If the aleut paddle demands a
technique that accelerates more slowly then I am not going to find it to my
taste.

I normally use euro paddles with big blades - a 220cm Lendal paddle with
Nordkapp blades for sea paddling and a 197 Werner Player for whitewater. I
am never going to be using an Aleut or GP for whitewater, and it's mostly in
W/W that I do my most challenging paddling and where my technique gets
ingrained. If this is going to preclude my ever adapting to an Aleut paddle
then that's how it's going to have to be - I'm not about to give up playing
in tide races and rockhopping in the swell (and the swell here is typically
short - not often over six seconds) :-(

Andy