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Re: Paddle: Aleut Strength
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 7/15/2015, 9:49 am
In Response To: Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka (Robert W)

Another gem: "Gregs strength roughly matches a typical Aleut hunter who, like Greg, kayaked every day."

There is actually data to support this idea. William S Laughlin, an Animal Physiology professor at UCONN measured the arm bone remains of Aleut men and found them to be very large and strong relative to European men. Bone strength is an indicator of arm strength (Pitcher have thicker bone in the pitching arm). His conclusion was that Aleut kayakers would have been extremely strong. I can't find a reference link for this, but I talked to Prof. Laughlin about it years ago.

FWIW Aleuts may not have been starving, and a subsistence lifestyle where survival depends on physical strength tends to make for strong people.

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Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/14/2015, 12:41 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/14/2015, 1:14 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/22/2015, 8:13 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Robert W -- 7/14/2015, 8:37 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Robert W -- 7/14/2015, 8:50 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
scottbaxter -- 7/14/2015, 9:20 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleut Strength
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/15/2015, 9:49 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/20/2015, 8:04 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/15/2015, 9:24 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/15/2015, 3:07 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rober W -- 7/21/2015, 2:15 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/22/2015, 9:39 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rober W -- 7/22/2015, 11:10 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Bill Hamm -- 7/22/2015, 12:30 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/22/2015, 5:58 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Olli -- 7/22/2015, 6:37 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/22/2015, 8:34 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/23/2015, 10:51 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/23/2015, 9:52 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/23/2015, 11:49 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Etienne Muller -- 7/23/2015, 4:14 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/23/2015, 4:38 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Roy Martin -- 7/23/2015, 9:26 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 7/23/2015, 12:25 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/23/2015, 12:35 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
scottbaxter -- 7/23/2015, 2:12 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/23/2015, 3:56 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2015, 5:16 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Pete -- 7/23/2015, 2:33 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/23/2015, 3:52 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2015, 5:13 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/23/2015, 5:33 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2015, 6:43 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2015, 11:36 pm
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka *NM*
Etienne Muller -- 7/23/2015, 4:24 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 7/23/2015, 4:45 am
Re: Paddle: Iqyax - Baidarka
george jung -- 7/23/2015, 11:47 pm