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I started K1ing, and took up C1ing for about 10 years until my knees gave out, and am back kayaking again. The C1 roll is a lot faster - I would be paddling next to someone, flip and roll and they wouldn't even realize it until they saw me dripping wet. And if you flip on your off side, its a lot easier to get under the boat to your on-side (one underwater scull with your paddle, and you don't have to worry about the second paddle blade getting in the way like you do if you try to scull underwater with a K1 paddle). I had an offside pool roll, but the only time I used it was when I was surfing a hole 'left handed' (I'm a right side paddler), flipped, washed out, and did a off-side roll with the paddle still in my left hand - so the roll was actually a off side technique, but on my on-side (if that makes any sense).
Don't know if C1ing is any safer - I dislocated my shoulder C1ing, got into a near fatal pin, and had chronic inflammation of my hip muscles, as well as screwing up my knees for years after I stopped C1ing. Still miss not C1ing - you feel a lot more graceful than in a kayak, but you just don't have the power to get you out of trouble that a K1 has.
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