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Great Video! Im going to try this as a newbie at my local pool. Thanks mate!

Jeebus, 16 kms in that contraption! Is it easy to slide out of that zipped-up cover if you capsize? Or do you have to keep paddling upside down? Looks scary...

Welcome back on the Internet :-).

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Good luck to the PWS crews.

Nice! I don’t have stairs like that around here but we have many nice hills. I like walking up the paths but now that the snake season is ending (you don’t have that problem in NZ) I can just walk straight up through the bush which is a real good workout.

Just watched the whole vid, thanks! It’s interesting to see other paddlers’ fitness regimes. Mine is fairly similar… warm-up is four 3-minute rounds boxing on a heavy bag… then 6 machines, 4 for upper body, 2 for lower body. I don’t split upper/lower, I do all 6 machines every time I go to the gym, usually 4 or 5 times a week. I do the pyramid like you, ie. increasing weights and decreasing reps, but once I get to the top of the pyramid, I go back, ie. decreasing the weight while increasing the rep count. Simple scheme… I did Crossfit for years but stopped after we moved cities in September and I fly solo now, I created my own simple but enjoyable programme and I finetune it sometimes. Sometimes I do a warm-down at the end, heavy bag again for a few rounds.

great vid! dunno about that egg in the protein shake tho....🤣

Good luck. I never paddled in beautiful Wellington (hope to do in the future) but I flew into and out of the city and the winds did rattle the plane, weather can be iffy…

Congrats! It was regatta day in Canberra as well, the lake was pretty choppy, with plenty of rogue waves (although I’m sure that it was much smoother than in Wellington). Well, it all adds to the excitement.

Don't forget to eat yr Tangelos

200m races can really show up all these aspects. Technique and timing is not that important (at least in the first phase, before the transition - although some Asian teams don’t even transition) but power, grunt, grit matter a lot.

Kia Ora Joe, Great explanation on the range of DB facets. See you the water. Chur.

Really enjoyed this one! Looking forward to a training and conditioning /weight training vid

We do the first method, ie. hingeing forward and catching at the same spot and exiting the water depending on the stroke rate. It seems to me the natural, instinctive way of adapting to speed change. The second method seems to add some mental complexity.

Thank you again for an informative and enjoyable video. I’m curious of why you have an adjustable paddle, ie. do you adjust it regularly to conditions? Let’s say if there’s only 10 paddlers in a large boat as opposed to 20 paddlers and the water surface is further away? I only have one paddle, 48”, my height is 5’ 10”, but plan to get a new paddle in the near future.

#pōnekepause

Hi, neither my previous nor my current team use pause paddling but we do a version of it with my current team, such as doing a race start and pause and freeze after 5 strokes (at the pause the paddle is just above the water in the catch position). I think we do it more for practicing the start in full sync.

Thanks. That PFD looks cool. The rules are State-specific here in Australia. In New South Wales PFD is not obligatory at all. In the ACT (ie. Canberra) they need to be worn after dark. In Victoria they’re mandatory and I had to wear one when I did a guest-paddle at Christmas in Melbourne and I didn’t like it much… The rest of the gear is familiar of course. My water bottle is just a half litre plastic soft drink bottle, square shaped so it doesn’t roll around at all. I take sunglasses as well and even a small tube of sunscreen just to dab some on my nose and cheeks if it’s very sunny.

Nice collection. I especially loved the Faler paddle (never heard of this brand to be honest). Being a fairly new dragon boater (3 years) I only have one paddle, a carbon fibre branded with my old team (The Sloths in Sydney). I’m now with the Ice Dragons in Canberra (we moved a few months ago).

Switching from wax to silicon grip tape was a game changer for me. $10 from aliexpress

Thanks for the vid. I’m a gripper and not very good with the release, don’t find it easy to co-ordinate it with the return. I try to do it though (with the top hand as well, opening the fingers on occasions and hold the handle only with the palm) just to release the grip and avoid finger cramps.

It’s also good to slide forward an inch or two on the seat if the paddler behind is very flexible and hinges a lot. To be honest some paddlers overdo hingeing… they throw themselves forward for the catch too much, they want to headbutt the gunnel and catch as much forward (almost at the knee of the paddler in front) as anatomically possible..but there is such a thing as too much hingeing, the catch angle shouldn’t be too flat.

Big fan Mr Choppa 🤙🏼

What about your life vests?😮

Love the updates and insights you're gaining from this experience. Such an awesome opportunity for you. I look forward to your next videos. Thanks!