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MCImes wrote: I will expressly advocate against a large paddle. I don't care how strong you are, the world champions use medium size blades. I would do as the champions do.
No one uses large blades anymore. The reason is they don't provide benefit beyond Olympic sprint distances and are a penalty on medium to long distances (as in distances over a mile or 2)
Resist the urge. Keep a medium wing. Put your energy into perfecting your stroke and it will pay far more dividends.
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Impala wrote: "Lisa Carrington who weighs 65kg but cranks out 30 pullups with an added 20kg weight for a warmup"
at 2:50), but not actually shown. I doubt whether this is possible at all for a woman CONSECUTIVELY ... and if yes, it would be an all-out effort, not a warm-up. If, however, she drops to her feet between pulls, I have no doubt it can work for an accomplished athlete like her. With spacing such breaks as required, you can do quite a number of pullups in a certain time, even with added weight. Not being specifically strong, I can do only 12 pullups consecutively, but 180 in 30 minutes as a training routine.
I am wondering where that achievemnt is documented with footage? I only found a Maori language YT channel where this was claimed (
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mickeyA wrote: There are definitely surf skis and OC’s in the Tampa area. I do not know exactly who or where, but they are there. There used to be a very large race held just north of the bay (honeymoon island) called SharkBite. They did not all come from out of town. I met a couple guys at the Gorge that paddle with a group, seems like Wednesday nights (could very well be off on this), but I think on north side of bay (you are on south side, I believe). Go to some races in the area, even if SUP-heavy races, and you will likely meet some local ski or OC paddlers. Tampa area is a great place to paddle. I do not live anywhere near, but visit occasionally.
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Wombat661 wrote: Here are two links that talk about paddle blade science. (I have not seriously read them yet)
www.paddlingscience.net/
people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/11/Jackson.pdf
Whether the paddle is generating lift of re-directing water, is important to get the fluid mechanics right.
The problem we have is there are a lot of variable to a good paddle stroke. There is pitch of the blade, angle of the paddle shaft relative to the water, the arc that the blade travel through and the speed profile. Each person has to find their own optimal stroke.
I think using minimal effort stroke allow you to tell immediately if what you are doing is helping the stroke or causing the blade to slip. After a while, you will automatically adopt an optimal stroke. I think a lot of the nuance of a stroke is subconsciously build into muscle memory.
Is very tempting to just power thru the stroke to overcome technique. Power will give you a burst of speed. As you get older, like me, then you have to use technique to overcome lack of powerI wished I spent time doing technique when I was younger. I was riding a road bike then. That too is highly technique dependent. Power plus technique will be a winning combination.
Surfski is like a three legged stool. The three legs of the stool are strength, technique and balance. You need all of them to work together. That is what makes surfski so interesting. OC1 on the other hand should be more strength and technique, but less balance.
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CrabStick wrote: Wombat661 - Lawler also talks about a wing paddle essentially being different to a flat blade only in the way water escapes more from one side than the other and this helps to guide the blade through the water in a path that matches well to a good technique with use of large muscle groups. I don't think that a wing or Bernoulli effect has a lot to do with it as this requires quite a high flow (like an aircraft wing or a hydrofoil). The blade just doesn't move fast in the water at all so it can't create a pressure differential (lift). It is just gaining some purchase in the water so that you can lever yourself and your boat forward. I hope others can shed more light on this but as far as I can tell "wing" blade is a misnomer and it's really a scoop that is just a small modification of a flat blade.
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