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Paddling faster isn’t just for racers; every paddler benefits from being able to step it up a bit when they need to. So is it something you need to learn how to do, or is it something that you just do? It seems kind of intuitive - you just, well, paddle faster, right? But what does that look like in practice? For most people, trying to ‘paddle faster’ actually tends to end up as ‘paddling a whole lot more inefficiently, with a bunch of splashing and loads of effort’, with only a very slight change in speed achieved. Or it manifests as a crazy high-tempo paddling style with a huge number of inefficient short little strokes per minute, which very quickly has your heart-rate at red-lining levels, and is utterly unsustainable for anything other than short bursts.
So how do you go faster, in a sustainable, efficient fashion? In this video, we’ll go through the various factors one by one and help you understand what’s going on, so that you can go out and experiment for yourself on what works best for you. Because that’s the first important point right there, and one we’re constantly banging on about - there is no one right way to paddle. The best approach for you to go faster may be totally different to the best approach for your mate.
There are essentially three things you can do to paddle faster:
1 - Improve your efficiency - so for the same amount of effort you’re actually achieving more speed
2 - Do more strokes per minute
3 - Get more power out of each existing stroke
Or indeed, any combination of these three; they’re not mutually exclusive. However, to properly understand each factor and how to apply it, it really helps to consider them in isolation.
