Now lets just preface this blog with the fact that this is general advice only and if you want to really make sure you are training safely you should enlist a coach to personalise what you are doing. There's a pretty high chance that if you yourself haven't been injured from paddling/training, then you will know someone who has. Unfortunately paddling related injuries are relatively common, especially for what is meant to be a low impact sport. So why so many injuries. The ea

Most of the people I coach are at some stage going to do a race. Their level of training and commitment to the sport may vary widely but when the race starts getting closer they all end up asking for some advice around their race prep. For 90% of these guys my advice is the same so I thought I'd write it down here. Now these are meant to be 5min reads so I'll stick to the big points/principles. Number 1 - Don't change anything Now this doesn't mean train hard right up to the

For those just looking for the answer, it's the "Poor Knights Crossing" in Tutukaka North Island New Zealand For everyone else, I will give you some more info. Tutukaka is about 3 hours drive north of Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand. As you leave the city it doesn't take long to feel like you are somewhere completely different. The further you go the more you feel like you are on a pacific island (you are, but i mean fiji or vanuatu etc). Once you arrive Tutukaka

Ocean paddling is without a doubt one of the most complex and difficult sports around. Most paddlers go for years trying to improve technique or get better at downwind and in my opinion nobody ever truly masters it. This is probably why people don't really ever give it up. I know paddlers in their 60s who have been doing it all their lives, have won races and achieved all there is to achieve in the sport who are still excited by a good downwind day and the challenge of workin

Leg Drive This is one of the most detrimental misnomers but widely used in the whole sport of paddling. But the problem with Leg Drive is...

How much of this sport is really just in our heads? This is probably a question without an actual answer but my answer is "a lot". Sure...

This is the first blog I'm writing on common bits of bad advice that the people I coach have often heard. "Bad Advice" might be a bit...

I'm writing this blog because this is one of the hardest point to get across to paddlers when coaching, but it can also be one of the...

Not long ago ocean paddling was an even smaller sport that was really only undertaken by advanced paddlers most of which would be...