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Can A Paddle Make A Difference?

Fetched: October 29th, 2011, 11:34am CEST

Let’s cut to the chase. Yes. There’s a simple logic to this. If your paddle is lighter you’ll do less work lifting it out of the water and swinging it back to the front of the board (recovery). If the blade is more efficient because of the hydrodynamic design and structure, then that efficiency will Continue Reading
Impressions of a BOP

Fetched: October 29th, 2011, 11:34am CEST

We’ve been having a great time in SoCal before, during and after the Battle of the Paddle. The amount of material I’ve collected to do posts is just overwhelming, and I’m way behind on stuff I’ve started–for example, the CCBC trip to Massachusetts and up into Maine which was back in August. So I’ve decided Continue Reading
Introducing Ke Nalu Paddles

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This video explains the technical innovations we have undertaken in building the new Ke Nalu paddles. We apologize for the length, but there’s a lot to explain. These paddles look the same as the paddle you are probably using, but they are very different. The video says the paddles are available now. Not quite true. Continue Reading
Why Stroking Past Your Feet Doesn’t Work

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If you’ve been paddling a while you’ve undoubtedly heard that you shouldn’t paddle past your feet. Both the Hawaiian and Tahitian stroke build on that reality. But why is it so? Well now that we’ve got the basics of how a paddle works down we can explain it. Wait… …you didn’t read that? Get outta Continue Reading
How Do Paddles Work?

Fetched: October 29th, 2011, 11:34am CEST

Probably not like you visualize. We’ve done a lot of work trying to understand paddles here at Ke Nalu Labs. We, meaning me and Sam. Sam’s contribution is accompanying me to Nichol’s Slough, running around looking for food and dead things. My contribution is putting sensors all over paddles, hooking them up to a data Continue Reading
No Room For Error

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How do you practice something like this? I figure he must have started by just getting as far from the ground as possible, and then tightened it up by increments. Still, one sneeze and you’re a windshield bug.
Gaga for the Lady

Fetched: October 29th, 2011, 11:34am CEST

Freaks my kids out that Diane and I are Lady Gaga Fans. Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone could not be. Last weekend I said that and someone called her “talentless”. That is simply too silly to respond to. Check this out. Acoustic. Astonishing. What an imagination. The music, the lyrics, the performance, the look, Continue Reading
East Coast SUP

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Clams. First thing I think of when I think of the East Coast. I’m like Bubba in Forrest Gump, only it’s clams instead of shrimp. Cherrystones, Little Necks, Soft Shell, Essex Steamers, and Quahaugs. Raw, steamed, fried, baked, casino, chowder, stuffed–in rolls, the halfshell, on a dinner plate or a carboard tray. I like clams. Continue Reading
Swell SUP Board

Fetched: October 29th, 2011, 11:34am CEST

Another crazy day in the Gorge. Winds hovering around 40kts, big swell, bigger than August 9th, when the wind was really howling around 43-45kts. Because the swell was so big I decided to leave the downwind/race boards on the truck and ride a surfboard. It was a great choice. I used Diane’s old Naish 11’6″ Continue Reading
Jamie Mitchell in Indo

Fetched: October 29th, 2011, 11:34am CEST

Smokey Carter posted this to the Standup Zone, but the zone doesn’t use embed codes. I couldn’t fix the post on the zone but I can make it work on Ke Nalu, so here you go Smokey.
Can A Paddle Make A Difference?

Fetched: October 22nd, 2011, 12:33pm CEST

Let’s cut to the chase. Yes. There’s a simple logic to this. If your paddle is lighter you’ll do less work lifting it out of the water and swinging it back to the front of the board (recovery). If the blade is more efficient because of the hydrodynamic design and structure, then that efficiency will Continue Reading

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