Dragon boat paddle comparison





dragonboat paddle



I’m only reviewing the ones I have experience with and are at around the same level.

* To be taken into account is also if there is a local sales rep because when your paddle breaks, the sales reps will replace them for free or fix them if it is within warranty.


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Burn water Reactor II: ***


- 420g


- Nice feel and weight balance


- The blade is nice and flat, I like the catch better than the Apex counterpart.


- Seen a lot of handles break off. The sales rep fixed those paddles.


Apex Accelerator: ***


- 420g


shape of blade is triangular, the catch doesnt feel as solid as burn water but it is just my feel.


the handle was attached to the shaft with a triangular end which minimizes surface area for epoxy. Handle came off all the time. More recent models have a screw in there so the handle holds better. My handle and several of my teammates’ handles broke off.


- the weight distribution feels odd, it seems the blade is lighter than the burn water so when you hit a wave, you have to resist harder if you don’t want to lose your grip.


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Trivium S12 ****


- 340g


- The paddle is extendable. Now this is a bit overlooked. A lot of first-time buyers are committing to paddle lengths that are shorter than they should be and regret it later on. This takes care of that problem.


- I've broken quite a few paddles in my career. I broke most at the joint between blade and shaft and broke another at the handle. To me, it feels nice to have a paddle that doesn’t have those two weak spots.


The Trivium has handle integrated with the shaft and blade integrated to shaft so there’s less chance of breaking the paddle there on an important race.


- It is more fragile than burn water: if u get hit by somebody behind u, it might leave a dent. Everyone I know who got a trivium swears never to go back to whatever they had before.


- there are also ergonomic handles as an option. not sure it makes a huge difference but because the finish is slightly rounded, you’d get less calus on your palm.


Chinook diablo **


- 545g


chinook's a quick fix.


- Everybody wants to get rid of their chinooks at a later point of their careers to get a higher grade paddle. If u just wanna have something thats better than wood, its a good alternative


- the finish of the blade is bad, the blade chips all over the edge, the entry will get worse and worse.


- The handle is round and a little thinner than the other paddles though and it has small grooves to improve grip. I actually liked that.


Wood:


- Please don’t


- I always see people using these are it is fairly obvious the stroke is different. This makes it very hard for a team to blend. Typically, you will fall behind on the stroke and have slow recovery because it is much heavier than the carbon fibers.


 






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