Technique, filming, crew building and training for dragon boat and paddling clubs — written by coaches, grounded in what the water can actually measure.
A 250 is one long start and a minute of holding on. Why 400-meter pieces belong in sprint training, and how to build a week that survives race day.
Turns, traffic, and ten-plus minutes of racing make the 2000 its own discipline. How to build endurance, rehearse the turns, and pick a rate that lasts.
At four to five minutes, the 1000 punishes a hot start more than any other distance. The piece lengths that build it, and how to learn race pace by feel.
Outrigger crews change paddling sides every fifteen strokes without breaking the canoe's run. How the hut call works, and why dragon boat never adopted it.
We told clubs to rank paddlers by meters per kilogram. A paddler argued hull drag cancels weight out anyway. The physics says both sides overcorrected.
The best-looking angle in the sport can now be analyzed, one clearly framed paddler at a time. What a bow-on clip measures, what it never will, and why.
Every paddling club runs on one shared spreadsheet and a group chat, until the day it doesn't. What a roster actually has to hold, and how to move off the sheet without losing a season.
Marking twenty names happens at the worst possible moment — boat going out, wet hands, someone shouting. Six rules that get a paddling club's roll call down to under a minute, on a phone, on a dock.
A masters boat can hold a 41-year-old and a 68-year-old on the same bench. What actually changes with age, what doesn't, and how to coach a crew where everyone is arriving from a different direction.
Most clubs either don't track attendance or track it in a way nobody trusts. What's worth recording, the third state everyone forgets, and how to use it without turning practice into a workplace.
Most paddling-technique advice assumes a crew boat and a coach on the dock. Here's why OC1, surfski and kayak paddlers training alone may need video analysis even more.
Getting an analysis back is easy. Turning it into two weeks of real training focus is the part most people skip. A walkthrough of every part of the report and what to do with each one.
What actually happens between uploading a paddling video and getting a report — detection, tracking, pose estimation and a language model, explained plainly, including what it can't do.
Crews that look crisp for 200 meters often unravel by 400. The culprit is usually cadence consistency, not fitness — here's how to spot it and train it.
The most common dragon boat coaching cue is also the vaguest. Here's what rotation physically is, how to tell it apart from reaching and leaning, and cues that actually change it.
Video review sessions fail socially before they fail technically. A format that keeps them short, kind and useful — one clip, one focus, no pile-ons.
Some clubs train everyone on both sides, some let paddlers specialize forever. What side symmetry is really worth, what it costs, and a practical policy for club crews.
The strongest paddler on land isn't always the fastest one in the boat. Why power-to-weight beats raw power for crew selection, and how to run a fair 2-minute test.
Video analysis is only as good as the footage. Six filming rules — camera position, framing, angle and light — that turn a phone clip into measurable technique data.
Projected arm angle, torso lean, stroke rate and rhythm can come from the right phone-video view. True trunk rotation still needs a coach's eye or 3D evidence.
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