Paddle Smarter with Power

Do you want to boost your performance by training and racing smarter and paddling more efficiently?

Get more out of every training session

Training 'smarter' is about spending your energy wisely by training at the right intensity and tracking your fitness to ensure that your training is producing results.

Perform to the best of your abilities

Racing 'smarter' is about pacing a perfect race by understanding the physiological demands of the event and knowing how to best spend your energy.

Go further or faster with the same effort

Paddling more efficiently is about developing a technique that converts as much of your energy output into forward boat motion as possible.

How do you achieve these objectives?

It starts with being able to accurately measure and track your power output - a direct measurement of intensity.

Measure and track your power output with a power meter

Unlike heart rate monitors, which measure the body’s response to intensity, or GPS boat speed measuring devices and stroke rate sensors, which are affected by environmental conditions (water current, wind speed, water density & water temperature), a power meter provides you with a direct measure of your energy output.

This direct and objective measure of intensity is immediate and power values can be compared from day-to-day, independent of environmental conditions, equipment (boat, paddle length & blade type) and paddling technique.

Benefits of training/racing with power

Below are some of the key benefits of training and racing with power for paddlers.

Monitor Training Intensity

Take the Uncertainty Out of Your Training Sessions

A power meter helps determine training levels relative to your Functional Threshold Power, corresponding to different energy systems. Real-time feedback ensures you maintain the correct intensity throughout your session.

Measure Training Load

Reduce Your Chance of Overtraining or Undertraining

A power meter helps quantify training stress during paddling sessions and races. This data informs you or your coach about necessary recovery or whether the training load can be increased.

Track Fitness Development

Accurately Monitor Your Level of Fitness

A power meter allows fitness testing anytime, independent of environmental conditions or boat setup. It enables tracking fitness across the season for various durations (e.g., 10s, 4min, 20min Max Power).

Improve Technique Efficiency

Convert More of Your Power Output into Forward Motion

Using a power meter you can find a more efficient technique by monitoring your boat speed and power output whilst adjusting your technique. A more efficient technique either increases speed at the same power or maintains speed with less power.

Determine Optimal Pacing

For Pacing During Training and Racing

Understanding your maximum average power aids in pacing, improving race performance. Proper pacing prevents early burnout; delays fatigue in endurance events and allows for a faster average speed.

Collect Informative Data

Allow Your Coach to View Your Training Under a Microscope

Having a recorded power file from a training paddle or race gives coaches deeper insight into your capabilities. It differentiates between efforts (e.g., 2 hours at 200 watts vs. 150 watts) and provides detailed information as if the coach were present.

What is a Power Meter?

A paddle-sports power meter is a S-Glass fibreglass tube that is embedded with force and motion sensors. Thie power meter tube is hot melt glued inside a paddle shaft to measure a paddler's power output, force, and stroke rate.

Real-time Data

Compatible Displays

Compatible with devices from Garmin (e.g. Edge®, Forerunner®, fēnix®); Suunto & Polar and many, many more (incl. smartphones).

Record your Training Data

Record the metrics on your ANT+ or Bluetooth display alongside your GPS boat speed and heart rate. You can then use software such as Garmin Connect™, Strava™ or TrainingPeaks™ to view your data and analyze your performance.

Feedback as you Paddle

Power, Power Balance and Stroke-Rate will be displayed in real-time on any compatible ANT+ or Bluetooth display, updated every second.

High Speed Data

View your stroke profiles - power, pushing hand force & pulling hand force during each stroke - at 50 samples a second.

A Detailed View of Individual Strokes

Identify Left and Right Stroke Imbalances

Imbalances in power and hand forces between left and right strokes can reveal weaknesses or improper paddle offset. Symmetry is crucial for teamwork in a boat and ensures a smoother run. High-speed data will show if any imbalances are present.

Investigate Stroke-Timing in a Crew/Team Boat

A team boat performs best when all athletes paddle in sync. High-speed data will reveal each athlete's catch and exit timing if they use a power meter.

Here's what our customers say

"My power meter has completed a year of work, and honestly it has been a quantum leap to work with this system."

- Gianni Anderlini (Italy)

“What a great experience using the power meter, no where to hide, you are either putting out and maximising the Watts, or paddling below threshold. I could not be happier with the outcome and the incorporation of the meter into my training.”

- Raphael Chapman (Australia)

“Training with power helps you plan a workout, a group of workouts, and indeed a whole season. It can provide consistent data that you can track over time, and to keep you focused during an individual effort. I try to use it in most sessions, as the data review later always provides some new glimpse of data that can suggest improvement ideas.”

- Robert Lee (Japan)

“I'm using the Kayak Power Meter with our junior paddlers. They love the analysis app and the whole idea of being able to see their technique in numbers. The Kayak Power Meter is indeed one giant leap forward for paddling sport!”

- Cheryl Tay (Singapore)