Badger Paddles & Finding the Right Blade Shape 

It was very nice for you to take your time to put together this video for us. Ignore the complainers.

Awesome educational video from the expert maker himself; I love the visual side by side, and I really appreciate his comments on the impact to shoulders. Seeing this video is very timely for me. At 61, I just had bicep and full rotator cuff surgery 4 months ago, along with my second back surgery 2 days ago, so I am now very mindful of how I load my shoulder through its full range of motion and the future impact to my body. Seeing how a paddle shape can make such a difference to your shoulders is helping me rethink my future paddle choices. I might change now to a less impactful configuration. At this point for me; being able to continue paddling and slowing down and enjoying it is more important than speed and powering through the water. And just to add a friendly constructive opinion on the background music; for me personally, it is very distracting. Thanks for the video!

Thanks for sharing. Wonder why paddle blades are not made like oars. Meaning slightly U-shaped, so the water makes less vortex around the edges/more efficient.

Thanks for the info.

Very nice! Want to do one on sizing next?

I live in Syracuse New York and its like pulling teeth trying to find a place that sells canoe paddles. The only place ive found is Walmart so far. They look at me like im a psychopath when I ask if they sell canoe paddles.

Thank you .

Thank you

Nice overview of the differences. Does Swift sell canoe poles for stand up poling in your open canoe? Speaking of shallow water.

Very nice explanation. Too bad about the audio. The problem with the audio probably cannot be fixed in post. From listening to it, it would seem that the lav mic levels were set way too high and the signal is clipping and becomes permanently distorted even if you turn it down when editing (by contrast, the music sounded fine). This was true of the "How to Size a Canoe Paddle" as well. You have to fix the problem before recording next time.