Hi all, have been snapping paddles and doing patch up jobs for too long now so looking for a carbon paddle and am finding a huge variance in price between the big brands and not so big!

Are there major differences to be honest or are you paying big bucks for the nice decals and street cred.

The paddles I have snapped have been annaconda one, so no major surprises there, and a carbon with wooden blade unbranded that came with the package but all have broken where you'd expect joins etc, while I'm digging in big strokes to pick up a wave. Is that common?

I've had 4 paddles in over 5 years.

I lost one, sold one and the other 2 are in the garage.


Yep, buy a good one.

hilly said...

CMC said...
I've had 4 paddles in over 5 years.

I lost one, sold one and the other 2 are in the garage.


Yep, buy a good one.

Likewise

Broke 5 just paddling in 2007/2008 then got a Quickblade have not broken one since. Yep QB do break but good warranty. Ke Nalu great too. Good back up just like QB. You get what you pay for

Plus 1 for all of the above reasons.

skebstebamal said...

Jonesy reckons Ke Nalu are awesome too with warranty and or cost only on break replacements?

Yeah I can vouch for that. I did something stupid with one of my Ke Nalu paddles and under the "forever paddle" policy had a replacement part in my hands within a couple of days and at a substantial discount. I feel I was well looked after.