Polo gear that we provide? Contact us for any Double Dutch polo boats (any construction and colour) for a personal boat or a full team fleet. We can build you polo paddles to your length and feather, with a number of different blade types. We also have our new, custom-design of polo face mask, a massive improvement on older designs, being rust-proof and allowing a far better field of vision. Click here for more...
The new, specially designed Polo Face Mask is now avaliable!
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Introducing the PowerPlayPaddles range of blades. Theres three of them, for rivers, surf and sea. Depends what you're into. All are specially designed with these specific disciplines in mind, so they'll work for you perfectly when doing them! They come as plastic, which is called c12 or something, or as composite blades, which are far lighter, but more prone to scratches. All composites are manufactured using prepreg glass or carbon, with reinforcement strips along the back, strengthening the tip, which'll stop you from smashing up your shiny new blades.
A river blade, designed to be a good all round paddling shape. It's perfect for river-running and playboating. It has a powerful pull in the water and an almost equally powerful push off the back face as well, giving great manuverability, letting you rip up those cartwheels (if you can in fact cartwheel!).
Designed for surfing this is a vicious lookin' blade shape, for carving up the waves. Has a fairly huge surface area which'll give you a really good power stroke for getting onto the waves. And they look bloody cool! Awesome, hangin' ten in the green room!
Its a sea blade. Yeah. like, y'know, kinda long and thin with a really long shaft. which is... nice. To be honest Ii don't know squat about sea blades. I've heard that the only reason they're long and thin is 'cos thats the traditional thing, cos of the eskimos using tree strips that were long and thin, not because thats the most economical or best design for dealing with ocean waves or anything. But yeah, we've jumped on the bandwagon anyways and made them long and thin. However, Mr Ali D has had a fair pile of hours out on the sea, mainly off the coast of Donnegal in Ireland, and is very confident of their quality. Check 'em out!
Adventure racing. The most epic typeof racing there is? For those of you who are involved we are proud to be able to offer new SUPER ADVENTURE RACING BOATS. Designed and shipped from New Zeland and specifically designed for Adventure racing, these are XXft long, CARBON/DIOLIN/GLASS??, construction. We also provide paddles perfectly suited to this boating style. Click here to find out more...
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The Materials...
Theres three different ways we make our paddles. Plastic, glass or carbon. A good choice I think you'll agree.
The Plastic comes in three grades, N6 is the basic one, N12 which is a bit stiffer and more hard wearing and new carbon / nylon which is starting to get near a glass or carbon prepreg blade in stiffness and weight but is far more long lasting for those of you that want a paddle that will survive several ice ages. They're dead good for you folk that bash your poor paddles about a bit. They'll take a few good knocks. Better if your expecting to bash them up on bony rivers (or just thru general clumsiness). They're also comparitively cheap, which is more than can be said for their contempories in the paddle market. The composite ones are obviously a bit more prone to scratches and scrapes and dents, so better if you dont expect to be scraping them down the Coe or something. Theyre obviously a whole load lighter than the plastic ones as well. The glass blades will be avaliable in varying colours and the carbon ones have that really cool prepreg black look that you get in F1 cars. They're both really sturdy materials and they'll take a beating before they break or scratchbadly. The carbon blades are obviously a bit more sturdy, and slightly less flexible. Then again, some folks like their blades to flex somewhat. But the new shafts do that! Check them out, theyre cool.
As said, its a river blade. Yeah. Which is a good thing, if you're on a river. They come in plastic, glass or carbon (see above) which all look lovely.
The Tigers are named for Tiger sharks, because of the similarities between said shark and our paddles. Both have the vicious shark fin shape that jaws made so famous, both are agile in the waves and tear up the surf and both could do serious damage if thrown at you. The Tigers have a huge surface area allowing you to throw in just a couple of mighty powerstrokes to get onto your wave. They've been well tested at the Kayak Surf World Championships 2005, with Mista Neil Baxter coming second place with them and they've also been taken down the Grand Canyon. They also look pretty amazing (sorry for not having a picture just now, I'll get one up soon.)
The Open Ocean blades are...
I'll get a better person than I to type this bit I think. It'll be up here ASAP.
