John Puakea Teaches the Tahitian Paddle Technique with Video Analysis

[@valerienarube8241]

Thank you so much for this teaching video on technicalities and techniques. I'm very new to this sport. Learned so much. Please keep them coming. Vinaka vakalevu ( Thanks very much in in the Itaukei language - Fiji).

[@ScottGB]

This guy is a true analyst of paddling

[@Lehmann108]

If you have an opportunity to take a clinic with Johnny absolutely do it! Most coaches over-complicate the stroke and you end up with five or six elements of the stroke ringing in your head as you paddle. Johnny will just give you one or two things to work on for 6 months and then you see him again!

[@mulus2008]

Iv paddled for 30 years andI am in my 50 and have a buddy I race. anyway this weekend and with no practice time just tried it in a race it worked great I moved on my buddy. I have change and some material to work on Thank you so much John.....

[@tomwalter7948]

So insightful John - thanks for posting

[@blueplanetsurf]

Good stuff, thank you Evan!

[@StandUpPaddleSurfnet]

+blueplanetsurf Thanks. More to come.

[@AshleyArvidsson]

I'm pretty sure I saw him at Magic Island. He looks very familiar. Not sure, but I see paddlers there all the time.

[@dgarvin53]

awesome technique, I just join the makaha canoe team

[@tonyfajardo3003]

More great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

[@StandUpPaddleSurfnet]

+Tony Fajardo Thanks

[@lnpau-tusi1164]

Thanks

[@leonardc1303]

Keep running the video please

[@StandUpPaddleSurfnet]

Canoe designer and championship coach, John Puakea teaches us the Tahitian paddling technique that Shell Va'a is using to dominate the canoe races. In this video, John breaks down the Tahitian paddling stroke taught to him by Gerard Teva by using videos of champion paddlers from California and Tahiti.

[@pbagoye]

Culture in decline

[@andrewalligood3121]

I no like paddle one side all-staggered mo bettah!But this guy prettry akamai!It work for them guys.Papa ete' was beautiful when we went in 85.But some of us got conjunctivitis from the fresh water,somehow.That was the only glitch in a great trip.Wish I knew French.....

[@michelangeloreyes6669]

24:34 MY BRO HARRISON 👍🏽

[@StandUpPaddleSurfnet]

+Michelangelo Reyes cool

[@Differentmedia]

Hey guys! thanks for sharing this great video, I just filmed a video interviewing the creater of world paddle for the planet day, feel free to check it out!

[@johnrobinson3852]

It's a hula dance

[@ualesipuni2396]

It was so painful listening to the interviewer. He was basically interviewing himself...