Paddling Insights » Greenland Paddle

By Gearlab Outdoors Welcome to Gearlab Outdoors, where we are thrilled to introduce our very first Gearlab Athlete Movie: A Champion's Paddle. Our film showcases the incredible skills and inspiring story of Amber Champion, our Global Ambassador and a professional kayaker based in Canada. Mike Shih and Tiffany Chiu of Gearlab Outdoors traveled all the way from Taiwan to Vancouver Island to catch up...

By Gearlab Outdoors Gearlab launches 3 all new colors on the world’s best selling carbon fiber Greenland paddle - Kalleq. Gearlab is always looking to add more fun and excitement to your kayaking experience, this includes exploring new color options to fit your unique personality and aesthetics. The 3 new colors are: Metallic Purple, Metallic Green and Arctic Crimson. This season each color also...

Some experienced paddlers may be put off by the thought of starting from scratch with a new style of paddle, but in reality the Greenland paddle is exceptionally easy to learn, for both beginners and veteran paddlers alike.

The Greenland paddle is the ultimate master of efficiency. Despite the absence of a wide ‘scooping’ blade, the popular myth that a Greenland paddle has less potential power is just that, a myth. In fact, the surface area available to displace water is similar to the Euro-blade, the key difference being that it is spread along a longer blade.

To the uninitiated, the sight of a kayaker using a Greenland paddle is a strange one. To those only familiar with the more common ‘Euro-blade’ paddles it appears as though the Greenland paddler is using a simple stick, which surely cannot be anywhere near as effective as a normal paddle. How wrong they are.

In the industry, there is no set standard for testing stress placed on the paddles. By knowing so, Gearlab can utilize these results to better serve the consumer by continuing to test their existing paddles to ensure that they will meet the consumer’s expectations. Concrete understanding of the force that a paddle can withstand will assist Gearlab in developing paddles that will withstand all...

We spoke with Chung-Shih Sun from the Gearlab offices in Taiwan last week. He combined his love for design with his passion as a paddler to create a state-of-the-art Greenland paddle.

The very first time we held a Greenland paddle in hand, perfecting it became our mission. The reason we setup Gearlab was to combine our expertise in industrial design and paddling and to continue developing better paddling solutions. As islanders, we truly wish paddling could bring people closer to the water, and to appreciate the ocean like we do.