{"id":126,"date":"2016-02-12T17:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2024-07-30T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:56:02","slug":"paddle-design-comparison-tool","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/?page_id=126","title":{"rendered":"Paddle Design \/ Comparison Tool Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;Newtonian Approach to Paddle Design&#8217; covers the philosophy, assumptions and calculations leading to the creation of the (ever evolving!) &#8216;Paddle Comparison Tool&#8217;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a long time during it&#8217;s development to get &#8216;comfortable&#8217; with this approach, and it&#8217;s understandable others may need time to consider it.\u00a0\u00a0Obviously I&#8217;m very interested to hear of any &#8216;flaws&#8217; others spot in this approach.\u00a0 But if you can&#8217;t see any flaws&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;you may just have to review your paddle choice!<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to Ross Pearton (Cee Onewwr) and Evangelos Zympeloudis\u00a0for peer review duties, and Ivan Lawler for &#8216;flatwater&#8217; expertise, paddle testing, and general project support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Newtonian-Approach-to-Paddle-Design-Dec-2015.pdf\">A Newtonian Approach to Paddle Design Dec 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;Newtonian Approach to Paddle Design&#8217; covers the philosophy, assumptions and calculations leading to the creation of the (ever evolving!) &#8216;Paddle Comparison Tool&#8217;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a long time during it&#8217;s development to get &#8216;comfortable&#8217; with this approach, and it&#8217;s understandable others may need time to consider it.\u00a0\u00a0Obviously I&#8217;m very interested to hear of any &#8216;flaws&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paddlingscience.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}