Looking to experienced swimmers for recommendations on effective swim paddles for daily workouts. Trying to identify something that while effective for stroke development will not cause undue strain to shoulders -- but still gets the job done on promoting appropriate resistance. If you've got a solid/trusted recommendation please share. Thanks in advance for your professional advice.
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10+ -year-old black TYR Catalysts. Never had any shoulder issues with them and they've held up really well over the years.
Back in the day, mine were marked large, but I just bought a friend a pair of small yellow Catalyst Brites for Xmas and they're exactly the same size.
So - those would be used in garbage sets ? ? :afraid:
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+1 TYR Catalyst
I had two sets of TYR Mentor paddles, blue, and I broke the right hand paddle of both sets. I pushed off the wall and the paddle collapsed on itself and broke in half. This happened to me twice. I then switched to TYR Catalyst, grey (XL), and they are thicker, more solid. I prefer these over the Mentors. The XL's are big like trashcan lids.
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I'm an experienced swimmer and a coach who knows that effective equipment is important. The fact that I've invented a piece of equipment prevents me from plugging it but I can plug other paddles. The Hans Paddle isn't new but for the price, it does exactly what it's intended to do and that is to increase the area of the hand and allow swimmers to strengthen the pull. There are a lot of great paddles out there but you can't go wrong with the Han's paddles (our high school coach has a ton and the Han's paddles allow you to adapt them for different dry-land uses. Good luck! Coach T.