Encouraging More Adults to Swim Featured Picture  Paddle Shape
and Design  Different paddles can help improve your technique
Special Advertorial  Masters swimmers have many more types of
paddles available to them today as compared to our age grouper
days. Styles, shapes, and sizes vary dramatically depending on
the brand and purpose. The once traditional “garbage can lid”
paddles, which can cause injury and a loss of feel for the
water, remain popular with many swimmers. However, there are
modern paddles coming onto the market that focus more on
improving swimming technique. Although some swimmers are
traditionalists when it comes to their training equipment, new,
innovative paddle designs have a place in swim training.  After
seeing how many categories and types of paddles are out there,
it is easy to see why finding the right paddle for our stroke
can be overwhelming. In a perfect world, we would all have at
least four types of paddles in our gear bags to work on
different things in a workout. Barring that