Comments on: Apex Accelerator Carbon Fibre Paddle

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:58:57 +0000

I’ve had quite a different experience to the others. My club primarily uses Apex Accelerators and we’ve all experienced faults one way or another, and usually within the first 6 months. The paddles usually break at the T handle and some also break at the shaft-blade join.

I’m not sure if I understand the term of seamless but I think the paddle has these seams:

- handle
- the shaft is joined in halves
- shaft-blade

We’ve seen breaks of in all of these joins. One girl even showed me a break in the shaft. I simply cannot understand what workmanship went into these.

In terms of non-seam damage, the blade is also very flimsy and gets dinged very easily. Granted, our club has expanded rapidly and new paddlers are often out of time, but I compare my ZRE and Typhoon8 paddles and they’re tanks compared to the Apex Accelerator.

All in all I can understand why people buy the Apex Accelerator – it’s so light and well-balanced – but it can’t justify the hassle of repairs and replacement.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:00:15 +0000

Hi Levi,

Thanks for your feedback and that’s great news for any teams wanting to buy in bulk from GWN

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:14 +0000

i own an accelerator. this is a really great paddle. worth mentioning is that you can buy it in bulk (10 or more) for your team from GWN or other suppliers for about $165 which is much less expensive than other similar paddles.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:39:29 +0000

Hi Tyrone –

Cool blog I have an apex and actually got it while at Jim’s and GWN’s spring camp in FL.

Just wanted to say and thanks for joining the dbtv forum too

Hope to meet you soon one day,

Jeannie