The best way to Make the Most of Your GPS Machine as a Coaching Software
Should you’re a racer or a critical coach, one of the crucial vital items of substances you’ll be able to personal is a GPS. Should you’re going to attempt to get sooner, it’s important to make use of one usually. How you utilize it could have a big effect on what you get out of your coaching session and the way rapidly/how a lot you enhance over time. So, let’s check out the way to use your GPS that will help you go sooner.
Let’s check out the way to use your GPS that will help you go sooner:
Mount your machine the place you’ll be able to see it
It’s positive to obtain the information out of your GPS on the finish of each exercise or race to see what it tells you. It’s significantly helpful when you’re testing over a regular distance on calm, nonetheless water as the information you get may be in contrast from one take a look at to the following and can be utilized to chart your progress. However to essentially maximize the usage of your GPS it’s extra vital to mount it the place you’ll be able to see it so that you just additionally get actual time suggestions when you’re paddling.
Whenever you take a look at downloaded information, you’ll be able to see the place you had been going quick and the place you misplaced velocity. You probably have a GPS that doubles as a coronary heart fee monitor, you’ll be able to see the place you had been working hardest and the place you had been going simpler. You possibly can correlate velocity and coronary heart fee and get some thought of the place you had been going quickest with the least effort. These are all good issues to know.
The issue is, for those who’re taking a look at all of this data off of a obtain, you’re going to should have an awfully good reminiscence to know precisely what you had been doing within the exercise at any given second, what you had been specializing in on the time, and precisely what you had been feeling at every second in query. You’ll even have a tough time remembering precisely what the situations had been like at every information level and, in an outside sport like ours the place issues like velocity are so depending on situations, what good is the information for those who can’t cross reference it to the environmental situations? Whereas it may be good to see the information, it’s nearly ineffective for those who can’t relate it precisely to the way you had been paddling at any given second and what the situations had been on the time.
Rather more vital than downloaded data that you just take a look at after the exercise is actual time suggestions that you just get within the second. It may possibly offer you details about your approach. For instance, whenever you make a delicate change in your stroke or a minor adjustment to your approach, you need to see what sort of affect it has in your velocity. Does it make you quicker or slower? Is it sustainable? Actual time suggestions helps present perception on this.
We’ve talked lots about approach on this web site. We’ve checked out errors related to every a part of the stroke and their fixes. When you’re working in your approach is this way this can be very helpful to have quantitative suggestions that tells you whether or not the changes you make are efficient or not. You possibly can’t get this data for those who can’t see your machine. So, to get maximal profit out of your machine this can be very vital that you just mount it the place you’ll be able to see it whilst you’re paddling. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to obtain the knowledge as you’ll in any other case, however having the ability to see information in actual time is crucial.
Carrying your GPS in your wrist or carrying it the place you’ll be able to’t see it isn’t adequate. If you must miss a stroke whilst you’re paddling to have a look at your machine you aren’t getting legitimate data. Additionally, you’re not doing the work correctly for those who’re stopping. Moreover, carrying your GPS in your wrist will increase the prospect of inaccurate readings. To get actually correct readings, your machine needs to be mounted on as strong a platform as attainable with minimal motion aside from that of your board.
Sadly, for those who put on your GPS in your wrist, the motion of your arm, particularly at excessive speeds, can have an effect on the studying. You’ll get misguided data that outcomes from the machine studying each the motion of your board (or different paddle craft) and your hand.
Mounting your machine in your board/boat provides you essentially the most correct and helpful data. It needs to be a comparatively easy activity to mount it the place you’ll be able to see it whereas paddling, and plenty of items include mounting gear particularly for this function. There’s actually no excuse for not doing it.
Taking advantage of the knowledge your GPS offers you
GPS gadgets can provide you a wide range of data. It actually is determined by the make/mannequin you’re utilizing, what number of show home windows you could have open and what data you’ve chosen to show. Let’s check out the most typical varieties of information they supply and what their use is to you.
Pace or tempo
Indisputably that is an important piece of data you will get out of your GPS. Should you’re racing, it issues how briskly you’re going. Should you’re doing exercises, understanding how briskly you’re going is vital as properly. Pace information can offer you details about the effectiveness and effectivity of your paddling. I can’t overstate the significance of understanding your velocity. It ought to undoubtedly be the primary window you fill in your GPS show.
You’ve a number of choices on how your velocity may be displayed. You want to select between metric and imperial items. And, that you must determine whether or not you need to view your tempo or your precise velocity.
I want to see my velocity expressed as my tempo per kilometer. It makes essentially the most sense to me. Bear in mind, I grew up racing canoe over 1000m. The time it takes to paddle a kilometer is an especially helpful piece of data for me, and one I don’t should assume a lot about to meaningfully interpret. Not like driving a automobile the place each km/h or mph make sense to me, at SUP speeds I can’t actually relate to both of those measurements. They imply subsequent to nothing to me. And aside from understanding that 10 km/h equals 6:00 min/kilometer, I’m not adequate at math to rapidly convert velocity information to tempo. However, understanding my tempo per kilometer can provide me a fairly good thought of how briskly I’m going and the way lengthy a race of a given distance goes to take me. Although I’m awful at math that’s a calculation I can extra simply do. The selection between tempo and velocity is yours, nevertheless. Select the strategy of monitoring your velocity that makes essentially the most sense to you and is best so that you can do some primary math with.
Precise velocity or common velocity
Most GPS gadgets offers you the choice of viewing precise actual time velocity or the typical velocity, both for a break up or for your complete exercise as much as that time.
Whereas there are benefits to understanding each, to me there may be little worth in understanding the typical velocity whereas I’m paddling. That needs to be one thing I can take a look at later. I need actual time suggestions whereas I’m really paddling.
Utilizing actual time velocity suggestions to enhance your pacing
I don’t fixate on my GPS when I’m paddling. Doing so would encourage me to paddle with my head down, and that’s not good on your approach. Paddling along with your head down really makes it tougher to unload well timed and forcefully and encourages you to get “caught” in a bent over place when you need to be unloading. Nonetheless, you don’t want to have a look at your GPS each stroke to make use of it for actual time suggestions. Simply glancing at it sometimes can present all the knowledge you want – suggestions that may be massively priceless.
Think about your pacing. Whether or not you’re doing a exercise or racing, you need to know as quickly as attainable whenever you’re slowing down. Normally, you don’t lose your velocity abruptly. Usually, you start to decelerate simply barely. As you do, your board begins to take a seat a little bit deeper within the water, thus making it a little bit tougher to tug. Because you’re already drained (that’s the explanation you’re slowing down within the first place), pulling a board that’s sitting deeper within the water previous the paddle goes to tire you out much more. There’s elevated wetted floor and elevated resistance to ahead motion the deeper the board sits. Every stroke turns into a little bit heavier. The deeper your board drops into the water, the tougher it’s to tug and the extra drained you get. The extra drained you get, the extra your board goes to decelerate and drop even deeper into the water. It’s a vicious circle, characterised by ever rising fatigue and lowering velocity. And, with well timed suggestions, it’s largely avoidable.
Normally whenever you start to decelerate, it’s only a matter of being a tiny bit extra aggressive gathering water on the catch, a little bit bit extra dynamic working in opposition to that water within the pull, getting just a bit extra weight off the board and on the blade, or being just a bit extra dynamic and forceful in your unloading actions to stop it. As you fatigue, you progressively change into barely much less efficient in considered one of extra of those areas, leading to velocity starting to ever so barely bleed off and your board sinking barely deeper into the water. Typically, you don’t even notice that it’s occurring till abruptly issues begin to really feel actually heavy and also you’re going significantly slower. Nonetheless, your GPS can detect even the slightest decreases in velocity and might let you know that you just’re slowing down earlier than you’ll be able to really feel it, permitting you to stop velocity from bleeding off by making solely small changes to your stroke. Should you catch it early sufficient, protecting your board at velocity and on high of the water is often only a query of being barely extra dynamic along with your motion and the way you’re working in opposition to the water. With comparatively little extra effort, you’ll be able to fairly simply quick circuit the method of slowing down, sinking deeper into the water, after which slowing down some extra.
A few of my favourite exercises are pacing exercises. In these, I’m often doing them at degree 3 and making an attempt to take care of tempo over a distance, like, for instance, 5 km or for a collection of 1 km repeats. I’m making an attempt to paddle as effectively, but as quick, at degree three as attainable, whereas additionally making an attempt to tempo as evenly and sustainably as attainable. I can use my GPS to watch my velocity, guaranteeing that I’m not going too laborious and thus making my tempo much less sustainable, whereas on the identical time catching even the slightest decline in velocity because it occurs and permitting me to make small changes that make my stroke extra dynamic, thus reestablishing the tempo I’m making an attempt to take care of. That is the essence of studying to tempo extra evenly and, finally, studying to tempo evenly at a sooner velocity.
Your GPS also can let you know when it’s a good time to alter sides in an effort to keep tempo. Typically, we will keep on one facet just a bit too lengthy, slowing down attributable to fatigue greater than we realized. Since altering sides when fatigued often means that you can pull more energizing strokes that are typically extra forceful and dynamic, it’s a good suggestion to know precisely when that you must change sides. Typically, your GPS will let you know it’s a good suggestion to alter sides earlier than your physique will.
Utilizing actual time suggestions to enhance your approach
I’ve already alluded to how delicate adjustments in how dynamically you collect in your blade and work in opposition to it could have an effect on velocity. Typically, going sooner is only a query of leaning in your paddle a little bit extra within the stroke, working simply barely sooner in opposition to the water held in your blade, or contracting your abs or transferring your hips a little bit extra rapidly on the exit. You may be an skilled paddler with a sound movement however that basically isn’t sufficient to go quick. Should you’re going to achieve your full potential, it’s not simply your movement however how forcefully and dynamically you utilize it that’s key. The subtlest adjustments on this regard to a stroke that in any other case seems unchanged could make a substantial distinction in your velocity and its sustainability. The one method you’ll be able to study to paddle sooner is through the use of your GPS and getting actual time suggestions as you experiment along with your connection and the way dynamically you progress. Your GPS means that you can fairly rapidly study what, precisely, makes you quicker and what doesn’t, permitting you to intensify and consolidate what works.
For extra novice paddlers, who’re nonetheless making an attempt to study a sound, efficient movement, a GPS mounted the place you’ll be able to see it offers comparable suggestions. As a extra novice paddler, your issues could also be extra about primary actions than the subtleties described above, however the thought is similar. As you experiment along with your motion and take a look at various things, your GPS offers you with incontrovertible details about what works and what doesn’t. It may possibly direct the trail that your approach evolves alongside and allow you to study to paddle properly extra rapidly.
There isn’t a more practical approach to discover ways to join and use efficient approach than by getting actual time suggestions out of your GPS.
Utilizing actual time suggestions to watch water situations when racing
In case you are a racer, ultimately you’ll find yourself racing in wind, present or different situations that have an effect on your velocity. Not often are these situations uniform throughout a stretch of water. The road you tackle the race course issues. Actual time velocity suggestions additionally means that you can see actually rapidly what water situations are doing and the way they’re affecting your velocity. Do you need to know the very best line to be taking in a race or do you need to be left guessing? I’ve discovered my GPS to be extremely priceless when racing in tidal situations like on the Carolina Cup, to the purpose the place it has really helped me simply move individuals who weren’t getting any GPS information and had been following the improper line. I’ve additionally discovered it helpful in a race like Chattajack, which is raced downriver in a powerful present. Usually, present is the strongest in the midst of the river. Nonetheless, on an enormous river with numerous bends, there may be benefits to chopping nearer to shore on the within of those bends. You’re merely paddling much less distance. Your GPS might help you choose the best line on these bends, permitting you to search out out the proper mixture of present energy and shorter distance.
Utilizing actual time suggestions to evaluate the power of different racers
Lastly, actual time velocity suggestions might help you collect data and perception about different paddlers within the draft prepare that may make or break your race. At Chattajack, for instance, I’m ceaselessly in a draft prepare with two to 3 different paddlers. Realizing the tempo that every of us leads at actually helps me tactically. I need to understand how my tempo when main compares to the others of their leads, as it could assist me develop a technique for the end or the inevitable level the place the draft prepare breaks aside. If my leads are quickest, I do know that very doubtless I can start my end earlier and put on them down. If my leads are slower, I do know that coming off the wash and beginning my end too early may be harmful. Making an attempt to paddle away from somebody who has been demonstrably sooner than you every time they’ve lead is extraordinarily troublesome, verging on inconceivable. It’s in all probability higher to attend so long as attainable earlier than getting off the wash, then hope that you just’re a greater sprinter for a brief distance to the end than the paddler with the sooner touring tempo that you’re drafting.
On my machine I’ve my precise, actual time, tempo on fixed show. It’s the single most vital piece of data I would like from stroke to stroke. I solely get a mean tempo for the latest kilometer accomplished that flashes up briefly with a little bit alarm each time I begin a brand new kilometer, and I’ve a mean tempo for your complete exercise on one of many secondary screens that I can take a look at, if I select to, after the exercise or race has been accomplished. That offers me some perspective of what my tempo is over time.
Different data your GPS can present you
Elapsed time
Elapsed time is clearly of worth, significantly for those who’re timing your exercises or for those who’re racing and wish some thought of how lengthy you’ve been going for or how for much longer you may need to go. I discover it is usually helpful for serving to keep a hydration schedule in lengthy races. I attempt to drink each 10 minutes whether or not I must or not in an extended race like Chattajack. Elapsed time is likely one of the home windows I exploit on my primary display screen.
Break up instances
Most GPS items will show a break up time, both by mile or kilometer or by every other break up (distance or time) that you just’ve programmed. I relegate this data to a background display screen and, in truth, I hardly ever examine it. And for those who obtain your information theses break up instances are nearly at all times calculated and displayed within the information abstract anyway.
I solely have a most of 4 home windows on every display screen on my specific GPS. I prioritize the knowledge I would like, and this piece of data usually doesn’t make the lower for a primary display screen window.
Stroke fee
Not each GPS machine gives stroke fee data (mine doesn’t), however most which might be SUP devoted do. It’s an awesome piece of data and is especially helpful as one other measurement to watch your tempo or work output. Should you discover your stroke fee beginning to decelerate unintentionally, there’s a excessive chance it is because of fatigue. Should you catch it rapidly, it’s often only a easy matter of being a little bit extra dynamic to revive the specified cadence. Nonetheless, the longer you wait, the tougher it will be to revive your cadence to the specified degree.
Sadly, in contrast to gadgets you utilize to watch efficiency on a bicycle or on a rowing erg, we don’t have a show window that reveals energy output for paddling. At present, the know-how used to measure that isn’t available for the typical paddler. So, we will’t see when our energy output (wattage) is perfect and constant or when it’s beginning to decline. Nonetheless, if we use a mixture of stroke fee and tempo or velocity we will get a good suggestion of whether or not our energy output is remaining fixed or declining.
In earlier posts, I’ve talked lots in regards to the idea of gears in paddling. Like on a bicycle, your gear is often a operate of your cadence and cargo, with the 2 being inversely proportional. Realizing your stroke fee and having the ability to cross-reference it along with your perceived exertion and velocity or tempo could be a enormous assist in figuring out the effectiveness of the varied gears you could be making an attempt to make use of or develop in your board.
By monitoring stroke fee, perceived exertion and velocity, it is best to have the ability to get some thought of how efficient your paddling is. Some folks will wish to take much less strokes and attempt to transfer their board with extra energy. Others will need to use much less energy and take extra strokes. Neither strategy is true and neither improper. The secret’s discovering out which is simplest for you, and discovering the optimum stability between stroke fee and energy on your personal distinctive set of bodily strengths and weaknesses.
You probably have a tool that measures stroke fee, it is best to undoubtedly contemplate it for one of many home windows on the principle display screen.
Distance per stroke
Distance per stroke is one other piece of knowledge that may be displayed and saved on SUP particular GPS items. It will also be actually priceless in serving to to find out your optimum gear, but when I had to decide on one thing to drop from my primary show display screen that is completely it. In my thoughts, it isn’t almost as vital as actual time velocity or tempo, elapsed time, or stroke fee.
Right here’s a fast quiz query: what do you do if you wish to maximize your distance per stroke? Catch tougher? Exit earlier? Use extra legs? Nope. Reply: do any of these issues with a extremely, actually gradual stroke fee.
Distance per stroke is affected by your stroke fee. In case your stroke fee is admittedly gradual and also you’re pulling laborious the space per stroke worth goes to be larger. In case your fee is faster and also you’re nonetheless pulling laborious your distance per stroke will for positive be decrease, however you’ll be going sooner with that decrease distance per stroke. So, distance per stroke normally is an pointless and deceptive piece of data. To ensure that it to be helpful, that you must management stroke fee. For instance, a chunk of distance per stroke information is barely helpful when in comparison with one other piece of distance per stroke information gathered on the identical, an identical, stroke fee.
The place distance per stroke may be helpful is whenever you’re paddling at a relentless fee and need to study to maximise your effectivity. Should you can transfer farther every stroke on the identical stroke fee, you’ll be going sooner which is what you need. Assuming that you just’re working sustainably, this needs to be extra environment friendly and may change into your new touring stroke. The factor is, I can get the suggestions that I’m going sooner by taking a look at my actual time velocity. So, do I actually need distance per stroke information? Bear in mind, you’ve received a restricted variety of home windows accessible in your GPS display screen and should be selective close to the way you fill them.
Distance
Distance information has at all times occupied one of many home windows on the principle display screen of my GPS. In fact, I’ve been utilizing a GPS for years that doesn’t present stroke fee information so it’s simpler for me to justify it being there.
I discover it extraordinarily helpful to understand how far I am going in a given chunk of time. And, there isn’t any method I’m able to do work prescribed by distance like time controls or pacing work with out distance data. The one method I may do such a work with out my GPS exhibiting distance information could be on a marked course, and most of us don’t have common entry to at least one.
Coronary heart fee
In case your GPS machine can also be a HR monitor then you definately in all probability need to have HR as one of many home windows on the principle display screen. Should you’re utilizing coaching zones in your coaching you’re doubtless utilizing HR as a approach to management and monitor your depth so it’s important that you just’re capable of see it in actual time. You probably have a distinct HR monitor you should use, then you’ll be able to decide out of utilizing one of many home windows in your GPS display screen for HR and get your HR information from the opposite machine. You possibly can even program your machine to let you know with an alarm when you’re out of your prescribed coaching zone. And, in fact, for those who don’t use an HR monitor and as a substitute management depth via perceived exertion solely, you don’t must commit a window in your GPS display screen to HR. In any other case, I believe it’s fairly vital that it occupy a window on the principle display screen.
So, that may be a fast take a look at essentially the most helpful information that your GPS will show and that you need to be utilizing in actual time to watch your effort and its effectiveness. However what about downloading the information?
Downloaded data
Downloading the knowledge out of your GPS is enjoyable and a good way to maintain observe of your progress over time. Additionally it is a good way to share your exercise information with others. Should you’re doing a take a look at or a race, it’s a good way to gather information that may be analyzed intently in additional element afterward. Since downloaded information may be saved and saved, it’s a good way to see tendencies in your coaching over time and spot delicate declines in efficiency attributable to issues like unhealthy habits creeping into your approach or cumulative fatigue constructing out of your coaching. The earlier you notice these delicate declines, the earlier you are able to do one thing about them. All that mentioned, downloaded information is not any substitute for actual time suggestions out of your machine whilst you’re paddling.
The truth is, you’ll be able to nonetheless file and obtain information out of your machine when you could have it mounted the place you’ll be able to see it and are utilizing it in actual time. By no means does utilizing your machine for instant suggestions forestall you from downloading data.
I’ll be trustworthy and confess that the final time I downloaded information from my GPS was a number of years in the past. The novelty of pouring over information and storing it has way back worn off for me. That mentioned, I really feel form of misplaced after I paddle with out my GPS and the true time suggestions it offers. My exercise merely turns into much less efficient. My GPS, mounted the place I can see it, is crucial and continues to assist me get sooner. It amazes me that I used to be really capable of prepare in canoe and race efficiently at three Olympics again within the day with out one. They hadn’t hit the market but.
As strongly as I like to recommend you mount your GPS the place you’ll be able to see it and use it in actual time, I additionally advocate you obtain your information as a way to monitor tendencies in your coaching. It additionally permits you the chance to share information along with your coach. However above all, I need to stress the significance of getting actual time suggestions out of your machine. It’s essential and the one most vital factor you are able to do, particularly for those who prepare alone.
Should you don’t have a GPS
Should you don’t personal a GPS and also you’re a racer or a critical coach, I strongly advocate that you just get one. They are often costly, however you may also get used or restored gadgets that offer you every part you want for below $100.
This text isn’t meant to be a client’s report of the very best accessible gadgets on your greenback so that you’ll should do your due diligence in purchasing for a tool after studying this put up. Personally, I’m happy with an outdated Garmin 910xt that they don’t even make anymore. And, although I’m simply not educated about all of the totally different choices accessible for buy, I can let you know what you need to be searching for:
- Be certain that the machine updates velocity data each couple of seconds. That is an important standards it is best to search for in a tool (aside from the accuracy of the information it offers). There are some gadgets that merely replace velocity too slowly. You possibly can paddle tougher and it takes you 30 seconds or extra to see any change of velocity register in your machine. That is unacceptable and isn’t the “actual time” suggestions you’re after. There are different gadgets that replace and show velocity nearly immediately. This may be complicated to make use of in actual time because the numbers on the display screen are always altering actually rapidly. I’ll take this over a tool that updates velocity too slowly, however I want a tool like my Garmin 910xt that updates each one to 2 seconds. That is loads quick sufficient to supply the helpful actual time data I’m after and gradual sufficient that the velocity data just isn’t altering so rapidly it’s laborious to make sense of.
- Be certain that the machine has a minimal of three information home windows. Having three or 4 information home windows in your GPS display screen ought to mean you can see all the knowledge you want while you’re paddling. Something lower than three home windows goes to go away you unable to see one thing that’s helpful.
- Be certain that the display screen in your machine is large enough so that you can see whereas paddling. This, in fact has as a lot to do along with your imaginative and prescient and the place you mount your machine as the rest. Just be sure you’re capable of see all the knowledge your GPS offers you whilst you’re paddling.
- Coronary heart fee data is non-compulsory. Whereas it’s good to have a GPS that can also be a HR monitor, it isn’t important. Bear in mind, the velocity data and the way typically it’s gathered and displayed is most vital. I might advise in opposition to getting a tool with a HR monitor that doesn’t completely meet your necessities for the way it presents velocity data. Should you’re on a finances, you’ll be able to at all times take HR by hand on the finish of each work interval and/or use perceived exertion. Over time you’ll get fairly good at utilizing that to estimate your effort.
Mounting your GPS
Mounting a SpeedCoach
Mounting a Garmin in your SUP Board
You’ll need to mount your GPS the place you’ll be able to see simply whenever you’re paddling. Ideally, you don’t need to be paddling head down, fixated in your machine. Whenever you’re paddling wanting down like that, your physique tends to observe your line of sight. So, for those who’re wanting down, your physique tends to remain down previous the purpose the place you’ve completed loading and needs to be “arising” within the unloading a part of the stroke. As a substitute, you need your line of sight to be scanning between the nostril of your board and the water forward of you. You must have the ability to get all the knowledge you want out of your GPS with simply fast glances at it.
I’ve discovered that mounting mine on the deck of my board, in entrance of the place my paddle crosses when altering sides, is ideal. It’s far sufficient ahead that I don’t should look down an excessive amount of to look at it, but is shut sufficient that I can nonetheless simply learn what’s within the information home windows. It’s additionally out of the way in which of my paddle when it crosses the board. Mine is mounted exactly 110 cm from the nostril of the board and, on my Starboard All Stars and Sprints, that’s about the place the GoPro mount is. So, for those who’ve received a GPS that may use such a mount, like a Pace Coach, you’re set.
I exploit a Garmin 910xt which is wrist watch sort GPS, so I’ve to mount it otherwise. Should you can determine a approach to connect a watch model GPS to a mount, you should use the mount spot constructed into the board. In my case, I exploit a 3M product referred to as “Twin Lock”, which is an industrial Velcro-like product to mount mine. You may get this in lots of {hardware} shops or order it on-line.
I merely lower two items about 1 ½ inches lengthy and use the self-adhesive backing on the Twin Lock to connect them to the board on both facet of the place my watch strap will go. Then I lower a bigger piece that’s lengthy sufficient to cowl everything of each items I’ve connected to my board and span the hole between them. I go away the duvet on the self-adhesive backing on. There’s no level in taking it off solely to have the sticky backing accumulate dust.
Earlier than I completely connect the bigger piece throughout the 2 items I’ve already connected to the board, I take a look at connect it utilizing the “hooks” on the Twin Lock solely and ensure my watch matches via the area supplied and I can do up the strap in a fashion than leaves the display screen able that I can simply see it whereas paddling. Then, I take away the highest piece of Twin Lock and I get some tremendous glue and squeeze sufficient onto the mating floor of the Twin Lock to maintain the bigger piece from ever coming off in tough water. I re-attach the highest piece and firmly push it down. The glue dries rapidly and I’ve my GPS mounted accomplished.
I often take away my GPS after each paddle and rinse it off, cost it when wanted, after which remount it utilizing the Twin Lock, which stays completely on my board, earlier than every paddle. Figures 1 via 3 summarize the method I’ve described above.
Should you’ve mounted your GPS solidly, it needs to be good to make use of in all however essentially the most excessive situations. I might warning in opposition to utilizing it mounted in your board when browsing. You actually don’t want the knowledge it offers when browsing and, for those who’re ever going to come across situations that may rip your GPS out of your board, it’s in surf.
Right here’s hoping this data helps you higher use your GPS to enhance your paddling.
Pleased paddling!
Larry