Nelo v others

dubes wrote: »

vanquish is clearly better.
look at the medals

Nothing to do with the paddlers in them. (Tongue in cheek).

Everyone paddles them, because the top guys paddle them.

And the top guys paddle them because:

1) Nelo sponsor all Junior world champions with a new boat. So they get most of the top guys when they're still young and they tend to stay with them for the rest of their careers.

2) Nelo have a far better competition service and athlete support than any other manufacturer. No other company looks after their athletes like Nelo.

Mostly because Andre Santos does his job so well! In the last 10 years Nelo went from being a relatively small time boat manufacturer to the number 1 company in the world for flatwater and marathon...

For example, just take a look at videos from Sydney Olympics in 2000. Almost the entire K1 field paddled Plastex Destroyers... Now you'd be lucky to see one plastex K1 in a major final.

It has very little to do with the boats themselves though. In fact i would still say some of Plastex designs are better (especially their crew boats). But when you can't even rely on Plastex to make a boat in the right colour or even at the correct weight, you start to look elsewhere for your boats!