Your technique is not too bad at all. Work on one thing at a time until you master it.
Feather the paddle on the return.
Maybe a little more bend in the top arm.
Power needs to be in front of your feet, once you start lifting the paddle, you begin lifting water, not pulling water, you might notice from the video that at the end of your stroke, the board tips toward the paddle. This is lifting water, not forward motion, so is not efficient to the forward stroke.
You need to match your paddle speed to board forward motion. If you see or feel cavitation in the water or create bubbles or turbulence with your stroke, you are wasting energy. Slower can sometimes be faster.
Bury the whole blade at the catch or entry for the same reason as above, you don't want the paddle to slip through the water.

Most of all, slow down, paddle with your brain and feel when you are fast. Master one thing at a time. Enjoy.
Mastering a new skill or part of it can take months.

Nozza said..

DaveSandan said..

I was wondering where you have been, no land paddling?

Not much of anything lately.
Post lockdown blues.....
Hey I could write a song called that!

A nice country song hey Nozza?

Great stuff. Out there living!

A few suggestions:

1. Work to get your top hand across more so your catch is vertical on that front view. You're a little bit more vertical on the left than the right. Shoulder mobility is a challenge for many of us. Try this stretch: standing up straight put your left palm on the back of your head. Put the back of your right hand in the small of your back. Now get in the same position holding your paddle with both hands and work on moving your hands closer together.

2. Your hands look a bit close together. Many people are a little bit narrower than 90 degrees at the elbow but you look a lot narrower.

3. It's hard to tell because of the angle but I suspect that a side view will show that you're a bit long through the back of your stroke and are exiting past your feet.

Really vertical catch, straight bottom arm and exit at your feet covers most things.

AusDaz said..
Great stuff. Out there living!

A few suggestions:

1. Work to get your top hand across more so your catch is vertical on that front view. You're a little bit more vertical on the left than the right. Shoulder mobility is a challenge for many of us. Try this stretch: standing up straight put your left palm on the back of your head. Put the back of your right hand in the small of your back. Now get in the same position holding your paddle with both hands and work on moving your hands closer together.

2. Your hands look a bit close together. Many people are a little bit narrower than 90 degrees at the elbow but you look a lot narrower.

3. It's hard to tell because of the angle but I suspect that a side view will show that you're a bit long through the back of your stroke and are exiting past your feet.

Really vertical catch, straight bottom arm and exit at your feet covers most things.

Point 3 is very important. His name escapes me at present but they did some extensive research regarding paddle technique and efficiency and discovered that paddling past the feet was inefficient.