Custom embroidered national team DragonSaddles were displayed and marketed at the 2015 IDBF World Championships in Welland, Ontario by Dragon Saddle LLC, Walton Sports and Hornet Watersports.

It really did start on the ground.

SS-L3 and SS-4 with team logo 2020

DragonSaddle@gmail.com

Elegant In Simplicity, Profound in Results

Dragon Saddles at the 2022 Club Crew World Championships in Sarasota, The European Nations Championships at Banyoles, Spain and EDBF Euro Cup Championships in Dubai.

Scroll down to the right to select numbered webbing choices. With no choice, your handle will likely be solid black. Choose your top fabric identified at the DESIGN CHOICES link at the top. Send your team logo to dragonsaddle@gmail.com.

At Philadelphia

Dragon Saddles are not big, bulky, clunky, inferior foam seat pads just to sit on that deteriorate and wear out quickly. They are not sloppy velcro that doesn't last either. Dragon Saddles are about the science of specific paddling technique purposes engineered into each design. Dragon Saddles are the pioneers in dragonboat seat cushions. Be your best. Choose the DragonSaddle brand made in Florida.

APPROVALS

Go to DESIGN CHOICES SS-11 up on the Navigation Bar

The Dragon Saddle store at the races

Marc, Team USA Coach,

at the Dragon Saddle Factory

Remove inserts for IDBF race compliance.

PRICES FOR SS-11

With pure PTFE

"no friction" Teflon glide section

This is the Classic, the first and Original Dragon Saddle, all neoprene with two removable inserts and a grippy neoprene base against the bench. The top has laminated nylon fabric.15-25mm adjustable thickness for racing compliance or practice comfort. It has been popular since 2010. $USD $56, contact dragonsaddle@gmail.com for team and volume discounts.

COLOR CHOICES are royal, navy, ocean, red, black, silver, aqua turquoise, purple.

IDBF World Championships at Tampa, FL 2011

Dubai UAE

Rami Younes and

the Dubai Diggers

Dragon Saddles are used in world championship dragon boat racing.

The original DS-S, DS-AG and the new SS-11 are in production. All other models have been improved and updated to the SS-11 model

Contact Doug at dragonsaddle@gmail.com to place an order or for any questions.

Dragon Saddle LLC, since 2010, has a product line of high performance dragon boat racing seat cushions, training and coaching products.

Team discounts and occasional clearance pricing are available. To order the DragonSaddle or any product on this site, contact Doug at dragonsaddle@gmail.com with your proposed order, quantity for discount consideration, questions, and your shipping address for a shipping quote. The ordering page has a list of worldwide distributors as well. Doug invented all of the DragonSaddle products and makes them himself. To order, email Doug, dragonsaddle@gmail.com.

2018 SS-GG

with QR bench fasteners

4" 10cm wide OneWrap VelCro with a pull tab.

This is so easy and secure and It helps you rotate almost automatically by itself.

Dragon Saddle model SS-11 A sentient experience!

and more

See the BCS / BCP Selection close-up in Design Choices SS-11 from the top Navigation Bar or send your team logo for a custom order.

The Ukraine Club
Lakhidnyi Viter on the podium

2016

SS-GG

Sarasota

DS-S, The Original Dragon Saddle since 2009, is still very popular. It is " The Classic " dragon boat seat cushion known for adjustable comfort with 2 removable 100% chloroprene inserts. It was made for Kristen Stickels of Puff DBC at Oleta River in Florida, the first paddler to use one. Canada has been a large market for Dragon Saddles since the start.

2009 DS-S

The first Dragon Saddle

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Is your little seat cushion uncomfortable already, moving around on the bench, distracting you, hard to remove, ugly? You are here now discovering the very best replacement, Dragon Saddle SS-11 for your racing world.

NEW for 2024 Dragon Saddle SS-11

Extra wide Velcro closure, a pull tab for removal,

unique platform dynamics, with or without a glide side on

half the top, fabric options, the ultimate closed-cell chloroprene.

These are only a few. Go to Design Choices SS-11 at the top Navigation Bar to Choose your design from the identification chart.

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DragonSaddle.com

Ukraine National Team, Seniors

Arriving at Kona, Hawaii from fighting forest fires in Alaska and time in the mountains of Idyllwild, California, Doug started paddling OC6 in 1979.in Hawaii.

2021 SS-6

DRAGON BOAT CANADA

2018 DS-W

With removable insert and bench clips that are padded to protect the boat.

2021 SS-9

The SS-11 with a thick racing Teflon glide surface on half of the top is for efficient movement, speed, and a longer stroke distance with vertical leverage. Gunnel side or inside placement is influenced by seat location, stroke rate, race distance, body weight, coaching and more. Technique versatility is significant. The SS-11 also comes without Teflon.

DragonSaddle

super saddle

Race Day Sprint Saddles, practice Saddles

for Dragon Boats

LET IT RIDE !

Doug

All products on this website are proprietary to Dragon Saddle LLC and made in Florida. Ordering or questions, email Doug at dragonsaddle@gmail.com.

Chris Moreau,

Montreal,

H2O

Bateau Dragon

SS-11 is here after fourteen years. This is the #1 Dragon Saddle for racing. It works! Here is simply why: The wider glide platform bends perfectly, just enough to get a deeper leg drive and much more power while preventing over-reach. Optimal Paddle Angle Is Maintained longer and farther. Rotation or pivot are faster and farther too. Try Teflon inside for 200m and outside for 500m and 2K races or determine the best position of the Saddle under varying conditions at practice.

Nathan Benderson Park had two artists create this sand sculpture..

IDBF

2019 SS-L

dbl sided VelCro, Light, neoprene grip and gliding top created for the 2019 World Championships in ThaiIand.

SS-11 is like an open door, allowing the athlete to pass through on the way to a higher,

unrestricted performance level.

A perfect gift !

DS-AG 2017

The glide surface is pure and thick PTFE Teflon, a polymer of carbon and fluorene. Super Saddles, the SS models for Competitive Racing with the glide on pårt of the top side are hand crafted and engineered for your efficiency and highest potential. The surface has the lowest coefficient of friction of any known solid synthetic material. Try one on our test bench at the races.

Choose a handle and back edge webbing from the numbered list below. How many SS-11 Dragon Saddles do you want for your team discount? *We do custom logos and images on the polyester canvas fabric too. Inquire! Send your team logo to Doug's email: dragonsaddle@gmail.com

Dragon Saddle Model SS-11 with an optional added, removable insert and no Teflon is all about ultimate comfort for long practices.

2023 SS-10

Dragon Saddles in Dubai

What you sit on when you paddle a dragon boat in a race makes a big difference. Here is where you find the Classic Dragon Saddle, DS-S, DS-AG, the most comfortable SS-11 without Teflon and the magnificent racing SS-11 with gliding Teflon.

After several introductory years selling the SS-11 at races near wholesale, retail is in effect for 2025.

The Dragon Saddle SS-11 without Teflon is soft and ultra-comfortable like you expect it to be using pure chloroprene. $84

SS-11 with custom graphics and pure, thick Teflon on part of the top allows exceptional performance, engineered for high powered paddling efficiency that you will be very surprised to have. $119.95 before team and quantity discounts.

Both are IDBF approved and secure to the bench using a base grip and extra wide OneWrap Velcro with a pull tab.

With Valeri Morgun, Ukraine DBF and Senior Vice President European Dragon Boat Federation

DS-AG

15mm thick, all grip neoprene top and bottom, basic comfort. $33

Doug at ENC in Spain with Mike Haslam, founder of the IDBF, meeting about the dragon boats for clubs in Ukraine.

Discover the magic! The glide side has zero friction from a 0.5mm 100% fluoropolymer film over the Dragon Saddle pure chloroprene. Dragon Saddles are IDBF approved.

If you just sit on these SS sprint saddles they will only be a placebo. Move, find it, discover the magic !

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All products on this website are created and hand-crafted in Lake County

Central Florida and in the rural farm country of Northern Illinois, USA

HANDLES and WEBBING

with bench clips

The Classic Dragon Saddle model DS-S

Sixteen years of Dragon Saddle Product History

Are you wondering what happens in the body during that fractional second of "recovery" in the paddling stroke when the volume and quality of nerve impulses prepares for competitive action? Physiological recovery by the paddling athlete: The liver supplies glucose originating from glycogenolysis, glycogenesis, lactate generating lactic acid from pyruvate and anaerobic energy production in cell cytoplasm, pyruvic acid supply to the energy producing mitochondria that seek stored fatty acids and amino acids to cycle through the energy production demanded during paddling, anaerobic and aerobic energy production that work together, crossing paths in their adaptations to the demands of competitive paddling sport athletes.

Carry and keep it safe

on your paddle.

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At the top navigation bar go to 

DESIGN CHOICES SS-11.

SS-11 is also available with the 6.5mm, removable, pure chloroprene insert, without Teflon. $84

The top platform of the saddle has a semi-flexible bench overhang for really getting out front for the pulling power in front seats or a longer rear pushing power and leg drive for the back seats.

USDBF

If you have ever been on a National team in the World Dragonboat Championships or hope to be, The Super Saddle SS-11 is made for you.

This is race day equipment engineered for your team to celebrate winning. During your first use, you can maintain a vertical paddle blade through a much longer distance under full power and high velocity. Here are the details:

You can do more! You will contribute more to the team effort. Feels magical but be physically ready. Stay in control. It is all you. This is the newest equipment engineering in dragon boat racing for paddlers to discover thebalance and timing between the sliding freedom of movement and using a grip effectively. Anchor the paddle blade in the water and push the boat forward with controlled power through a longer and faster vertical stroke. The contrast of Super Saddle quality "Smart" PTFE with the lowest coefficient of friction of any known solid material feels like a slippery liquid next to a soft but aggressive grip or a medium grip surface neoprene material with just enough to maximize dynamic paddling efficiency. Reach with the entire body, reducing shoulder syndromes and injuries. Rapidly scoot far forward over the glide surface on the water side with a straight horizontal outside arm, driving down with the inside arm and entire upper body for deep entry into the water. Look forward to see the pacing group seats 1-3 with perfect timing. Use your quads for a major push from a solid footing.

The hull, the water, you, the team as one machine, the paddles, the motivation, the breathing, the thrust, the front boat wake are all one rhythm. Partial levitation forward you feel an escape for a moment from gravity. Reach out for deep blade dive, FULL-BODY DRIVE, and pivot using the extremes of glide and grip surfaces. The grip side is the pivot point, not the vertebral column. The glide side is for the stroke length. There is a timely initiation of a high velocity return-reflex using your core muscle complex. The outside hip slides to the position of optimal reach, then exploding with abs, double leg drive and your ENTIRE MUSCLE MASS.

Using your newfound ability to maintain maximum isokinetic leverage against the non-compressible water with intense focus against the vertical paddle blade through a longer stroke length, experience whole synchronism with the team. The inside grip is a solid point for stability during the contracting stroke and a lift-off point during the out-stretched, open reach. Keep air passages open by not looking down. The energy pathways of glycolysis transitioning to the mitochondria are hard at work. In a sprint race, the pathway will begin 95% anaerobic in the first 10-15 seconds. By only 2 minutes it will become 50% aerobic and climbing from there. Cardio!!

Take advantage of polytetrafluoroethylene. The sprint saddles are made for serious paddlers to experience their ultimate racing ability.

Take special care during transportation and handling to protect the Teflon on these valuable saddles from impact, abrasion, dirt, folding, bending, sun duration and solar heat on the grip portion on the top side. No washing machines. Not throwing. Keep your saddles off the ground. Your sliding glutes and sit bones are going to leave your butt print on the Teflon to enhance the glide.

Go to CANOE AND KAYAK SADDLES on the navigation bar.

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Using the rare qualities of your SS-11, you experience a thrilling opportunity to discover how much more you can do.

The non-friction glide side initiates a faster return, an easier rotational pivot, a deeper leg drive, maximum isokinetic, core and FULL-BODY contractile power. The magic is a longer vertical stroke length within the pace.

The SS-11 feels more complete than any other seat pad in the world.. It is for all paddling abilities, 20cm 8" wide x 40cm 16" long with a SEMI-FLEXIBLE overhang for front edge efficiency, extremely secure to the bench with 10cm 4" wide VelCro hook /loop, low profile hook and a pull tab for instant use. High durability, light high-end materials.15mm overall race compliant thickness, the optional removable insert adds 7mm, with the magical Teflon glide or not, removable insert or not. The Teflon is twice as thick for 2024. SS-11 with magical racing glide,15mm IDBF approved pure chloroprene thickness and your choice of laminated custom fabric design on the anchoring side. Also available without Teflon, with a full sized pocket and removable 7mm insert for practice. An added option is your team logo.

Why so high $? The SS-11 production materials are very expensive and the handmade processes are lengthy so please contact Doug at dragonsaddle@gmail.com for the best pricing discounts and shipping quote: New paddlers, team discounts, International orders, wholesale, reselling for team fundraisers and other volume orders. Manufacturing and shipping are located in Florida and Illinois, USA.

SS-11 2024

Ordering: email Doug, dragonsaddle@gmail.com

Mike Thomas,

IDBF President

ENC Barcelona

Some of the Windy City paddlers from Chicago at camp in Tampa 2018 with their glide and grip saddles plus polymer bench clips, the SS Dragon Saddles. They became one of the first top level racing teams where most of the paddlers used Doug's Gliding Dragon Saddles.

We have Dragons, Sea Turtles, Dragon Fly's, Dragon Scales, Sunsets and Beaches, Abstracts, Solid Colors, National Teams and Club Logos. See the full collection from the top navigation bar and select your choice with a circled screen shot or identification number. Email Doug for purchasing info:

dragonsaddle@gmail.com

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