About us

Established in 2010, Komodo Paddle Club is a competitive yet social paddling club that train hard and compete wherever we can throughout the season.

We place a strong emphasis on our paddling being fun while building fitness, competing at the most competitive levels we can and providing a supporting a fun environment for our members.

Our competition goals are pursued each year with annual campaigns at the State and National levels which have seen Komodo perform well year after year.

Our competitive goal at National competition is the same every year – one podium finish, over any distance, in any category. It is a competitive goal we gave achieved at every Nationals competition that has gone ahead since 2012.

Komodo is supported by the largest club group in Canberra, the Ainslie Group and this support has enabled us to further develop our club infrastructure, build the depth of capability in our people and support our competitive goals.

We field teams in open, women and mixed categories. The club also races in both the traditional 20’s format, as well as fielding 10’s crews whenever the opportunity arises. Bottom line – if there’s a race on, Komodo are up for it.

We aim to field evenly split crews all season right up to the ACT championships at the end of the local paddling season. At this stage crews for ACT champs and Australian National competition are selected through a competitive process to represent the club at both the ACT at the National Titles which are held annually in a different State around Australia where we race over a number of different distances including 200m, 500m, and 2 kilometres.

Komodo actively support our paddlers goals for State and National representative honours and is represented at both levels by members in both Premier and Masters’ categories. The club had travelled to every Nationals since its inception and plan to do so every year we are able. We also have regular interstate road trips to exotic locations such as Nowra and Jindabyne.

At the highest level we have jumped at the chance to compete internationally. A number of regattas are held around the world including the World Titles and the World Club Crew Championships. Komodo also sends a team at the request of the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Association to compete in the 5 Cities Invitational Regatta series in mainland China whenever possible and look forward to being able to do this again one day!

Komodo also actively support our members aspirations to compete at the highest levels, with the club’s members paddling for the Australian Auroras at the World Championships, Asian Games and World Cup events.