Please Add this Robust List of Water Sports

[ElleMilner]

Please add this robust list of water/paddling sports to Activities. The below grouping of athletes often train together and/or use the same courses, yet only a couple categories are dominating because the times for each sport varies dramatically. Allowing each category to train In the same waters while each getting on the leaderboards in their respective sports, opens the door for a more cohesive and stronger paddling community. Win/win for all! Please provide a list that can separate the water sports as follows:

iSUP (Inflatable Stand Up Paddleboard)
SUP (Carbon/Fiberglass Stand Up Paddleboard)
Prone
Kayak
Surf ski
Canoe
Flatwater Canoe
OC-1 (1-man outrigger canoe)
OC-2 (2-man outrigger canoe)
OC-6 (6-man outrigger canoe)

[Jan_Mantau]

I fear your partly out of luck because Strava announced last week, that they don't intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future. Currently you have Canoe, Kayaking, Stand Up Paddling and Surfing as separate sports, that's at least something.

[R-H]

Adding more paddling categories would be awesome 

[R-H]

It would be awesome if the paddling categories would have different segments and course records, since each different type of paddling craft has different potential for speed

[Deveraut]

Adding these categories would be really helpful.  I own a number of different types of boards and would like to distinguish between my training.  Kind of like the difference between when I ride my mountain bike, road bike or e-MTB.  If would be great to separate all of them out.  I fully support adding these catagories.

[ElleMilner]

jan_mantau. Thanks for that feedback. However, in our case, it’s important enough to try. The leaderboards are rendered useless in bodies of water where multiple water rafts can train. That factor lessens the value of Strava to our community. Imagine a OC-6 training on the same course as a prone paddler? Currently, the faster watercrafts are removing their times. Even if that was fair, it still doesn’t resolve the hierarchy of speeds with the other watercrafts. Being able to train together is very important in our community and it’s frustrating to see some groups unable to record their times, or reach leaderboards when they’re at the top of their sport.  Additionally, the existing water sport categories aren’t even competitive categories…

[ThundercatHoooo]

Great idea!! I see it’s not open to voting yet

[edheng]

Agreed with adding additional watercrafts. Training and logging is a little bit of a pain especially outrigger. Even though Canoe and Kayak are options the data being different and separating them for comparison for each activity is a little annoying. It would nice to select the proper activity instead of using SUP for everything and trying to change it later to get the data I'm looking for to compare efforts. 

[Jane]

Hello @ElleMilner 

Thanks for submitting this idea and thanks also to everyone else who has taken the time to add their comments.

Your idea has been shared with the team. We’re not planning to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned.

A status of not currently planned does not mean this feature suggestion goes away. It will remain open to votes and comments, and may be revisited at some point in the future.

Please remember that we receive a large number of idea submissions, and even some popular ideas may not make it to the implementation stage. The number of votes an idea gets is one factor among several that’s considered when our product team develops the roadmap.

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We appreciate and understand this is not the answer you were hoping for. We strive to be as transparent as we can, and provide updates to our Community when they become available. 

Lastly, we sincerely hope you will continue recording and uploading your activities to Strava. Here is a list of the Sport types that we currently support. It’s always an option to set your activity to sport type “workout” and indicate more specifics in the activity name.

[Jvincent]

We beg thee  🙏 

[Rvrbound]

Please add watersports options. We would love to be able to create Challanges. 

[ElleMilner]

@Jane Thank you for your response. You stated that it will still be available for comments and votes, however, it doesn’t appear that voting has been enabled yet. Please advise. Thanks.

[Jane]

Hi @ElleMilner 

Apologies for any confusion. Look for the thumbs up button at the bottom of the original post. You can vote by giving it a thumbs up (you'll see it already has 6 votes)