The Helectron 2024 M

It has been way too long since Guigui Prod unveiled a new freestyle machine. We are beyond stoked to be able to say the wait is finally over, and believe us, it has been worth it. The Helectron was designed to keep the features of the Helixir we all know and love and improve on those that still had potential to be improved - a difficult undertaking thus why it took some time!

Finally, after 5 prototypes, almost a year and a half in development stage and having been tasted in waves and holes accorss Europe by the Guigui team paddlers, the Helectron is here to put a fresh energy spark in your freestyle game.

So what’s new? Let’s give you a quick walkthrough:

1.The first thing you will notice about the Helectron is that the shape of the bow has been changed from round to a more squared design. The reason behind this change is that we wanted to make it easier for you to keep in control when plugging in powerful holes like Plattling. The squared bow also helps the boat pop out of the rotation of mcnasties and phoenixes straighter helping you to land these tricks within scoring angles. The new distribution of the volume on the bow combined with this squared design means you won’t need to be David McClure to be able to go both clean and huge on your loop tricks.

2. The second thing that stands out from the Helectron is the new sexy stern. A lot of volume has been added to the tip of the back end making the boat a lot more reactive on tricks like the Lunar Orbit and the Tricky Woo - expect judges to start having to give a lot more air bonuses on these! The idea for giving extra pop to lunars and trickies is to allow you to drive the bow deep and turn these tricks into big aerial trophy moves by jumping out of them with big loops. Even though the Helectron appears to be less slicey than the Helixir you’ll be surprised to see how easy it is to go clean on your warm up flat water cartwheels. It slices through water as a knife slices through butter!

3. When you look at the hull, 2 elements will stand out when compared to the Helixir series. On the first place, the Helectron has a sick hull with a primary edge inspired on the epic, high-performance wave design offered by the Helixir 2013 and a secondary edge that will only come into play when leaning hard over your edges looking for big, inverted wave moves, surfing steep green waves and slaying wave combos.

The simplicity and minimalism of the hull design means the boat is looser than ever and can grind even the smaller green waves.

4. Stern Boosters - this is how we’ve called the new features you can observe under the stern of the boat. The idea behind these boosters is to keep the bow of the boat down when surfing forward whilst keeping the speed and making big bounces and ollies easy. It also helps the rails keep the boat on its trajectory when tracing a diagonal from the foam pile to the shoulder of the wave ensuring maximum speed and control at the moment of take off.

5. A fully updated cockpit to keep you drier than ever in your Guigui has been design in house as well as a completely new backrest system. You’ll never find yourself sitting on your backrest ever again after landing a big loop!

All in all, the Helectron is the next natural step in Guigui-Prod’s hero journey to design and manufacture the best freestyle kayaking weapons on Earth - each of them unique as it comes and perfectly fitted to the weight and preference of each of the athletes we serve.

Helectron 2024 M specs: