Mark Threlfall: This, guys, is the unboxing of all unboxings, or at least, I think so. I know it may
come in a small box, but do not underestimate it. This thing has been speculated for some time now,
and it's finally here. It is the new GPS multisport watch from Wahoo, the Wahoo
Elemnt Rival. It has literally just dropped and is available today,
and I'm about to unbox it for you.
[music] Straight out of the box and initial impressions,
before we delve on into the tech. First off, it is incredibly light, and I don't mean in a cheap
and fragile way, it feels really well-made, just really, really light. It's also a really nice size
and shape. It feels robust, it feels durable, but it's not overly chunky. They've really struck a
nice balance between the two. We've also got this really nice metallic dial effect around
the outside of the watch face. We've got these five nice buttons on the edge of that. Then on
the underside, you can see, we've got the optical heart rate sensor in the center there, and we've
got the charging connection port on the side. You'll also be pleased to hear that I do, in fact,
have three of these to give away today. Stay tuned until the end of the video so you can find
out how you can get your hands on one of these in our giveaway. Before we continue, though,
I do have a little confession to make because this isn't actually the first time I've seen
this watch. I've actually been really fortunate in being able to try out this watch for the past
week or so and really get my head around its features and functions. Now, it's time for us
to get stuck into them. [music]
Now, anyone that has used Wahoo products before will know just how slick, how well-designed,
and how well-made these products are. They just work. They're brilliant and this is no different.
In fact, when I first got this one out of the box and set it up, it literally took me one
or two minutes. In all honestly, I've barely changed anything since, and like I said,
anyone that's used Wahoo products before will know exactly what I'm talking about here.
Wahoo actually said that this product itself has been a number of years in the making and
the reason they haven't released it until now is because they wanted to wait until they felt they
had built the right product. So let's delve into that and some of its features. First off, it's got
a number of pre-loaded profiles for the different disciplines in there. So we've got indoor
swimming, pool swimming, outdoor swimming, indoor cycling, outdoor cycling, running, treadmill
running, yoga, strength, and of course, triathlon, and this, guys, is the game-changing part.
Wahoo have cleverly created an automated handover function between their Elemnt Rival watch and
their Elemnt bike computers. For instance, in a triathlon,
you would be swimming and recording your swim through your Elemnt Rival watch.
As you exit the swim, it will start to record your T1 time. As you approach your bike and
your Elemnt bike computer that would be mounted to it, it will detect that and automatically
handover without the single touch of a button. So all your information, your time will continue
on your bike computer, you'll even see your T1 time pop up. Then, of course,
the opposite happens as you come into T2 and you handover for the run. It will automatically start
to appear on your watch. After the race, you can exit all of that within the Wahoo Elemnt Companion
app. You can merge, modify, split, whatever you want to do. So yes, pretty impressive
stuff and you can start to now understand why Wahoo have held off until now to release this.
[music] Moving on, and I'm not going to bore you
by running through every metric and function in this watch because we would be here all day, but
I'm going to pick out some of the more notable and interesting ones. Of course, we have got the usual
distance, speed, and pace measurements with GPS outdoors for swimming, cycling, and running, but
indoors, for swimming, we can also actually track the distance and our length. We can customize the
length of the pool within the watch. We also can track our stroke rate and also a metric called
SWOLF, which is basically our efficiency as a swimmer. It's quite an exciting measurement and it
basically is the relationship between our stroke rate and our time over a set distance.
For cycling, again, all the kind of usual things we'd expect as well as linking up to cadence
sensors, power meters, and so on. It also has a feature, which I haven't used, which is the live
track function. Now, I just haven't chosen to bore anyone with my movements during exercise so far,
but it's actually a really good idea. You can just do this simply within the app, you can just share
your live track link with someone else and they can track where you are, which is a fantastic
idea, maybe for those epic challenges but also for everyday training. For safety,
you might want to share that with a loved one just so that they know where you are.
Indoors, they do, of course, connect up with smart trainers, but as you'd expect, there's
more functionality yet again between the Wahoo products. So you can actually control
a Wahoo Kickr through the Elemnt Rival watch, which is quite impressive.
Interestingly though, for treadmill running, you can also track cadence, speed, and distance whilst
indoors on a treadmill through the watch, which is very impressive, meaning there's no need for
an additional foot pod to do that for you. One of the big and important details of any
sports watch, the battery life. This has a whopping 14-day smartwatch battery life
and a 24-hour GPS battery life. I think that's sufficient enough for most people out there. In
terms of charging, it actually comes with this rather snazzy docking device. This can lie flat
on the table, and then this, just neatly clips into it. Feels very nice. Then you
can just lay that flat on your desk and then you just press this button here to release.
[music] As I mentioned at the start of today's video, it
is incredibly light, just 53 grams, but as you've heard throughout today's video, it's got a ton of
stuff in here. It packs a punch. All of this is available for $379.99 or £349.99, and it's
available today. However, if you want to get your hands on one of these for free, we have three up
for grabs today to three lucky people. One for each, of course. If you want to get involved
in this giveaway, just find the link in the description just down below. That will take you
through to another webpage where you'll be asked to answer a question about the watch. So let's
hope you've been listening in today's video. Best of luck to you. You'd be very lucky if you get one
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