Bracing for Stability, or How Your Paddle is Your Best Friend
Your Paddle is Your Best Friend When I first started paddling sprint canoe many years ago the first thing the coaches told me as I…
Category: Standup Paddle
Choosing Your First SUP Paddle
Choosing your First Paddle It can be intimidating purchasing all of your SUP gear for the first time. And expensive. Understandably you don’t want to…
Knowing When It’s Okay to Go Paddling: How to Improve your Skills Safely
How do we know when its okay to go paddling? It’s raining. It’s kind of windy. There are whitecaps. The waves look big. How do…
Extreme Social Distance: Paddling the entire 182-mile length of the Manistee River in Northern Michigan
For the most part, paddlers are outdoor people, so when you tell them they have to stay indoors and not paddle in events, a little…
Mississippi Source to Sea Solo Expedition Underway
LouAnne Harris Raises fund for Rivers for Change We were first inspired by the dynamic duo of LouAnne Harris and Jules Gismondi – the Atlantic…
Video: A Paddleboarding Journey at Moraine State Park
Paddle and Explore Paddleboards can be great vehicles for exploration, at any level. This video from Wild Excellence Films takes us on a journey through…
Interview: Aussie Pro Angie Jackson and One SUP
Angie Jackson – One SUP We had the opportunity to meet Australian paddle champ Angie Jackson in Hood River this past week and Distressed Mullet’s…
The Case for Inflatables: Why You Should Have One in Your Quiver
Benefits of Inflatable SUPs I still have my first inflatable paddleboard. It was one of the first “isups” produced – by SurfTech. I found it…
Paddling in Argentina: Racing and Rediscovering Home
Paddling in Argentina While paddleboarding hasn’t established a firm presence on the delta of Buenos Aires yet, kayaking, rowing and canoeing are most popular in…
Travelogue: The Eastern Seaboard from NYC to NC
Paddling South from NYC Thought I could start to lay out what I know of other places in the North East besides New York City,…
Ocean Safety is Ocean Safety – No Matter Where You Are
This Winter on Maui has been big, even already this early in the season, and recent incidents there prompted our friend Suzie Cooney to write…
Shaping 101: Mark Johnson from Hobie explains surf and SUP board rocker and foil
We caught up with Mark Johnson at Surf Expo and asked some Shaping 101 questions on Rocker and Foil—what they are and why they are…
Fanatic Fly Air Inflatable Fun in Berlin City
Join Fanatic riders Paulina Herpel, Phine Scheibe, Kai-Nicolas Steimer and Klaas Voget on a SUP tour through the capital of Berlin with their Fly Air…
Duke Kahanamoku Surfing 1939 COLOR Stand Up Paddleboard SUP
This is some RARE footage of Duke surfing his paddle board at Waikiki Beach along with an outrigger flipping over and more surfing. And we…
Board Meeting Episode 2: Preparing for the Molokai 2 Oahu SUP Race – Part 1
Here’s episode 2 of Board Meeting, our new SUP show where we talk about all things stand up paddle surfing and racing. In this episode,…
Explanation of Twin Fins on Infinity Race Standup Paddleboards
Dave Boehne walks us through a short explanation the Twin Fin project we’ve been working on with Larry Allison and ProBox fins. Why it works,…
Get your Riding Bumps Code to Start Training!
Repost from 2014. Use the coupon code and get your discount: I’m sitting here on my rear waiting to get my cast off and thinking…
Supmerge Interviews Montauk Winter Paddler Evelyn O’Doherty
[EDITOR’S NOTE: We welcome a new columnist, Kimberly Schamber of SUPMerge. She’s roving around, interviewing people, talking about SUP things and so forth. Make sure…
P2P
The more we get together, Together, together, The more we get together, The happier we’ll be. -Raffi On Sunday, I found myself paddling along and…
Oriental to Beaufort 2014: O2B
This story begins in the middle of the summer as my paddle sessions increased in time and distance. I wanted a distance race to train…
DPSR 20-Mile Marathon Challenge across Superior
It all started August 11th when my new paddle friend Anya, from Minneapolis, asked if I like to do this race/downwinder across or along the…
The Other Point of View: Lexy speaks on the near untimely demise
NOTE: This is a response to April’s piece here. Let me preface this with a few important points: ~ I love my friends (even when…
How You Know You’re Training for Chattajack
When training for any endurance event, as things gear up, you could say life changes a little. The following are a few recent observations of…
Paddling For Humanity In the Heart of Texas
It’s not often that the water temperature is significantly warmer than the air above and definitely not in Texas. But stranger things do happen and…
Chase, Belar and Arthur survive a close call on the Oregon Coast
Chase Kosterlitz, Belar Diaz, and Arthur Daniel had a harrowing experience on the Oregon Coast this week. These are three incredible capable, intelligent and experienced watermen who…