The second running of the Great Melbourne Paddle was run today (4th December 2012) at Sandringham Beach. The original scheduled location, Green Point Brighton, had to be abandoned as 30 knot onshore winds and rough seas made the course hazardous.
After a great year of competition, 18 year old Zane Schweitzer charges his way through to the Final and puts on a dominant performance to secure an emotional win at the Hawaii Island Finals.
19 year old Kai Lenny secures his 2nd World Title here at the Hawaii Island Finals with an impressive and dominant performance that saw his 4 counting results as 2 firsts and 2 seconds.
YOLO Board is excited to announce the signing of elite stand up paddleboarder Ernest ‘EJ’ Johnson to the YOLO Board Race Team.
Thanks goes out to Lindsey Tucci for this great shot of Werner Paddles dealer and SUP enthusiast, Ian Smith as he and his partner Rob Mazzetti bag the first decent of PA's Cowanshannock Creek.
Elite standup paddlers will perform a Le Mans style beach start, brave the open Atlantic Ocean, battle through Masonboro Inlet straits, and navigate the channel currents behind Masonboro Island.
At just 19 years of age, Kai Lenny has secured his 2nd World Title in advance of the final event on the Big Island next month.
Brouwersdam in the South-West of the Netherlands has a lot to offer for water sport enthusiasts, thousands of them drive up to Brouwersdam for sailing, windsurfing and kite surfing every weekend.
Leco Salazar storms to victory at home in Brazil for Stop 5 of the 2011 Stand Up World Tour with a phenomenal display of performance surfing in the challenging beach break conditions on offer at Maresias, Sao Paolo Brazil.
Michele Baldwin, a 45-year-old mother of three who discovered recently that her cervical cancer was advancing rapidly through her system, is going to make a pilgrimage to India and embark on a 700-mile standup-paddleboard expedition down the sacred Ganges River.
Stand up paddle surfing (SUP), or in the Hawaiian language Hoe he'e nalu, is an emerging global sport with a Hawaiian heritage. The sport is an ancient form of surfing, and reemerged as a way for surfing instructors to manage their large groups of students, as standing on the board gave them a higher viewpoint.