Make Good decisions. Catch More Bumps. Downwind How-To Vid
Chase Kosterlitz shows you how to improve your downwind paddling technique, by making better decisions about where to paddle.
Reports, Happenings, Events
Chase Kosterlitz shows you how to improve your downwind paddling technique, by making better decisions about where to paddle.
10ft Wave Faces, backwash, wind-wash, ground-swell, and current. That's what it was like out there during the Red Bull Heavy Weather, and Connor Baxter proved that he is in fact, the ultimate waterman...
A little effort goes a long way when it comes to listing your used gear, and it's almost certain to help you get more money!
Almost as famous as the event itself, the Mambo Poster (as it was formerly/still known) is a living legend, drawn by a bloke named Stan Squire.
In good news for board riders, SUP is now joining surf ski in a combined event at the 2016 Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games (JPPMG) on the Gold Coast to be held on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November.
If you're into fun downwinders, testing new boards and surfing pristine beachies, then the Merimbula Classic is the event for you!!
While sharks are scary, so are stand up paddle boards, so here's three reasons why you are NOT going to be attacked by a shark on your next session, or the one after that, or the one 5 days from now.
While sharks are scary, so are stand up paddle boards, so here's three reasons why you are NOT going to be attacked by a shark on your next session, or the one after that, or the one 5 days from now.
Smearing that sunscreen all over your face this summer might be a fruitless endeavor.
Don't worry, the traditional 'Starboard Blue' colour scheme stays, it's board production and shipping that's going green with Starboard, and Director Svein Rasmussen is shouting it from the rooftops.
Compete in sailing, ski, SUP and outrigger canoeing at the 10th biennial Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games, to be held 4 - 13 November 2016, on the beautiful Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
After a successful launch event in 2015, the Red Bull Water Maze returns to Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast in November - bigger and better than before!
These whitewater paddlers tackle some of the most extreme conditions possible on a stand up paddle board...
The waterway cutting Copenhagen in half is the perfect oasis for the metropolitan SUP paddler. Interesting, clean enough to swim in and full of great things to see...
Watch the new 2017 SUP range from JP in action in their promo clip shot on Maui, and around the incredible coastline of Croatia.
It's on again, and it's going to be huge! West OZ Downwind Week is five SUP Events held in the first week of December, each unique and each making the most of the clockwork seabreeze that hits WA in summer.
This scary story highlights the importance of wearing a leash, and it's backed up by an equally scary video filmed right here in Australia.
Fanatic have launched their 2017 line of Stand Up Paddling equipment, and to show it off they've brought together every facet of the this great sport in one amazing video. You'll be impressed!
Set amongst the oh-so-Australian backdrop of Balmoral, 40 stand up paddlers embarked on on a race that sums up the Aussie weekend paddling scene beautifully.
Are you a qualified Stand Up Paddle instructor or avid SUPer who is interested in working part-time outdoors over the summer season?
It'll be South Africa VS France in the race to cross the Atlantic by SUP - a 7000km journey that will take four months.
The sport of Stand Up Paddling wouldn't be the same without these 5 influential paddlers, who have helped shape the exciting world of SUP today.
Watch an airshow from right below the action, thanks to a small group of stand up paddlers who paddled underneath the RAF Red Arrows at Falmouth Week in the UK.
Luiz Diniz is a guy who's bringing the 'Brazilan Takeover' to the stand up paddle world, and he's not even competing in the Stand Up World Tour yet!
Jamie O'Brien drops into some bombs on the North Shore, in a KAYAK!
Not a ripple on the water. Peeling beachie barrels. World SUP surfing champ with a custom under his feet. Watch this incredible display of surfing from Caio Vaz in Indonesia!
Another couch, another wave, and a mate to share the fun with - join Dogman and Ploon for another couch surfing adventure on the NSW coast!
Every stand up paddler experiences foot cramps when they start- good news! Fixing it is as easy as applying a few techniques.
"The three things you should know that went into making this clip... Geoff Breen, Dogman and Jackson Close. Keahi de Aboitiz can fly a drone. There are three fins on a thruster. Three is a magic number."
The new official Australian distributor for Jimmy Lewis Boards has just released a new online store, serving direct to customers Australia-wide.
French doctors have proven, and published a paper sharing the secret that every stand up paddler already knew. Stand Up Paddling (or being in the ocean in general) is good for both body and soul.
The SUP and Kite industry are ever changing and this is an exciting opportunity to fully embrace the sports you love with your work.
These kids have got foiling sussed already, with some flowing turns and sweet little lines on these tiny waves!
Would you try to drive off from a set of lights in third gear? Try starting in first gear, while you're out paddling!
Aroona has lauched the Australian web store in conjuntion with its retail network.
A group of paddlers on a picturesque lake in France. What could be strange about that? Add a few bottles of chocolate milk, and it gets a little whacky...
Red Bull have just announced Stand up Paddling's most extreme event. With the most prize money EVER, and it's happening in just a couple of months from now.
Goliath Groupers can weigh up to 300kg, and this angler hooked one while fishing from a stand up paddle board!
Starboard SUP looks to the future of ECO production and reducing the carbon footprint of production. Teaming up with ECOBOARD Project to create and connect more ocean minded community.
A handstand on a stand up paddle board? Maybe for a second... These girls could stay up there all day!
Have you ever thought about starting your own SUP business? This company is making ready-to-go SUP stores out of shipping containers.
Tag along with proud SW owners Tim & Avalon on their morning family ritual.
Watch as Australia's best surfers try to squeeze themselves into barrels that way waaaaay to small. They do make some though!
This tiny island looks like a postcard, blue water, palm trees, miles from anywhere; and designed specifically for stand up paddle fishing!
In the grand list of things that people have surfed, a couch is pretty up there. Aussie SUP funny-man, Roger 'Dogman' Saunders takes an old couch. Straps it to his board, and goes surfing.
You don't need to be Kai or Connor to go SUP foiling. You just need an old kite foil and some duct tape!
Vanderbilt Beach in Florida was packed with spectators for one of the most worthy stand up paddling events you'll hear about all year.
Who says you can't reach an old dog new tricks? This 12 year-old pup is young at heart, learning to surf on her second trip out on a Stand Up Paddle Board.
The sport of stand up paddling went mainstream this week, and then some, when Kai Lenny published a video of him hydrofoiling downwind on his SUP.
This simple addition to your gear will enable you to triple your surfing time on your next downwinder, ride unbroken waves, and greatly reduce the amount of time paddling.
Watch this South American bombshell proving that 'Like a Girl', means just that...
When there's a wave crashing down in front of you, and your SUP surfboard is floating within reach; that nicely shaped loop of nylon can look awfully good to save grabbing the board later. Take these guys word for it however, don't do it!
Years in the planning and the potential for three months at sea, quickly turned from one mans dream to a nightmare in the Atlantic. On day one.
What goes into a high tech carbon sandwich? No bread. That's for sure! Watch the boys from Starboard make a mockery out of the TV Show Iron Chef, to prove their Carbon Sandwich construction.
Broken paddles are a quick way to end your day, but before you start crying the 'W' word, take a quick look at how Jim Terrel from Quickblade can dance around all day on his paddle blade, but one quick jolt, and it all ends in tears.
Kai Bates goes on the trip of a lifetime, spending two days, and hour upon hour of driving to reach a crocodile infested river at the perfect time.
Down in Tasmania, a group of stand up paddlers assemble each year to celebrate the turn of the seasons. They do so with a surf comp and a couple of races! Don't miss out on the Tassie SUP Winter Classic this year, it's fifth!
It's tidal bore season, and while lots of the bore fans are heading for Sumatra, Burma and China to ride the longest, largest bores; locals in Alaska were ready and waiting for a spectacular ride on a little tidal bore on the Turnagain arm of Cook Inlet.
This week Kai Lenny was snapped carrying a hydrofoil over the rocks, bolted to the bottom of a little Naish SUP. Is it time for hydrofoils to become mainstream in paddling?
Who needs a SUPsquatch? Two guys jump on a Naish inflatable MANA SUP, and have an absolute ripper of a session in France.
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