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Easily confused for dolphins and sharks at a distance, they're always startling when you're paddling on a SUP, but Dugongs and Manatees are harmless.

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Easily confused for dolphins and sharks at a distance, they're always startling when you're paddling on a SUP, but Dugongs and Manatees are harmless.
Wanted: Dead, not alive. It's that time of year where recreational anglers in NSW train their sites on Carp, in an attempt to reduce their population.
It's a popular and well known technique to extend your kiteboarding lines in light winds, but this is taking it to a whole new level.
Three men from politically opposed countries have spent 12 hours on the water in an attempt to end conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
You can win a 2016 Park HD of your very own! Get started now by writing a caption for one of Naish's promo pics, share it and enter the draw...
Tucked away in a shed on the Central Coast of NSW, is a small group of guys who build what was the wet-dream of every young sailor in the world. The 18ft Skiff.
With Spring in the air, and kids off school - why not take the opportunity to take them fishing?
Adventure Sports had the pleasure of hosting Sir Richard Branson for a downwinder in Noosa
Burning Man is the yearly festival of all things alternative. Held in the middle of the desert, somewhere in Navada, it's something that has to be experienced to be truly believed.
Top award in the Surf Industry goes to Liquid Force Kiteboarding
Barnacles grow everywhere underwater, and you might be surprised to know just how many critters are living inside it all!
Like the sport or not, our windsurfing brethren play a huge part in the equipment we use as Stand Up Paddlers! Fanatic are one of those companies who moved into the stand up paddling game when the sport kicked off several years ago, but that old windsurfi
At 115ft long, the Finnish yacht maker Nautor's Swan 115 is turning heads, with many calling it one of the most beautiful yachts of all time
It's been a big couple of months in the surfing world. First the shark frenzy (by the media that is), then the backflip, and this week, it's this thing by Kelly Slater. Nobody knows what to call it.
It's on the internet, so it must be true! English newspaper 'The Daily Star' reported this week on a group of stand up paddlers choosing to paddle to school, comparing them to Aussie workers.
Shocking the world with the ultra-high-aspect race kite, the Chrono early last year, Ozone kiteboarding just followed it up with the Chrono 2, a kite more akin to a paraglider than anything else.
She used to be the up-and-comer female surfer of the Starboard SUP team, but a few years later, the still-in-her-teens Izzy Gomez is surfing with the best, this week in Tahiti.
It has all the quality ingredients of a good kite movie - surly looking locals, crystal blue water and crispy new kites. The riding isn't too shabby either, with the biggest baddest freestylers on the North team strutting their stuff on the all new North
Ex 'Big Brother' contestant, ex gymnast, current advocate for having fun in the surf: Dor Damari paddles into a tiny wave on a foamy. He pops up, looks around and launches into a backflip.
Russel Bierke is a name you may not have heard before, but rest assured, after this clip of him dropping in to a slabby left in Western Australia, he'll be on screens all over the world.
If a huge eruption of water comes flying towards your ankles, you're pulling too early! Instead, let the blade enter the water cleanly first, then pull it towards you once it's submerged.
A feature length movie 'The Search for Freedom' has just been released online, after much anticipation from the action sports community worldwide.
Commencing on the Gold Coast in November 2015, the 7-round Classic Holidays' National Kiteboarding League (NKL) series will travel to five Australian states plus Christchurch, NZ, for a 4-day event in each location, boosting the profile of the sport in Au
While you won't be seeing a single handlepass or even any air-time in this movie, you will be seeing some incredible kiteboarding talent from Alvaro Pastor. He's six years old...
The California based Surf company Infinity has announced that one of stand up paddlings fastest females has just left her major sponsor to join their 'Speed Freaks' team.
No joke, they were actually out there targeting catfish, when a kitten (the furry, paw licking kind) paddled up to their boat.
Who would have thought that lee-boards would see a comeback in competitive sailing? The brand new Gitana Mono 60 'Edmond De Rothschild' has just been launched, and quite literally blew itself out of the water.
Elemental Surf are looking for team members for the coming season in Western Australia
If you're a regular in the kiteboarding forums then you'll know all about the hundreds of home-made hydrofoil projects being started around the country.
Nobile is back in Australia with the new 2016 range!
Aaron Hadlow's back on top of the VKWC podium for the first time in years, and his mum has just decided to sew up some handbags out of his old kites!
While the rest of Australia froths over new product releases for 2016, Keahi De Aboitiz has already done some extensive testing of the new JP surfboards, and if this video is anything to go by - they surf alright.
If you're looking for the perfect lifestyle business and the perfect location? Look no further!!
Two months after giving birth to her first child, Tobias, Beth Hamilton has posted a photo on social media of her going for a surf, but it hasn't all been praise.
This weekend in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Stand Up Paddlers from all over QLD battled their way across a wind-chopped bay in pursuit of the state title.
It's certainly that time of year! Airush this week released their 2016 line of kiteboarding equipment, featuring a new technology they're calling it the Dyneema Load Frame.
Right now, there's twelve yachts embarking on a 'round the world journey of a lifetime. The crews, have no prior sailing experience, and the yachts, are 70 foot racing thoroughbreds designed exclusively for the race.
Elayna & Riley are two young Aussies who bought a yacht called La Vagabonde in Italy, and are sailing around the world. Along the way, and to fund their trip, they're making highly entertaining video blogs to document their adventure, and this episode was
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With a week full of decent wind in the Whitsundays, racing is getting a little heated at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. None more so than the Multihull division!
Mixed results for Bundy members
After an early release back in July, Fanatic SUP have just broken the banks and flooded their website with some seriously cool new toys, just in time for spring!
Have you ever been walking along the pontoons at your local marina, and wondered what's swimming around under there?
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he Naish lineup in 2016 has something for everyone, from tiny little kids shortboards to Unlimited race boards for competing in endurance racing, and everything in between.
A world first stand up paddling event is making it's debut on the Gold Coast in September - the Red Bull Watermaze.
A french stand up paddler has just spent five days paddling the Mediterranean during sea trials of his ocean-going stand up paddle board.
Garmin's new all-in-one transducers have been specifically designed for the latest range of echoMAP combos and GPSMAP multifunction displays.
The art of noseriding has not been lost, it's just been forgotten by the masses. Luckily there's guys like Jai Lee who's keeping the spirit of surfing alive.
It's that time of year again! Naish are letting loose all of the tight lipped secrets they've been keeping about the 2016 range of kiteboarding equipment.
After two years off the water, Ewan Jaspan gets back to his A-Game with two weeks in the Cook Islands.
The sun bleached hair of John John Florence is coming to a cinema near you this summer, in what may well be the biggest surf film to be released since the Endless Summer.
Drone pilot Tice Ledbetter was flying around the San Diego pier taking some aerial footage last week, when a fisherman turned his attention from the water to the sky!
For these kids in Wales, right now the coolest and fastest thing ever, is their 29er's in 30 knots of wind. Soon it will be girls, cars and kiteboarding...
The worlds newest wave pool opened last week in Snowdonia, Wales, and it's proving to be one of the best and most unique around. The Starboard SUP crew got to test it out first, and they give it the thumbs up.
It's long been said that freestyle is like the Gymnastics of kiteboarding, so when a gymnast straps on a harness and some boots, you can expect what comes next...
In a little less than one months time, the worlds fastest kiteboarders will descend upon the little town of Luderitz in Namibia, for the 2015 Chris Benz Luderitz Speed Challenge.
While some guy running around in a fire suit is like, so 90's... Doing it while surfing is a juxtaposition to say the least.
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Don't really want to let this kite go but life is getting in the way and would...
$1,250
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Suns Pilot Prone board. Works really well as a prone board and excellent with...
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Good condition ready to use, comes with bag
$550
300 cm x 250 litres
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150 cm x 75 Litres
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