Life is pretty easy when you just surf - Stand Up Paddling
Beautifully narrated by Rob Pirie, this little ripper of a surf clip is one of the best we've seen in a long time thanks to some great clips, good narration and top notch production.
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Beautifully narrated by Rob Pirie, this little ripper of a surf clip is one of the best we've seen in a long time thanks to some great clips, good narration and top notch production.
Ever wanted to try hydrofoiling but didn't want to drop $3000 on a top of the line foil? Building one yourself is an option that DOES work and can make foiling not only affordable, but easy!
We had a great time in Tauranga, New Zealand at WetaFest
Ever wondered how much weight could be suspended by your kite lines while you're riding along? The McClintock brothers thought they'd find out by suspending a kiteboarder in the middle!
Despite the fact there's probably still some lingering hangovers, the Merimbula Classic is over for another year, and as usual was one of the best weekends you could ever have on a SUP.
Paul Jackson from Currumbin is up to something . And it involves one massive, and we mean massive, inflatable stand up paddle board.
It's been a tough weeks racing in China, but the fierce competition and exceptional conditions for racing have brought kite racing once again into the spotlight as a legitimate sailing sport.
Over 80 Sabres will compete in the upcoming Nationals Regatta 29th December - 4th January at PDSC. This will be the first time the National Regatta will be held in WA.
We hear about the 'next big thing' all the time. From the weird bent paddle shafts, to special cutouts and vent holes in boards, technological advances in equipment come in all kinds of shapes and sizes in the bid to be 'that thing' that changes the sport
That's it for the Gold Coast's biggest ever kiteboarding event! After 3 days of kiting and a rest day, kiteboarders from all over Australia are looking back on an amazing event that will no doubt return bigger and better next year.
If the latest schedule released by SUPracer is as true as they say it is, Australia could see the worlds best stand up paddlers converge on the land down-under as early as May next year!
Despite mother nature throwing some of the biggest storms of this season at the Gold Coast this weekend, it hasn't put a dampner on the Kite Jam Australia at all!
Catchability for iPhone has been designed in Australia specifically for fishing in Australia.
A Christmas gift that will last the year.
The Kiteracing Oceanic Championships will create plenty of excitement when it takes over Leighton Beach from 10 to 15 December 2013 with six days of kiteracing action and entertainment.
The 31-boat fleet are working through their way last minute key jobs before racing in the Etchells National Championship, being hosted by Southport Yacht Cub on the Gold Coast, starts tomorrow.
With only a few days of competition left in the Luderitz Speed Challenge, a Frenchman in Salin-de-Giraud has smashed the previous record out of the water and shone the spotlight away from what was thought to be the fastest channel on earth.
This is what stand up paddle surfing will look like in 5 years from now. Average punters will be dropping into waves like this, standing tall in barrels and dropping off lips like it's no problem.
This week we bring you something inspirational. Can you imagine being paralyzed from the waist down, and thinking "You know what, I think I'll give kiteboarding a try".
After an incredible four days of paddling on the Gold Coast, five new Australian champions have been carried up the beach...
Check the webcams, grab your camera, get in the car right now! The Stand Up Paddling nationals are on at Currumbin on the Gold Coast.
Fans of slow-mo footage rejoice! Cabrinha have come to the party with 11 minutes of epic footage shot in Hawaii, about a little sport we like to call kitesurfing.
Learn to be a SUP instructor
It's hard to pick who is likely to be in the top five at this year's Etchells National Championship being held at Southport Yacht Club from 11th to 16th November 2013.
Honda releases brand new BF80 and BF100 outboard engines
It's been hailed as the 'new Mambo' event for kiteboarders, but can the Gold Coast offer the charm (and the BBQ) of the long running Merimbula Classic?
This week, David "DJ" John from down in Melbourne put together a fantastic how-to on protecting the blade of your paddle with nothing more than a roll of electrical tape.
Within the coming weeks SUP Hire Australia will launch six of its integrated high performance SUP Hire Centres.
It was only a matter of time before someone decided it would be a great idea to mix football and stand up paddling. And where better to bring the sport of stand up paddle ball to life than Manly, NSW.
When Ruben Lenten designs a competition, you know its going to be big. This week in Zandvoort, Holland, 16 crazy kiteboarders took to the water in a bid to see who has the biggest loop.
Huh? Surf Racing? This isn't stand up paddling! Or could this be the new big thing in kiteboarding?
It's been a while since we've brought you some four legged action, and there's nothing more fun than watching a big slobbery dog go surfing. So here's a fun little video of a Labrador and a Pug on stand up paddle boards.
It's only a few weeks until the countries best stand up paddlers descend on Currumbin, QLD for the Australian Stand Up Paddle Nationals! Get ready Australia, it's going to be ON!
Get to know the North kiteboarding freestylers like never before, as they hit the US for a while on the search of flat water and obstacles.
Bertrand is one of the busiest people around, with commitments now extending beyond his sailing world and into the presidency of Swimming Australia. Yet, without hesitation, he will make the time to compete at next month's Etchells National Championship.
Every year Airush kiteboarding does a little survey, they ask all kinds of questions about your kiteboarding habits and what you'd like to see from them over the coming year, and then they implement those suggestions into their product lineup.
This week there's been two videos emerge of stand up paddlers off the beach in California, literally chasing baby great white sharks around with stand up paddle boards.
Spending time at the beach is a normal family activity for most, but the Bridge family from East Devon in England take it to a completely new level with a combination of six world championships for Kiteracing and numerous other awards and a world record t
Seeking a level 1 or level 2 IKO qualified teacher to join our school team on a full-time seasonal basis.
New Zealand's Auckland Viaduct harbor will be swarmed by a sea of pink stand up paddlers when they participate in the Starboard Paddle for Hope on the 2nd of November.
Every year the worlds fastest kiteboarders pack their little kites, take hacksaws to their twintips and head to Namibia, for a little place called Luderitz.
Check out the video of the Jervis Bay Regatta
Surfers may joke that you could fit your whole family on a stand up paddle board. But it's probably a good idea!
Our favourite brothers are hanging out in the Hood River for some big air, a charity event and some good old fashioned freeriding.
Fishing from a weta catamaran
Steph Bridge (4 times World Kiterace Champion) and Olly Bridge (European Mens Race Champions and World Youth Champion) will be travelling to Perth to hold a free acceleration training camp!
Jervis Bay Yacht Club in New South Wales really delivered over the weekend with an awesome regatta, even dolphins turned up!
What a story, it's got tropical water, beautiful girls, aeroplanes, pirates, fantastic riding and good music.
The Weta West Coast Champs, held on the 21st and 22nd of September out of Richmond Yacht Club was good fun, with great race management by the women's Byte fleet (and some good AC related banter!) on a tricky tidal and shifty race course and with a great a
With all this wind the southern states have been getting, we were wondering if Ewan Jaspan had been getting any action
The guys and girls from the Botany Bay area have finally got a club to call their own after this week, the new "Botany Bay SUP Club" was announced.
High profile sailing and yacht charter group spend more than $1 million on new boats.
Inaugural "One Design Challenge" World Championships set for Dec. 5-6th in San Juan, PR
Surfboard freestyle is the art of flicking a board with no straps around in the air, then landing on it without slicing your feet off on the fins...
While the worlds eyes are on Doheny Beach today for the Battle of the Paddle, lets take a look back at last weeks Huntington Beach Pro to see some incredibly surfing from the worlds best stand up paddleboarders.
Monday October 7th // 8.00 am - 1pm Balmoral StandUp Paddle school at Balmoral Sailing School (Balmoral Sailing Club) - The Esplanade Balmoral Beach.
New video release from Kevin Pritchard and Graham Ezzy
Annabel Anderson has hit the record books, being the first to ever win both the Battle of the Paddle and the long distance racing, for two years in a row!
Johnny Heinekin is one of the nicest guys you'll meet in the kiteboarding world. He's always happy to have a chat, share his racing secrets or get technical with his equipment.
We're talking about the original, the one and only Rainbow Sandals Gerry Lopez Battle of the Paddle!
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