FAQ

What is PaddleAthlete.com

PaddleAthlete.com is the premier worldwide community for Kayakers, SUP & Paddleboard racers, tourers, cruisers and recreators. If you race, train and or recreate on a SUP or a traditional prone paddleboard this is your resource for tips, product reviews, training and much more. Our community is full of great features such as News, Videos, Galleries, Classifieds, Groups, Activity Streams. We are shameless in providing our members access to all internet available content on all devices – blog posts, Facebook and Twitter streams, videos from Youtube and Vimeo, images from our members, the internet and Facebook. This provides on single portal to all the great paddle content from around the globe.

If you’d like to inform us about something, please use the Feedback form available on the left hand side or email to sone(at)paddleathlete.com

Use our community features to Connect with other paddlers much like yourself. It is simple to use and best of all it’s 100% free!

Why did we create PaddleAthlete.com?

PA is being developed by professional SUP and paddleboarders, designers, trainers and technology folks who all share the love of the Ocean, Rivers, Dams and Waterways. Our vision is to create a community for all paddlers worldwide, give everyone the opportunity to contribute and show their love of the sport by sharing product knowledge, design know-how, training information, race/event information and much more. There is no restriction on the stuff we are able to share with one another. We have members from all over the world and our goal is that everyone has fun and learn from one another!

What fun stuff can I do on PA?

There is a ton of functionality on PaddleAthlete.com, however in order to take full advantage of it you must first register for free. It takes less than a minute  to register and you can even use your existing Facebook account. Once you have created your free account you are able to contribute to the community and we’ve put together a short list of things to do while on PA.

The first step to take once you have registered is to visit your User Profile. This can be found by using the My Account slider in the upper right hand corner of the site. The user profile contains all the information you would like to share with others on PA:

Update your picture or Avatar which will be shown next to all your contributions

Edit your Profile and add your Personal, General and Equipment information which others will be able to review.

Join some Groups the the Groups list and you can be notified whenever someone updates the group by setting your email preferences. It’s a good idea to join the Support Group initially to get a feel for how it works.

Add a Group for your local paddle club or whatever you like, and you’ll be able to add Events to your Group Calendar and post in your Group Forum and Activity Stream. You are able to add up to three groups if you like.

Visit the members list and either scroll, or search through the list of current members and add them as Friends or add them to your Follow list.

Post in the Activity Stream so that all other members can see what you’re up to. The Activity stream acts in the same way as any Facebook page  and you are able to post into the General stream or into the Groups you previously created or have joined.

Post products or services in the Free Classified section.

Post in the General Forum which is accessible to everyone.

Visit our Featured Athlete Blog list. These bloggers are designers, companies and professional athletes you are sharing all kinds of interesting stuff with the community.

If you are interested in Geographically specific content visit the Geo Content Map.

Check out the latest videos on our Video Channel.

If you have a website link you would like to add to our Directory, you may submit it here.

What should I avoid?

SPAM - Please don’t SPAM our site with unnecessary junk links or posts in comments/forums or activity streams. We have no issue with you sharing links amongst each other but avoid linking to unrelated content from our site. Sending SPAM private messages to friends will probably cause them to de-friend at best, and we will ban your account for incessant spamming. If you have have an issue we don’t catch or are incessantly spammed by a member please post in the Support Group and we’ll take care of it.

Don’t be angry – If someone pisses you off, relax take a deep breath and then get over it. If someone is rude ignore them, or if a member posts content that is objectionable please post the link into the Support Forum.

Note to SEO Professionals - Please don’t post junk on the site. Most importantly we have NoFollow on any external links in all places you are able to post so you’ll be wasting your time. If you want access to our members you will have to register like everyone else and provide long term value to your friends, and then they may listen.  Thanks! If you would like to share content send us an email using the feedback form.

Articles written on paddleathlete.com are sourced from Suzie Cooney, Dave Kalama, Johnny Kessel and many others. Are rights reserved!

Contact information:

PaddleAthlete.com
PO Box 230892
Encinitas, CA 92023-0892
sone (at) paddleathlete.com
760 492-2724
Johnny or Brian