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The Watermans Paddle for Humanity is building on four years of success byexpanding to five events in 2012. The award winning series will feature multiple events on both coasts with stops in California, Florida, […]

The 2011 Namotu World Paddle Challenge was a great event. The first day they started off big and ran the long distance race first. They said the race was going to be 19 miles, but it ended up being 23 miles. […]

EJ, pulling into his driveway one last time.

Moving can be tough. Selling the house, packing everything into boxes, getting rid of all the extra junk that you’ve accumulated over the years usually causes […]

Zane Shweitzer may have been more excited than the champ himself as he lifts Connor up on his shoulders. Connor was absolutely gassed after the closest Battle ever. The top three finishers; Connor Baxter, Jaime Mitchell, and Danny Ching were separated by seconds, and battled each other the entire race. Special congratulations to Waterman’s Conner…[Read more]

We could go on and on about the delicate intricacies of making you a better surfer (and trust us, we undoubtedly will) but there’s a seldom-sung-yet-hugely-important side to surfing that’s…[Read more]

By Jenny Kalmbach This past weekend was the 1st Naish Gorge Paddle Challenge in Hood River, Oregon. It was such a great event and I had so much fun. For being in it’s first year, the competition was extremely tough – most of the top women in SUP were there which made it all the [...]

Wanna be a waterman like Healey?  Then you had better read up, get educated, and get fit…Last week while diving off the coast of North Carolina I experienced a medical phenomena unique to free diving called “lung squeeze.”  Basically, I dove while exhausted from a 2 day photo shoot in California compounded by a red-eye flight [...]

    I checked… it has never happened before.  When Chinese teen Sun Yang broke swimming longest standing record this year in the men’s 1500m he did it by 0.42 seconds.  Even when 16-year old Ang Chuang Yang wrestled the world texting record from Ben Cook she did it by only 0.7 seconds.  It took [...]

On July 31st, 2011 Jeff accomplished something few thought possible by finishing the 32-mile Molokai2Oahu paddleboard race in under 7 hours – a difficult feet for even the most capable.  However, for those who know Bandit it was no surprise.  As his moniker indicates, Jeff has been stealing possibilities from fate for over a decade since his [...]

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EJ Johnson’s race report ,7 / 9 / 2011 This was my 4th time doing this event, and it was back to the original course, a water start to the R-10 buoy and a beach finish. It was a solid 10  miles of open ocean racing, with  6 ft S /W shore break making entering and exiting the [...]

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    The WARRIOR CUP … 2nd Event of the Maui Jim Triple Crown of SUP This event was from Maliko Gulch to Honolua Bay (21+ miles) on Sunday – July 10th. This was a great race but had some of the hardest conditions. The race started at 10:45 in the morning inside of Maliko Harbor. Only [...]

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!–date– PV native comes in from Honolulu to win race on new course Jared Vargas wanted to make his return home as successful as possible, and certainly did so with his performance Sunday morning.

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                        Sunday, July 10, 2011_Honolulu, HI –   Jamie Mitchell dominated the field in Honolulu last Sunday on the way to victory in the Cline Mann Paddleboard race.  On July 31st he will attempt to secure his 10th World Title, an unheard of feat within the [...]

It’s 10:00 PM on the West coast, and most of us are finishing up our day. Picking sand out of various crevices, tucking in the kids, and getting ourselves ready for bed. But while we sleep, and when we wake up, Rob Rojas and Kyle Mochizuki will still be paddling. They are supporting Love 146.Org, [...]

The 15th Annual Molokai 2 Oahu Paddleboard Race will take place on Sunday July 31st.

2011 Molokai World Championships SUP and Paddleboard race results

by Casey Annis   Conditions looked sketchy on Fri-Sat. with a pretty mixed up, bumpy looking channel—very reminiscent of last year’s conditions! But Sunday morning—as predicted—the wind laid down—and while overcast and drizzly, things looked pretty calm.   As always, the event (organized by George Loren, his family, and Theresa on the island) was…[Read more]

WPA National Race – by Connor Baxter : The 2011 Wet Feet WPA National Race was a super fun event. I flew over to Oahu from Maui on Friday and the event was on Saturday. The WPA – World Paddle Association – has a series of qualifying events for the Hennessey’s World Event in San Diego in September. An event [...]