Category: General News
Race Results – Elite “Survivor SUP” Waikiki Paddle Festival
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HONOLULU - (May 5, 2012) -- Australian Travis Grant mastered a brand new stand-up paddle race format today to win the elite "Survivor SUP" race of the Quiksilver Waterman Collection Waikiki Paddle Festival. Grant fini...
Starboard introduces the world’s first multiplex flex blade and shaft range
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Blade TechnologyThe angle of the paddle blade though the water and the blade’s size dictate the power and efficiency of each stroke. All our blades are foiled to minimize drag and maximize power transfer throughou...
SUP11City tour day 3 – Saving a cow giving birth andSUP in the World sport of Games in Friesland
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Netherlands, September 8, 2011 Dag 3: Sun and blue skies, a cow giving birth en route and SUP at the World Sport for all Games in Friesland in 2016.The participants of the SUP 11-City Tour experience an ultim...
Vintage Paddleboards on Auction
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VINTAGE PADDLEBOARDS SURFACE AT HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SURF AUCTIONAbove: Paddleboard Greats Tom Zahn, Greg Noll & Mike Bright pictured in Australia, 1956, at the Olympic demonstration. Paddleboarding in Hawaii pre...
Paddle For Humanity Dana Point Raises $18,000 for SurfAid International
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Dana Point, CA –This past Saturday, April 30, 182 athletes gathered at Doheny State Beach to compete in the 3rd Annual Paddle for Humanity to benefit SurfAid International. The paddleboarding and standup paddle fundr...
WPA Interview with Karen Wrenn
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Karen Wrenn, one of the top female SUP racers just completed crossing the entire Channel Islands in Northern California this last week that is roughly 160 miles depending on conditions. This is not small feat a...
Boardworks fires distributor in Hawaii
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Boardworks has ended it's relationship with Hawaii distributor Planet Surf Gear due to what seems to be financing high inventory requirements and thinning margins in the Surf/SUP production industry.De...
RUSTY Advertisement in Surfer Magazine Sparks Heated Debate!
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In the Surfer Magazine February issue, on newsstands now, the Rusty advertisement displayed here is receiving mixed responses. It has since incited quite a debate that started in the SURFER online forum, and has spill...
Congratulations Kai
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I would like to say how proud I am of Kai Lenny for winning the wave riding stand up world title. I had a chance to work with him a little bit on his wave riding technique and style prior to the event, so like any ...
Dave Kalama – Once upon a time a ski racer!
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Once upon a time when I was young, I was attending a small community college outside Sacramento. I was trying desperately to be a ski racer. At the beginning of the season we did a time trial to determine everybody...
Dave Kalama – Star Struck by Gerry Lopez
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Like a lot of groms from my era, I idolized many of the great surfers from the seventies, especially the guys from Hawaii. I loved Larry Bertlemen’s cut back and rubberman style, Button’s incredible creativity and ...
Stand Up Paddle Tips – Using Your Paddle
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One of the special attributes of stand up is the paddle. The paddle itself , as we all know, is not unique to stand up yet, I believe that the paddle is the key to it’s functional success in the surf, and thus giftin...
Kai Lenny KiteBoarding Lake Michigan Milwaukee to Chicago – Possible New Record
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Red Bull athlete and paddling superstar Kai Lenny will arrive in Milwaukee on Thursday and attempt to kiteboard from Milwaukee to Chicago starting Friday morning at sunrise.Lenny -- who just turned 18 on Oct. 8 -- ...
12’6″ Race Board Tested In The Surf – Nidecker
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I ran into Eric and Abel at the Battle of the Paddle last week and it reminded me of this footage from last year. As a shaper I know that everything has to be tested and its cool to see what people are doing across th...
Video – Yolo 2010 Seaside Celebration & Chuck Patterson Nikki Gregg SUP Race Clinics
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Yolo Board 2010 Seaside Celebration!Chuck Patterson SUP Race Clinic, Nikki Gregg SUP Boot Camp,Heritage Concert, Outtakes and more Fun Clips! Stand up paddle magazine & Buckner ProductionsVisit Chucks Blog a...
Insights about “Me my Shark and I” – White Shark Revisited by Chuck Patterson
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What lurks below every dayI have been stand up paddling for the last 5 years traveling the world chasing waves, paddling long distance ocean channels and coastlines and racing. The sport of stand up paddling ...
Kalama Kamp is going International – SUP Instruction
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KALAMA KAMP IS GOING INTERNATIONALDave Kalama and Brody Welte are excited to announce that Kalama Kamp is going international, Turks and Caicos here we come. We have partnered with Club Med and Big Blue Unlim...
K-15′s For a Cause
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Starboard Stand Up Paddle Board Team Rider Girard Middleton (Owner of SoBe Surf) took First Place at the National Kidney Foundation Pro Am Surf Fest Stand Up Paddle Surfing Competition this Labor Day Weekend, the l...
High Water Kills Two Top Stand Up Paddle Athletes
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Bavaria Germany September 2, 2010 - High flood waters on the Mangfall river near Bavaria in Germany claimed the lives of two paddlers, Marcus Steininger and Nils Hornischer. The two paddlers decided to go for a quick...
A real housewife of New Jersey Margo Pellegrino Outrigger Journey from Seattle to San Diego
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A real housewife of New Jersey 43-year old Medford Lakes mother of two, Margo Pellegrino. Margo is spending most of the summer away from her husband Carl, 5-year old daughter Julia and 8-year old son Billy paddling a...
Chuck Patterson Interview & Go Pro Video Great White sharks circling off San Onofre
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Chuck Patterson mentions his SUP was actually was bumped by the Great White Shark off San O' prior to using his waterproof video camera capture the shark circling him. Chuck mentions he was a little apprehensiv...
Rare clip of Dan Gavere: Owning the rapids on his Whopper Paddleboard
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Recently we posted Dan Gavere’s Ultimate Paddle Boarder’s Bucket List of Surfspots and one of you guys pointed out this rare video of Dan owning on his Whopper Paddleboard. We couldn’t not put up this video of ...
