Lahui Kai’s Mick Di Betta and Kelly Margetts Are Headed to Deerfield Beach (Orange County, Calif.) – Australia’s Mick Di Betta and Kelly Margetts have announced their intention to compete in the Watermans Paddle for Humanity in Deerfield Beach, FL. Competition runs deep in the Australians’ blood and no distance is going to come between [...]
The pivot turn: it’s an important skill to master. Whether you’re an SUP surfer, racer, or recreational paddler, the pivot turn is easy to learn and allows you to make tighter, more efficient directional changes when catching waves, rounding buoys or just heading home. Gillian Gibree, a SUP yoga instructor, racer, and surfer walks us [...]
This weekend is jammed with events in Hawaii, North and South America and Europe. If you thought your weekend was free, we just filled it. Here’s what’s on tap for the next couple days: The Surf & Sand Duel-athlon, Santa Cruz, California, March 16-17 The 2nd Annual Surftech Surf & Sand Duel-athlon SUP Race presented [...]
This weekend is packed with great events, so we hope you’re geared up. California’s coast features a couple, there’s a sweet festival about to kick off in Noosa and some of SUP’s best athletes are camped out down in Sayulita for two days of races and that’s not all… 3rd Annual Punta Sayulita Longboard & [...]
When Waterman’s Paddle For Humanity was in need of a new event director, Rob Farrow more than fit the bill. With a background rooted deep in paddling, years of experience building brands and putting on events in the surfing industry, not to mention his strong passion for promoting paddling, Farrow made perfect sense to head [...]
Sometimes you just need waves. You wouldn’t think the Potomac River in Washington D.C. would be the place to find them but this river section just below Potomac Falls is one of the nation’s best Class III town runs. Here’s Skip Brown, loving O-Deck wave, one of the section’s premiere playspots.
Australians Travis Grant and Jamie Mitchell came coasting into the shoreline, side-by-side on the same wave, composing themselves for landfall. As the wave washed up onto the rocky shoreline, they leapt from their SUP boards and broke into a sprint. Mitchell was first around the yellow flag and made the climb up the rocky berm [...]
(Foothill Ranch, CA) – February 20, 2012 — Performance eyewear brand, REVO, is pleased to announce its partnership with SUP athlete Gillian Gibree. Gibree has consistently been a top five finisher at both the Battle of the Paddle Hawaii and California, the two pre-eminent races of the year for SUP, as well as a member [...]
In one of the most dramatic and exciting Finals yet for the Standup World Tour, Bonga Perkins digs deep in the last minute of the heat to edge ahead of Kai Lenny by the smallest of margins and take victory at stop 1, the Sunset Beach Pro. Bonga was one of the on-form surfers throughout [...]
The weekends are going to become packed as we move towards the spring race season and the heart of the season. Here’s a couple of things to follow going in to the weekend: Standup World Tour’s Sunset Pro The first rounds of trials are complete and the draw for the main event has been announced. [...]