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Margareta Engström, Starboard’s marketing manager, sent us these photos and info of their carbon stand up paddle lineup for 2010.
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The F-16 v2 is the best F series board I’ve ridden to date. After the first Hawaii Kai run, I decided that the F-16 v2 was the best planing hull F series board I had tried but after 3 sessions in various conditions I now think that it’s even better than my F-18. The board is stiffer and doesn’t have that warble feeling when riding. It catches and connects bumps with little effort. I think the F-18 may still be better in 15 mph and under winds but at 15 mph it’s gonna be close. Continue reading ‘S.I.C. F-16 V2 Racing SUP Stand Up Paddle Board’
RiverSUP is a revolutionary new DVD. This unique production is the first DVD to focus exclusively on the challenging and invigorating sport of stand-up paddling (SUP) on whitewater rivers.
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Here is the last video from Todd Bradley’s pocket coaching series. In this video, Todd gives us a recap of the techniques he taught us during the session and gives us more tips for going on downwind runs.
Continue reading ‘Todd Bradley Pocket Coaching SUP Instruction Session 2 – Recap’
On the referral of Jeff Chang at Wet Feet and Robert Stehlik at Blue Planet Surf I took in my board for a small repair to Clay Carson. He specialized in fixing carbon boards, canoes, etc and has a reputation of being the best. If you need a fix, call him at 808-225-2263 and let him know I sent you.
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Here’s an article about Starboard Paddle Development written by Gaute Kristiansen, product manager for Starboard stand up paddles.
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A non-profit association has been started to promote distance paddle training. It’s called Stand Up Paddle Association of Hawaii – acronym SUPAH. To get started SUPAH will be conducting distance paddle instruction and training for novices through accomplished paddlers. Instructors signed up so far are Todd Bradley, Dave Parmenter, Scott Gamble, Aaron Napoleon, Rob Stehlik, Morgan Hoesterey, Doug Lock and Jeff Chang. Here’s the dates for the clinics, see photos on our blog: www.suphawaii.blogspot.com
Continue reading ‘SUPAH Downwind Clinic this Sunday – March 14′
This article was originally published by The Seattle Times.
By Amy Martinez
Seattle Times business reporter
REI told its merchandise buyers last year that what it needed more than ever were new, gee-whiz products to take people’s minds off the recession. So it doubled down on such items as stand-up paddle boards and slackline kits for backyard tests of balance.
(CLIFF DESPEAUX / THE SEATTLE TIMES)
REI’s recession strategy in 2009, said Chief Executive Sally Jewell, was to “find things that would excite people and get them into the outdoors.”
Continue reading ‘REI doubles its annual profit, will begin mailing out refunds’
This next video of Todd Bradley’s ‘pocket coaching’ series is with me.
Continue reading ‘Todd Bradley Pocket Coaching SUP Instruction Session 2 – Evan’
I recently visited Mark Raaphorst at the S.I.C. headquarters in Maui and got to check out one of his latest creations, the S-16 Standamaran racing SUP stand up paddle board. The S-16 is surprisingly fast, especially going upwind. Upwind paddling is actually fun on this board. I shot some video of Mark explaining about the S-16 and got some footage from our downwind test run.
Continue reading ‘S.I.C. S-16 Standamaran Racing SUP Stand Up Paddle Board – Full Review and Videos’
Check out this video of SUP being featured on World Business.
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Nice coverage on Laird and Dave on prime time TV.
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This is Gayle’s first time ever to do a Hawaii-Kai run and she already paddles like a pro as you’ll see in the video. Gayle also did a great job as the camera operator on a number of the other pocket coaching videos. Gayle is a Hawaii expatriate that lives in the mainland so she was super happy to be in the water in Hawaii. Click below for the video.
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March 3, 2010 (Santa Cruz, CA) – The stage is set for the 2nd Annual “Surftech SUP Shootout at the Lane”, happening March 26th – 28th. It’s been a record El Nino winter with pumping surf slamming the California coast week after week. The result of all this wave action (other than broken relationships & loss of jobs) is the massive sand bar that’s developed along the cliffs at Steamer Lane!
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This is a session that I went to a while back with Kekoa at Puena Point. It’s supposed to be huge, about 12’-18’ Hawaiian scale but then it turned out to be 3’-5’ Hawaiian scale. I guess it picked up that afternoon but at that time that we were there, the conditions were really nice: no winds, glassy water but the waves were a little smaller. So I ended up taking pictures and video shots of Kekoa while he was surfing. Check out this video that I got.
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