Tag Archive for 'event'

Saturday November 22, 2008 PA’A Race and Food Drive

[ November 22, 2008; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] Start: Nov 22 2008 - 8:00am
End: Nov 22 2008 - 9:00am
Timezone: ETC/GMT-10
Website: http://paahawaii.com/

Event Description:
The Holidays are around the corner and PA’A is getting ready for our upcoming racing season.

Let’s make some room for the stuffing and get together with your paddling ohana for a fun race day. At the same time, we’ll be collecting canned [...]

GROUNDBREAKING ULTRA-MARATHON STAND UP PADDLE FOR CHARITY

By Stuart Murray
Inoke Tuhukava and Stuart Murray will attempt what has never been tried before. To complete the 111km overnight ultra-marathon paddle down the Hawkesbury River on November 1-2 2008. Although this is an established paddle race called the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic this is the first time Stand Up Paddlers have applied to [...]

SoCal OceanRacing Series- La Jolla Shores Invitational- November 8th

[ November 8, 2008; ] First race of the SoCalOceanRacing series kicks off on November 8th in beautiful la Jolla Shores Kellogg Park. Details on the www.eteamz.com/SoCalOceanRacing website under News.

We are trying out active.com as an on-line pre registration option this year. Feedback on that is welcome.

Looking forward to seeing a lot of new faces as we embrace the newly [...]

Hawaiian Girls Sweep Rainbow Sandal’s Gerry Lopez Battle of the Paddle, While the Guys Go Two and Three

by Standup Paddle Magazine
October 12, 2008
Dana Point, California

The biggest Stand Up Paddle race to date got rave reviews from both the competitors and spectators as Rainbow Sandals put on a first class event at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point this past weekend.

With $25,000.00 up for grabs, racers from California, Hawaii, Washington State and Tahiti [...]

Noah Shimabukuru rides Surftech Takayama 10’3” Tuflite to success at inaugural Central Surf SUP Contest in Puerto Escondido Mexico

Noah Shimabukuro walked away $4000 richer from Puerto Escondido, Mexico after besting an elite field of competitors at the Central Surf Paddleboard Contest. 19 competitors from Hawaii, California, Puerto Rico and Mexico enjoyed exclusive access to Escondido’s Zicatela beach for the first ever stand up paddle surfing contest in Mexico. Pulling a new Surftech production [...]

Team “Love” Wins Inaugural Surftech Women’s SUP Challenge

Team “Love”, the three member SUP team of Leah Dawson, Bianca Valenti and Geodee Clark swept the competition in Surftech’s inaugural Women’s SUP Challenge held in conjunction with the ROXY Jam Cardiff. The relay style event featured a unique format that awarded team points based both on paddling speed as well as surf skills. Each [...]

Puerto Escondido Exclusive from Duane Desoto

We got this email from Duane Desoto:
I’m down in Puerto at the sup invitational. My wife was telling me that there is absolutely no press on the event, she was searching online. The contest organizer said that he has been getting hundreds of emails from all over the world asking for results.

Format
4 man [...]

Steinlager Shaka Longboards Series Looking For Waves At Haleiwa

 
 
September 17th, 2008
Honolulu, Hawaii-
The Steinlager Shaka Longboard Series looks to wrap things up over the next two weekends at Haleiwa’s Ali’i Beach Park as the winter season begins to show signs of life on the north shore of Oahu. Already a series of head high plus surf has shown it’s way to the mecca [...]

Tropical Blends Newsletter 26 August 2008

Hello Everyone,
Hopefully those of you on Oahu got a chance to check out some of the action from this years Duke’s OceanFest that wrapped up this past Sunday. Competition took place for many of Duke Kahanamoku’s favorite water sports on the 118th anniversary of his birthday. The Great Hawaiian 105 KINE Luau went [...]

Surftech SUP Gauntlet Video

This is a pretty funny event. What’s up with the kayak paddles?
The Surftech SUP gauntlet, the 4th stage of Transworlds Cali Rally is definitely a historic event. Ironically both something stand up paddle aficionado’s and haters alike should be able to appreciate!

(click thumbnail to launch video)
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Boardworks New Sponsor of Oceanside Surfing Festival SUP Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Gretchen at Boardworks - gretchen@boardworkssurf.com
(760) 722-8536

Oceanside, CA - (August 11, 2008) - The Oceanside Longboard Surfing Club’s 24th annual End of Summer Surf Contest & Beach Festival, to be held August 15-17 at Oceanside Pier, welcomes Boardworks as the new sponsor of the StandUp Paddleboard event that will be held on Saturday, August [...]

Stand Up Paddle Sessions at Outdoor Retailer

[ August 6, 2008; 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm. August 7, 2008; 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. ]
C4 Waterman Announces:
“Learn to Stand Up Paddle” Sessions at Outdoor Retailer

Salt Lake, UTAH (August 5, 2008) - Here’s a chance to learn Stand Up Paddle from three of the world’s premier watermen, from Hawaii.
C4 Waterman founders Brian Keaulana and Todd Bradley, and noted shaper/surfer/journalist Dave Parmenter will be “on the water” tomorrow, August 6th, [...]

XTERRA WETSUITS Surf Monkey

Congratulations to all who strived to be the King or Queen Surf Monkey this past weekend in Oceanside, Ca.. Over 300 athletes participated in the First Annual XTERRA WETSUITS Surf Monkey, either in the individual 1 mile ocean swim, 5k Beach run, 1 Mile Swim/5k Run Combo or 8 mile Paddleboard/SUP Race or [...]

International Surfing Assoc SUP rules 7-10-08

This was emailed to me today.
SUP section 14 7 08 rulebook08 update.doc
You can also click on “Continue reading…” link below to read the HTML version.

3. Stand-up Paddle [SUP] Discipline:
A. STAND UP PADDLE [SUP] SURFING EVENT RULES:

Introduction: SUP surfing is unique and can be done many ways but for competition it is important to set [...]

Celebrity surf stars showcased in largest Stand Up Paddle Surfing competition in history

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (July 27, 2008) — In 40 minutes, Corona and Surftech put stand up paddle surfing in front of an estimated 100,000 people, taking the sport a giant leap forward in the consciousness of the surfing and non surfing public alike. The inaugural Corona Stand-up Paddle Surf Challenge took center stage on Sunday, [...]