Joep Van Bakel

With athletes increasingly fine-tuning their training to particular race formats, the Paddle of the Kempen, a designated flat water 12km elite SUP event taking place on canals, is uniquely positioned on the SUP racing circuit. In the run up to the second stop of the Belgian SUP Tour (BST) held on 5 May in Dessel, […]

With a meticulously curated agenda, exciting announcements and international athletes already confirming their attendance, Planet Baltic SUP Race 2024, Poland’s longest running open sea SUP race event held on 2-4 August in Kołobrzeg, emerges as a prominent stop on the SUP racing circuit. It’s location and timing couldn’t be better either (held on the often unforgiving […]

In the run up to the 2024 Belgian SUP Tour (BST) kicking off in April, TotalSUP caught up with Joep van Bakel, 2023 ICF World Long Distance SUP Champion, prodigious waterman and a pro SUP athlete with a knack for long distance races, based in Wormer, the Netherlands. Advocating for the growth of our sport […]

Several members of the TotalSUP Team have boards from SUNOVA Surfboards and we are SUPer happy to share some big-name additions to the SUNOVA SUP Racing squad before the 2023 ICF World Championships in November. Team manager and top SUP racer Christian Taucher has all the SUNOVA news Hi Christian, I hear you’ve been busy since our last […]

In a triumphant return from injury, Belgian SUP athlete and NSP team racer Kjell De Bruyn has managed to secure a spot to represent Belgium for the first time at the ISA World SUP & Paddleboard Championship in Les Sables d’Olonne, France next week. Just a few days away from the huge event, Kjell opens up […]

Ahead of the Belgian Sprint & Technical Race Championship taking place on September 2 (and LIVE on TotalSUP!), discover the exhilarating Belgian SUP Tour through the eyes of Manuel Lauwers, a dedicated athlete hailing from the picturesque city of Antwerp in Belgium. With a passion that spans nearly a decade, Manuel has risen to prominence […]

The 2023 BALTIC Skrea Strand Paddle Race, the 3rd annual event organized by the Falkenberg SUP Club in Falkenberg, Sweden is a significant part of the 2023 Swedish circuit known as the Svensk SUP Race Serien. This year, the event held the distinction of being an ICF SUP World Ranking Event. The driving force behind […]

With record participation (80 athletes from 11 countries) and riveting feedback from SUP riders, sport enthusiasts and spectators, the 6th edition of the Planet Baltic SUP Race 2023 in Kolobrzeg, Poland is one for the books! The country’s longest running SUP competition offers a unique ocean racing event with Sprints, Technical and Long Distance formats […]

En Belgique, le printemps a commencé le 30 avril, lors de la première manche du Belgian SUP Tour : le Paddle of the Kempen. Cette compétition, co-organisée par Kempen SUP, le plus gros club de paddle belge, donne le coup d’envoi pour une saison de paddle bien chargée : 12 compétitions aux formats variés, allant […]

With SUP still taking hold around the globe, it is wonderful to see families using it as an opportunity to get on the water together. Even greater is the good it does for children to see their parents leading them in a healthy activity, teaching them habits and skills which they will carry forward and […]

Team Netherlands Team Members Joep Van Bakel- 12/04/1982- Long Distance Petronella van Malsen- 06/15/1981- Long Distance- Technical Race Janneke Smits- 08/25/2983- Long Distance Emma Reijmerink- 03/11/1988- Technical Race Bart Haveman- 01/31/1991- Prone Paddleboard Joost Duivenvoorde- SUP Surf Pascal van der Mast- SUP Surf Long Distance: Janneke Smits – Petronella van Malsen – Joep Van Bakel – SUP […]

The 8th stop of the EuroTour Presented by Starboard took place in Namur, Belgium this past 24th of June. From the beautiful Mediterranean sights of Croatia we made our way across Europe to the very picturesque town of Namur. The event now in its 5th edition has already been a part of the EuroTour since […]