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“When I’m in the zone… pain doesn’t seem so bad and my mind is clear and focused,” says Blackfish Paddles Rider Brad Friesen who has just won the Yukon 1000 SUP division completing the challenge in 7 days and 6 minutes, as part of the Pirates of the Yukon squad where he teamed up with Scott […]

If there’s one thing certain about the British SUP duo behind Team SHAC Yukon 1000, is that they’re ready to endure some pain. In fact, they’re itching to embark on the Yukon 1000, dubbed the world’s toughest survival and endurance race which tagline states: “Pure Isolation, Total Exhaustion, Self Survival”. TotalSUP caught up with Scott ‘Skip’ Innes and Craig […]

“I know that Janneke Smits and Ella Oesterholt of  Team Yukon SUPventure Ladies , were prepared to the teeth which involved putting their inflatable Yster iSUP 17’3”x 26” Linear boards to the test in different conditions. The boards were their ultimate lifelines between the race start at Whitehorse to the finish at Dalton Highway Bridge so the boards just had […]

“The races that really touched our hearts are the races that included a healthy share of suffering.” When a statement of this calibre comes from a duo with competitive paddle background in white water rafting, you know they mean business. With more teams arriving in Yukon to “join the elite few who have conquered the […]

The countdown is on to Yukon 1000, “the world’s toughest endurance and survival race” taking its paddling contestants through 1000 miles of “untouched wilderness” with zero support available. In the run up to this equally unforgiving and epic challenge, TotalSUP caught up with Scott ‘Skip’ Innes of Team SHAC Yukon 1000,  the first all UK SUP Team […]

Ce n’est pas n’importe quelle course de SUP Race que prépare Samuel Vauthier sur sa Starboard Allstar, avec son binôme Nicolas Fayol de la Team French Paddler : la Yukon 1000 ! Yukon comme le fleuve d’Amérique du Nord Yukon, qui part du Canada avant de traverser l’Alaska. 1000 comme 1000 miles, soit environ 1600km […]

1000 miles of paddling through “untouched wilderness”, 10 days to complete, 0 support, “unless your life is in imminent danger”. If these numbers don’t cut it and fully illustrate the extreme uniqueness of the Yukon 1000 challenge, this quote does: “More people have been up Everest than have been beyond Dawson City”* The Yukon 1000 […]

Nothing tests an inflatable board better than an ultra-endurance paddleboarding challenge. Throw into the mix untouched wilderness, white water rapids and 1000 miles of paddling and you get the idea. With the recent SUP division victories at Yukon River Quest and Yukon 1000, Yster SUP, the premium Swedish SUP brand based in Malmö, consolidating its position […]

Shaken by the impact of COVID-19 global crisis the SUP industry responded by cancelling and postponing events to ensure safety of their teams, SUP athletes, visitors and local communities. The latest announcement from the organisers of the Yukon River Quest confirmed that due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 22nd annual marathon paddling race with a […]

Blackfish Paddles riders have been digging deep and pushing hard through the Yukon territory since the inception of the Yukon River Quest, the world’s longest annual marathon race testing paddlers’ endurance to the limit over the 715 km/444 mile course from Whitehorse to Dawson City. Known as “The Race to the Midnight Sun,” it is […]

Starboard long distance paddler and adventurer Bart De Zwart is fresh off the Yukon River Quest. Bart gives TotalSUP a breakdown of his 715 km race through the Yukon where he paddled using the Carbon Sandwich All Star 14 x 24.5, a board that performed exceptionally throughout with its brilliant combination of a good race shape […]

Gregor Wacker’s story – former German military diver, ocean rower, and endurance paddler with a 5000km Atlantic Ocean Crossing under his belt* – hits differently. On one hand it’s about that unique ‘league’ of endurance paddlers and absolute legends in their own right taking on some killer, unsupported challenges and yet still slipping under the radar […]

In this second part of the Yster SUP long-distance paddling series, we’re diving into the essentials of endurance racing with exclusive insights from the Yster SUP champions. This time, we go deeper with Göran “Gossa” Gustavsson and Craig Sawyer – two paddlers who’ve carved out their place in the endurance SUP world with a staggering […]