Anna Nadolna

“We released the Wanderer 13’2″ x 29.5” iSUP in response to a growing market need in the recreational inflatable board range. Paddlers switching from their allround boards are looking for new, exciting touring boards with a fairly large standing area, that will allow them to go faster and paddle longer distances. The Wanderer model has […]

SUP pioneer and promoter, pro athlete, World Champion, Coach, entrepreneur and now a mom… This list is by no means exhaustive and only illustrates some of the activity and projects Susanne Lier, a remarkable SUNOVA Team rider, is involved in. Nearly two hours spent talking with Susanne were a perceptive, razor-sharp insight into the SUP […]

What does it take to build a successful SUP racing scene? “It’s about growing the community around it and being able to involve companies to sponsor events and athletes,” says Tommy Dee Packendorff, Director of the Skrea Strand Paddlerace who has teamed up with Baltic Lifejacket Sweden, Swedish watersport brand specialising in designing and manufacturing […]

Pumped is the word after chatting with Sarah Spalinger, Adrenaline Ambassador of the Swiss watersport brand, Indiana Paddle & Surf.  When Sarah is not working long hours as a doctor of cardiology and internal medicine, she’s flying (literally!) over the Lake Zürich, Switzerland. In search of the “ultimate freedom and a unique connection with nature”, […]

The Red Bull Midsummer Vikings challenge is one of the most talked about events in the SUP calendar offering a unique and inclusive SUP experience for paddlers to race as a team for 24 hours in a row – both night and day – around the Amager Island in Copenhagen. The person behind this venture […]

Esposende, situated alongside Cávado River that pours right into the Atlantic Ocean, is most likely and at least up until now, the Northern Portugal’s best kept SUP secret. From sandy beaches backed by dunes to a maze of tidal marshes and with 20km of uninterrupted river paddling, the area seems like a perfect watersport and […]

Endurance SUP races take a special kind of grit. With the unprecedented growth of the sport accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and an increased participation in SUP events both locally and across the world, the UK is slowly adding new formats to its SUP racing portfolio, including the endurance distances. Although we still have to […]

Social tokens are on the rise in the crypto space and brands are embracing it to create more value, engage with their communities and incentivize positive impact behaviours. And recently, the SUP industry has witnessed a “pioneering move” into metaverse from Starboard SUP! Driven by sustainable innovation and the power of a community, Starboard has […]

At the Swedish SUP Championship in 2019, Yster SUP Team Rider Maya Persson took no less than three gold medals on her Yster SUP 14’x24″ Naked Carbon. Since then,  Yster SUP, a Swedish premium SUP brand – has further fine-tuned the shape and design of the board to improve its glide and directional stability. TotalSUP […]

When a team of talented young SUP athletes paddles this hard (“to the last breath”) and with this much heart, the world takes notice as it did at the 2021 ICF World Championships in Balatonfured, Hungary, when the Spanish Junior Team swept the world titles in the long distance and technical races. The newly crowned […]

On the eve of the release of the highly anticipated 2022 Infinity Whiplash, TotalSUP caught up with June Mizoguchi aka “June the Machine” (a term coined by the Infinity boss himself Dave Boehne) to take a look at his custom Whiplash. June, who has been for years heavily involved in the USA Cycling circuit, is […]

Staying true to the vision of creating high-performing, affordable, durable gear and with hundreds of testing hours dedicated to the innovative R&D process, NSP is rapidly growing its foil and wing quiver. TotalSUP caught up with the NSP Team Rider and a SUP-racer-turned-foil-phenom Alexandre Bicrel to chat about flying high for NSP and sharing some foil […]