Ultra Long Distance

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 […]

“Seul on va plus vite, ensemble on va plus loin” ça pourrait être le crédo de Sébastien Saulenc et Hervé Barrière, qui se lancent sur la Loire 725 ! La Loire 725 est, comme son nom l’indique, une course d’Ultra Longue Distance de 725km sur la Loire, de Roanne à Paimboeuf. Après une édition test […]

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 […]

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 […]

Grand habitué des Ultra Longues Distances, Christophe Mora a été de (presque) toutes les Dordogne Intégrale ouvertes aux Stand Up Paddle, incluant la version 350 ainsi que la première édition des Championnats de France ULD qui a eu lieu en 2021, où il a obtenu la médaille de Bronze en catégorie Unlimited. Christophe rempile cette […]

For the second year in a row, Swedish Paddler and ASI SUP Instructor, Göran Gustavsson has completed the SUP 11 City Tour, the ultimate 220km challenge through Friesland, a northern province of Holland, not once but twice! Competing in both the non-stop race and the five-day event, coming in second place in a time of […]

Trois SUP racers et un organisateur, quatre expériences et quatre points de vue bien différents sur la Dordogne Intégrale en mode Championnats de France de SUP Race Ultra Longue Distance. C’était une première à Argentat le 11 septembre dernier, la course la plus longue de France, initialement une course multi-embarcations de canoë-kayak ouverte depuis 7 […]

Last weekend the Red Bull Midsummer Vikings in Denmark brought together 70 teams with SUP paddlers from 19 countries and raised more than 15.000 euros for charity. ‘We need more water at the campsite’. The paddlers at Red Bull Midsummer Vikings were chasing water like firemen on duty. It was the hottest day of the […]

OC1, OC2, V6, Canoë…. en 10 ans, Alain Morvan est devenu une figure incournable des courses de pagaie en France ! Une passion, notamment pour les formats Longue Distance, qui est née avec la Dordogne Intégrale avec laquelle le soixantenaire a tissé une vraie histoire d’amour et de fidélité en descendant la mythique course de […]

‘Why the extreme? Why push the boundaries and limits?’ are the questions that keep recurring when it comes to large-scale stand-up paddleboarding endeavours. With Blackfish Paddles supporting ambitious and record-breaking SUP expeditions (The Great British Paddle 2020, Nymboida SUP descent and The Long Paddle 2021, to name just few), we have a unique opportunity to […]

The Kattegat ocean between Denmark and Sweden offered lots of resistance and challenge as the 27-year-old Danish Viking and six-time SUP world champion Casper Steinfath foiled across the ocean on Sunday as the first person ever. Casper Steinfath, had to dig deep into the mental and physical bank to become the first to cross the […]

The monster race that was the Great Glen Challenge (GGR) took place two weeks ago, and it was a race that delivered all conditions. From flat conditions on day 1 to 50 KM winds on Loch Ness on day 2.  The Great Glen Challenge is a distance of 95 KM from one end of Scotland […]

Presentation d’Olivier Darrieumerlou, de Seignosse, adepte de tous les sports de glisse et amoureux de la nature. Olivier participe régulièrement au circuit des courses SUP longue distance et à récemment rejoint la team 425 Pro. Il parle a TotalSUP de son nouvel équipement et des ses projets futurs. Bonjour Oliver, peux-tu te présenter et nous […]

One month ago, three-times ISA SUP World Champion, Casper Steinfath, embarked on the mission of his life. Since Casper was a young boy, he had a dream to step in the footsteps of the ancient Vikings. A dream that has grown bigger and bigger, but also a dream that developed into a personal challenge between himself […]