Con casi 8000 km de costa, ríos, pantanos, archipiélagos e islas, cualquier rincón en España es apto para practicar SUP. Cada vez son más los niños y las niñas que se animan a probarlo y a competir. Y es que el país posee una de las mayores congregaciones de niños que compiten en SUP Race, en gran parte gracias a la cantera de Mar Balear SUP Center y otras que emergen poco a poco.
Este fin de semana, el pantano de Atazar en la Sierra Norte de Madrid, fue el escenario de uno de los mayores espectáculos con que los riders sénior disfrutamos: ver al futuro (y presente) del SUP compitiendo en un Campeonato de España. Algunos del tamaño de minions, otros ya altos y desarrollados como los personajes de cómics que idolatraban sólo un par de años atrás, todos se reunieron para demostrar, una vez más, que con ellos el futuro de este deporte está asegurado.
Dos días de competición para hacer nuevos amigos, ver a los antiguos, reír, jugar, y finalmente competir. Cada territorio aportó su granito de arena y cada uno de los 40 niños y niñas merece una mención especial. Mar Balear, Barrika Surf Camp, Noja No Limits, Northwind, Kairoscore…
Los benjamines realizaron un circuito que recorrieron en unos meritorios 20 minutos, protagonizando una llegada al sprint que arranco los aplausos de todos los asistentes. Los alevines, infantiles y cadetes hicieron sus respectivas distancias, dejándonos espectaculares imágenes de giros, llegadas, sprints y abrazos.
Los junior, por decisión propia, hicieron el mismo recorrido que la categoría élite, demostrando que están a la altura y dispuestos a dar el salto para comerse a los adultos.
Por desgracia, el domingo tuvo que anularse la carrera técnica del Campeonato de España sub18 que comenzara con la Long Distance del sábado. La seguridad premiaba sobre las fuertes rachas de viento. Aún así, las sonrisas de los más pequeños quedaron grabadas al subirse al podio y recoger sus merecidas medallas.
Nearly 200 participants competed in the 2023 Gran Carrera del Mediterráneo SUP (The Great Mediterranean Race) event brought by the 5-time ICF World Champion Daniel Parres (also a former international windsurfer athlete) and the Club Deportivo Parres (Parres WaterSports). The 5th edition of the ocean race will be without doubt remembered by tough conditions with […]
In 2022, SUP racer Esperanza Barreras won, among other achievements, the Long Distance European Championships title in Denmark, the Long Distance ICF World title in Poland, two silver medals in Long Distance and Technical Race at the ISA Worlds in Puerto Rico, two APP World Tour events as well as the Euro Tour title. With […]
The 4th edition of the Gran Carrera del Mediterrano (ie the Great Mediterranean Race) will undoubtedly be remembered for its high participation with more than 200 SUP Racers on the starting line, highlighting once again that Spain is currently at the forefront of the development of the sport in Europe. Santa Pola and the province […]
To watch the 2022 World SUP Festival with TotalSUP you have the choice between Facebook and the Youtube players embedded below. Both are used as a backup if one or the other happens to be failing during the various livestreams. If Facebook is your pick, please go to www.facebook.com/totalsupofficial or @TotalSUP on the Facebook app Day […]
There has been something noteworthy happening for a while on the global SUP racing scene with more young paddlers starting to steal the spotlight from SUP legends or at least shifting the attention as everyone is asking “Who is that kid?” At TotalSUP we’d like to go beyond SUP Coaches and SUP clubs becoming more […]
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 […]
Installé à Tarifa au sud de l’Espagne depuis plus de 20 ans, le waterman Fred Bonnef connait son terrain de jeux par coeur, véritable paradis du vent, des vagues et du soleil. Après avoir accueilli et coaché des dizaines de stand up paddlers qui sont venus testés les conditions de downwind andalouses ces dernières, années, […]
Wind, waves, sunshine – a combination that’s absolutely irresistible for my husband Stefan and me. That’s why we jumped at the opportunity go to Tarifa to train with surfski instructor Boyan Zlatarev at the Tarifa Surfski Center Strong winds, as you would expect from a famous windsurf and kite spot, greeted us on our first […]
Last weekend the Vendée Gliss race burst into life again on the French Atlantic coast. This year the Vendée glisse had the honor of being a prize winning waterman event, as well as a stop on the Eurotour. This years waterman event gave the chance for competitors to win a ticket a free Air Tahiti […]
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