Expect Nothing, be ready for EVERYTHING! The Watermana is fast approaching! 14 athletes were chosen and awarded tickets for the Watermana event in December by TotalSUP, in partnership with Air Tahiti Nui and Tahiti Tourisme. Based around individual endurance and team events including disciplines such as SUP, prone paddleboard, open water swimming (and many other which will be a surprise), it is a true waterman’s event. Basque native and athlete Jurgi Zulaika was awarded a ticket for the event. TotalSUP talks to Jurgi Zulaika about his water sports journey, and the excitement surrounding being awarded a ticket for the Watermana!
When I was young I used to be a keen swimmer, but had to stop when I started university. I am new to prone boarding, I came into the sport after learning about an endurance prone paddleboard race from San Sebastian to Capbreton which is 35 miles and I always told my dad I wanted to test myself in that race on prone board. For SUP I started 4 years ago, when I was 21. I got into SUP racing after racing in a beautiful SUP-bike-trail triathlon.
Winning is a dream that every athlete has, but I think this race is about living an adventure, suffering with the other athletes, and pushing ones limits. My goal is to give all I can in every race and start and finish every day with the stoke that I will have as soon as I land in Tahiti! Finishing the race in a good position so to allow me to return next year will be a great result!
16 Nov 2023
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 […]
29 Mar 2023
After two months of an epic crossing between Peru and French Polynesia known as Cap Optimist, six women from France and Spain have succeeded in their challenge to paddle across the Pacific ocean. A sporting and charitable feat achieved for the benefit of children with cancer. Cap Optimist: from Lima to Moorea on a paddle […]
2 Feb 2023
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 […]
18 Nov 2022
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 […]
3 Jun 2022
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 […]
12 May 2022
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 […]
25 Feb 2022
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 […]
9 Feb 2022
Le 22 janvier dernier, le double champion de France de SUP Race longue distance Ludovic Teulade dĂ©marrait son annĂ©e 2022 en dĂ©voilant lors de la Gla Gla Race, une planche très attendue sur le segment FLAT du SUP Race: la XRS de la marque hawaĂŻenne SIC MAUI. Sous ses nouvelles couleurs officielles (les planches de […]
18 Nov 2021
InstallĂ© Ă Tarifa au sud de l’Espagne depuis plus de 20 ans, le waterman Fred Bonnef connait son terrain de jeux par coeur, vĂ©ritable paradis du vent, des vagues et du soleil. Après avoir accueilli et coachĂ© des dizaines de stand up paddlers qui sont venus testĂ©s les conditions de downwind andalouses ces dernières, annĂ©es, […]
