SUP News

Learning how to transport your SUP can open up a whole new world of possibilities! especially if you don’t have the luxury of walking to the water from your house or you prefer not to deflate and then inflate your ISUP everytime you go out. We walk through the 2 main methods of transporting your […]

About 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the sea every year, and at this rate we face a future with more plastic in the Ocean than fish by 2050. Paul Hyman owner of Active 360, and organiser of London Crossing/Big Ben Challenge race speaks to TotalSUP about why we need to start protecting our water ways […]

Fin octobre 2017, Les Riders Fanatic Nicolas Fayol et ses amis allemands Valentin Illichmann et Paulina Herpel onts fait une petite halte en Béarn sur la route des championnats d’Allemagne de SUP surf au Portugal. C’était l’occasion pour que Nicolas leur propose une immersion au cœur de ses montagnes avec ses boards Fanatic. Nicolas Fayol nous […]

SUP racing has exploded, with new formats and races being announced each year, and out of this SUP endurance racing has emerged. UK SUP a non-profit organisation has seized this desire to race at longer distances, and has developed 3 events spread over the race season.  Race suprimo and co-founder of UK SUP National Endurance Series Joanne Hamilton-Vale (along […]

Starboard SUP Yoga Ambassador Kelly Huck took a break from her busy schedule in Corporate America to reconnect with nature and rejuvenate her mind, body and soul. Kelly travelled to a remote village in Chumphon, Thailand and met up with the Starboard Tiki team. Kelly shares her trip experience with TotalSUP. (Photo Credit: Starboard) One day as […]

Spring is around the corner and now is the time to look at getting the perfect ISUP. The are so many attractions in buying an ISUP, they are cheaper, lighter and much more practical than hard SUPs, plus easy to transport and store. At first glance, all inflatable SUP boards look very similar, but there are […]

River Surfing suprimo Brittany Parker from Rifle, Colorado, started out as a raft guide on the Colorado River, now she has grown into a full on river SUP surfing pioneer, if there is a river with a wave on it, Brittany will be near! Hello Brittany, Where did it all begin? I saw some people […]

Le WW SUP grandit en France, avec tant de rivières à choisir. Un nombre d’événements WW SUP ont émergé. Le rameur en eau-vive Nicolas Fayol a combiné tous les événements dans une série SUP River Tour. Le SUP River Tour au cours des dernières années, de nombreux événements ont vu le jour, le cross SUP, la course Beach […]

Cette année la Oxbow Kelt Ocean Race se tiendra les 31 mars et 1er avril. Une opportunité de ramer (et d’attaquer la saison pour certains) sur les meilleures conditions de downwind en France. Organisée par Le KELT Ocean Club (KOC), ça sa passe dans la baie de Douarnenez, Finistère, un terrain de jeu exceptionnel pour le downwind. […]

En 2018, le SUP tahitien est toujours à l’honneur sur TotalSUP ! Les riders tahitiens sont parmi les meilleurs du monde mais souffrent d’un isolement géographique et par conséquent financier, qui les empêchent d’être plus présents sur les événements mondiaux comme ils le mériteraient. Tahiti bénéficie heureusement d’une dynamique forte avec de nombreux événements de […]

This Weekend Red Bull held its first ever Red Bull Privateers Stand UP Paddle Race in the Ten Thousand Islands, MARCO ISLAND, FL. In this unique racing event, teams of four paddlers had two and a half hours to navigate through the mangrove mazes of the Ten Thousand Islands to retrieve treasure from fifteen hidden treasure […]

If we are all honest we like a bit of footage of ourselves catching a killer wave or paddling in paradise! But if we haven’t got anyone to convince to sit on the beach to take photos or a good friend to fly a drone directly over us, we have to come up with other […]

SUP has exploded in the last 5 years, In particular the last 2-3 years the amount of SUP racing triple, It is now possible to race every weekend during the race season. A knock on effect has been the annual increase  of female paddlers and racers, a healthy and good sign, showing exactly how accessible […]

Clube Naval Funchal hosts its 2nd SUP Challenge from the 8th till the 12th March 2018. Madeira glistens like a jewel in the Atlantic Ocean, 978km south of Portugal. Madeira is an exciting and topical destination to race in and possibly the best way to start the SUP racing season. The Madeira SUP challenge is […]