SUP News

The Air France Paddle Festival in Tahiti is less than a month away! This is the 1st stop of the newly formed  Paddle League with 100 Paddle League points on offer for the 1st placed paddler (mens and women), plus  over 300 amateur paddlers involved it is going to be an exciting event! TotalSUP talks to Chris […]

Cette année, le SUP 11-City Tour va fêter son 10ème anniversaire; Etes-vous prêt a vous joindre à la fête? Le SUP 11-city tour est une course unique où plus de 200 rameurs internationaux parcourent le Friesland, une province au nord des Pays-Bas. Les paysages du Friesland sont typiques des Pays-Bas avec ses champs ouverts, ses […]

At 01:00 AM Sunday morning March 18th Casper Steinfath will hit the cold waters of Skagerrak with his Naish Maliko and take the first paddlestrokes on his crossing towards the town of Kristianssand in Norway. The four time ISA World Champion aims to become the first person ever to cross treacherous Skagerrak,  The paddle is expected […]

The 2018 season of Waterman Tahiti Tour (WTT) is about to kickoff, with the 1st stop on 17th March at Punaauia, Tahiti, followed by 4 more stops in French Polynesia. The Waterman Tahiti Tour is made up of 3 disciplines all based around water, disciplines that remain a secret right until the event! The brainchild of organiser Stephen Lambert […]

Le samedi 10 mars 2018 le premier “Challenge de L’Adour” 60km de Dax à Bayonne voyait le jour. Le challenge de l’Adour est une course ultra longue distance de Stand Up Paddle sur 60km reliant Dax dans les Landes a Bayonne au pays basque par le fleuve de l’Adour. Photo Credit : L’Atelier d’Hervé Cette idée […]

On the 11th March 2018 Madeira SUP Challenge 2018 was held in Funchal, Madeira. The race saw choppy sea conditions but it didn’t stop the racers notching up some impressive results. The Madeira SUP Challenge 2018 integrated the first stage of the Portuguese SUP Junior and Open Marathon Championships into the event, the event was organized by […]

Dans le petit milieu de l’ultra-endurance, le Waterman Tahiti Tour  (WTT)  est un véritable OVNI. Cette aventure polynésienne offre aux watermen assez fous pour y prendre part, la possibilité d’enchaîner des épreuves extrêmes de natation, de stand up paddle (SUP) et de prône paddle board entre autres. Habitant à Tahiti depuis 17 ans, Jérôme Chapelier baigne dans […]

On the 3rd March 2018, SUP company SeaYou Dubai partnered up with the Dubai international boat show to host the DXB Paddling, with over 75 participants it was the biggest paddle event in the Middle East. This year’s event invited all forms of paddle sports to compete from SUP,surfski and outriggers to participate.  It was a great […]

Dotés d’une météo de rêve, de spots incroyables pour la pratique du SUP surf, du SUP race ou du downwind sans oublier ses paysages spectaculaires, Tahiti est la destination parfaite pour un SUP trip inoubliable. Et pourquoi pas ne pas profiter de l’un des plus gros événements de SUP race de Polynésie Française, le Air France Paddle […]

Bienvenue en Finistère, terre de downwind! Profitant de conditions idéales et constantes, Amaury Dormet vient de lancer l’ Océan Paddle Camp, un centre de downwind qui est en soit une première en France. Situé à Morgat sur la presqu’ile de Crozon, à l’ouest du Finistère, l’Ocean Paddle Camp bénéficie de belles conditions et d’une bonne orientation du vent quelque […]

The past year has been huge for Tahitian brand 425pro with big name riders Olivier Piana, The Cronsteadt brothers, Enzo Bennett and Noic Garioud all in the the family, just to name a few. There are plenty of good strong riders behind the brand indeed. The 425pro brand is shaping up to be a name synonymous with […]

In the next two weeks four time ISA SUP World Champion Casper Steinfath will attempt to cross the Skagerrak, that is a 120 km ocean straight that separates Denmark fom Norway. Cold Hawaii local Casper will be re-attempting the crossing that he tried to complete last year, but had to withdraw just just 12km from the end. Casper […]

The longboard SUP revolution is underway, A closer look at the line out and we see more people turning towards this traditional form of surfing. Largely driven by demand from the longboard SUP Revolution fraternity  (and sorority)  manufacturers such as Fanatic, Naish, Gong, NSP and Sunova are now all offering high performance board shapes with narrower widths […]

The Association of Paddlesurfing Professionals (APP), announced today that it will be bringing the opening leg of its 2018 World Tour to central London for the first time this summer. The London SUP Open is taking place on the stunning River Thames and The Royal Docks, with the biggest names in international SUP descending on the […]