SUP News

In 2007, Jay SUP Manning put together the very first Santa SUP parade in the south of England. Nine years on and the Christmas get-together has become an iconic event and SUP Santas have spread all over the world. Jay tells TotalSUP how it all started!   In 2007, there were only four of us. We thought it would […]

Multiple SUP Surf World Champion Sean Poynter talks to TotalSUP about a oh so very important question: the future of Stand Up Paddle Surfing. Photos: Sean Evans. So Sean… what is the future of SUP surfing? Great question. Legitimacy, expansion and accessibility. Legitimacy in the sense that surfers will continue to evolve their surfing to where any surfer […]

Greetings again readers! I am excited to be returning to TotalSUP and writing more SUP content for everyone to enjoy. If you haven’t read any of my previous articles you can find them HERE! In 2017 I will be attempting to take the Guiness World Record for longest distance covered in 24 hours on flatwater. […]

No matter what kind of board he’s riding or what kind of waves the ocean throws at him, Zane Schweitzer rips in all conditions and disciplines in the ocean. I was recently able to catch up with the newly-crowned 2016 ISA World Sup Surfing Champion on Maui to talk about some of the highlights from […]

I’m just about to hit post on my latest instagram selfie. When the screen lights up. An incoming phone call takes me away from the land of social media. As I answer. My buddy asks. “You want to paddle in a six man canoe?” Before I can even process the question. The words “yes” leave […]

With a new low cost airline connection between Miami and the beautiful island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, Ze Race (aka Ze Caribbean Race) should soon attract tens of US riders in search of new SUP downwind adventures. On January 28th 2017, the first American SUP racer to take part in France’s longest ocean race […]

Dimanche dernier avait lieu la 7ème édition du Nautic SUP Paris Crossing auquel était officiellement associé TotalSUP, aux premières loges pour couvrir l’événement en Facebook live toute la journée.  Malgré un froid de canard c’est bien la plus grande course du monde en terme de participation qui avait une nouvelle fois lieu sur la Seine […]

Percée réussie pour la marque Oxbow qui est devenue en quelques mois un acteur incontournable du SUP français en s’investissant à plus d’un titre. A la veille du Nautic SUP Paris Crossing 2016, sélectionné par Oxbow pour être la grande finale du tout premier Oxbow SUP Challenge, Jean-Patrick Mothes, le Directeur Marketing d’Oxbow, revient pour TotalSUP […]

The Danish Viking is returning to Paris for the 5th time. Casper Steinfath, recently crowned in Fiji ISA World Champion in Technical SUP Race for the 3rd year in a row, tells us how much he loves the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing why has Paris has been on his SUP calendar since 2011. Casper, why do you keep coming […]

A quelques jours de la 7ème édition du Nautic SUP Paris Crossing 2016, nous revenons avec Didier Lafitte sur l’édition 2015, organisée dans des conditions particulières puisqu’il s’agissait déjà du rassemblement de SUP Racers le plus important au monde avec 500 inscrits et qu’il avait lieu seulement 3 semaines seulement après les attentats du Bataclan. Cette année le compteur monte […]

By James Casey, team JP Australia   While the northern hemisphere descends into winter with the surf or snow season kicking off, down under the paddling season is just beginning. Each year paddlers from across the country flock to Western Australia for Warden Marr or Downwind Week, as the fabled southwesterly winds turn the Indian […]

Michael Booth did it again yesterday and this time it is a World Crown he has managed to snatch with authority – and vertigo – in brutal conditions. Interview with Boothy, revelation of the year and the new ISA World SUP Long Distance Champion! Michael, you are the 2016 ISA World Long Distance champion, where does […]

What a crazy year it has been for the new ISA Technical Race World Champion Penelope Armstrong – a.k.a. Penelope Strickland under her maiden name ! From a 7-kilo tumor taken out of her stomach in April to beating Olivia Piana and Candice Appleby in Fiji yesterday, here is our first-hand interview with a true fighter. Penelope, you […]

Par Franck Fifils, team BIC SUP Dans le cadre du Marathon International des Gorges de l’Ardèche, les organisateurs de cette course historique en canoë kayak (32ème édition cette année) qui réunit 2000 pagayeurs chaque année ont décidé d’ouvrir l’épreuve au Stand Up Paddle. Un parcours de 29 km qui part du célèbre Pont d’Arc pour rejoindre […]