SUP News

It has been a long wait of 3 years since the 2019 ISA SUP & Paddleboard Championships in El Sunzal, El Salvador! 27 participating countries, 174 athletes, 7 disciplines (SUP Surf, SUP Sprint Race, SUP Tech Race, SUP Long Distance, Paddleboard Tech Race, Paddleboard Long Distance & Relays), the 2022 ISA World SUP & Paddleboard […]

3 Bay, ce ne sont pas que ces planches de SUP Race que l’on voit sur toutes les compétitions ! 3 Bay, c’est aussi des SUP surf, fabriqués sur mesure également de la main du maitre shapeur Patrice Remoiville dans son atelier à Vannes. Pour nous parler de ces planches, nous sommes allés interrogés un […]

‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better,‘ to WIN. Some of the most resonating stories in sport are those about reaching through fire to achieve what you want, that ‘ultimate’ goal that has kept slipping away. “It’s been a really long time coming, like 13 years,” says SUNOVA Team Rider and […]

Organisés par le club Extrême Glisse Evénement (EGE) qui nous avait déjà offert une magnifique Coupe de France en “sortie de Covid” en juin 2021, les Championnats de France 2022 en Milieu Maritime de St Raphaël ont tenu toutes leurs promesses avec, pour la première fois depuis la création de deux championnats de France, l’un […]

Le samedi 12 novembre, ne ratez pas le légendaire Marathon International des Gorges de l’Ardèche ! Avec sa déclinaison Ard’River Paddle dédiée au Stand-Up Paddle, ce sont 27km de descente des Gorges de l’Ardèche qui vous attendent, entourés des meilleurs de la discipline mais aussi de paddleurs amateurs d’eau vive. Du départ sous le Pont d’Arc […]

One of the most compelling aspects of our sport is the story of belonging, being empowered and elevated as a SUP athlete or recreational paddler by teams and squads that we surround ourselves with. A new tribalism, one may say, that manifests itself strongest when it comes to international events, where that support is most […]

TotalSUP long-time contributor and Barrachou Paddle owner Helen Trehoret talks to TotalSUP about her venture to  develop a network of SUP events, aimed at increasing female SUP participation. The first the Wild Women SUP Symposium was hosted in September 2022, based out of Cannich, Scotland.  This event held specifically for women SUPrs  was led by […]

C’est le rendez-vous rivière de fin de saison à ne pas manquer : le Marathon International des Gorges de l’Ardèche, avec sa déclinaison Ard’River Paddle dédiée au Stand-Up Paddle, vous attend le samedi 12 novembre, avec un départ qui sera donné sous le Pont d’Arc, et une arrivée à Saint Martin d’Ardèche. Cette année, ces […]

‘What makes a pro SUP athlete’ is really a question about the difference between a professional and recreational paddler, and a valid one (!) in our ever-evolving sport of stand-up paddleboarding. This article stems from a really cool experiment – “SUP is not equal” – conducted by Indiana Paddle & Surf Co. -own Claudio Laible, […]

Has the appetite for performance race boards and surf SUPs in the post-lockdown United Kingdom increased? One thing is certain, there’s a growing tribe of #InfinitySpeedFreaks and SUP-savvy players are moving fast in response to these emerging watersport trends. TotalSUP caught up with Tom Beaton and Freddie Oldfield of Maxtrack Distribution, a specialist B2B distributor […]

World SUP Champion and the 2022 Yukon River Quest SUP Record Holder Lincoln Dews has joined Blackfish Paddles as the Sales Manager for Australia and New Zealand and the Head of Product Development, announced the Canadian brand specialising in handcrafted, high-performance paddles for SUP, surf and foiling. Lincoln has collaborated with Blackfish Paddles to develop […]

Can weather get more challenging in October? “Sure,” says Crispin Jones, endurance paddler, Bossman at Waterborn SUP and SUP The Creek Race Director, “But this helps us grow into better and more rounded paddlers.”  TotalSUP caught up with Crispin to chat about one of the UK’s raddest end of season SUP racing parties and the country’s state […]

2022 Busan SUP Open is one for the books. The 3rd stop of the APP World Tour in South Korea has been one of those events on this year’s SUP racing circuit that has showed what stand-up paddleboarding Olympics could look like with drones illuminating the sky in a spectacular opening ceremony to display the […]

At only 13, Maximus Sijrier from The Netherlands became at the end of last month, the youngest athlete to complete the SUP 11 City Tour, a 5-day Ultra Long Distance race and one of the toughest in the world. Max conquered the 220 kilometers of the Dutch canals under a combo time of 25 hours, […]