Carolina Cup

APP World Tour partners with the World Paddle Association to form SUP’s first qualifying series for athletes to gain entry straight onto the APP World Tour! The Association of Paddlesurf Professionals (APP) and the World Paddle Association (WPA) have just announced their newly formed partnership to unify the sport of stand-up paddling. The  APP and the […]

Tahitian and 425 Pro ambassador Heilani Cronsteadt and  425 Pro ambassador is well known for her performances in prone boarding. But thanks to her husband (a certain Georges Cronsteadt), Heilani crossed over to SUP and today, she cannot stop. Heilani opens up to TotalSUP about her life as a paddler, mum and vahine (“woman” in Tahitian). […]

La tahitienne et ambassadrice 425 Pro Heilani Cronsteadt est tout d’abord connue pour ses performances en prône. Mais grâce à son mari (un certain Georges), Heilani s’est mise aussi au SUP et aujourd’hui, elle ne peut plus s’arrêter. Elle raconte à TotalSUP sa vie de rameuse, de maman et de vahiné (“femme” en tahitien). Bonjour […]

2018 marked the 32nd annual edition of the iconic Santa Cruz Paddlefest, an event that started as a waveski contest in the late 80s. This year in the long distance the young Californians were on show to raise the bar for distance racing. The Paddle League sends this report to TotalSUP of this hotly contested […]

The 6th Mexican National SUP Championship was held on the 17th and 18th March in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and was part of the qualifiers for the ISA Worlds  which will be held in Brazil later this year. The athletes were kept busy with an 18 KM long distance, technical and sprint race plus the surf sup […]

2018 has started on a high for 425pro, new factory locations, improved boards, new riders, a move to carbon neutrality and launching into the global market, plus with several big name riders on the roster including Olivia Piana, George Cronsteadt Olivier Darrieumerlou and Noic Garioud everything is on track for 2018 to be a big […]

2018 started off with a bang for waterman and NSP rider Travis Grant, with the intention of taking some snow time with his family at Val Thorens, France, he ended up racing in the Gla Gla Race, contrasting conditions for an Ozzie based in tropical Hawaï! Whilst staying in France TotalSUP caught up with the waterman […]

Season 2018 has started off with a bang with the formation of The Paddle League,  the brainchild of  highly-respected Australian athlete Kelly Margetts, Christopher Parker and Brian Meyer from Capital SUP (CEO), and in collaboration with The Paddlers Collective. https://www.instagram.com/p/BeYw63NhUhi/ A move which The Paddle League highlighted is to promote an all inclusive approach to SUP competition […]

We are super excited to introduce a new member of the team, French-Brittany based, Scottish Oceanographer and all-things paddle aficionada Helen Trehoret, who will be contributing articles to TotalSUP on a regular basis. Here is a short interview of her paddling biography.   Hello Helen, when did you start Stand Up Paddling? I have paddled for […]

With hundreds of competitors, thousands of spectators, two event villages and a swathe of international of racers including the world’s best paddlers, the 2017 West Marine Carolina Cup was more than just your average SUP event, it was a big SUP festival, if not THE biggest SUP festival in the world. For this year’s edition, […]

The APP World Tour has kicked off in Hawaii over the last month and the first two events have run smoothly with an overall more professional feel. The surfing competition took place from 11th to 24th of February in Oahu, and the racing one from 10th to 12th of March in Maui. James Casey was […]

Who said first at the first buoy wins the race? Here is Titouan Puyo‘s super slow start at the Carolina Cup 2016 broken down in 7 images picked from the Aerial Images ILM /SUP Racer footage. Resilience or Strategy? At the end of the day, Titouan Puyo was the winner of one of the top international SUP races of the year. Lost […]