John Gabriel

Long Beach, California – We caught up with Jake Graham and John Gabriel, two of the paddling buddies behind the LBC SUP Racing series (stands for Long Beach Challenge), a new and free SUP race training circuit around Long Beach. When they realized there was a solid crew of paddlers of all levels in Southern California […]

They are from South Africa, have been in the surf shaping business for years and have all it takes to build a strong SUP brand. They are also a very friendly bunch and the first people we got to meet in Dana Point as part of the TotalSUP SoCal Tour earlier this month thanks to their […]

Two weeks ago, John Gabriel was paddle boarding on Lake Tahoe with his friend Brian Kelly. Today on TotalSUP, he tells us the story of this fantastic journey. For this 4th of July five day trip, my good friend Brian Kelly and I were using two boards from local Southern California SUP and Surfboard company […]

If you live in California or are just visiting, and love to log ocean miles on a stand up paddleboard, then Seal Beach and Long Beach could be cool places to venture to.  Sitting on the Los Angeles/Orange County boarder, paddlers get the best of various worlds when paddling out from the shores of these […]

John Gabriel and TotalSUP is an instagram friendship story really. Posting dozens of SoCal “SUP with Dolphins” photos and videos and wearing a Barça shirt (spanish soccer team) was more than enough to convince us that this huge SUP aficionado should be the TotalSUP voice in the California state. Welcome on board John! Here is his ID scan! Hello John. […]