Mathieu Astier

The 2024 edition of the Last Paddler Standing held at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida is kicking off on Saturday, 30 November! This endurance challenge was the most-watched SUP race of the 2023. Unlike any other paddling race in the world, Last Paddler Standing is a SUP racing competition of stamina and strategy. Racers […]

 Welcome to a new TotalSUP video review. Honu, an Australian brand known for their dedication to quality and performance, has just introduced the new Bondi series, a line of inflatable SUPs specifically crafted for surf aficionados. Today, I’m taking you through a review of the 9-5 by 32.5 model, which I recently put to […]

Having recently put the Bondi iSUP Surf board by HONU through a test drive, I’m excited to share my thoughts. This board stands out not just because it’s an inflatable board designed specifically for surfing – obviously offering the benefits of portability – but because it is evident that HONU CEO and designer Mark Travers […]

As the 2023 ICF SUP World Championship is about to kick-off, I want to take a moment to publicly send my deep thanks to Starboard for sponsoring our TotalSUP trip to Thailand which has taken my family and I to magical places like Khao Lak, Khao Sok and Kho Pha Ngan over the past two […]

Podcasts are a great way to get more information on a topic you are interested in and here at TotalSUP we are, of course very interested in paddling. Through the summer we have all been listening to the Paddle Logger podcast, Rise and Glide and here is the TotalSUP look back at the first season […]

The finale of the 2022 APP SUP Racing World Tour saw April Zilg and Connor Baxter claim the World Titles while Shuri ‘Shrimpy’ Araki and Mélanie Lafenêtre got their first win on an APP World Tour event to close a sensational season! Recap, Results, overall World Rankings, highlights and full LIVE FEED presented by Travis […]

After a frustrating ‘leap year’ for global sport, the APP World Tour will return to action for 2021 with a full line up of events spanning the globe and set to provide the World’s Best Athletes with what looks like a phenomenal and well-rounded challenge in their quest for the World Title. 2021 sees the […]

From December 25 to December 1, 2019 the 20th edition of Watermana  will take place on Huahine, French Polynesia. This event is more than a competition. It is a personal challenge taken up by watermen and waterwomen who will push themselves to their limits each day in a series of undisclosed events, of which you […]

Du 25 au 1er décembre se déroulera sur l’île de Huahine en Polynésie Française l’édition 2019 du Watermana. Cet évènement unique et hors du commun fête cette année sa 20ème année d’existence. Plus qu’une compétition, c’est un défi personnel qui devra être relevé par les watermen et waterwomen qui repousseront chaque jour leurs limites sur des […]

The 2019 London SUP Open kicks off tomorrow. This is stop number 1 on the APP World Championship Tour for Racing. The atmosphere will be electric and will provide something for everyone. The event is run in partnership with the UK’s single largest Festival of Fitness: The Hackney Festival of Fitness! The list of elite […]

Thanks to a collaboration between Tahitian TV TNTV + The Paddle League +  TotalSUP, you will be able to follow the 2019 Air France Paddle Festival in either French or English with the commentaries in French of the TNTV Sports Crew and Mathieu Astier from TotalSUP and in English of Chris Parker + special guest […]

A quelques jours de l’ouverture de la nouvelle saison du Waterman Tahiti Tour, Stéphan Lambert, son fondateur, nous présente la 1ère étape qui aura lieu pour la première fois dans la commune de Teva i Uta. Une étape “Terre et Mer” qui donne une nouvelle impulsion au circuit waterman polynésien qui rentre dans sa 6ème […]

Le 26 janvier, Ze Race, la plus longue course de downwind de France revient au calendrier pour célébrer sa 9ème édition (qui sera commentée en direct sur TotalSUP!). Présente avec un tandem en relais l’année dernière, la marque Fool Moon s’investit cette année auprès de l’événement guadeloupéen en tant que sponsor et profite de l’événement […]