Skrea Strand Paddlerace

The 2023 BALTIC Skrea Strand Paddle Race, the 3rd annual event organized by the Falkenberg SUP Club in Falkenberg, Sweden is a significant part of the 2023 Swedish circuit known as the Svensk SUP Race Serien. This year, the event held the distinction of being an ICF SUP World Ranking Event. The driving force behind […]

Power, focus and conviction seem to be the accurate words to describe the racing style of Linus Karlsson, six-time Swedish SUP Champion and  Starboard Team Rider. TotalSUP caught up with Linus in between two races – Planet Baltic SUP Race in Poland (where he has just bagged fresh podiums – Technical Race Win and Silver […]

Yster SUP, the premium Swedish SUP brand based in Malmö, has announced the launch of Basalty, a new all-water hard board series carefully handcrafted in the EU in basalt/carbon fibre and designed for performance touring, long-distance and adventure paddling. In developing the Basalty Series, Yster SUP has taken its original trademark features – Speed, Stability and […]

Two words: Asger Smidt . We met this die-hard gamer turned SUP athlete, Overall Danish Champion 2023 and Starboard Team Rider in Malmö, Sweden as he was tearing the technical and long distance races up. Ambitious, hungry and tremendously hard working, at only seventeen, Asger brings explosive and elegant paddling style to the SUP racing table. […]

The athlete line-up for the upcoming Skrea Strand Paddlerace 2023 presented by Baltic Lifejackets is warming up. Held on the 12-13 August, Sweden’s largest SUP competition is the ICF SUP World Ranking Race and the Swedish Long Distance Championships with both local and international SUP talent competing in Falkenberg. In the run up to the […]

There’s a noticeable shift in the attitudes of young SUP athletes towards their professional goals and growth strategy by refocusing onto international competitions. It may be more visible in the post-lockdown world, but they increasingly venture out, train abroad with other paddlers and compete to not only see how they stack up against their peers […]

Sweden is one of the best countries in Europe for stand up paddlers with almost unlimited access to vast areas of water, the coast has thousands of islands and inlets to explore, unspoilt rivers and some of the largest lakes in Europe. Combine that with a growing surf scene and it is no surprise that […]

“I am delighted to announce that Göran “Gossa” Gustavsson has joined team Yster. Göran is an accomplished long-distance paddler and has a passion for ultra-distances races like the nonstop SUP11 City Tour, Last Paddler Standing and the Yukon River Quest”, commented Per Vallbo, Founder and CEO of Yster SUP, a premium Swedish SUP brand based in […]