Wrightsville Beach

The Carolina Pro-Am is the longest-running Pro Am Stand Up Paddle Surf event in the world and for the ninth edition of the contest event organisers, Haywood and Rob along with event sponsors Infinity SUP will be welcoming some of the top names in the SUP surfing world to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, USA from April […]

It is fair to say that Tamás (Tommy) Buday Jr was born to be on the water. As a three-time Olympian and ICF World Championship silver medallist in Sprint Canoe, Tommy has done it all from a seated position. Standing up on a paddleboard seemed to be a natural progression. The Hungarian-born Canadian now boasts […]

West Marine Carolina Cup, the world’s largest gathering of professional and amateur standup paddleboard athletes, has added the World Paddle Association’s World SUP Tour in 2017. The World SUP Tour is a new international series of 11-races across five nations, binding the sport’s biggest standup paddleboard races. Carolina Cup is the second race on the […]

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 […]

This year the Women’s SUP Race at the Carolina Cup was probably one of the most competitive ever. Fiona Wylde, who finished 4th last Saturday, shares the story of this epic competition.  Interview by Martin Letourneur: As anticipated, the Carolina Cup is a rough one! 13 miles of hard paddling is difficult no matter what […]

By Martin Letourneur, in partnership with VMG Blades, Hobie Cat Europe, Howzit, CT+ and Swell Addiction. Today is the day of the West Marine Carolina Cup presented by Surftech, the most popular race on the East Coast of the USA and the very first big event of the 2016 International SUP Racing season! Here are […]

One of the biggest SUP Race events in the US and in the world, the Carolina Cup took place last week-end in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. A few international athletes who had been pretty discreet since the kick-off the season, took the opportunity to show they were just training hard ! 1. The Podiums  Women's Graveyard Race […]