Our friend Brian Lee shared this video of a run down a windy intracoastal waterway paddle last week. At 6 seconds, Brian takes a dip, and just a few second later a gust of wind picks up the 14-foot race SUP, propels it OVER Brian’s head and down the waterway. In less than a second,…
A few years ago I purchased an excellent time-trialing training program – when I received it, the cover had these words on it: Structured, Systematic, and Progressive That sums up a great training program perfectly. If you’re serious about maximizing performance, these three words need to be the basis of your training plan. Structured It’s…
Two of the questions we hear the most from new paddlers: How do I get on this thing? How do I get off this thing? This video from Boardworks Surf is one of the most comprehensive videos we’ve seen showing how to launch and land your stand up paddleboard in various scenarios. Michael Tavares covers…
Let’s face it — SUP racing is a blast, not only because of the great people in the standup paddling community, but also because it’s challenging. Sometimes the smallest details in your training routines can be the difference between edging out your training buddy or watching said buddy kick sand in your face at the…
You can (and should) definitely practice buoys in open water, but you also need to practice getting around an actual buoy. It’s difficult to work on position and precision without a buoy in place, and you probably don’t want to see an actual buoy for the first time in a race, right? Our favorite practice…
If you’re paddling a lot, whether you’re touring on your stand up paddleboard or training for a long distance SUP race like Chattajack, there’s a good chance you’ll eventually develop medial epicondylitis. That’s fancy talk for, “My elbow hurts.” You definitely don’t want to ignore the elbow pain — it WILL eventually get in the way…
I’m a list person. I’ve even been know to finish a task, add it to my list, then cross it out. It makes me feel good. Don’t judge. In addition to satisfying some innate neurotic tendencies, this gear checklist helps me relax mentally the week of the race and prevents me from forgetting important things…
A Stand Up Paddleboard Race Week Checklist The week before your big race is a unique animal. You can’t win a race the week before your event, but you can definitely lose it. Here’s what we mean. If you haven’t put the training time in prior to this week, there’s nothing you can do now…
Unless you just plan on skipping races because it’s raining (noooo!), you should never skip a training session just because it’s raining. We’ve seen athletes use this approach to mentally crush their competitors time and time again — a little rain? A little wind? No problem — you’ve trained in it, and you know how…
We have a saying around our house that started when we first started to take our kids snow skiing: “If you’re not falling down, you’re not skiing hard enough.” The boys were about 14 inches tall, tiny little Michelin Men with tiny T-Rex arms, making their way down the slopes on tiny skis. But early on, we…
