With the 8th Annual Supconnect Editor’s Choice wrapped up and the winners announced we here at Supconnect wanted to give you a bit of insight on the deciding factors that led to the choosing of this year’s winners.
After two months of deliberations and intense evaluations we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Supconnect Editor's Choice Awards. After nominating 30 or so men, women, groms and blogs per category, and an abundance of brands and shops in the stand up paddle industry we've finally narrowed down the extremely talented pool of nominees to the final chosen winners.
Each year at the September Surf Expo show Supconnect, along with the AWSI, hosts an Industry Awards Party following the show on Friday. This year however, Hurricane Irma has other plans.
With Hurricane Irma growing and Category 5 winds charging towards Florida, the Orlando Surf Expo is experiencing some setbacks. One of the show’s exhibitors, Surftech, recently announced that they are pulling out of the Orlando expo for safety reasons. Surftech CEO John Vance released this statement early Wednesday morning on Facebook.
NSP is proud to announce its collaborations with coconut water producer Harmless Harvest in the production of its 2018 range of NSP Cocomat surf and SUPs. In this partnership Harmless Harvest supplies NSP with coconut husk waste from its Organic for Life – Social & Fair Trade Certified organic farms.
San Diego based brands, Surftech and prAna, together have created the ultimate line of women’s-specific stand-up paddle boards (SUPs), paddles, and accessories.
VIRUS is excited to announce the apparel partnership with the USA SUP & Paddleboard Team, that will be representing their country at the 2017 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championships (WSUPPC), held in Denmark on September 1 - 10, 2017.
Boardworks, a SoCal-based leader in surf and standup paddle (SUP), today announced its global license agreement with Rogue, an authentic core performance SUP and surf brand, founded in 2008. This announcement comes on the heels of the company’s appointment of Rogue founder Rick Karr as Boardworks’ new general manager in January 2017.
For years Surftech surfboards and paddle boards have featured a number of more sustainable materials and is proud to announce the partnership with nonprofit Sustainable Surf to verify our boards as ECOBOARDS.
New this year the Stand Up Paddle Industry Association (SUPIA) has announced an East Coast Summit for the paddle sport industry. Similar to their summit held on the West Coast annually, the SUPIA Industry Edge is a two part Leadership Summit addressing the most pressing issues facing the Paddlesports Industry today.
Cutting-edge surf company breaks the corporate mold with return to its riverside roots.
After years in the making, the new Gatorshell Technology is poised to be the next game changing innovation to be introduced by the Darkroom gurus at BOTE.