Nick Troutman, a former World Freestyle Champion, and Dane Jackson, a freestyle kayak wunderkind, continue to showcase how stand up paddle boarding offers incredible cross-training benefits even for world-class athletes in other sports. 

The Colorado SUP season is upon us starting this weekend in Buena Vista with PaddleFest. CKS is hosting a weekend celebration to promote the beginning of the summer paddling season May 25-27th. 

Summer paddling is underway in Colorado and the Boardworks Surf is making a splash across the state with the “Show Up & Blow Up” SUP demo tour, hosting stand up paddling demos, clinics, and competitions at three prominent river festivals in Colorado: CKS Paddlefest (Buena Vista), FIBArk (Salida), and the Gunnison River Festival.

If you are in Asheville, North Carolina this week consider a trip out to Nantahala Outdoor Center for the Freestyle Shoot Out and Demo Days on April 20th to the 22nd .

Now that winter is long gone in the southeast, the Boardworks whitewater Tour is under way. The first competition/festival along the way is always fun because you get to shake off all of the winter blues and get back into the swing of things and this year started with a bang. With the introduction of the Boardworks Tour this year, there was a ton of excitement in the air as we arrived in Alabama.

This one of a kind Polynesian themed extravaganza will feature surfing contests, music, food and product vendors, costumes, a hula contest, limbo events, a Goof Board competition, a floating parade of rafts punching the monster wave/hole and the world’s best river stand up paddlers displaying their paddling prowess on the snowmelt swollen Colorado River.

Dan Gavere rides the wake of a paddle steamer on the Columbia River while surprised passengers look on in confusion. What is he doing? SUP surf in the river!

Hawaiians won the top spots in the inaugural Stand Up Paddle Cross event held today, the last day of the 10th Annual Teva Mountain Games held here today.

Against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and a bluebird sky the confluence of surf and river culture met here today during the second annual Stand Up Paddle Surf Sprint competition at the Tenth Annual Teva Mountain Games.

Rob Kidnie is now in his first week of stand up paddle boarding the Mekong River to raise awareness of the problem of water pollution, particularly in Southeast Asia.