The 2015 Supconnect Polls where you, the audience and SUP consumers get to decide your SUP favorites are seeing tons of nominations and votes flooding in. With just under two weeks into the four week voting and nominating timeline, we're seeing great participation in the Polls.
With the wintery chill in the air and lack of sun in many places in the Northern Hemisphere, a getaway will seem like the perfect fix to everything you're missing about summer. Boardworks athlete and SUP Yoga guru Jessica Cichra a.k.a Wave of Wellness is hosting a SUP adventure in Punta Mita, Mexico.
Welcome to the Supconnect Weekly Recap, our countdown of the biggest news, reviews, interviews and features surrounding the world of Stand Up Paddle Boarding. This week we’re bringing you another sample of the best stories covered by ourselves and other publications.
In August 2015, Starboard team athlete Benoit Carpentier along with the organization Surf4smile created by his brother Mathieu, his sister Alix and a few friends, went on a 10-day mission to Madagascar to meet one community of surfers on the east coast of the island. A main part of their mission was to conduct free screening tests (hepatitis, malaria, HIV and syphilis) and health care for the local population.
BOTE Boards have some of the most innovative and eye appealing stand up paddling products on the market. They took home two Supconnect 2015 Gear of the Year awards, one in the Technology category and the other in the Fishing category. We caught up with Corey Cooper, the man behind BOTE Boards and picked his brain about what his development processes are like at BOTE.
Team Riviera Paddlesurf traveled down to the beautiful Tahitian paradise in French Polynesia for the 2015 Air Tahiti Nui Paddle Festival. Team Riviera recently dropped this highlights video from their trip to Tahiti and it's awesome.
The annual Painkiller Cup, the Caribbean’s most exciting SUP race, has announced it will be on January 23, 2016. Offering a minimum $10,000 purse, the event features a 14-mile downwind relay race with a finish at the famous Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke.
In stand up paddle racing, knowing how to do a buoy turn efficiently and correctly is a skill all SUP racers aim to accomplish. In this How To Video from SIC Maui, SIC's Global Athlete Kenny Kaneko breaks down the steps on how to do a buoy turn with precision and style. Take a look.
Welcome to the Supconnect Weekly Recap, our countdown of the biggest news, reviews, interviews and features surrounding the world of Stand Up Paddle Boarding. This week we’re bringing you another sample of the best stories covered by ourselves and other publications.
With the new year approaching comes new gear and we couldn't be more excited to give you a peek at what Slingshot SUP has in store for 2016. Slingshot recently announced three new versions of its insanely popular Crossbreed model, the soft top, inflatable and the hard top.
The time has come for you, the stand up paddle boarding community to decide your favorites in the SUP community. The 2015 Supconnect Polls -- the People's Choice Awards, where you, the consumer, the fan, the people who make this sport so awesome, can decide who and what your favorites are in the SUP community, and it launches TODAY!
Carine Camboulives and Manu Bouvet are professional board riders based in Maui, Hawaii. For the last 15 years they've been searching for the perfect spot all over the world. Today, together with their two daughters, Lou & Shadé (9 & 3 years old) they fulfill their appetite of discovery and their love for nature also by raising awareness on environmental challenges.