After a long year of both SUP surfing and racing on the APP World Tour the overall champions have been crowned. Say hello to your Overall APP World Champions for 2017…

Over in Bangkok at Starboard’s headquarters, there’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. Prototypes that never make it out of the shaping room, experiments that would make you raise an eyebrow in disbelief, and of course, the testing.

After dominating performances at the Sunset beach pro in early 2017 both the men’s and women’s SUP surfing World Champions have been crowned for the APP World Tour 2017 season.

It’s that time of the year! With the Supconnect Awards wrapping up in September it's time to bring back the fan favorite, the Supconnect Polls -- the People's Choice Awards, where you, the consumers, the fans, the people who make this sport so awesome, can decide who your favorite athletes are, where the best SUP destination is, what the best video from the year was and more! You nominate, you vote, and YOU DECIDE, it’s as simple as that!

Starboard dream teamers Shakira Westdorp and Iballa Moreno took a fun trip to Canary Islands where they met up with friends Stephane Etienne, Nicole Baronat and Pablo Valencia. Check out the edit from their trip!

The women of stand up paddling are silent no longer. They are coming together and standing up for equality and bringing awareness to the issue of women and men being treated unequally in our sport.

In front of a sold out theater at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Naish's Kai Lenny premiered his latest film Paradigm Lost on September 22, 2017.

Nosara Paddlesurf, a SUP surf coaching company that offers camps in Nosara, Costa Rica, will be hosting a women-specific camp January 6-13, 2018. Throughout the year, Nosara Paddlesurf offers a variety of all-level weeklong SUP surf camps that give guests the opportunity to improve their SUP and SUP surf skills through surf-specific movement training, on-the-water coaching, theory lessons, and video feedback.

As a new but quickly growing sport in Greece, SUP surfing had its first event, the SUP Style Challenge by Nixon, organized by WBSF, on July 28 this year. The competition took place at beautiful Falassarna Beach in Northern Crete, offering a full day of waves and wind for competitors.

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.

Coming into the Final day of competition in Vorupør, located on Denmark's northwest coast, Australia held the overall lead in the team points ranking. Their fate was in their hands, as a win in the Team Relay Race would cement their Gold Medal position at the top of the podium.

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.