SUP – Stand Up Paddleboarding

I read about this SUP thing in Swedish Brant Magazine a while ago and it immediately got my attention. Originally this is an ancient Hawaiian way of catching waves but it has remained very unknown / unpopular until lately even though the Brant’s article states that the “re-birth” of the discipline already started as early as in the 1930′s!

We are no “real” surfers here. I’ve surfed, a longboard, for about 14 days in my whole life, and surfing in the Baltic Sea basically sucks. But this method probably would help riding the mushy waves we got here alot. Also, if the climate change continue increase the winds here, we might get to surf those mushy waves so often, it actually starts sounding at least somehow appealing?

Paddling out with these boards looks kind of funny but I guess this would be a great whole body workout for skiing, even when the waves are not that good?

Check out these videos. I would like to try out this stuff for sure.

How to catch waves:

Honolua Stand Up Paddle Board Challenge:

Cold morning surf, doesn’t look too bad to me!

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Janne Niini

I am a former (not-so-competitive) mogul-skier who nowadays enjoy many aspects of snow-gliding: alpine, telemarking and occasional snowboarding too. I have two small daughters and try to ski with them as often as possible.

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