Weekly Recap - Top 5 SUP Stories: 6/16/2014
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Welcome to the Supconnect Weekly Recap, our countdown of the Top 5 biggest news, reviews, interviews and features surrounding the world of Stand Up Paddleboarding. If you’ve got anything newsworthy, weird or worth reading about, don’t be shy to share the scoop with us via e-mail.
5. WORLD PRONE RECORD
Heat Score - 70
Meet Rob Cunliffe and Arron Ford - two paddlers from Bristol, England, who've set a new World Prone Paddle Board Record, after making a 374.2 mile journey along the coastline of Panama. Where'd they get the idea to go on such a big trip? At the pub, or course. Read the full interview with Rob and Arron to find out more about their crazy adventure that included bull sharks, second degree burns, giant sea turtles and more.
4. Sharks - Again
Heat Score - 77
Shark videos have been springing up all over the web of late. Every week there's a new footage of someone coming face to face with great white or tiger shark or reef shark. The latest shark feature to go viral comes out of Australia, where the clip's protagonist leaps into the Sydney Harbor, almost directly onto a Great White. It's not real, of course, but Surfline made a pretty ominous prediction when bringing it up during last week's edition of Social Absorption: "Whether this footage is real or not is moot. One of these days, someone's GoPro will record the most brutal, most disturbing and most visible human demise since Faces of Death. Just watch."
3. Zane Goes 2 for 2
Heat Score - 79
Zane Schweitzer has been on a tear during the 2014 European SUP Champs. This weekend he claimed his second event win, Oleron Island Paddle Challenge, making it two for two and giving him a firm lead heading into stop #3. There will be a short break in the action, giving the men and women some time to rest before the series continues with the Sieravuori SUP Masters in Finland.
Click read Zane's spirited personal account of the events that led to his win at Balbao.
2. BOP 2014 PREVIEW
Heat Score - 80
Chuck Patterson, Colin Mcphillips, Byron Kurt and Erik Diamond give us the lowdown on the new venue for the 2014 Battle of the Paddle in Salt Creek. This stunning beach just south of Laguna Beach will host of the biggest and most anticipated race of the year, which bring together a massive international field of athletes.
1. NEW AGE - VAZ BRO'S
Heat Score - 88
Caio Vaz announced himself in a big way last year, winning the Sunset Beach Pro, before quickly following it up with another tour victory at the Alagoas Pro Grand Slam in his home country, Brazil, where his brother Ian camevery close to making it an all-Vaz final. The Vaz brothers are part of a new generation of SUP surfers that can do it a lll - big waves, big progressive moves, alternative boards. They're all style, power and no frills, and their newest clip to drop on VAZ Brothers is scarily good watching. Look out, world.
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