With the first event of the Standup World Tour being at Sunset Beach, competitors expect big waves but this year wasn't a typical two weeks on the North Shore. With Kona winds and swell the entire waiting period was used hoping to give athletes the best possible conditions. Watch here as the Naish Standup team takes on the conditions!

Candice Appleby is a house-hold name in the paddle boarding world. She excels in races, a 6x BOP Champ to say the least, and she also rips at paddle board surfing. Candice dropped this clip of her surfing one of her favorite spots at home in San Clemente on her new Infinity SUP and she is ripping!

There's only one way to warm up on your layday's during competition, and that's to go get wet. Rogue team riders Josh Riccio and Kainoa Hauanio find some uncrowded surf during their multiple day wait for their round 3 heats at the Sunset Beach Pro.

Seven surfers team up to paddle a 17-foot "Supsquatch" board into a set wave at Makaha, Hawaii on February 14, 2015. The ride has been entered in the Billabong Ride of the Year category of the 2015 XXL Big Wave Awards.

Alligators are members of the animal kingdom that can be pretty dangerous to be around. At the end of January 2015, Nick Halloran went paddle boarding with a few of his friends through Myakka State Park in Florida and they came across quite a few gators! There is even one point in the video where there is an extremely close call and he almost gets knocked off his BOTE board by the gator.

Naish SUP athlete Kody Kerbox surfed his local spots of Ho'okipa and Lanes at home on Maui almost every day as part of his final preparations for the 2015 Stand Up World Tour.

Enjoy this awesomely fun clip filled with fun river runs and wipeouts.

Kai Lenny is a beast. He was recently seen charging on a massive day at Jaws during the recent pulse of swells to hit the Hawaiian Islands.

Stand up paddle boarding surfers Ryan Warrington and Kyle Tatam were paddling in the warm summer waters off of Perth, Australia's coast when they were surprised with the company of a small pod of dolphins.

Zane Schweitzer stand up paddles on Thanksgiving Day at a secret spot on Maui.

This year saw tons of incredible videos featuring stand up paddle boarders from all over the world. Check out the Top 10 SUP videos of 2014.

Giorgio (Gio) Gomez rips at standup paddle surfing. Actually he just rips at surfing in general.