After a spectacular first year edition in 2024 that saw breakout performances, the India Paddle Festival is back for another exciting event to kick off the racing year.

After such a great first day of action in Mangalore for the India Paddle Festival, expectations were high for a dramatic close to the event with the APP's signature sprint racing discipline set to take place in ideal surf racing conditions. We were not to be disappointed.

The APP is proud to be supporting India's first International SUP event prior to the launch of the 2024 APP World Tour.

As India’s only female stand up paddle (SUP) surfer, Tapashi Devchoudhury is pushing boundaries and opening doors for the sport of stand up paddling. In a country with over 1.2 billion people, being India’s only SUP surfer is quite the accomplishment and is something to be proud of. To share her love for the sport of SUP with her countrymen and women, Tapashi, with her husband, has opened up Water Walk India, the only surf school in India to teach stand up paddling.

Watch the second installment of the Two Faces Of India, a SUP Odyssey through India with Carines Camboulives and Manu Bouvet.

Pro SUP and windsurfers, Carines Camboulives and Manu Bouvet, went to India to discover the two faces of this amazing country: SUP Cruising in the backwater and SUP surfing on great unridden waves.

Quick, what country has the third largest standing army in the world? Nope, definitely not Tonga. The correct answer is India and the even more correct answer is stand up paddle in India. Wait, what was the question again?