This weekend on Saturday December 2, Australia’s most prestigious Stand Up Paddle (SUP) race and the word’s fastest downwinder, the Stand Up Surf Shop King of the Cut, is going down. For the first time, competitors will wear tracking devices and can be followed in real time.
With the gift-giving holidays right around the corner, it's time to think about getting something awesome for the SUP'er in your life so here at Supconnect, we've put together a gift/gear guide of the newest and coolest items to have recently hit the shelves and racks on the SUP market. If you're looking for something to get for your lover, mother, brother, sister, friend, or anyone for that matter this holiday season, this guide will be perfect for the stand up paddler in your life. And who's to say you can't get a little something for yourself, 'Tis the season after all!
Welcome to our new Athlete Training Program series. We are chatting with some of the fastest, strongest, and most fit SUP athletes in the world to find out what feeds their paddle engines. From their paddle routines and cross-training habits to diet regimens, recipes, and more, these athletes share the details of their daily grind. First up, we have SUP distance racing machine and expedition enthusiast Bart de Zwart.
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.
In just under one month over 160 international, interstate and local competitors will be headed to Mandurah in Western Australia for the fastest downwinder on earth, the Stand Up Surf Shop King of the Cut.
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.
The APP World Tour 2017 season has officially come to a close and the 2017 World Racing Champions have been crowned.
The World’s best male stand up paddle boarders all gathered on October 20, 2017 for one of the biggest races of the year: the Red Bull Heavy Water. In it’s second annual event the Red Bull Heavy Water provided paddlers the opportunity to win the biggest payout in the history of SUP: $20,000 to the first place finisher.
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.
As favorable conditions are predicted for Friday October 20th, Red Bull Heavy Water is now in the Green Light phase, meaning that the event is likely to be held that day.