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Multi-Sport
Paddleboarding and Pet Safety with the Founders of Earthly Pet
Spyq Sklar is living on Tomales Bay, California, for the summer, with kayaks and paddle boards and pups in tow. Sklar is the co-founder...
Destinations
New SUP School Opens Up in Nosara, Costa Rica
Want to get your SUP game on? There’s a new school in the surfing hotbed of Nosara, Costa Rica, geared up for just that. Founded...
Paddling Industry News
Hasta Luego BIC Sport, Helloo TAHE!
After more than 40 years as a French-made watersports icon, BIC Sport is no more. At the end of 2020, it merged with Tahe...
Athlete Stories
Catching Up With Photographer, Ageless Surf Kayaker and Avila Beach Paddlesports Founder Vince Shay
As a marine wildlife photographer, sea kayak/SUP outfitter and former hard-charging surf kayaker and boat designer, Vince Shay is no stranger when it comes...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Contours Film Spreads SUP Love to City Youth in PA
Ian Smith, of Pittsburgh, PA, is on a mission: He hopes to spread the SUP love and protect the waterways he loves to paddle...
Multi-Sport
It’s Official: Led By SUPs, Paddlesports Sales Swelling
Paddlesports sales are swelling like the waves their followers paddle on. As part of this year’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Online tradeshow Jan. 6, that’s what...
Paddling Industry News
Denver to Get New River Park at River Mile
Downtown Denver, Colo.’s largest mixed-used development, The River Mile, will soon be getting new river park amenities as part of a dynamic restoration of...
Stand Up Paddle Boarding
Why SUP Yoga Should be Your Newest Hobby
SUP Yoga isn't just a trendy class to take on vacation.
Here we’ll divulge how and why SUP yoga is enlightening, fun and great...
Accessories
Kind Design Topo River Hoodie Gear Review
We've all been there. Flipping through our social feeds, giving "likes" to our friends most recent river descents, when that very specific and highly...
Inflatables
Supalicious: 5 Top Inflatable SUPs for Every Occasion
Class III rapids? SUP it. Waves? Those, too. Lake? SUP that also, giving you a view of the fish below. From grandma to Kai...
Accessories
Check Out Some of the Best Paddling Gear From Our Friends at Elevation Outdoors
You can enjoy the water this summer while respecting social distancing regulations. In fact, paddling can help get you out and clear some of...
Events
World Record Attempt to SUP Around Great Britain
Great Britain is about to be supped around, mate. On July 26, 36-year-old Jordan Wylie set out on a SUP world record attempt to stand-up...
Paddling Industry News
SUP Clears Major Olympic Hurdle; Governance Awarded to ISA
Supping as an Olympic sport, anyone?
The sup world’s road to the Olympics got a boost recently with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)...
Events
Paddlers Help Set Guinness Record for Largest Underwater Clean-Up
We're always proud to see paddle sports being used to do good by the world, but this time paddlers from the nonprofit surf and...
Destinations
Uber Combo: Paddling Croatia Via Sailboat
Huck Finn once said, “Thar ain’t no home like a raft.” For our host Zeljko Kelemen in Croatia, there ain’t no home quite like...
Events
Niche Report: APP Launches Inaugural Inflatable SUP World Championships
OK, so maybe it’s all getting a little “nichey.”
That’s our take, anyway, as just ahead of the 2019 World Championship Tour SUP Finals Dec....
Events
Sup World Titles Contested in China
Well, the International Canoe Federation promised, and it delivered on a stand up paddling world championships for the record books. More than 200 of the...
Events
Surfs’s Up at Red Bull Heavy Water in San Fran; Casper Steinfath of Denmark Nabs Crown for Second Time
It’s been two years, with anticipation by contestants growing with the swells. Red Bull Heavy Water, a highlight on the Pro Standup Paddleboard circuit, returned...
Events
Brendel and Kover Among 200 SUP World Title Entries
Entries for this month’s ICF stand up paddling world championships in China are climbing towards 200, with three-time Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Brendel and...
Apparel
Skinners May Be Defining a New Category of Footwear Comfort and Protection
Shoe Socks are here, and before you brush them off as just another strange trend (Vibram Five Fingers anyone?), read on. Handmade in Europe,...
Destinations
Boating to Bluegrass: Say Yes to the Yarmony Music Festival
Want to float into a music festival? It doesn't get any better than rafting into the rip-roaring Yarmony Music Festival, a three-day, hippie-filled, Hula-hooping...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Spaniard Completes Sup Crossing of the Pacific
Feel good about your hour-long sup outing? That’s paddling peanuts compared to Spanish adventurer Antonio De La Rosa, who recently completed the world’s first...
Destinations
Cody Beach Wins as Gore Fest Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Life's a beach for Cody Beach, who bested all other boaters in the longboat class to take this year's coveted Gore Canyon race with...
Destinations
Boise Gets Rockin’ Whitewater Park Expansion
Already close to some of the best whitewater in the country, Boise, Idaho, is now giving paddlers (and surfers) another reason to visit the...
Latest news
Emily Jackson Comes Clean on Kayak Fishing
You might know Emily Jackson as a perennial powerhouse when it comes to freestyle paddling. An executive at Jackson...
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Hard Core Paddles: A Three-month Review and Why I Made the Switch (By Chris Baer)
(By Chris Baer) Let me be blunt: Hard Core Paddles are awesome. Their durability is solid, they have a ton...
NRS Launches Leaders in Environment, Access and Diversity (LEAD) Ambassador Program
Northwest River Supplies (NRS) is disrupting influencer marketing in the outdoor industry with a new kind of athlete-ambassador network...
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Catching Up With Photographer, Ageless Surf Kayaker and Avila Beach Paddlesports Founder Vince Shay
As a marine wildlife photographer, sea kayak/SUP outfitter and...
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Kayak? I don't need no stinkin' kayak. That's the sentiment that could be shared by longtime kayaker Dan Gavere, who showed his versatility in the stand-up world by winning the SUP downriver sprint race on Gore Creek at this year's Teva Mountain Games, edging out rival Charlie McArthur by 13 seconds...
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The Lyons Outdoor Games
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Filmaker and Class V Kayaker, Brook Aitken on filming
Oscar winning documentary “The Cove” has been making waves in the film world since its premier at the Sundance Film Festival last January. The film, which has brought the plight of dolphin hunts to the forefront of environmental activism, was filmed “guerrilla-style” without permission of the Japanese government. PL sat down with a pivotal member of the renegade film crew, Class V Kayaker and film-maker Brook Aitken for a dose of what it was like on set…