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Stand Up Paddle Surfing Starting To Make More Waves

June 15, 2008

First there was surfing. Then there was windsurfing. Now there is a another spin off of traditional surfing called Stand-Up Paddleboarding or SUP.

Once again this new trend is moving from the west coast to the east coast. Though paddleboarding has been around for a long time in Hawaii, it’s only during the past few years that it’s made its way to California.

The main difference between traditional surfing and stand-up paddleboarding is that the stand-up surfer on the paddeleboard is on a longer, wider, fatter board, which he or she stands on and uses a long paddle to move through the water.

While looking slightly awkward, the paddleboarders can still catch waves like a longboard. One of the selling points of stand-up paddleboarding is that during days of bad waves, paddleboarders can still go out to get some exercise while the regular surfers are sitting on the beach.

Even on the west coast where trends and fads are adopted faster than you can change a pair of shoes, stand-up paddleboarding has been slow to catch on with traditional west coast surfers.

It’s only a matter of time, however, before we start seeing stand-up paddleboarders at the beaches and in the coastal waters of Greater Newburyport, Cape Ann, New Hampshire and southern Maine.

View the following video to see what stand-up paddleboarding is all about.

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Written by Mark Bransfield · Filed Under Beaches, Recreation, Surfing 

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  1. christian shubin on June 18th, 2008 1:35 am

    I’ll be in New Hampshire this week with my stand up paddle board all the way from California… Thanks to my beautiful girlfriend for dragging it all the way out from California on her car. Hopefully we will see you in the water.

    Peace,

    http://www.poseidonstandup.com

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