STAND UP PADDLE

Hi everyone!  How are you ? Today I had my 3rd Stop of the Mediterranean circuit in Valencia.  I had to get up early at 6am because I had to be in Valencia at 8am so I was really tired at the begging. The day was really hot and the conditions looks to be flat water so it wasn’t the best conditions for the ripe of board i bring with me but I was focused and existing to race again after a long study week. The race started and I was on 1st position during all the first lap feeling good with a good race pace , unfortunately one of my rivals made a dangerous move on the pivot turn and I almost fall down so I get back to the 3rd position.  Finally I get a 2nd Place fighting in the sprint final , so I’m really happy about my performance. Can’t wait to be back on the water on next Sunday in Castellon. Aloha !!

Hello everyone, Today we will like to share with you this Interview we made to our Uni mate Jose Maria. Hello Jose Maria, we know you because you are our University mate, but can you please introduce yourself as a SUP rider? Hello guys. Of course, so my name is Jose Maria but in the SUP RACE world, I'm known as AVILA. I'm 23 years old, as you know I'm finishing my University degree and I'm a SUP Rider since two years ago. How do you get started in the SUP RACE? I've been practising sports all my life since I was 5 years old, I used to practice Athletics but unfortunately, I get injured by a motorbike accident 3 years ago so I had to say bye to Athletics and find a new sport were my injury don't hurt me. I found the Stand-Up Paddle at the Uni and I started practising in Summer on my own. How was your first year practising SUP RACE? Oh my god! At the beginning was horrible I was falling down to the water all time and I couldn't paddle for mo...

Hi SUPlovers! Today I am very excited about how I am going to tell you! I am going to travel to Malaga for the La Herradura SUP FEST ! The reason of this travel is to be next to my friend José María, the person who writtes in this blog too about technical things of SUP race. He, as you know, is a good racer of this sport and I never went to support him on a race and I am very excited. As you know, I am a SUP begginer and have the chance of learn how great racers or great people of different SUP modalities enjoy in the water is a good chance to improve in the water (and you know wich is the situation about the beaches condition´s where we live, so maby, this weekend I have the oportunity of being in the water with my board since before we were in the cruise). But, first of all, I wanna encourage my friend José María to be the best in the sport that we love. See you in Málaga Friends! Carlos.

Hi! How are you? First of all we will like you to introduce you to the diferentes Stand Up paddle modalities and wich ones we prefer to practice. As we talk in our first post ‘’welcome’’ there are so many different modalities of Stand Up Paddle : race, yoga, waves, travels,etc.. but the is only two oficial modalities that are included in the competitions, this ones are: Stand Up Paddle race (SUP race) and Stand Up Paddle surfing(SUP surf).  Let’s talk about them… Stand Up Paddle race: In this modality we use race boards that are longer and narrow than the commons one. Also their faster and there are so many differents sizes and shapes, we will talk about it in other post don't worry. Inside the SUP race we have differents kinds of races that will depend on the conditions of the sea.. When the sea is really calm we make ‘’flatwater’’ races, with no waves and any bump. When the sea is really windy and choppy we make ‘’technical races’’ that we go upwind-sidewind and downwind this ...