Starboard SUP Paddle Development
March 13th, 2010 by evan 
Here’s an article about Starboard Paddle Development written by Gaute Kristiansen, product manager for Starboard stand up paddles.
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Archive for March, 2010
SUPAH Downwind Clinic this Sunday – March 14
March 11th, 2010 by davi 
A non-profit association has been started to promote distance paddle training. It’s called Stand Up Paddle Association of Hawaii – acronym SUPAH. To get started SUPAH will be conducting distance paddle instruction and training for novices through accomplished paddlers. Instructors signed up so far are Todd Bradley, Dave Parmenter, Scott Gamble, Aaron Napoleon, Rob Stehlik, Morgan Hoesterey, Doug Lock and Jeff Chang. Here’s the dates for the clinics, see photos on our blog: www.suphawaii.blogspot.com
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REI doubles its annual profit, will begin mailing out refunds
March 11th, 2010 by davi
This article was originally published by The Seattle Times.
By Amy Martinez
Seattle Times business reporter
REI told its merchandise buyers last year that what it needed more than ever were new, gee-whiz products to take people’s minds off the recession. So it doubled down on such items as stand-up paddle boards and slackline kits for backyard tests of balance.
(CLIFF DESPEAUX / THE SEATTLE TIMES)
REI’s recession strategy in 2009, said Chief Executive Sally Jewell, was to “find things that would excite people and get them into the outdoors.”
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Standup Journal’s Spring 2010 Issue Sneak Preview
March 11th, 2010 by evan
Here’s a sneak peek of Standup Journal’s Spring 2010 issue sent to us by Clay Feeter, publisher of Standup Journal magazine.
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Todd Bradley Pocket Coaching SUP Instruction Session 2 – Evan
March 10th, 2010 by evan
This next video of Todd Bradley’s ‘pocket coaching’ series is with me.
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S.I.C. S-16 Standamaran Racing SUP Stand Up Paddle Board – Full Review and Videos
March 8th, 2010 by evan
I recently visited Mark Raaphorst at the S.I.C. headquarters in Maui and got to check out one of his latest creations, the S-16 Standamaran racing SUP stand up paddle board. The S-16 is surprisingly fast, especially going upwind. Upwind paddling is actually fun on this board. I shot some video of Mark explaining about the S-16 and got some footage from our downwind test run.
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C4 Waterman featured on World Business
March 7th, 2010 by evan
Check out this video of SUP being featured on World Business.
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Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama on Nightline – Video
March 6th, 2010 by evan
Nice coverage on Laird and Dave on prime time TV.
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Todd Bradley Pocket Coaching SUP Instruction Session 2 – Gayle
March 4th, 2010 by evan
This is Gayle’s first time ever to do a Hawaii-Kai run and she already paddles like a pro as you’ll see in the video. Gayle also did a great job as the camera operator on a number of the other pocket coaching videos. Gayle is a Hawaii expatriate that lives in the mainland so she was super happy to be in the water in Hawaii. Click below for the video.
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Surftech 2nd Annual SUP Shootout at the Lane
March 3rd, 2010 by davi
March 3, 2010 (Santa Cruz, CA) – The stage is set for the 2nd Annual “Surftech SUP Shootout at the Lane”, happening March 26th – 28th. It’s been a record El Nino winter with pumping surf slamming the California coast week after week. The result of all this wave action (other than broken relationships & loss of jobs) is the massive sand bar that’s developed along the cliffs at Steamer Lane!
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SUP at Puena Point with Kekoa
March 1st, 2010 by evan
This is a session that I went to a while back with Kekoa at Puena Point. It’s supposed to be huge, about 12’-18’ Hawaiian scale but then it turned out to be 3’-5’ Hawaiian scale. I guess it picked up that afternoon but at that time that we were there, the conditions were really nice: no winds, glassy water but the waves were a little smaller. So I ended up taking pictures and video shots of Kekoa while he was surfing. Check out this video that I got.
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