This just in: standup paddling is huge. In fact, it’s better than ever. Roughly a decade after big-wave surfing icon Laird Hamilton was spotted riding an SUP board outside of Malibu, California, the discipline has taken over the world, sparking a handful of fitness crazes, a new bunch of racing series, a couple of magazines, and pockets of converts living everywhere from China and Russia to Alaska and Australia. The boom in popularity has … Pictures and more
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With the end of September, the SIMA Humanitarian Fund’s 30-day campaign, Stokes Me, also comes to an end, successfully raising funds for 11 humanitarian beneficiaries. Numbers are being totaled from many different fronts as surf industry brands, retailers and consumers joined forces to raise money for important humanitarian causes throughout the month of September.
As final numbers are still being totaled, the SIMA Humanitarian Fund Board of Directors estimates … More
Tonight at 8:00 pm eastern, 5:00 pacific, Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau premiers on ESPN. I was lucky enough to receive an early copy and will not provide any spoilers (Eddie dies in a mythical way at the end) but will say that it is totally worth watching. The non-surf world rarely gets surf right but, thankfully, this film was made in family. It was … More