BSUPA Watergate Bay Contest 2012

We arrived at Watergate Bay on Thursday morning, following a week of looking at the Magicseaweed.com web cams and surf reports that went from perfect to 25ft, then back to 6ft wind blown slop.  Thursday was windy but with a 3-4ft swell running, myself, Gareth Grant, Simon Bassett and Holly Bassett got in the water for a warm up session.  Both Gareth and myself were trying new low volume boards, which proved to be challenging in the windy conditions.

National SUP Festival, Hayling Island, UK

What a beautiful weekend for an SUP festival!  Glassy water, hot weather and lots to do.  The National SUP festival is combined with the National Windsurf Festival, and with almost no wind at all on Saturday SUP took to the water in a big way.  

The National SUP Festival is now live

The live stream for the UK National SUP Festival is available here.

Wittering Charity Paddle Race Results 2012

The 8th Annual Wittering Charity Paddle Race organised by West Wittering Windsurf Club and Shoresurf Club held on Sunday 29th August has more than doubled the amount raised over 2011 for The Snowdrop Trust. This year we raised the entry fee a little this year to £15, and all of this amount was given to the Snowdrop Trust, which also helped raise the overall amount. 

Mark Slater's Maritime Marathon in Brighton

Mark Slater, one of the UK's top SUP paddlers recently complete in the 26 mile Paddle Round the Pier SUP Marathon in Brighton.  Mark talks us through the aciton.

Extreme Academy BSUPA National Championships 2011

19/10/2011
Report by Simon Bassett

The 2011 BSUPA National championships were held at the usual venue of Watergate Bay in Cornwall. This year the forecast was looking good at 2-3 foot on Saturday with light offshore winds and Sunday a increasing swell 3-5 feet with a better period. When we got there Saturday morning we weren't disappointed –the sun was out the the swell had arrived were set for a great weekend of paddle surfing.

50 competitors were divided up into heats of 4 or 5 and each had 15 minutes to cut some shapes on the wave face. A panel of 3 judges would then score each wave ridden the best two wave scores added to get maximum points.

Danny Ching and Candice Appleby are Battle of the Paddle Winners 2011 - Full Results

California's distance paddling king Danny Ching returned to the winner's podium at the Rainbow Sandals Gerry Lopez Battle of the Paddle, taking first in the 10-mile stand-up paddle (SUP) race. Dominant female paddler Candice Appleby (Hawaii), who took first in yesterday's women's Elite race, won the women's division. A total of 230 racers took part in today's distance race. There were more than 900 race entries over the course of the weekend.

Windfest, Poole September 10th & 11th 2011

The weather forecast claimed there would be gales and storms were on the way, so it was looking like it could be a windy weekend, great for windsurfing and kitesurfing, but what about SUP?

Saturday morning, dark skies and winds from the South West would make it an interesting paddle but by circumnavigating Brownsea Island in an anti-clockwise, which would give shelter from the wind for part of course, the BSUPA Round Brownsea Island race was on.