StandUP Paddle Planet

Stars from Nashville and Los Angeles often vacation at our beautiful beaches because of the anonymity afforded them here. However, one star from L.A. is here on vacation and is not trying to hide out. While soap star Ingo Rademacher gets some R&R, he...

La Jolla, California, August 8, 2011- The International Surfing Association is proud to announce the first edition of the ISA World Standup Paddle (SUP) and Paddleboard Championship (ISA WSUPPC). The event is confirmed to take place February 6-11, 2012 on the beaches of Miraflores, home of the famous Waikiki Surf Club, the cradle of modern Peruvian Surfing.

They're oily. They're smelly. They draw flies. Alosa pseudoharengus, or alewife, has risen from the bowels of Lake Michigan and invaded the beaches of northwest Michigan. From Leland to Ludington, hundreds of thousands of the finger-size fish have been washing up along the 100-mile stretch of coast for several weeks.

It began as a way for surfing instructors to teach people in large groups how to ride the waves, but now standup paddle surfing has caught on as the trend du jour on beaches everywhere.

Stand-up paddling, a variation of surfing in which you stand on a board and propel with a paddle almost like a kayak, is taking beaches by storm, largely due to its endorsement by Hamilton. The sport stands to change ocean recreation, much as snowboards changed the ski slopes.