StandUP Paddle Planet

Have paddleboards, will travel. That could be the motto for Ian Smith of Natrona Heights, a veteran paddle boarder who started SurfSUP Adventures last month. Smith, 25, a business development employee of Geospatial Corp. of Sarver, learned to paddleboard two years ago by watching a YouTube video, "fell in love with it" and decided to share the fun with others.

After two and a half months, a standup paddle boarder from Mendota Heights has reached his destination.

After two and a half months, a standup paddle boarder from Mendota Heights has reached his destination.

“I’m not even sore,” were Maui native Bart de Zwart’s first words after doing a 300 mile standup paddle from Hawaii’s Big Island to Kauai over the weekend. According to the Associated Press the 41-year old spent five days alone at sea in his attempts to be the first ever paddle boarder to cross from the Big [...]

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is a pretty ho-hum video of body boarders getting pounded into the ground and surfers not quite making the drop on a massive swell a few days ago in Southern California. When you get sick of seeing people going over the falls, skip to 3:40–it’s when a gonzo surfer cranks his standup paddle board onto the wave. The board is massive. It’s like watching a couple guys in a canoe paddling into oblivion. If stand up paddle