StandUP Paddle Planet

In last Friday's episode of "As the Pea Turns," I got to share with you a few of the amazing performances turned in by our Big Island triathletes at the Rohto Ironman 70.3 Hawaii. I'm very proud of all of our finishers and sincerely believe they are all winners for taking on and completing the daunting challenge of a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and 13.1-mile run.

10 August, 2009 : – – Honolulu — The Hawaii Junior Lifeguards received a little bonus to their program as Reid Inouye representing both Paddle Core Fitness (a stand-up paddle workout program located in Honolulu) and Standup Paddle Magazine, (the Dana Point publication dedicated to the stand-up paddler), presented a check for $1800.00 as a [...]read the entire article

La Jolla, California - Surf Diva Surf School is proud to announce their new surf division: What’SUP, specifically for Standup Paddle (SUP) surfing. Known to the originators as, Hoe he’e nalu, Standup Paddleboarding is an ancient form of surfing and can be traced back to ancient Polynesia. Standup Paddle Boarding, or SUP, is the hottest new sport to hit the coast in San Diego. Long recognized in Hawaii as a great way to get a workout on a flat day, standup paddle boarding has also evolved int

Molokai Community Service Council & Na Kama Kai Receive DonationsHONOLULU - (July 23, 2009) - California businessman Jay Longley Jr., founder of Rainbow Sandals out of San Clemente, demonstrated that aloha comes from the Mainland, too, when he made financial and product donations to two worthy Hawai’i charities today: the Moloka’i Community Service Council and Na Kama Kai. Above: Molokai Youth say “mahalo” for the support of Rainbow Sandals.Longley is in Hawaii for Sunday’s 32-mile Rainbow Sanda

by Matt Schweitzer Its the old problem in the water, sharing the waves and getting along. Typically in the surfing world, the shortboarders don’t like surfing with long boarders, windsurfers don’t like surfing with kitesurfers, and these days it seems that no one likes the SUP guys And its always for the same reasons. WAVE HOGS! But we can figure it out and all get along on the water. After 35 years of shortboarding and windsurfing in Hawaii with some of the best surfers in the world (and