If you’re new and getting into SUP racing, you’re probably looking for ways to improve your performance and results. Practice these techniques used in paddle board racing to up your game: Race Paddle Stroke Technique The race stroke requires you to really engage your core muscles and use your weight to maximize the power…
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SUP Yoga Tips: How To Do a Reverse Plank Pose with Kelly Huck – by Starboard Benefits: SUP Yoga Reverse Plank Pose (Purvottanasana) helps strengthen your core, lower back and abdominals. It also help improve spinal stabilization. Reverse Plank Pose Tips: Sit on the SUP board with your leds extended in front of you…
Follow the intermediate SUP Paddle Board Tips On How To Paddle Into a Headwind: Paddling into the wind is not fun, but there are a few tips to paddle more effectively to help you get through the hard wind situation. Mainly, you have to keep in mind that reducing the wind resistance is a…
Follow these 4 SUP Paddling Technique Tips To Paddle Straight: Start the stroke a little away from the rail Angle the blade inward toward the rail of the board Pull the blade toward your feet with vertical and deep strokes Swap hands and change hands occasionally Learn how to paddle your SUP in…
Kelly Huck from SoCal Paddle Yoga gives us these handy tips & benefits on how to SUP yoga Tree Pose. Practising balancing poses in yoga, such as Tree Pose, will help you gain both physical and mental steadiness and poise. Tree Pose improves focus and posture. How To Perform the Tree Pose…
This week’s handy infographic SUP Tips: Staying Hydrated with World Champion Connor Baxter will prevent dehydration in Stand Up Paddling (SUP) races and ensure your race at your peak performance. Before Paddling Drink ~500ml of water from around 2 hours prior to heavy exercise While Paddling Drink small amounts frequently ~…
Improve your Paddle Board racing performance with these handy SUP tips by Fiona Wylde: Move your feet – practice cross stepping, shuffling and moving your feet Starts – practice your running beach starts, shoreline starts and water starts Have fun! The most important thing is paddling with passion
About to wipeout? Ride safe & enjoy more time on the water with this handy guide by Sean Poynter – SUP Tips: How to Properly Fall Off a Stand Up Paddleboard. Fall away from the board – further is safer Fall flat – lead with your butt, not your head Use your hands to…
Pro SUP surfer Sean Poynter gives us these important surf factors to observes before we go out surfing: Conditions: consider all swell directions, tides, winds and currents Wave Peaks: decide where the best place is to paddle out and where the best peaks are to catch a wave. Hazards: learn to recognise…
Pro paddle board surfer Sean Poynter gives us these SUP Tips for the parallel SUP surf stance: Benefits of the parallel surf stance: Improves stability: it improves your balance both side to side as well as front to back (trim) Speeds up the wave catching process: it lessens the time to get…
Kelly Huck from SoCal Paddle Yoga gives us these handy tips & benefits on how to do a SUP yoga Headstand. Equipment featured: Starboard Inflatable Yoga Board Starboard Tiki Tech Enduro Paddle FIND CALM & FLAT WATER so it’s easy to practice USE THE PADDLE HOLDER to secure your paddle USE THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD and be in…
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