I beat Dave Kalama at the inaugural Big Winds SUP race in the Columbia River Gorge at Hood River. Finished about five minutes ahead of him–long enough to get off my board, walk up to the deck above the river and take pictures of Dave, Robby Naish, and Michi Schweiger crossing the finsih line. So Continue Reading
This post is the first in a very long series (I hope) on surfing your SUP. A lot of people are buying SUP boards just for flatwater paddling. More power to them, but there may come a day when you decide you’d like to try a bit of surfing. The good news is that all Continue Reading
This was originally posted in the Forum section in Tips and Tecniques, but I think it deserves to be on the front page. I pasted in both the poster’s and my responses. He makes some great points that I think are important to consider, albeit in a Dennis Miller persona that may rub you the wrong way. Continue Reading
Netarts Oregon, just after dark: I’m stumbling down a steep and slippery trail in pitch blackness, holding a pan of blackberry cobbler in one hand, trying decide what to do with it when I fall… Netarts is a little town on the Oregon coast that sounds like it’s spelled backwards. Straten–hmmm, that sounds a lot Continue Reading
You’re on your own for a couple of weeks. Tomorrow moring at 00:Dark:Thirty I’m headed for Boston to do Stoneaxe (Bob) and ECSUP’s (Mike) Cape Cod Challenge. I’ll be in Boston for five days, then back to Oregon and off immediately for Netarts Bay for the Starboard Dealer Meeting. The nice folks at Starboard were Continue Reading
We’ve had our first photo uploaded from a Ke Nalu reader: Judy, from Bend, Oregon. Judy says: “We had just come in from the reef just north of Honokohau Bay. Jack Gillen guided us to the offshore reef where (thankfully) we didn’t encounter any of the local tiger sharks as we tried our first SUS Continue Reading
I knew it was really cold when I glanced down at my booties and saw the toes were ice crusted… Bend, Oregon is famous for lunatics–on the mountain, in the desert, on skis and snowboards, in the whitewater and in the bars. One of the most infamous is Randy Barna, who sent us this by Continue Reading
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/HqA5n1caLmM" width="290" height="242" wmode="transparent" /]This video is the most eloquent argument possible for why you absolutely want a sail track on your SUP board. The other five are…
If you’re beginning stand up surfing then I suspect you’ll find this very helpful. This is a collaborative document that will reflect the knowledge of anyone that has something to contribute. I’d like to include your perspectives. They don’t have to carefully written, just informative. I’ll edit and polish to make the document readable. Introduction–cautions Continue Reading
Here’s some video from last weekend, demoing some turns and footwork in Nahalem Bay, OR
I put a higher resolution version in the .mac gallery here