One of stand up paddling’s most colourful and entertaining characters, Dave Boehne, has joined Danny Ching’s team at HippoStick Paddles.

Boehne will pair Ching’s carbon creations with his own craft – the Infinity SUP boards he’s become famous for shaping – and forge a partnership between two of SoCal’s (and the world’s) best ’boutique’ brands.

Boehne has actually been on the HippoStick train for a while – a brilliantly bizarre photo of hippo-wearing paddlers surfaced in November – but now it’s official.

In true Boehne fashion, he helped announce the partnership by rapping his love for the Hippo Stick while wearing a hippo mask. Watch the magic below (Jay-Z ain’t got nothin on Blurr).

Keep up the whackiness Blurr, that’s why we love you.