How fast can they go? Previewing the sprints in Abu Dhabi for the 2025 ICF SUP World Championships
Will Andrey Kraytor finally break the 20 km/h threshold? Will the surprise of 2024, Katniss Paris, repeat her victory on the world stage? 2025 SUP Worlds are here, and these are all the favourites to win the sprints. Stay tuned for more on the technical and long distance races.
ICF SUP World Champs 2024: Faster speeds, action-packed racing, new stars
What a weekend! By most measures (every measure except for DQs and beach starts, perhaps), the ICF SUP World Championships in Sarasota, Florida was a success. 2024 has been a pretty good year for world championships, and with most (not all) top names attending both the ISA and ICF events, it looks like SUP racing […]
Paddlecast #32: Andrey Kraytor talks “Olympics vs. Reality,” multiple passports and coaching Chinese canoe champions
Andrey Kraytor is an Olympic athlete who competed in sprint canoe at the 2016 Games and now coaches the Chinese national team. I had the pleasure of chatting with Andrey about the realities of being an Olympian, the incredible subtleties of paddling a sprint canoe and what it's like to coach C