From Spain to Austria: recapping BCN and looking toward Lake Rocks
At the end of 5 weekends of back-to-back racing for many of the world’s best SUP racers, the spring season’s leaders Mariecarmen Rivera (Puerto Rico) and Shuri “Shrimpy” Araki (Japan) solidified their statuses as #1 with golds in the Barcelona World SUP Fest long distance race. But these two leaders won’t be racing at Lake Rocks this weekend. They’ll be in good company with many top names who’ve opted out of a sixth weekend in a row of racing, presumably to take some well earned re
Six weeks of non-stop racing around Europe is almost over – who will come out on top?
Between the ICF World Cups, the EuroTour, and the newly announced European SUP League, it’s been near impossible for even the biggest SUP racing fans to keep track of all the action this spring. And for the racers themselves, the questions have been: which races are worth competing in? How many can I realistically make […]
The 2025 season starts with a splash
The 2025 sprint season kicked off last weekend in a pool in Dusseldorf. An indoor pool may not sound like the most exciting location for a race, but the SUP event made a splash as part of the larger Düsseldorf Boat Show. And really, in January, where could be better for the athletes than a toasty warm pool facing off their biggest rivals in head to head sprint technicals?
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 […]
