New Zealand Stand Up Paddling Championship Series coming your way this summer. Registrations for the NZ Technical Championships in Pauanui and the Downwind Champs in Auckland are now open. Thanks to Auckland Paddler Dylan Crummer and his company 6echo for the amazing video edit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtHXXGBcrVs
NZSUP is thrilled to announce an exciting new National Championship Series to replace the Nationals in 2019. Four great events in three amazing locations, delivered by three awesome event partners. More details to follow next Thursday, October 18 at the Auckland Paddlefest opening night and subsequent communications. Lock these dates in folks and please share! [...]
The International Surfing Association (ISA) Stand Up Paddleboarding Level One Instructors Course, for the instruction of flat water paddling and beginners is the ONLY course recognised in New Zealand for teaching SUP. The Course The two day course covers all aspects of instructing this fast growing sport safely and includes the Community Instructors Lifesaving Award. [...]
NZSUP revisits 7-times NZ Champion Annabel Anderson’s advice from 2017 on getting to the Hoe Toa start line... As the World No. 1 ranked woman, Annabel has a demanding International Race schedule, and it is a big effort for her to come back every year to support what happens at home and on a grass [...]
There are lots of things to think about and consider when you turn up for a race: What do I eat and when, what board is best, what paddle is best, which fin should I use. Should I warm up before the race and what should I do in my warm up. How do I [...]
Hoe Toa NZ Paddle Champs 2018 Date: 22-25 March Location: Orewa Beach Join hundreds of local NZ and International paddlers on New Zealand’s Hibiscus Coast for a fun weekend of paddling workshops, beach races in and out of the surf, inshore flatwater racing and downwind distance paddling at the NZSUP National Festival of Paddleboarding, proudly [...]
A gold medallist at the 2012 London Games and winner of silver at the 2016 Rio Games, in tandem with Polly Powrie, Jo Aleh (31) has recently taken a step away from competitive sailing to give "normal life" a try. We caught up with Jo after a Tuesday night Harcourts Beach Series race and asked [...]
AGM 2018 The New Zealand Stand Up Paddling Inc (NZSUP) Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 22 March, at 7:30pm at Orewa Beach, upstairs in the Orewa Surf Lifesaving Club Patrol room. NZSUP is a not-for-profit Incorporated Society run by a volunteer committee: the President, Secretary and Treasurer and several others, who are passionate [...]
NZ Champion Paddler Marcus Hansen (NSP) has been competing on the World SUP Circuit for a couple of years now, and has a number of NZ titles under his belt. Here's the first in a series of blog posts from Marcus to help you prepare for Hoe Toa at the end of March. Training. Consistency [...]
I’d like to paddle in Hoe Toa… but I’m not sure what to enter! Event Organiser Victoria Stuart takes you through her pick of the action, complete with some insider tips to help calm those first-race nerves. I’ve been paddling for 9 years now, but I can clearly the moment I became a paddle boarder [...]
