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Xcel partners with University of Hawai’i

3 January, 2013 : - SUP: Xcel and the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center are excited to announce the Xcel Race Against Skin Cancer, a standup paddle race along the iconic Waikiki shoreline to raise awareness for skin cancer.The first-time event, to be held Saturday, February 9, 2013, is the latest initiat…
Teenage phenom Mo Freitas fires in Brazil

2 January, 2013 : - SUP: A recent design collaboration with iconic North Shore Hawaii surfboard designer/shaper Pat Rawson working with Focus SUP designer Nitzan Benhaim and with Focus team-rider, teenage phenom Mo Freitas has already produced results. The young Freitas has just returned from a successful tour o…
Stand Up World Tour 2013 schedule announced

1 January, 2013 : - STANDUP: Another successful closes year for the Stand Up World Tour and we look ahead to 2013, the New Year will bring most of the same events back, but with some changes and exciting developments making for the most groundbreaking year yet for this World Championship Tour. With the introduction o…
Leco Salazar wins Location X Finals

18 December, 2012 : - SUP: In a dramatic and emotional finish here at Finlandia's Location X Finals, the Brazilian Leco Salazar was crowned not only event winner, but 2012 World Champion here on the Stand Up World Tour. Leco was in the bottom half of the draw and quietly worked his way through the rounds only to…
Boardworks growth forces new location

17 December, 2012 : - INDUSTRY: Boardworks Surf is moving their main offices from downtown Encinitas to a new, larger 15,000 sq. ft. location in Carlsbad, California. 'We are sad to leave our funky beachside office. Early in 2012 we ran out of warehouse space, and started shipping all of our boards out of a sepa…
Location X Finals closes Round 1

14 December, 2012 : - SUP: After 2 days of minimal surf on the west side of Tortola, the World's best competing at the Location X Finals in the British Virgin Islands headed out in search of waves. The most exposed island in the chain was the destination, as tension mounted in anticipation of the first round of …
Up plastic creek without a paddle...

12 December, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: Captain Carlos Macias a local waterman now with a 9 inch beard will be sitting in a hair stylist chair for the first time in over a year after protesting not to cut his hair or shave until he collected 1 metric ton of plastics from South Florida waterways. The event will take p…
Lake Superior dishes out snow, surf

11 December, 2012 : - SUP: This weekend’s snowstorm made for some good waves on Lake Superior. It was enough for one Minnesotan to drive all the way from Nisswa to Duluth for some of that action. Stand up paddle boarder Evan Lawrence sent WCCO some photos. Lawrence says he saw four other surfers at a spot …
SUPerstar Travis Grant joins NSP

5 December, 2012 : - TEAM: NSP Surf and Stand Up Paddleboards announces the signing of Australian, Travis Grant current ISA World SUP Race Champion to its team. One of the worlds’s most highly regarded and winning SUP Racers, Travis also a highly decorated outrigger canoe paddler, surfer and ocean ath…
Quiksilver releases Jamie Mitchell project

5 December, 2012 : - TEAM: Jamie Mitchell has become a bit of a modern ocean legend. But what he’s probably most famous for is paddling across 32 miles of open ocean during Hawaii’s Molokai-2-Oahu paddleboard race. JM has done this race every year for the past decade… and he’s won every …
Teen Mo Freitas wins Brazilian SUP event

2 December, 2012 : - SUP: 15 year old Mo Freitas makes history on the Stand up World Tour by storming to victory against Leco Salazar at the Ubatuba Pro presented by Art in Surf. From the outset, he demonstrated flawless rail to rail power surfing, dominating his heats all the way through to the man on man quart…
Patagonia launches first 'Neoprene-Alternative' wetsuit

23 November, 2012 : - INDUSTRY: Patagonia and Yulex Corporation have announced the introduction of a guayule-based wetsuit, a renewable biorubber that is the first alternative to traditional fossil-based Neoprene. 'When we started to build wetsuits we knew that neoprene, by nature of its production, was the most envi…
SUP-specific travel group expands locales

21 November, 2012 : - TRAVEL: SUP The World officially added the area of Cost Rica, Nosara to it’s growing number of locations. Cost Rica, Nosara is a haven of SUP fun and relaxation in tropical waters just north of the equator, in the midst of a protected wildlife refuge. It offers an all-inclusive luxury…