I tried Stand Up Paddle........................................

General Discussion
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…FALLING today!

Man is that one helluva workout! To be honest it wasn’t a true SUP board, instead it was an 11’ Softtop so stability wasn’t quite there. I would get a few strokes in and then lean too far to the left or right and SPLASH! Over and over and over again. But, I have to say that on a glassy, warm, no swell kinda day, that it was a whole new kind of fun. My wife and her friend tried it for a couple of hours this morning and both said they felt like they burned 400 calories apiece.

I have a friend that owns several real SUP boards, he’s offered to loan me one. THink I’ll take him up on it.

Lookout Crowdiff, here comes another donkey!

Just kidding, sort of. :wink:

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Keep going out in flat water, once you get the balance thing sorted the rest is plain sailing…

Took me about 10 or 11 sessions before i felt comfortable enough to paddle into waves…

I see SUP`s as an extension of my surfing , on good size days ill be out on my short , but on crappy days with useless swell with no one out the SUP comes intom its own.

Keep with it and remember if other surfers are about dont get greedy its to easy to take every set wave…

3

an indo board could help…(or it could break your wrist, either way)

4

A Kook is born of the desire

to shed the coocoon of

same old same old

falling down is fun

you will miss it

when you become

proficient and

have to jump in

the water after

a session

because you

dont get wet

…enough.

flat water wide board!

soft top whynot illusions

will be far gone

like ““I want a board like those guys mom””

if you can knee paddle it you can stand up paddle it…

after you get proficient.You dont get proficient

until you have paddled a hundred miles

and it goes away,the endurance, after a week lay-off.

a day at the lake is worth a lot.

…ambrose…

I offered to take you to the river when you were here

you were distracted so much to learn about listening

the sounds at the lake at dawn like the river at dawn

are telling the listeners secrets.the better the listener

the more the secrets…

5

Well said Ambrose. :wink: We’ll definitely take you up on it next year, and hopefully, our technique will have improved by then.

Tyler- We have an Indo board and I can see the similarities but I think the best bet is to practice on an SUP board. Now I just have to get a hold of one. Mwaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaa…

6

how about an 11’ compsand…

7

“Whatch you talkin’ about Willis?”