Standup PHOTOS & Video Clips

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Well, it isn't standup, although you do need to standup at some point. It's skiing, with poles and everything, this difference is it is in water and at Jaws in Maui. Chuck Patterson takes us on an intriguing ride. Wonder what size ski pole bails he uses?



As long as we're on this channel, lets see what else they have ...













Love the snow in the mountains, Chucks run at Jaws looks great too!

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I don't know if you should run if you see one of these or change breakfast cereals.

Happy Easter!

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"Top maui paddlers run the north shore of Maui in open ocean stand-up boards gliding on open ocean wind swells."

A look at a classic Maui Standup downwinder.

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"The Surfboard That Changed A Papua New Guinea Village

by steve casimiro on May 11, 2011 · 0 comments
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It sounds like something from a post World War II cargo cult: Three decades ago, an Australian pilot leaves a surfboard in a remote village in Papua New Guinea called Vanimo. The village, which lacks rudimentary facilities like electricity or running water, becomes surf crazy. Fast forward to today, when Papua New Guinea is holding it first national championship, with the winner being given the opportunity to travel to Australia and train with professional surfers."

Continued at:
http://www.adventure-journal.com/201...uinea-village/

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Last week I made a 3 hour drive with a friend to get some waves on the east coast. Our first stop was Playa Linda on Cape Canaveral. I am proud to say that I am the last soul to have SUP surfed in front of the space shuttle Endeavor. This is the legend of the last cosmo SUP surfer and I'm sticking to it! Playa Linda closes a few days before any launch and we were able to squeeze in a session before it closed for the Endeavor's last lift-off early Monday morning.



As I was surfing I couldn't help but think of how cool it is to surf in front of a live space shuttle getting ready to launch into orbit only a few days later. I'm pretty sure there is nowhere else on this planet that this can be done. However, I would not doubt that somewhere on another planet an intelligent being is surfing star-dusted barreling waves on his surfing space ship. I'll be sure to share more of my intergalactic surf fantasy another time. For now, check out the video of my rocket fueled east coast surf trip!

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Pig Hunting in New Zealand on an SUP. He has two pigs strapped down on the front of his board. (Photo via Alex Agera on FB)

Now, did he nail the pigs in the bush or while swimming laps? Hard to say. We can hope the guy never paddles across making it as far at the Exumas in the Bahamas. This friendly ocean-going swine might well be for the knackers if so.


Swim fast guys, never know what might float up on you!
From: http://www.webesailing.com/BahamasItinerary.htm



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A very nicely prepared video on SUP in exotic locales using Cabrinha boards.
Pete C. paddles in on a monster wave, looking good!






More at: http://www.cabrinhakites.com/pro-series.html

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It's not standup, it's skiing waves with snow skis?! You've probably seen Chuck Patterson ski big waves in Maui with poles. I think he uses snow skis too.


Chuck poles into a nice one



Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend pose with their riding gear fresh from the mountains to Maui.

Checkout the video, these guys go FAST and real parallel to the wave crest. The tow in with a waverunner of course but once they get going, they go!




“A year in the making, Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend fulfill a dream of towing into big waves on skis in Hawaii. After 4 weeks, 5 broken skis, and 1 big scare, they proved that it is, in fact, possible. Is it cool, or is there a future for skiing on waves? Decide for yourself.”


"Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend: The Pro Skiers
Mike Douglas produces a TV series called “Salomon Freeski TV” that covers every part of the freeskiing world, including wave skiing. Douglas and fellow skier Cody Townsend set off on a journey to Hawaii after asking themselves the same question many pro-skiers who surf have: I wonder if you can ski on a wave? Townsend said the idea came to him while he was checking the waves in Santa Cruz, California. “It suddenly occurred to me that a wave had a similar steepness to a lot of the runs up at Squaw. From that moment on I knew that it would one day be possible to ski on a wave,” he said. The duo tried out a few different ski-binding setups before the trip, including water skis and trick skis, and eventually decided for safety reasons that downhill bindings were the best choice because they were able to get their skis off in the water most easily through the familiar system. “We determined through testing on the lakes that the only boot and binding system that we could get off every time was alpine boots and bindings,” Douglas said. In Hawaii they hit waves by getting towed in on jet skis, and also used the wind to give kite-skiing a try."
http://www.skinet.com/skiing/photo-g...ecomes-reality

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"Heaviest waves of the Day TEAHUPOO billabong Mega Swell"


Some more images from this years event:








Stills from http://www.fantasysurfer.com/news/

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Wind drives us, water too. Sometimes waves come from afar traveling to an area of calm or even opposing breeze. This is what happened off Santa Barbara recently. Thanks to Blueline for the great images.













From Blueline Standup Paddle Surf Facebook page

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