Hey guys, I have had a lot of you asking about off-season training lately. A lot of people say they do not have a lot of time to train in the off-season due to kids/wife/husband/work/cold weather etc. So I figured what better way to get idea’s on training then from the best paddlers in the [...]
Continue Reading »Paddle With Pros was on the Willamette river teaching 15 people how to Stand Up Paddle this last Saturday. It was a beautiful day with Steve Gates from Big Winds showing up to enjoy the morning out on the river with MAC members. There have been lots of great emails from participants with one of [...]
Continue Reading »Fun day out paddling Channel Islands. Go Paddle! from Karen Wrenn
Continue Reading »It’s taken me a long time to write about my adventure in Holland for a couple of reasons. I was extremely tired from paddling 220 km in 5 days and when I got home I had to switch focus to my next big races. I really just needed some time to reflect on the whole [...]
Continue Reading »I was just in Hamburg, Germany for the Jever Cup SUP World Cup. It was very interesting to see what the European SUP scene was like. It was an amazing event that was well organized, professionally run, competitive and really fun. Athletes from all over the world came to compete. There were about 30 invited [...]
Continue Reading » It is crazy how a year flies by…but what a BLAST its been! A year ago I participated in the Naish Race Series in Hood River that was organized by Big Winds in the Gorge. It was a weekly race that ran for 8 weeks and was my first experience racing in standup paddling. [...]
Continue Reading »This years Battle of the Paddle Hawaii was all about Ohana. The Hawaiian word ‘ohana literally means family. The Hawaiian family or ‘ohana can also consist of others not related by birth. A valued friend can be a member of your ‘ohana. An entire group of close friends or in our case paddlers can be [...]
Continue Reading »After a long flight back from Wilmington, North Carolina it is nice to be home in Portland. Wilmington is a really interesting place full of history and the people are truly an example of “Southern Hospitality”. I was back in Wilmington earlier this year in January for the Cold Stroke Classic and there was a [...]
Continue Reading »I recently had an amazing adventure to Catalina Island for a Standup Paddleboard race called the Catalina Challenge. I had been training really hard for the event as I would be paddling solo 39.8 miles from Avalon, Catalina to Dana Point, California. After putting in a lot of miles in training, studying and practicing my hydration and [...]
Continue Reading »Waterman Robby Naish talks about the future of Standup Paddle surfing in this video from a Stand Up Paddle Movie. SUP is a cool new sport – its really great to be apart of the beginning of a new sport and this short clip really explains how I feel about whats going on. If you [...]
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