What SUP: The Sport, the Culture and Lifestyle

today on what's up the world of stand-up

paddle we take an in-depth look at the

sport and culture of stand-up pattern

it's different disciplines how it got

started and why people from all over the

world and from all walks of life are

joining the fastest-growing water sport

on the planet

stand-up paddle surfing it's just all

about having fun and enjoying the sport

choosing to live a healthy lifestyle

it's so much fun to get it together with

all your friends and just go down the

coast and it's really helped all of my

water sports as well I've noticed all my

other sports seem like they went to

another level and Santa paddling is

really awesome I'm stuff I mean it makes

you strong you feel how strong it makes

you and it makes you strong all the way

through you know conventional prone

paddling makes you incredible shoulders

and arms but nothing to the leg because

we stand for such a short period of time

you go snowboarding or windsurfing or

something else like when you're standing

the whole time then you feel hey where's

my leg I need legs and big wave riding

is a lot about legs you know

stand-up paddling has really become

popular in the last few years but its

roots date back to old Hawaii the early

beach boy culture and the birthplace of

surfing Hawaiians came here on canoes

sailing and also paddling and the

stand-up paddling it is really you know

as far back as just the Waikiki Beach

Boys and Duke Kahanamoku and the Beach

Boys you can take their big wooden balls

and the canoe paddles then go out there

and play for fun kind of things you know

it wasn't really until Laird and Dave

Kalama that really took it to the next

level and just playing around using it

for fitness the first time I saw

somebody stand up paddling it was in

Waikiki and you know I would like to say

I would use that as an image that was in

my brain that triggered my reaction when

I did it there he was just standing on a

board he had a little paddle it wasn't

like he had a big paddle he was paddling

and doing what stand-up paddling is now

we used to go surf at this place in

Honolulu called tongs there should be

this blonde haired guy and he used to

ride a big surfboard and we use the

canoe paddle and so we went and met that

guy's name was John Sabu taki and he's

actually had an experience he was a guy

from New Jersey he was in the Navy came

over here in the 1940s you know and

everybody was Waikiki and he went

surfing and he was having a hard time he

was struggling you know he and he was an

engineer so he's trying to go and the

arms aren't really doing that good a job

of paddling and one day he saw this guy

standing up using a Hubbard canoe paddle

and so he followed the guy in any astral

bottom the guy told him yeah man he just

you know you do whatever works for you

just as long as you have fun doing it

the guy was Duke Kahanamoku and when I

started I was like twelve years old

working at Waikiki Beach under the

Waikiki Beach boy who kind of made it

cool to do a body at joy and you know

his waters like 100

that needed help to use it but now you

know the power wars are just absolutely

Featherlite bored with the new materials

probably a lot more to come out of

stand-up as far as technology and the

rate of progress in this sport is

amazing so I see all the guards just

knocking on the door you know so pretty

fun pretty good to watch and watch it

grow as a sport and with sprint and long

distance races becoming more popular all

over the world the sport is exploding

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