Whether you’re paddling into a relentless headwind, sprinting to catch a race leader, frantically digging for a set wave, or even towing clients back to base, there’s the same dominant factor working against you: the force that pushes back against your blade as you paddle through the water.
It is inescapable Newtonian physics: if your paddle exerts force on the water, the water will exert an equivalent force on your paddle. Paddle gently, the water pushes back gently. Paddle hard, the water pushes back hard. Unlike lifting a weight, whereby the mass of the object says how difficult the task will be, it is our paddling intensity that makes a session difficult. Difficult is not a nice thing for most of us, so why then over time, is the general trend for a paddler to get faster and to put more intensity into their sessions? Well you could say that without effort we won’t get into that headwind, or encourage the release of endorphins, but it’s not always windy, and there are more likely stimulators of the brain’s pleasure centres, i.e. riding waves!
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Issue 25 - Mid Summer 2019 من SUP International.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Issue 25 - Mid Summer 2019 من SUP International.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Ceylon Stories
Like a teardrop on the tip of the Indian sub-continent, Sri Lanka is a little tropical El Dorado of beautiful landscapes, rich cultural heritage and people with incomparable kindness. Thanks to its favorable exposure to the swells of the Indian Ocean, the has a large number of good waves along its incredible southwest coast where French pro Alexis Deniel and his partner Melanie had an unforgettable experience this winter. Discover their colorful journey through this dream destination sharing its jewels after decades of civil war and the tragedy of the 2004 tsunami.
Magical. Mystical. Epic.
Alexandra is a club ambassador and SUP racer for Bray Lake; relatively new to the SUP scene she completed her first race season in 2019. She participated in her first international event, the Gla Gla, 2020, and placed 1st Brit, 8th lady and 81st overall, out of a mass start of 637 paddlers. Here she shares the highlights of her first Gla Gla experience.
Depth Charge
Many of us have are staying away from the beach for a while, some are confined to our homes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still train for the surf. If you try the following for just one week you’ll see results, never mind three months…
Bliue Thunder - Backside turns.
In an ideal world, all waves would peel right for hundreds of meters towards the beach where a nice strong rip would take you back to the lineup. However in the world we live in they don’t and most beach breaks provide entertainment in the form of lefts, rights and straight-handers dumping on the beach.
A Quiet Union
Once, it was the perennial question: where do you go for warm, quiet waves and a cool beer afterwards without locals regarding you as a walking ATM? We don’t even ask anymore, we accept that anywhere that fits the criteria had its day in the distant past. However, eight years ago Jeremie Tronet created a practical answer to this question and developed his own corner of paradise – the JT Pro Centre – on the south shore of a delightful speck of sand, coral and palm trees sitting in the Caribbean Sea…
Preparing For Winter
The prospect of dark mornings, dragging yourself back to the gym and laying up your paddling kit is not a cheery one. But why hibernate for the winter when with a bit of preparation, you can still go out paddle boarding?
The Proving Ground
Right here in this photo, you can see our ‘test bay’ of Fistral Beach, with the Goose Rock of Crantock in the distance, and the rocks of North Fistral in the foreground.
The Great Summit
Finn Mullen gives us an insight into one of Europe’s heaviest waves, Mullaghmore, telling us about the wave, its talented local crew and the history of the local area.
The French River
Five days of SUPing and camping around the islands and channels at the mouth of French River.
Replenish
Road trips sound sexy but often turn out to be comprised of sixteen-hour shifts at the wheel, eyes propped open with caffeine and a blur of service stations and bad food with only glimpses of the exotic. Manuela Jungo and Victor Fernandez found a more compact option with superior gastro-choices on Sardinia.
