What is Stand Up Paddleboarding？

Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) is one of the fastest growing watersports today, but standing while paddling has been around for thousands of years. The style we are most familiar with, and the image that comes to mind when we hear the words “Stand Up Paddleboarding,” is a take on Hawaiian style of recreational paddling that began in the 18th century. SUP as a recreational activity today was first popularized by legendary surfer Laird Hamilton in the early 1990’s. Since then the sport has taken on a huge variety of styles and techniques and is practiced world-wide. In its simplest form, Stand Up Paddleboarding today is a recreational activity where an individual (or sometimes multiple people) ride on a large board made of either wood, foam and composites, or inflatable PVC (called Inflatable Stand Up Paddleboards, or iSUPs) using a single-bladed paddle to propel the board across a body of water.