Zane Schweitzer hosts the Standup World Tour’s Morning Show from Turtle Bay Resort with some of North Shore’s finest, Makua Rothman and Robin Johnston.

The ladies battled it through trial heats at Kuilima Point, with a fierce final that included Candice Appleby, Vanina Walsh, Hannah Fenton, and Nicole Pacelli.

Words don’t explain the feeling of getting a good surf first thing in the a.m., so we’ll let this one speak for itself. This week on the Wednesday Voice no words were necessary.

Garrett McNamara has an insatiable thirst for moments that scare us computer-bound folk while just watching them on YouTube. He’s a modern-day Evil Knievel behind a jet-ski, on a surfboard or with a paddle in hand.

Alison Riddle has always felt at home in the water, whether playing water polo and swimming at USC, working as a lifeguard at Manhattan Beach, or chalking up wins as a prone paddleboarder. So, it was only natural that the 26-year-old would get into SUP.

The Aragas Magallanes Paddle Challenge, presented by Standup Latino and powered by Big Foot Adventures Patagonia, will provide the most spectacular opener imaginable for the 2013 Standup World Series.

Leco Salazar standup surfs as smooth as an oil glass ocean. There’s a reason he took the Standup World Tour title in 2012. Here, he kills it in black and white.

Since its first year in 2010, the Sunset Beach Pro has seen dramatic conditions and spectacular showdowns each and every year, and 2013 promises to be no different.

Offering certification courses meant to teach the teachers, twin watermen Dick and Dane DeBoer have created a curriculum to educate professional paddlers in the finer points of SUP with the Academy of SUP Instruction.

When it comes to the biggest names in SUP, the U.S. certainly has its fair share of young guns on the list. But, we aren’t alone as the European scene is also producing its own young phenoms, like Denmark’s Casper Steinfath.