This weekend is packed with great events, so we hope you’re geared up. California’s coast features a couple, there’s a sweet festival about to kick off in Noosa and some of SUP’s best athletes are camped out down in Sayulita for two days of races and that’s not all…

After a dramatic opening event at the Namotu World Paddle Challenge in Fiji at the end of 2011, the Standup World Racing Series will kick off its first event of 2012 in style, in the magnificent town of San Jose in the Philippines, for the CamSur World Paddle Challenge.

Welcome back to the Wednesday Voice with SUPthemag.com. Each Wednesday, we catch up with the personalities that make standup paddling great––from the athletes to industry insiders to event organizers and everyone in between. This week on the Wednesday Voice we crash the welcome home party for Team USA after their performance at the ISA SUP [...]

(Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.) – YOLO Board announces that during the month of March, the company will donate $100 to Special Olympics Florida for every standup paddleboard purchased online. The promotion is valid from March 1st through March 31st, 2012, and can be obtained by simply typing “SPECIAL OLYMPICS” in the ordering instructions text box during checkout.

When Waterman’s Paddle For Humanity was in need of a new event director, Rob Farrow more than fit the bill.

(San Diego, Calif.) – Beach-dwelling standup paddleboard entrepreneur, Stephan Aarstol, will be featured pitching his San Diego-based start-up Tower Paddle Boards on ABC’s entrepreneur reality show Shark Tank (Fridays, 8/7c). Over 24,000 entrepreneurs applied to compete on the third season of the show, currently rated among the top shows in America on Friday nights. The [...]

In the Spring issue of SUP mag, talented scribe Jennifer Holcomb profiles the Clark family from San Clemente, Calif.

Lake Tahoe is one of the best spots for late spring and summer paddling. But, with snow up to eight months of the year, even the most hardcore SUP athletes need an off-water training program that will keep them aerobically fit, allow them to work on mechanics and help them develop an even more powerful stroke.

March 2, 2012 – The Watermans Paddle for Humanity is building on four years of success by expanding to five events in 2012. The award winning series will feature multiple events on both coasts with stops in California, Florida, Washington D.C. and Texas – bringing coastal and inland paddling communities together for a good cause.

As always, there’s some great events on tap this weekend. Here’s a primer to get you fired up: