Plus a photo gallery from this weekend’s Ta-hoe Nalu events. Women’s elite winner Jenny Kalmbach sits down with SUPthemag.com to get us up to speed on her winning race and whirlwind summer of SUP.

SEA Paddle NYC racers journey 28 miles around Manhattan

For the Summer 2010 issue of SUP magazine, we were looking for a voice to give us a new perspective on the sport of standup paddling. We found that in the incomparable Gerry Lopez, who guest edited our publication with his own wise touch. As part of his editing duties, Lopez interviewed standup renaissance man [...]

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week may have just ended, but the action is picking up for standup paddlers at the SoCal SUP hot spot at the south end of San Onofre State Beach. On Tuesday, Dana Point’s Chuck Patterson got this chilling footage

Thanks to standup paddling, surfing is no longer confined to coastal locales. The surf lifestyle has gone inland and standup is at the center of this awakening. To accommodate the growing sport of standup paddling, ASR and SUP magazine – the leading publication in the standup media world – have teamed up for a Standup [...]

In May, SUP magazine Guest Editor Gerry Lopez sat down for the definitive Laird Hamilton interview, where the godfather of standup paddling talked about his surfing roots, the origins of standup and his mission to have fun, no matter who tries to cut him down.

Check out this video of pro surfers James Pribram and Mary Osborne, along with stalwart standup paddler Chuck Patterson during their recent trip to Gulf Port, Miss., as part of the Gulf Alert 2010 initiative.

Only one race (Aug. 19) remains in Florida’s five-race series

A new, different breed of racer stood out from the crowd at Saturday’s time-honored, annual Paddle & Portage boat race in Madison, Wisconsin. For the first time, standup paddling was among the many divisions open to competitors who were previously limited to canoes and kayaks.

The media elite now seems to feel free to opine on “the SUP trend.”