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

When ocean waves are a distant dream, some standup paddlers will go to great lengths to improvise worthy rides. SUP magazine contributor Rob Casey shares a few tips from his experience watching, waiting for, and ripping the elusive freighter-generated waves of Washington’s Puget Sound.

Hennessey’s US Paddling Championships, Event No. 7 of the World Paddle Association Cup Series, took place on Saturday in Redondo Beach, California, as part of Hennessey’s Paddleboard Festival.

With conflicts between standup surfers and traditional prone surfers increasing on a daily basis, it’s important to know the etiquette before you take that new standup board out into the lineup. Here, some of Hawaii’s best waterman, including Kainoa McGee, provide some important tips so that you’re a total badass, instead of a total tool, [...]

If you want to surf, you need to first paddle out. Keep in mind these seven tips to get you from the beach to the waves.

Here’s an indicator that standup paddling is going to be huge: It’s already popular but a full generation of groms has yet to grow up practicing the sport. Once they do, the possibilities of the high performance realm are unimaginable. Here, 7-year-old Nathan van Vuuren tears it up. The future is bright.

Results from YOLO Board’s third Stand-Up Paddle Series race event (plus details on the manufacturer’s September Seaside Celebration)

We’ve sung his praises before but Mike Waltze knows how to capture fine standup surfing artistry. With summer in full swing, we give you another worthy Waltze clip of goofy-footed style-master Robby Naish tearing it up on a few Hawaiian left handers. Tis’ the season. Waltze.com

The ocean ain’t the only place to shred. Here, Tomahawk’s Evan Lloyd tears apart a standing wave on the Kings River near Fresno, Calif. Lloyd and other river aficionads have begun to explore the potential of river waves around the country.

The future of standup paddling is in the budding crop of well-rounded watermen-racers. One of the torchbearers of the sport’s next elite generation is 17-year-old race phenom, Zane Schweitzer