Northwest Paddle Surfers

Remember our post about stand-up paddle skateboarding? I do because I wrote it. Anyway here's the sport that inspired it, represented by Northwest Paddle Surfers, dedicated to "everything SUP in the PNW!" That's Pacific Northwest, by the way. You can tell they're rebels by the design of their custom sticker. Stand-up paddle surfing involves a surfboard (or sometimes a specialized paddle board, like the board that NPS sells) and a paddle (like maybe the cool carbon-fiber one that NPS also sells.) Then you paddle around and surf. Simple, huh? But there's a whole culture surrounding it, which you can find detailed at Stand Up Paddle Surfing Magazine (or paddlesurf.net if you like the grassroots feel.) And to prove you can SUP on a lake as well as the ocean, here's a video of a guy stand-up paddling on Lake Michigan. Even surfing legend Laird Hamilton is in on the SUP wave. Watch this video of him in Tahiti doing the SUP. He shows up eventually, trust me. I think the rest of the video is just to make the rest of us jealous about the people who get to hang out in Tahiti.