![]() ![]() The best way to move forward is to stand hip-width apart on the board with your knees slightly bent. Instead of lying prone on the surfboard and paddling with arms to get out to the surf zone, SUP surfing allows the participant to stand on the board from the shore and paddle out to the surf zone using a SUP paddle. SUP surfing is a variation of traditional surfing. The first magazine devoted to the sport, Standup Journal, was founded in June 2007. Its surfing heritage coupled with its various disciplines make the sport attractive and accessible to everyone, regardless of ability. Standup paddleboarding has diversified from a variation of surfing into racing, touring, yoga, whitewater, and fishing. In 2004, SUP surfing was added as a category in the Buffalo Big Board Contest. In the 1990s Laird Hamilton redefined and modernized standup paddleboarding as a sport. Steve West credits outrigger canoeing combined with surfing as the basis of SUP, since the individual skills (board riding and paddling) already existed. As the style became popular with other surfers, it took on the name Beach Boy Surfing after the instructors, who were called Waikiki Beach Boys. They also utilized the vantage point of being out on the water to take pictures. They did this as a way to keep an eye on surf students while also monitoring the incoming swell. His sons, Leroy and Bobby Ah Choy, and their friend, Duke Kahanamoku, started to mimic this while they taught surfing to visiting tourists. John Ah Choy was a local Hawaiian who surfed, but as he got older and was unable to get up and down from his board, he would stand on his board from the break and paddle out with a canoe paddle to catch waves. Modern standup paddleboarding began in the 1940s in Waikiki. and its iterations span over various regions such as Peru, Levant, Italy, and China. Records of earlier forms of SUP have been found as early as 3,000 B.C. The act of propelling oneself on a floating platform with the help of a paddle or setting pole traces back thousands of years and across many continents in the form of rafts and punts, but the current form and popularity of standing paddleboarding originated in Hawaii in the 1900s. Variations include flat water paddling, racing, surfing, whitewater SUP, yoga, and fishing. The sport was documented in a 2013 report that identified it as the outdoor sporting activity with the most first-time participants in the United States that year. Standup paddleboarders stand on boards that are floating on the water, and use a paddle to propel themselves through the water. Standup paddleboarding ( SUP) is a water sport born from surfing with modern roots in Hawaii. Professional use: Two lifeguards of the German DLRG patrolling a public bathing area of a lake on stand-up paddleboards in Munich
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