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Stand Up Paddle Surfing – Duke Kahanamoku Ocean Fest, Hawaii, Waikiki
Ladies Surf Style Oceanfest this year Duke Kahanamoku Surf Stand Up Paddle held on 22 and 23 in Queens surf spot in Waikiki.
C4 Waterman, Honolua Surf and the Blue Planet hosted the Stand-Up events for men, children (young) and women.
The sport has grown by leaps and bounds. This year's event had 80 SUP surfers.
"I'm not surprised at all, to be honest" Said Todd Bradley, one of the founders of C4 Waterman company. "From the beginning, everyone in the sport became hooked. So to see these children and women and new-comers to the sport … I think it's just the beginning. "
Stand Up Paddle Surfing-also known as SUP is the sport most marine rapid growth. Combines the basic elements of the two sports canoe paddling sea and surf long board.
Women surf the SUP with style
In 2007, the first year C4 Waterman SUP hosting an open event and only one woman who sailed alongside men was Maui's Tiare Lawrence. Ms. Lawrence was the first woman to SUP try. Ms. Lawrence as a canoe paddler and short border, and Tiare was hand picked as the first best aerobatic performance in the Hawaiian version of Cirque de Soleil at the Teatro Ulalena. When I first saw her C4 SUP surfing in big waves at Makaha, I was like Whoa! I had ridden big waves for years, but it was a new angle of riding waves and Tiare was fully charged in a classic style in big waves with the children.
Ms. Lawrence said: "The appearance is very rewarding. "When you go surfing you are lying most of the time, so you work twice as the muscles that when you're surfing SUP. "
This Tiare year and ten other women performed in all women-SUP hot. They were so graceful with Hawaiian style with the best technique I've seen so date.
Jennifer Koki of Honolulu was raised on the south coast of Oahu during shipment. Ms. Koki is a real stylish surfer to begin with and now a truly shines SUP. Ms. Kohi said "The first time I tried, I stopped because it was very hard" "But I tried again and now I love." "You can paddle long distances, and is a great exercise. "
In addition to the family of champions Moniz, is not your teenage daughter Keli Moniz a Roxy surfer girl sponosored and four brothers with Mum Tammy and Dad Professional surfer Tony Moniz who all now do SUP and surf the SUP with style.
Keli is only 15 years and is the most stylish new generation of surfer girls out of Hawaii on a long board. And, you can Keli pinch of grace. Keli continued to mount rear end, but the wind kept blowing breeze outside, but eventually held out and got a very good result and was the crowd on the beach all in a roar over the hot that his trip was. Keli starts in a short board as well. Keli nose beat to weather all the girls at the event. If she had caught some waves that would set won hands down, but came in second.
Then, 23 years old Uni student Candice Appleby UH took first place for that day and took home $ 2,000. Other women in the final were Pinoi Waikiki Makalena 3rd Place, Geodee Clark fourth, Maui, Hawaii, Tiare Lawrence fifth and Heather Jeppesen Honolulu sixth. And Crystal Dziga style won and won $ 3,000.
My classmate Tom Holbrook, an executive vice president of Quiksilver wine California with his wife to enter the case SUP.
"I liken this to the early years of snowboarding," said Holbrook. When it first came out, which was a kind of curiosity, and then grew and grew. I see the same potential for (SUP). "" You can have as much fun out as children can take waves. "Holbrook said.
SUP equipment costs
If you are thinking of getting to know a team SUP SUP, cartons and pallets can cost between $ 1,300 and $ 2,800 dollars, according to which boards and paddles to choose.
The best exercise CORE
Ocean is a great sport more expensive than short-term and long-boarding, but the best CORE exercise you can do for any sport, that enhances any sport you like to play.
In Lance Armstrong made road bike racing seven Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005 is put his legacy on the line with a return with a return to racing Tour de France to raise cancer awareness. Lance has been training with SUP to support your physical and mental direction to give the Tour de France a great op to win.
Mike Fox, Hawaii famous throughout Waterman and stuntman Brian Bradley Keaulana and C4 Waterman founded the company in 2006. At that time the company was only focuses on high end sports teams SUP.
Getting Started
At first, when you give it a go is a little new to get the balance on a SUP board for a beginner, not a surfer, but while you relax and keep your hips loose and even the eyes looking forward, fast forward performance, long as the practice. Get used to it. And to do that, you have to put some time into it. Is very different from surfing. No surf in the way, but on how to catch waves.
Some of the key elements in learning is to relax and keep your head and eyes facing forward. Once you get it, really fun, and keep it in great shape for when they go sailing.
One thing that is very important that, without really knowing how to navigate can be very dangerous. You do not want people who may know nothing about surfing the waves. Its important to learn to surf for the first time a professional company not browse McDonald, which provides the basis Total surf and teaches etiquette and respect for the ocean and other surfers in the line.
Here are some great companies to choose whether you want to learn SUP:
About the Author
Hawaii’s professional surfing legend Nancy Emerson has been writing since she was a small girl. She has the passion and experience to paint the true picture of the story she tells that will always leave a smile on her reader. Ms. Emerson has written and taken photo’s on surfing adventures, international surfing events, film and TV reviews and currently writes for an international surf magazine Pacific Longboarder Magazine.
