After the Source to Sea on the Severn River our return to normal lives, showed us that there are a lot of things in life that aren’t really needed. Don’t get me wrong they are great to have around but you don’t really really need them to survive. What we all noticed was that we […]
Wild Descent 2015- The Clutha River SUP Tour Adventure
While training in Wanaka for the Coast to Coast event I heard of another Event on the Clutha River, I was gutted to hear that it had been planned to run it 2 weeks beforehand and the river was to high so it had been postponed. As a child I what always be captivated by […]
Source To Sea – River Severn
It was August Bank Holiday 2012 and I was doing what I do best. Well I am World Champion at it, with my Guinness Book of world Record title and All, Fastest man in a Bathtub over 100 m. Tristan Bawn, had been along to the World Bog snorkeling Championships in my Welsh home town […]
Achievable By All.
Quite a few people have said that I’m mad. Thinking I can do the Yukon River Quest on a SUP. Yep some of them who know me well, have the right knowledge of me and info to make that statement. Mad because I want to paddle 444 miles or 715 kms down the Yukon River. […]
What Board to Ride ?
For me there is only one type of board that suits my lifestyle and where i want to paddle. I was recently asked why I was using an Inflatable on the Yukon River Quest. My immediate response was: Why not !! They told me that they had seen the speed of a 14 foot rigid […]
SUPthing Old, SUPthing New
Some think sup is new, well it was new to me in 2012. But surfers have used paddles to paddle between off shore breaks for some time. Its not as if they can put their paddle in some sort of umbrella stand by the waves while they surf. So they started to surf with the […]
Where SUP began for Me,
Adventures of a SUPMADKIWI I was asked recently where and when SUP started for me. It was August 2012, when a Guy who I hardly knew, Well I had met him the year before at the 2011 World Bog Snorkeling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells the smallest town in the UK which can be found nestled on […]
Every Day is a SUPday !!!!
Every day is a SUP day, Even a wet and Wild one !!! Its summer in New Zealand, but its such a diverse country you can still SUP with ice bergs in the middle of Summer. I was heading for the hills with my Red Paddle Co board on my back. Well not really hills, these […]
Travelling with a 12′ 6″ Paddle Board
I was amazed, when I told some of my friends that I was taking my 12′ 6″ Explorer Red Paddle Co Stand Up Paddlebaord to New Zealand with me. After all my adventures in the past year. They still didn’t realized that the board I used was inflated with air. The Red Air Paddleboards are […]