Stand Up Paddle Surfing

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we're going to actually talk about the actual stand up paddle surfing that we're looking to do here. You can do this sport for long distances in flat water, you can do it with friends, dogs, family, you can have a whole group of people out there. We've fit three people on this board before, it's an eleven foot, six board, but you want to make sure that you actually get to the point where you can do it, and not jump any steps so, do the prone positioning then you're on your knees and once you're comfortable on your knees, that's when it's o.k. to do the stand up. Standing up, there's a couple of key things that you don't want to do. You don't ever want to stand on the board square like this, like a normal surfer, that's not the position you want. You want to have your feet squared off, you know perpendicular to the length of the board in a nice, wide, stable position. You know, knees bent a little bit, sort of back straight, ready to go, and ready to brace yourself in any way possible. When you're holding the paddle, you'll actually get to the T-grip up here and the paddle or this grip is molded in a fashion, it's going to make you hold the paddle right. Counter-intuition, you'd normally think that you'd hold the paddle sweeping back like this, and you'd get a better paddle, but it's actually less efficient, and this is a normal outrigger canoe paddle with a longer shaft, and by holding it with a swept forward style, you're actually going to give yourself a longer, more efficient paddle. When you're paddling to, you don't want to have your arms close in like this, what that's going to do is actually sort of make it more difficult, you're going to have little baby strokes, and you're going to have to put too much body into it. So, hold your arms out straight, get your arms away from your body, and you're going to get much longer, more efficient strokes with it."