SUP History: Hawaiian Roots
The History of Stand Up Paddle Boarding If you’ve been to a lake, river, or ocean in the past decade or so, chances are you stumbled across a rental shop for SUPs. Stand up paddle boarding has become quite a craze in recent years, and for good reason. You can SUP in just about any body of water and it’s much more user-friendly than its not-so-distant cousin, the surfboard. But what, exactly, is the paddle board origin story? And how has it become what it is today? Going all the way back to B.C. time and following SUP-like boards across...