Just found some photos of my first ever sup comp back in 2010. 17 years riding a SUP this year.
is there anyone more dedicated to the sport?
Casso perhaps with the close second.
Local big wave reef - damn I miss these days!!!
2015 ??
Newcastle Beach, Shark Alley rights 2015/2016
we had this glorious bank for 3 months straight and it cranked the whole time.
Tassie winter classic circa 2016
June 2016.
I'll actually be 19 years old soon - bought my first SUP in Nov 2007 (Oxbow 11 footer).
Here's my very first SUP vid (before GoPros were even a thing):
I thought this was the first Newcastle SUP Club comp (Feb 2011):
www.australianpaddlesurfer.com.au/article.php?id=76
Hey Casso
nice for you to join the yarn.
2011 hey! Wow! I was going off the info on my image. 1 year to early, typical me always ahead of my time ??
I think I've said it before you need to make a book with all of your best images through out the years.
going back to the photos of that era, what camera were you using back then? My first surf photography camera was a canon 20d and I even bought a water housing for it.
how's the colours, the boards, everything!
Wild there's no actual sup media format coming from Australia, Asia and the pacific in 2026.
casso, do that book!
I was in the Cronulla Sutherland SUP club back then. I think our first comp was 2010 or 2011. Good days and group of like minded paddlers. I think we may have had 50 or more members at one stage. I don't think many ex members paddle anymore or maybe the occasional holiday paddle. After the club folded was in Malnutrition (bad name) at Gerroa for a couple of years. After taking off so well SUP has dropped off almost as quickly as it started. Similar to what happen to windsurfing here in AUS. Great sports but there are so many different choices now. I wish I was in my 30's.
About 15 years for me, bought my first sup while I was living back in Hobart, 7s Uberfish
On the Goldy not many doing it now, I'm the only sup out at Greenmount most of the time, lots wizzing around on efoils
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I was in the Cronulla Sutherland SUP club back then. I think our first comp was 2010 or 2011. Good days and group of like minded paddlers. I think we may have had 50 or more members at one stage. I don't think many ex members paddle anymore or maybe the occasional holiday paddle. After the club folded was in Malnutrition (bad name) at Gerroa for a couple of years. After taking off so well SUP has dropped off almost as quickly as it started. Similar to what happen to windsurfing here in AUS. Great sports but there are so many different choices now. I wish I was in my 30's.
Epic! I didn't even know there was a Cronulla club.
wild.
yeah as far I can see sup is nearly done.
There will always be that core crew.
i foil too but i choose my sup first and foremost.
I'm learning shape 3d and have Wavechaser files so I can continue defining my own custom shapes for the next 20 + years because I will never stop stand up paddle surfing.
all the best ??
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About 15 years for me, bought my first sup while I was living back in Hobart, 7s Uberfish
On the Goldy not many doing it now, I'm the only sup out at Greenmount most of the time, lots wizzing around on efoils
Good crew down Tassie.
bring back the fish sup shapes!
every man and his dog are on foil drives now.
im just jealous! ??
id use one too if I could throw down 15 k
are there a crew at Currumbin still?
