Hello Fellow Stand Up Paddle Homeboys and Homegirls, 

Once again, thanks to everyone for your awesome feedback and input about Stand Up Paddle Surfing Magazine. We are just as stoked as ever on the growth of the sport and the new life it has breathed into the surfing industry. Personally, I'm going into my fourth winter as a stand up paddler and I'm not alone when I say that I'm just as stoked as day one. The industry is as strong as ever as stand up paddling continues to charge forward as the fastest growing water sport.

In light of recent media coverage of the sport, I want to thank everyone who is surfing with respect for your local lineups and for other surfers. The rules, etiquette and flow of a lineup are completely different from those that apply to longboard and shortboard surfers. It is my observation that those who adhere to the same etiquette that they normally follow to when they prone-paddle longboard or shortboard are overstepping their bounds as stand up paddlers. . . 

Hello Stand Up Paddlers,

    In a day when high performance stand up paddle surfboards are constantly on the evolution toward smaller and more maneuverable, after several sessions over the last two weeks, I have rediscovered the glide of a long and fast stand up paddle surfboard in a way reminiscent of the longboard resaissance that took place in the surfing industry not too long ago. And from what I've been hearing, I'm not alone.

   At the dawn of the modern stand up paddle revival over the last 5 years, stand up paddle surfboard designs were big, beefy and deemed high performance. The sport was not thought to be condusive to radical surfing but more for the soul. Bold moves by top shapers such and Ron House, Blane Chambers and others, quickly took SUP perfomance equipment to unprecedented heights opening the doors to more vertical surfing. The soul of the sport was not diminished in the slighest, however much of the foam and bulk in the equipment was. Many surfers, like myself quickly went to the the shortest equipment available.