Extreme Sports

The Ladies Surf in Style in this year’s Duke Kahanamoku OceanFest Stand-Up Paddle Surfing held August 22nd and 23rd at Queens surf spot in Waikiki.

C4 Waterman, Honolua Surf and Blue Planet hosted the Stand-Up events for the men, children (juniors) and women.

The sport has grown leaps and bounds. This year’s event had 80 SUP surfers.

“I’m not surprised at all, to be honest” said Todd Bradley, one of the founders of the C4 Waterman company. “From the start, everybody we turned on to the sport got hooked.  So to see all these kids and women and new-comers to the sport … I think its just the beginning.”

Stand-Up Paddle Surfing- also known as SUP is the latest and fastest growing ocean sport. It combines the basic elements of two ocean sports canoe paddling and long-board surfing.

Women surf the SUP with style

In 2007 C4 Waterman’s first year hosting an open SUP event and only one women who surfed along side the men was Maui’s Tiare Lawrence. Ms. Lawrence was of the first female to try SUP surfing. Ms. Lawrence as an outrigger canoe paddler and, short boarder, and Tiare was hand picked as the first top acrobatic performer in the Hawaiian version of Cirque de Soleil at the Ulalena Theatre. When I first saw her surf her C4 SUP surfing in big waves at Makaha, I was like whoa!  I had ridden big waves for years, but this was a new angle of riding waves and Tiare was charging full on with a classic style in big waves with the boys.

Ms. Lawrence said “The fitness aspect is so rewarding.”  When you go surfing you are lying down most of the time, so you work two times more muscles than surfing when you are doing SUP.”  Read more...

In these recent years, ocean surfing has emerged as a popular water sports around the world. It is widely appreciated by children and adults of all ages. But, ocean sports without safety knowledge can be high risk and dangerous. Beginners like to enhance their understanding of surfing prior to participating in the Sports of the Hawaiian Kings. Therefore, the safety books are considered a condensed source to gain complete knowledge of surfing.

The ocean safety books encloses a brief history of surfing, followed by the complete necessary information about surfing. Besides that, it also contains many color illustrations along with the drawings of various surfers. They are included as entries.

The entries in these surfing books vary in length. These entries are not very long or complex to understand. The majority of the books are written in very simple and easy language to hold on the interest of all readers. It mainly serves the biographical pattern with some concerned surfing terms like lull, lip and tube ride. Thus, it tends to explain the safety rules and surfing tricks in a comprehensive manner.

These surfing books inspires the readers to watch surfing based movies by enlisting themselves into surf movies, videos, DVDs, surfing magazines, etc. References are given throughout the book to provide additional details to the readers. Thus, in a way, it leads to accelerate practical learning of ocean surfing.

The children surfing books widely supplements the ocean safety guidelines to the children. They impart the surfing knowledge to the children through illustrated history. Additionally, it provides the information about the science aqua world to enhance the interest of the children of “big waves”. These surfing books successfully impart the safety rules with the help of impressive photographs of surfing memorabilia, movie posters, album covers and pop arts. Thus, children’s surfing books captivates the young minds of the children to learn the surfing rules in an innovative manner.  Read more...

In these recent years, ocean surfing has emerged as a popular water sports around the world. It is widely appreciated by children and adults of all ages. But, ocean sports without safety knowledge can be high risk and dangerous. Beginners like to enhance their understanding of surfing prior to participating in the Sports of the Hawaiian Kings. Therefore, the safety books are considered a condensed source to gain complete knowledge of surfing.

The ocean safety books encloses a brief history of surfing, followed by the complete necessary information about surfing. Besides that, it also contains many color illustrations along with the drawings of various surfers. They are included as entries.

The entries in these surfing books vary in length. These entries are not very long or complex to understand. The majority of the books are written in very simple and easy language to hold on the interest of all readers. It mainly serves the biographical pattern with some concerned surfing terms like lull, lip and tube ride. Thus, it tends to explain the safety rules and surfing tricks in a comprehensive manner.

These surfing books inspires the readers to watch surfing based movies by enlisting themselves into surf movies, videos, DVDs, surfing magazines, etc. References are given throughout the book to provide additional details to the readers. Thus, in a way, it leads to accelerate practical learning of ocean surfing.

The children surfing books widely supplements the ocean safety guidelines to the children. They impart the surfing knowledge to the children through illustrated history. Additionally, it provides the information about the science aqua world to enhance the interest of the children of “big waves”. These surfing books successfully impart the safety rules with the help of impressive photographs of surfing memorabilia, movie posters, album covers and pop arts. Thus, children’s surfing books captivates the young minds of the children to learn the surfing rules in an innovative manner.  Read more...

The Ladies Surf in Style in this year’s Duke Kahanamoku OceanFest Stand-Up Paddle Surfing held August 22nd and 23rd at Queens surf spot in Waikiki.

C4 Waterman, Honolua Surf and Blue Planet hosted the Stand-Up events for the men, children (juniors) and women.

The sport has grown leaps and bounds. This year’s event had 80 SUP surfers.

“I’m not surprised at all, to be honest” said Todd Bradley, one of the founders of the C4 Waterman company. “From the start, everybody we turned on to the sport got hooked.  So to see all these kids and women and new-comers to the sport … I think its just the beginning.”

Stand-Up Paddle Surfing- also known as SUP is the latest and fastest growing ocean sport. It combines the basic elements of two ocean sports canoe paddling and long-board surfing.

Women surf the SUP with style

In 2007 C4 Waterman’s first year hosting an open SUP event and only one women who surfed along side the men was Maui’s Tiare Lawrence. Ms. Lawrence was of the first female to try SUP surfing. Ms. Lawrence as an outrigger canoe paddler and, short boarder, and Tiare was hand picked as the first top acrobatic performer in the Hawaiian version of Cirque de Soleil at the Ulalena Theatre. When I first saw her surf her C4 SUP surfing in big waves at Makaha, I was like whoa!  I had ridden big waves for years, but this was a new angle of riding waves and Tiare was charging full on with a classic style in big waves with the boys.

Ms. Lawrence said “The fitness aspect is so rewarding.”  When you go surfing you are lying down most of the time, so you work two times more muscles than surfing when you are doing SUP.”  Read more...