Here are some of our teaching videos about SUP, which hopefully you will find useful. Click here to view just the SUP COACH SHARES youtube shorts vids.
The longer-form videos were made in conjunction with American magazine supboardguide.com. There are also many written articles from us on their blog pages.
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Improve your paddleboarding technique by using your ears
Listening to your SUP paddling tells you a whole lot about how efficient your paddle stroke is, as we explain in this video short.
Understanding Paddle Board Shapes and Sizes
The paddleboard market can seem very confusing, a veritable jungle of numbers, measurements, parameters, shapes and sizes. Information overload - what do they all mean and which ones actually matter? In this video, we’ll go through the various factors one by one and help you understand and make sense of them all, utilizing a wide array of boards from our test locker, to help illustrate the parameters, and allow you to see what the differences actually look like. The boards are all inflatables, because they’re much easier to compare and contrast as they all have the same underwater and rail shape.
Is a waist mounted beltpack PFD a good option for stand up paddleboarding?
Wearing a buoyancy aid is a legal requirement for stand up paddleboarding in many parts of the world. In other videos we've discussed the permanent-flotation style of lifejacket, which always work but do have some disadvantages for paddleboarding. The other popular option for SUP is the beltpack style of inflatable PFD (personal flotation device). These have many advantages, and for the competent paddler in warm weather they're a great option. However, they are most definitely not the right option for everyone, as we discuss in this video.
The importance of paddling efficiently
What's the very best thing you can do to improve your paddleboarding? Hint - it's not going to the gym, nor buying faster equipment. Sup coach online sets out the arguments why the most important aspect of improvement is so often the one that gets the least attention.
How Improve Your Balance On a Paddleboard
For some people, stand up paddle boarding comes super easily, while for others, it can feel like more of a challenge even after a couple of sessions. If you\'re part of the latter group, don\'t worry; there\'s loads of things you can do to improve your balance on a paddleboard. In this video, we\'ll be going over a few tips and tricks to get you feeling comfortable, secure, and confident on your SUP.
Most Common Beginner Mistakes
If you’re teaching yourself to paddleboard, you’re very likely to end up making a few mistakes. There are some traps and pitfalls that are so easy to fall into, and we see them on the water every time we go paddling. While many of the mistakes shown here may not seem particularly serious, they do make it harder to paddle and also do have safety implications, because they reduce your paddling efficiency. You’re doing more work for less reward, or in some cases simply not able to paddle with any speed or power. Which can be dangerous if you need to get back to the shore in a hurry, perhaps because the weather has changed or some other problem has arisen. In this video, Bill runs through some of the most common mistakes he encounters in his 15+ years of coaching. Watch this vid before you start paddleboarding and you’ll save yourself a whole lot of hassle. If you’re recently new to the sport then check it out and make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes.
how straight should your top arm be when you are stand up paddleboarding?
Should your top arm be straight or bent? There’s a lot of conflicting advice about this, because a few years back you’d always see top racers with straight arms. But - as with so many aspects of SUP - what top racers do is absolutely not what recreational paddlers should be doing. And indeed, the pendulum has swung back anyway and now many top paddlers have some bend in their top arm. So what’s right, and what’s not? We’ll try and explain in this video.
Understanding SUP Board Lengths
Paddleboards come in many lengths. So what difference does it make, and what is the right length for you? SUP COACH explains all...
How to get more of a balance workout on your paddleboard, whatever size it is
Stand up paddleboarding is a fantastic way of improving your balance. But there's a really simple way to greatly increase the intensity of the balance workout your paddleboarding is giving you, whatever board you're on. Check this out next time you're out for a paddle, you'll be amazed how powerful it is!
top technique tips to stop your stand up paddleboard turning so much
For so many stand up paddleboarders this is one of the most frustrating things - why does my board turn so much when I'm paddling? In other sup coach shorts we've looked at many of the reasons - do check those videos out if this is a subject you want to know more about. In this video we look at a couple of the main paddle technique issues that are responsible for the problem.