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New exciting sport in Perth

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Created by felixdcat > 9 months ago, 5 Jun 2012
felixdcat
WA, 3519 posts
5 Jun 2012 2:41PM
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Last night on today tonight! Guess what is it......






















SUP the Swan River and yoga on a SUP............. must be soooooooooooooo exciting dead flat water!
I guess they are where they should be!

Yes the no news TT reached new hights!!!!!!

Gwendy
SA, 472 posts
5 Jun 2012 7:30PM
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There's some girls doing SUP yoga I see some mornings



Quite a good spectator sport I reckon.

poor relative
WA, 9106 posts
5 Jun 2012 8:33PM
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Who cares.
Some people play lawn bowls ad think its exciting who am i to judge.
Better than sitting on your arse watching Oprah and eating maccas.

pierrec45
NSW, 2005 posts
5 Jun 2012 11:38PM
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poor relative said...

Who cares.
Some people play lawn bowls ad think its exciting who am i to judge.
Better than sitting on your arse watching Oprah and eating maccas.

I agree, live and let live.
Any activity or sport is good.

And if there are a couple of good looking chicks out there, that much the better

bobajob
QLD, 1535 posts
6 Jun 2012 1:52PM
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felixdcat said...

Last night on today tonight! Guess what is it......






















SUP the Swan River and yoga on a SUP............. must be soooooooooooooo exciting dead flat water!
I guess they are where they should be!

Yes the no news TT reached new hights!!!!!!


They could report on "The Voice", because ACA haven't done that enough!

surf4fun
WA, 1313 posts
7 Jun 2012 11:37PM
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I used to share your sentiment about flat water paddling, then last year decided to throw down a bit of a challenge to myself and paddle the 111km Hawkesbury Canoe Classic, funnily enough on the Hawkesbury just north of Sydney. Never before had I realised the potential of the Swan, but when you start paddling from Freo to Guildford as a training run you start to lookat the river in another light. I now train at least three times a week on the river and it keeps meout of trouble and out of the gym.

felixdcat
WA, 3519 posts
8 Jun 2012 10:34AM
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surf4fun said...

I used to share your sentiment about flat water paddling, then last year decided to throw down a bit of a challenge to myself and paddle the 111km Hawkesbury Canoe Classic, funnily enough on the Hawkesbury just north of Sydney. Never before had I realised the potential of the Swan, but when you start paddling from Freo to Guildford as a training run you start to lookat the river in another light. I now train at least three times a week on the river and it keeps meout of trouble and out of the gym.

Paddling a canoe must be fun, you have a natural paddling position IMO as you are sitting and surely must be a lot more enjoyable than SUP. I prefer to use the power of the wind to move on water, it is where I get my excitment! When I was 13 my dad bought me a canoe and it had a little gaff type of sail with a jib and it is how I learnt sailing.......... paddling never really appealed to me. i did a lot of down hill ski and I tried once nordic ski IMO it could be to ski what SUP could be to surfing, could never be excited doing nordic ski!

dusta
WA, 2940 posts
8 Jun 2012 2:55PM
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sup racing looks about as exciting as this

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Tandem-Race-Board/

surf4fun
WA, 1313 posts
8 Jun 2012 10:52PM
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felixdcat said...

surf4fun said...

I used to share your sentiment about flat water paddling, then last year decided to throw down a bit of a challenge to myself and paddle the 111km Hawkesbury Canoe Classic, funnily enough on the Hawkesbury just north of Sydney. Never before had I realised the potential of the Swan, but when you start paddling from Freo to Guildford as a training run you start to lookat the river in another light. I now train at least three times a week on the river and it keeps meout of trouble and out of the gym.

Paddling a canoe must be fun, you have a natural paddling position IMO as you are sitting and surely must be a lot more enjoyable than SUP. I prefer to use the power of the wind to move on water, it is where I get my excitment! When I was 13 my dad bought me a canoe and it had a little gaff type of sail with a jib and it is how I learnt sailing.......... paddling never really appealed to me. i did a lot of down hill ski and I tried once nordic ski IMO it could be to ski what SUP could be to surfing, could never be excited doing nordic ski!




About 3/4 of the way through all the canoers and kyakers would paddle past and say how much they wish they could stand up and after 10 hours (15:30 all together) all I wanted to do was sit down!

Funny you mention nordic skiing as I started to do a bit of it when I was living in Canada for three reasons: to get me out and moving for fitness, another thing to do and good prep for backcountry touring.

dinsdale
WA, 1227 posts
10 Jun 2012 4:31PM
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dusta said...

sup racing looks about as exciting as this
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Tandem-Race-Board/

That thing looks outstandingly exciting to me. I reckon it'd be a hoot.

Gorgo
VIC, 5127 posts
12 Jun 2012 1:49PM
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felixdcat said...
...... paddling never really appealed to me. i did a lot of down hill ski and I tried once nordic ski IMO it could be to ski what SUP could be to surfing, could never be excited doing nordic ski!




It depends what excites you.

I used to do heaps of back country skiing and cruising the trails at the cross country resorts. I have had some of my most pleasurable and fun experiences alone on the trails. Conversely, skiing or boarding on porridge sludge, standing in a lift queues with crowds of people (some of who are seriously horrible people), spending hundreds for the privilege. I know what I prefer.

SUP is the same. It feels good. It gets you into places you would not be able to get into in any other way. It's fun.



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