Your Next Skill: Paddle Boarding for Teens
Find resources for learning how to paddle board. Below are several different resources--websites and streaming videos--which may help you begin learning how to paddle board.
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The Paddleboard Bible
With only a little knowledge and practice, pretty much anyone can get up and get moving on a paddleboard, and then there's no limit to where SUP can take you. This complete guide gives you everything you need to know to get started, and much more besides. All the basics are here, from fundamental equipment (a guide to boards, including bargain-priced inflatables, as well as paddles, clothing and simple safety gear) to essential techniques (getting on, getting moving and, just as importantly, landing and getting off). Along with challenges and games to play with your new paddleboarding buddies, the book explores places to go and things to see, from rivers and canals to coastlines and travel further afield. The book also explains all the important stuff you might need to understand about weather, tides, waves and currents.
Format: Book
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Standup Paddling Montana
This guidebook features maps detailing access points and color photos throughout. It also details logistics for multiday lake and river trips and discusses the transportability of standup paddleboards.
Format: Book
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Stand-up Paddleboarding
Overview of the popular sport of stand-up paddleboarding, its origins, and the equipment required.
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Paddling Britain
This new, unique guide from Bradt is the definitive guide to stand-up paddleboarding across British coastlines and inland waterways. Written by Lizzie Carr, aka Lizzie Outside, Britain's best known paddleboarder, it reveals the 50 best places to go paddleboarding, kayaking or canoeing in Britain, from Devon and Cornwall to Norfolk, Cumbria and the Cairngorms.
Format: Book
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Paddle Boarding articles from REI
Fourteen informative articles focusing on training, techniques and more on paddle boarding.
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Stand Up and Paddle
Paddleboarding is much more than just exercise. Like other types of exercise, if you over do it, injuries can happen, especially from the sport's repetitive motion. Balancing paddleboarding with an exercise that doesn't use the upper body can help people stay fit and also rest their upper bodies.
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How to Stand Up Paddle Board- Part 1: Safety - YouTube
In this instructional series, Robert Stehlik from Blue Planet Surf Shop in Honolulu, Hawaii teaches the basics of Stand Up Paddleboarding. This first part of the series covers safety: 1) Being aware of the conditions, 2) Using a leash 3) Being able to swim.
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3 Techniques All Stand Up Paddlers Should Know - YouTube
Learn the three key techniques that will make you a better, safer paddler.
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