We love hearing from our paddlers, especially when the reviews are 5 stars and glowing. Here are a selection of recent ones. If you have some time, please head to the link at the bottom of the article and leave an app review!

Are you ready to experience the excitement of stand-up paddle boarding (SUP)? From California’s sunny coasts to Florida’s beautiful lakes, SUP has become one of America's favorite water sports. Whether you’re looking for a peaceful paddle or an epic adventure, safety is essential. Here are some important paddle boarding safety tips to ensure your first outing is enjoyable, safe, and memorable.

Are you challenging yourself on the water? Try the 100/100 day challenge! 100km in 100 days with Paddle Monster.

You leave your home waters…your familiar pond where you know exactly where you stand…and discover you’re suddenly a minnow swimming in a VAST ocean.

Imagine being in a lush green valley in the heart of the Italian Alps, paddleboarding through forests, enchanting villages, and crystal-clear waters!

It was a dream come true for Nicola Volani at the end of April 2025, when, with river paddleboarding instructor Marco Prai, they ventured into the Valbrenta. We asked Nicola to share his adventure with us.

Stand-up paddleboarding would be in a very different place if we didn’t have inflatable boards; they’ve made the sport vastly more accessible and affordable. However, they have also brought a variety of interesting new potential problems to the world of boardsports. It’s easy to forget – but we shouldn’t – that an inflatable paddleboard is fundamentally a textile product. It is made of fabric. Unlike a hard board – which may be completely waterlogged and held together by little more than duct tape but it can still be paddled – inflatable boards are rather more binary in function. They’re either a paddleboard, or they’re a pile of wet PVC cloth and polyester thread. If your inflatable board suffers significant damage while you’re out on the water, that change of state from working board to wet cloth can occur very quickly – and your outlook for the immediate future will change equally  dramatically.

So - let’s find out how you can deal with it and self-rescue.

Continuing our mapping of UK Paddle Spots, we have been speaking to the awesome team at Paddle Cymru, who have curated a number of different trails and routes to try this year on their website. We have picked out a few famous inland routes and locations for you to explore this year!

In our latest excerpt from the series of SUP SAFETY books written by Bill Dawes,  National Safety Officer for stand up paddleboarding in New Zealand, we’re going to look at another paddleboarding emergency scenario and how to deal with it, utilising and building upon the processes covered in the previous blog articles in this series.

Dealing with an injury

The previous articles in this series can be accessed here  The article finished with a challenge - have a go at thinking through how the process would work in the event of a physical problem.  Something has gone wrong with you.  How would you deal with it? 

So here goes…

In our latest excerpt from the series of SUP SAFETY books written by Bill Dawes,  National Safety Officer for stand up paddleboarding in New Zealand, we’re going to put everything covered in the previous blogs into practice, in the context of a very typical paddleboarding problem scenario. Over to Bill…

Dealing with an equipment problem

In the earlier blogs in this series I’ve talked about the importance of considering what you’d do in a problem scenario before it actually happens, along with having a process for actually dealing with  problems  - the ‘GAGA’ acronym discussed in the previous blog. These two things (or the lack of) will very much determine how the problem plays out - which could be anywhere on a spectrum from minor inconvenience through to full blown emergency.  

One micro-adventure to some serious nautical mileage around the Irish coast! We invited Niall to give us an insight to what life is like on the water.