We had quite a few of our users and members of our Paddle Logger Paddle Club tell us that they tracked their participation at Chattajack with Paddle Logger and they all did so awesomely we thought they deserved a shout-out on our website!

When I decided I wanted to go to the ICF 2021 SUP World Championships, I didn’t anticipate still being in the midst of a global pandemic. Travelling in the current climate isn't easy, but flying with a very fragile 14' race board to a country where you're supposed to quarantine for ten days upon entry and then find your way to a town two hours from the airport felt almost impossible. Despite that, one of my goals this year was to race internationally and I was determined to make it happen. I travelled with Blue Ewer who was also competing for Team GB, and my boyfriend Jaime as support crew. After nearly more hiccups than my stress levels could cope with en route, we eventually made it to Balatonfüred in Hungary.

The UK boasts an approximate 7,600km of navigable canals and rivers and as much as 240,000km of rivers and streams throughout. 161 of the UK’s rivers and streams are classified as chalk streams - a unique and extremely nutrient rich source of clean drinking water that are born in underground chalk aquifers and springs, and provide an ideal breeding ground for abundant wildlife, making up an 85% of all chalk streams worldwide.

For me, the most exciting part of every paddle is the wildlife I encounter along the way. Over the years I’ve had some amazing wildlife encounters whilst out paddling, from stingrays in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds, to grey seals, barrel jellyfish, and giant blue fin tuna right here in the UK.

The ocean is what keeps the planet alive. It regulates the climate, absorbs CO2 and is a source of livelihood and nutrition for billions of people. But did you know that 8 million pieces of plastic make their way into the ocean every day? To put that into perspective, that equates to one garbage truck full of plastic being emptied into the ocean every single minute, and only 1% of it floats - the rest sinks to the bottom of the sea. On UK beaches alone, there are approximately 5000 pieces of plastic and 150 plastic bottles to be found per square mile.

I am so fortunate that I get to spend as much time on the water as I do now. Especially while I have Paddle Logger along for the ride with me, it’s even harder now to take me off the water than ever before. Believe it or not, my life around water wasn’t always this way. During my childhood I was always outside, but didn’t spend a lot of time near the water, unless it was my backyard pool. When I tell people this, most of them are shocked. They say to me “How is that possible!? You basically spend every waking minute on the water!”

Personally I have been using Black Project Fins and Paddles for SUP for the past couple of years now and highly rate the equipment and innovation that Chris is putting out. Whenever we are testing Paddle Logger we always ensure that before updates are released a certain amount of on water testing is done. Putting the app through its paces in the real world. More often than not it means me heading out for a few hours in varying conditions checking everything is working as we expect and ensuring that what we have theorised is easy to use and makes sense for the paddler. Naturally the use of Black Project equipment has become a part of that testing process.

While none of us ever really need an excuse to get out on the water, there’s nothing like a challenge to up the motivation levels, and help us improve as individual paddlers. In partnership with Paddle Monster, we have three active challenges at the moment that you can get involved in to start upping your game today.

This series is a collection of short videos packed with tips to help paddlers of all abilities progress and learn. Covering two primary areas of safety and skills, these bi-weekly videos focus on a specific element and give you some useful tips and knowledge to either refresh your memory or take away as a new skill.

The UK Virtual TT 2021 is a series designed to keep paddlers paddling! Aiming for incremental performance gains over a regular time period.

The event cycle will consist of 3 weeks of training culminating in an event entry week