Many people paddle for social and leisure purposes, but if you’re paddling frequently to improve your fitness or training for an event you might find it interesting to hear how resting more can improve your paddling. The three core pillars of sports performance are training, nutrition and recovery. In recent years, getting good quality sleep has been recognised as a key tool to improve athletic performance. We know that sleep is an important part of resting and recovering from your training, but why exactly does sleep help, what happens if you aren’t sleeping enough and what can you do to maximise the quality of your sleep?

Gdynia, Poland. A beachside location which had calm water protected by a marina for sprint racing, and open water into the Baltic Sea perfect for the long distance and technical racing.

The safety advice contained within the Radar is designed to help you enjoy Coastal environments safely. I live on the coast and it was becoming more and more obvious that the wind was both my friend and a foe.

Save the Waves is an organisation that works in coalition with diverse organizations around the world with a common aim to protecting surf ecosystems.

We are paddlers, waterways and our oceans are where we play. It is our responsibility to both reduce our impact on these spaces, as well as look to improve these spaces for future generations. Every time you finish a paddle using Paddle Logger you will now have the ability to log environmental threats via the Save the Waves App.

Samantha Rutt became the first woman to cross the North Channel, a notorious stretch of water from Northern Ireland to Scotland, where the waters from two oceans merge to create unique conditions to paddle and navigate – Sam did it in style, with a new (unofficial) Guinness World Record of 5 hrs and 3 minutes – in this candid interview with PL Crew Sarah Thornely, she talks about what makes her tick on the water and off:

On Wednesday April 27th our Starboard SUP North American team left in the middle of the night to drive to Wrightsville Beach North Carolina. From Canada it was about a twelve and a half hour drive. I slept for most of the way. When I woke up, all I could see was greenery along the highway. I rolled my window down and breathed in the salt air. My heart began to beat faster as I knew we were approaching our destination.

LONDON, UK, 15 February, 2022: Paddle Logger, a multi-award winning mobile app for paddle sports, has been included in the list of finalists for two awards at the 2022 Sports Technology Industry Awards.

On Wednesday, 24th of November 2021 we were stoked to launch the new Seabin installed in Falmouth Harbour. The launch was covered by BBC News, The Falmouth Packet and got a shout-out here at minute 44!

The installation is part of the Harbour's 150th Anniversary pledge to be at the forefront of green innovation to protect the harbour and its unique natural environment and habitats, and part-funded by Paddle Logger.

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.