| Dry SUP // Session 21 April 2011 By: Andrew Cassidy Location: Western NSW What do you do when you are stuck 400 kilometres from the nearest ocean and yearning the feeling of pulling into a powerful bottom turn while leaning on your paddle ... hit the tarmac on a street SUP, of course. I was lucky enough to win a Kahuna Creations Street SUP skatey and accompanying Kahuna Bamboo Big Stick the other week in a raffle and thought it might come in handy on this trip to western NSW. I was right. After five days out of the briny, I was ready for a SUP fix, well and truly ready. It is a good thing that street SUPing is quite a close cousin to real SUP surfing - bottom turns, cutbacks and even power slides can be performed while imagining you are on a wave. Even 'paddling' back up hill can be correlated to flatwater paddling (the stroke is slightly different but similar muscle groups are used). The kids even got on board (pun intended) and excelled with little or no previous skateboarding experience. The Big Stick's extra balance point provided an enhanced level of confidence and a truck load of stoke. Thanks Kahuna Street SUP - you saved the day!         | |
