SUP: Stand Up Paddle Surfing is Debuting in the Mountain Rivers

I had only ever seen stand up paddlers (SUP) paddling around the water in the gorgeous beach towns of California and Hawaii and it hadn’t occurred to me that this could be the next whitewater river sport.

However the Teva Mountain Games and C4 Waterman (a sweet company that makes stand up paddling gear) has introduced this sport to Colorado that embraces the essence of surfing with the challenge of paddle sports!

This was the first time the Teva Mountain Games has had this unique competition and it looks fun! It is a wild mix of endurance, core strength, and maybe some crazy mixed in.



And if SUP wasn’t challenging enough check out the two time tandem surfing champs that were “playing around” in the huge flooded Colorado river at Glenwood Springs, CO where the Teva games were held. It was wild at the Games!



So any place in Steamboat with SUP boards? Well it is a newer sport to Colorado but the crew at Boardom Bound have been playing around with them and can take you out on the lake and more. This might be the next sport you will have to master!