How To Stand Up Paddleboard
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Starting out in Stand-up Paddleboarding is extremely exciting. There's so many benefits to this sport including physical and mental wellness, the ability to explore new places, and gaining access to the wonderful paddling community. However, figuring out how to stand up on a paddleboard for the first time can sometimes be a challenge for SUP newbies.
Have no fear, we're here to help! In this video, Bill, a seasoned SUP instructor of over 15 years and valued SUPBoardGuide contributor, will give an in depth lesson on how to stand up on a paddleboard for the first time. He'll also cover the basics of paddling technique, and share a few tips on paddleboarding safety and the necessary equipment.
So, how exactly do you get a successful start in stand-up paddleboarding?
First and foremost, you'll need to be safe by wearing your leash and a PFD. Then, you can focus on the basics: paddle orientation, paddling in the safety position, foot placement, successfully standing up, and turning and stopping.
Before even getting out onto the water, it's important to understand which way your paddle should be facing. Generally, you'll want your paddle blade to be angled towards the nose of your board to be working effectively.
Once you're familiar with your paddle, it's time to understand the safety position. Paddling on your knees (aka the safety position) is extremely useful when you encounter any sort of rough conditions, shallow/rocky water, or even in cases of fatigue. The most important thing to remember about the safety position is that it's best to hold the paddle down on the shaft, rather than keeping one hand on the top handle and potentially hurting your shoulder.
From the safety position, you can transfer into standing and paddling. This is made exponentially easier by knowing where and how to place your feet. For most boards, you'll want to place your feet on either side of the center handle, about hip width apart. You'll also want to make sure that your feet are parallel to each other (imagine your standing on a set of rail road tracks), rather than being splayed out like duck feet.
With correct foot placement, you can then begin to stand up by driving through your legs, rather than pulling up from your back. it should feel similar to doing a squat, not a straight legged deadlift. As you're standing, you'll also want to make sure to keep your head up and looking at a still point in the distance. This helps center weight over your feet, and ensures a more stable base as you move into the standing position.
As soon as you stand up, you'll want to immediately put your paddle in the water to improve your stability even further. Then, you can get on your way! When paddling, you'll want to make sure to place your paddle blade in the water up by the nose of the SUP and draw it back towards your toes, making sure to fully submerge the blade in the water.
The last thing you need learn before becoming a full on paddler is how to turn and stop your paddleboard. Turning your SUP can be done with either forward or backward sweep strokes. You'll place your paddle in the water by the nose or the tail and push outwards to turn your board around. Stopping is as easy as placing your paddle in the water behind you and pushing it forwards towards the nose of your board.
Once you've mastered these steps, you're well on your way to becoming a seasoned paddleboarder. For an even more detailed explanation, stick with us through our video. If you have any additional questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below!
0:00 How to Stand Up Paddleboard
1:01 Proper Stance and Paddle techniques
8:04 How to Paddle in a Safe Position
10:29 Tricks for Standing Up on a Paddleboard
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Loved your instructional video, can you tell me how long to make the handle? My hubby is 6'2" and Im 5'2"
Retired in Thailand, put my kayak to the side and just bought a paddle board. This video is absolutely professionalism at its best. An amazing tutorial in perfect confidence. Thankyou sir.
Great tips, thx. Def going to try the drill
Great video on an intro to SUP class and very thorough. 🤙
Very helpful tips! The "duck stance" was always my issue.
Excellent, very helpful. Nicely explained.
Brilliant
I'd say, what you missed teaching, was getting back on the board in deep water.
I tried standing up while bracing on the pier. When I added my last leg, I fell backward into the water 😢.
Not to paddle with the spoon side
Why is the turn initiated at the tail tighter than of you would push the paddle out at the front?
At 7:50
Great question! It's because the board is essentially pivoting around the fins (or in actual fact, a point somewhere between you and the fins, which is the centre of lateral resistance). It takes much less force to move the nose with the paddle at the front, but you don't actually get so much movement. When you push out at the tail you're getting much more pivot out of the turn, so it takes more force but gets more results. It's actually harder to explain than it is to do. As soon as you try it you'll feel the difference and understand.
🎉🎉🎉🎉thank you from lima,peru
I’m wondering how someone would get back on if they fell off while in deep water. Would be interesting to see. Does it take more than an average level of fitness to pull yourself back on?
Very good question. For a normal sized, normal fitness person, it's not a problem. You grab the handle in the middle, kick your feet high, and just pull yourself onto the board. However, for a larger person, and/or on a thicker (6") board, and/or with a buoyancy aid, it can get progressively harder. To the point where some people do find it hard, sometimes even impossible. There are various devices and tricks to facilitate getting back on, but the best advice is simply to experiment in shallow water first. If you can scramble on OK in chest deep water, then great, now try it without touching the bottom. But if you can't get on in chest deep water, then you really should't paddle any deeper until you've sorted this out.
Hold your breath for a few seconds with your face down in the water such that your body floats parallel to the paddleboard. Then slowly move both your feet over the paddleboard and climb on to it.
Weren’t the students holding the paddles backwards in the video when they were on the water?
@GTLee9 No, their paddles are very much the correct way round. Think of the paddle like a spoon, and you're pulling ice cream out of the tub with it.
Her leash is caught under the tail fins. Everything else was grand 👍
Hehe, well spotted! This is why it's always better to actually have an instructor on the water with you. Trying to shout directions from a hundred metres away (the camera very much foreshortens the distance) is never the best way, as important little details like this just aren't visible. (Until you view the footage afterwards, anyway...☺).
Is there a left-handed paddle or same as right as you paddle on both sides of board?
Hi Karen. The paddle is symmetrical in profile so it works equally well on either side of the board.
I've haven't SUP'd yet, but I suspect that if you simply told them to look where they want to go when paddling and "focus on the horizon" when standing up, things will become a lot more intuitive. Also, just as when kayaking, you want to pull yourself to your paddle, not pull the paddle back.
Why do you use the paddle that way
Do you mean, why do we use it with the blade angled forward, rather than back? The answer to this is because then the paddle blade is at a positive or neutral angle for most of the stroke, whereas if you have the blade angled back, it's at a negative angle for most of the stroke. Check out our video on how to improve your paddle technique for more explanation of this
Teaching on land is not intuitive, why not teach on the water?
@riceathome9072 because if a person can't do it on the land, they will never get it on the water. The land-based section of teaching someone to paddleboard is hugely valuable. It allows the person to find their way through the process, and gives them the best possible opportunity to actually process and understand what the instructor is telling them, via all the various different learning process (as per the VARK model; people learn by watching, by hearing about it, and by doing it), and just as importantly, it allows the instructor to learn about the student. How their body works, how mobile they are, what problems they are likely to encounter. Taking people straight onto the water and then trying to tell them what to do is vastly less efficient - and a whole lot less safe.
He's a terrible instructor omg