So you’re thinking of learning to stand up paddleboard in Sydney? Congratulations! You’re making great life choices. This is definitely something you won’t regret! However before you jump in the deep end (literally!) here are a 4 things you should consider before you learn to stand up paddleboard in Sydney.

As we approach the cooler half of the year here in Australia, I start receiving a lot of questions about how to keep warm! I have a whole blog post coming on what to wear on your body, but to kick things off (…pun intended) I thought we’d start with our feet!

Every Halloween we like to be ‘unique’ in our dress-up theme. In 2021 it was ‘Disco Ain’t Dead’, in 2022 it was ‘Creatures of the DEAD Sea’ and in 2023 it was… BARBIE.

The Barbie movie took the world by storm this year and I knew we had to honour its iconic presence with a Barbie themed paddle at some point in the year, and so Halloween felt like the perfect fit.

Our community of paddlers are a creative bunch and always seem to come up with the most incredible costumes… and this year, once again, they did not disappoint.

If you have tried to purchase SUP gear, whether it’s a stand-up paddle board or simply a dry bag, have you been overwhelmed by choice and SUP jargon? Yup. Me too. 

I’ve also unfortunately witnessed hundreds of women sold the wrong gear by salespeople who didn’t care for the paddler’s needs or SUP goals, but were only concerned about the sale. The number of times I hear “oh the sales guy just told me I needed it, and I didn’t know any better” infuriates me. 

I have always been (and will always be) passionate about empowering female identifying individuals and gender minorities with knowledge to enable them to feel confident and empowered in an industry that for decades was male-dominated.

I never wished to be a retail-based business, but seeing an opportunity where I could once again serve this mission and support more female paddlers, I was excited to take it. 

And so, The She SUPs Edit came to be.

One of the most common questions we receive is;

“Am I experienced enough for XXX trip?”

In most circumstances, the answer is yes!

But to make things a little easier, we have created a rating system (as a guide) to help you work out what SUP and fitness levels we recommend for each trip to ensure you have a super fun and comfortable experience.

Let’s do this a little differently.

Mothers Day is approaching, and I know for many who have lost a Mum or aren’t Mums when they wish they could be it can be a difficult time. Having lost my dad at a young age, I sometimes struggle with the fuss made around Fathers Day, so if this is you, I get it.

So to start this blog I want to reframe who this Gift Guide is for. I googled lots of definitions around Mother (as it’s also a complex word) and I found that; Mothers give birth to something, they love something, they raise something, they support something grow. So if you have birthed an idea, raised an animal, helped a plant grow - you are a Mother and deserve to be spoiled this Mother’s Day!

So this is a gift guide for YOU! Make sure to send this post onto your other half/ relatives/ siblings or partners who may like to spoil you this Mothers Day…

With recreational stand-up paddleboarding experiencing an almighty boom in popularity during the pandemic years, many paddlers have now been stand-up paddling recreationally for 1-2 years and are looking for their ‘next step’. For many, this means it’s time for a board upgrade (woo!), but when you start to look into the different models of paddleboard things get a little overwhelming!

You may have heard that a common ‘next step’ for most paddlers is to upgrade to a touring SUP, but what is a touring board? And should you get one? Let’s break it down.

Stand-up paddleboarding is one of those sports where in order to progress, you need to continuously step outside of your comfort zone. Once you’re up, standing, paddling away on flatwater, getting outside of your comfort zone can be challenging because you get ‘comfortable’ with what you know. However, it’s not until you take that leap, that you realise what lies ahead. A whole new world of endless SUP opportunities in new conditions, or new locations, that now you feel confident tackling.

During the SUP season wind forecasting apps are the first thing I look at when I wake up, and the last thing I look at before I sleep. Some may even perceive me as wind obsessed!

However this season (particularly this Summer and Autumn) I would be a rich woman (spending my money by paddleboarding my way around the most exotic places in the world) if I had a dollar for every time I spoke of the rain!

We’ve had a lot of rain over the last 6 months.

If you don’t live on the East Coast of Australia, let me tell you… it’s been wet.

Like, seriously wet.

Like, time to build an ark kinda wet…

And this is due to the La Niña weather system.