WINDSURF Colombia: StandUP Paddle Surfing (SUP) Colombia

Jim Brewer admiring a leaping Colombian whale

OUTSIDE MAGAZINE:

For those that have not heard about Stand Up Paddle Surfing (also known as SUP for short), the sport has quickly become one of the fastest growing sports in the world. SUP began when legendary Hawaiian surfers / windsurfers like Laird Hamilton, Robby Naish and Dave Kalama started experimenting with the sport several years back.

The sport uses a more floaty type of surfboard (SUP board) that is stable enough to support a surfer standing up on it. Then the surfer uses a paddle to propel themselves forward.

What has made it so popular is that SUP can be done in the waves, but also in lakes, canals, rivers....basically any body of water, plus the paddling is great cardiovascular exercise.

Colombia was just discovered by the SUP press in the United States.
Colombia gets featured on the front cover of the December 2010 issue of STANDUP PADDLE MAGAZINE, as well as a photo in the back-cover of the December 2010 issue of OUTSIDE Magazine.

This is all thanks to the Blueline Paddlesurf Team out of Santa Barbara, California.

Jim Brewer, Peter Trow, Matt Becker and legendary surf photographer Dan Merkel made the trip to Nuqui in Colombia's Pacific Coast. They stayed at EL CANTIL Ecolodge and surfed the "Pico de Loro" break. They got to interact with some of the thousands of humpback whales that visit the warm waters of the Colombian coast from July to November to breed.

Check out the hypnotic video here and some screenshots below:

Colombia SUP / Blueline, Paddle Surf Hawaii from Peter Trow on Vimeo.

Peter Trow in front of the surf cave