A good friend is getting paid to research the future of sport in Australia. He reckons there is trend toward pointless sports. He's asked for my opinion.
What do you reckon?
Will wave SUPing or razor scootering be a sport in the Rio 2016 Olympics? Why?
street sup and kite sup get my vote as the next olympic extreeeeeeeeeme sports.
high consequence, high skill, high public appeal.
But not quite...
if we want to know the future of sup, we should look at goat boats as an example
Which brings to mind a question;
Why are there no surf ski or bodysurfing forums on Seabreeze to cater for the throngs of participants in these aquatic disciplines?
SUP is already bigger than kiting.
Same person attracted to both: opinionated pseudo tech heads, unco, wealthy, never wrong, sooks.
Therefore the future is SUP.
Kiters don't get less whiny as they age! Soon you will all SUP.
Look at these gnarly mo fuggers! Freestyle SUP, soooooo damn radical, break out the fluoro.
Okay i will take the one on the right. Then again the one in the middle looks fun to.
But not quite...
But not quite...
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I believe that SUP will evolve by equipment improvements.
Importantly I believe that the standard SUP will evolve into two crafts which are more specialised and provide highly improved performance in their respective areas.
The lack of paddling speed may result in a streamlined craft that may look something like this:
The lack of Manoeuvrability while surfing a wave may result in a shorter, lighter design which may look something like this:
Lets get honest.
when we talk evolution. its obvious that things evolve out of the water and progress to land.
SUP is not only waves.. I'm sure that Flat water SUP is already bigger then SUP in the wave!
The Boss of a famous Surf brand one day told me: Remember Jankie! There are about 600.000 surfer in the world BUT there are more then 2 millions rowers...
Bye Jankie
Sups carnt do full roundhouse cutbacks on 24" IndoFLO Gigante' Balance Cushions.
Who thinks up the names for these things?
Confined to the photo albums of history.
Man, those guys could put together a strapped in with a seatbelt, pitched over in the lip, land headfirst upside down, go over again wipeout combo that had the whole line up ooooing and ahhhing (as in ooooo that must have f#@king hurt and ahhh, has anybody called an ambulance yet.)
