Slow Traffic

Could be that it's winter in the southern states?
Although i'll also add there are a lot less SUP surfers where I live than a few years back. Some have moved onto foils, many back to prone surfing.

The standupzone forum gets less hits than seabreeze imo...

It's also because it's the same old same old, no offence to people who are new to the sport or to this forum but it's just repetitive.

I think post on SUP media has dramatically decreased because of:
- less people SUP: a lot of experienced SUPer have "move" to foiling in all its forms
- SUP is not seen a "new intriguing thing to try", so few new people arrive.
- SUP has "matured", both in gear and technique, engaging in involved discussions seem not worth it as repetitive (as opposed to just drop a few words on facebook)

And for seabreeze specifically, I think the admin(s) misread their market: seabreeze seems designed for "instant chat": you cannot edit the posts after some time, searching is cumbersome, old threads tend to disappear from view (they even are auto-removed from your subscribed topics), there is no simple way to get the URL of a post, there is no RSS feed, ... . They promote present discussions rather than trying to build a knowledge base. This means it positions itself in the same ecological niche as facebook, instagram, etc... while being technically inferior (posting images, managing threads, ...), while suffering from the image problem of forums that spells "dinosaur" for a lot of people.

I must say I use a lot the Gong forum, as it can be used as a knowledge base (or a wiki). We can co-construct there posts that can be maintained, so on facebook we just have to posts links to it (e.g. to the Donaldson trailing edge), avoiding having to repeat oneselves constantly.
But even on the Gong forum, there is now 1 SUP post for 50 (if not 100) foil posts.

Ah !now I'm confused as well I go far enough back to associate the man in question,with the biku sponsorship logos on his red /black/and white Mactavish longboards ,he had a few from memory

I've had nothing to talk about because I haven't SUPed for 4 months ,
hit a sandbar and broke some bones doing stupid **** ,but we are still here greentea
once I am able to SUP again in 2 more months ,I promise to post some more vids .

I've been out of the water since March with a total shoulder replacement operation.

During that time with heaps of spare time I too noticed that the Sup forum traffic and posts has dramatically dropped off.

Even the buy and sell section has gone quiet........maybe winter quiet or the sport has slowed down in general.

I started 17 years ago in the early stages when the whole SUP world evolved in a super quick fashion and I think it has now peaked and slowed. Board design has plateaued as well IMO. Not many new and innovative designs to choose from atm . Many diy and local shapers seemed to have dropped off also.

Definitely less Sup riders at my local breaks now. (which is good)

Keep the stoke alive guys.

Forgot to mention that I'm back in the water finally 2 weeks ago since my op in March. Still got a fair way to go regarding rehab but still have the stoke for SUP riding. Watching guys sitting up to their armpits whinging about not getting enough waves whilst I am having a blast on my 10 footer makes me appreciate how lucky we are to be involved in this sport.

To get back on the board after 4 months is so good for the soul. Without SUP surfing I would never have been able to surf again.

Keep posting pics of your boards and fin setups and get some traffic up here again.

I'm sure Colas will reply with something interesting from his part of the world

sorry to hear that tardy, the neck is a slow heal be patient it will pay off in long run. Glad you weren't paralyzed, I hit my head on bottom once and came up with an arm I couldn't move, lucky for me it wasn't permanent.

At home we have a large variety of waves to surf, most are sup friendly, if there is swell you can normally find a wave. An ideal place to live and SUP. In the 10 years I've been on a sup, (after major back surgery), the number of people on SUP's have noticeably decreased. Some have gone to foils the others have just disappeared, and there are very, very few newcomers. In the meantime the number of longboarders have increased enormously. So maybe as those longboarders age and bodies deteriorate a new surge of suppers may slowly appear.
The problem with having fewer suppers around is there is less motivation for suppliers to carry sups and sup equipment, especially given the extra bulk of sups, and less motivation for producers to carry out r&d of sups. Whilst empty line ups are never a bad thing, they may well come at a cost

I enjoy and appreciate the posts there are here, thanks to the fellow breezers. For me the only place left. Still sup surfing when ever there are waves. Body surfing a bit too. Hope to get another camera to make more vids someday.