Sup Madness

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010  Posted by stuart

The SUP crew (Stand Up Paddle surfers ) held a contest at Sunset Beach a few days ago and it was pretty border line on weather anyone really should have been out there. A very large west swell pushed the take off zone well over to Kammies which made for some interesting rides not to mention some pretty gnarly cleanups of the surfers who were paddling out. Think of the way a bowling ball knocks down pins and you’ll get a fairly accurate idea of what it looked like when the huge west sets rolled through and cleaned the place up. A couple of riders came close to drowning in the heavy conditions and it was eventually called off. Apparently, they did run the remaining heats a couple of days later, but conditions were so crappy, I didn’t shoot it. Here are some images from the couple of heats that I photographed.