2010 Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championship

Post Independant Sat. May 29th:

Stand Up Paddlers Return to Glenwood

The 2010 Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championship was held Memorial Day (May 31) in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This one of a kind event features the world’s best river stand up paddlers displaying their paddling prowess on the snowmelt swollen Colorado River.

Photos by Ryan Guay

The river stand up paddle event starts with a downriver race from Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs down to South Canyon. This fast and furious whitewater 6+ mile (approx) balancing act launches with a mass start. Next up is a new and exciting event called SUPCROSS.  This event (run similarly to boardercross races on snow), features heats of competitors paddling intensely upriver then pealing into the current and charging downstream.  To spice up the action, this all out sprint includes an eddy turn at a C4 Waterman flag midway down a river right channel of the raging Colorado River.

River Stand Up Paddle

The championship’s culmination will be a surfing contest on the world famous wave at the Glenwood Springs Whitewater Park. The champion(s) will be determined by a point system with scoring accrued during the 3 events. After the surf contest, everyone will head back to the Two Rivers Park for the award ceremony at the park’s stage…and then its time to celebrate!

While visiting this site, don’t forget to check out the promo video for RiverSUP. In addition to being a great visual lesson on how to stand up paddle in whitewater, RiverSUP contains outrageous action and a bonus movie featuring amazing footage from last year’s Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championship. You can also order the DVD via links from this site. We’ll see you on the river!

NEW RiverSUP DVD!

River Stand Up Paddle

A revolutionary new DVD. This unique production is the first DVD to focus exclusively on the challenging and invigorating sport of stand-up paddling (SUP) on whitewater rivers.  Stand up paddle surfing has burgeoned in popularity around the world and now a dedicated crew of Rocky Mountain river-rats have taken the sport from its roots at the ocean into an entirely new realm.

River stand-up pioneer Charlie MacArthur and Paul Tefft from EnviroAction Productions have teamed up with C4 Waterman to produce this cutting-edge DVD.  RiverSUP is multi-faceted - part instructional and part action/adventure entertainment.  Concise clips and accurate explanations take the aspiring SUP river paddler from the ins and outs of mellow river paddling to the advanced techniques of paddling class II & III rapids. Viewers will learn how to read rapids, peel in and out of the current, make dynamic eddy turns, perform river specific paddle techniques, and surf endless river waves.

River Stand Up Paddle

RiverSUP also includes five bonus movies including a segment on the world’s first river stand up paddling championship and a scenic and exciting photo video adventure. It's time to join the world’s most experienced river stand-up paddlers in this one-of-a-kind action and instruction adventure.

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