Here’s another video clip from the beach:
This time it’s two brothers, aged 9 and 12, who perform whatever is possible considering the waves at the beach weren’t that great 
So, reading this headline you must have thought this post is about yet another guy paddling standing in his W kayak, but this time it’s not…
Stand up paddle boards are becoming increasingly popular among surfers, which use special, extra-long single blade paddles to paddle and surf standing.
Jason Starr, from Vermont got himself a double-blade 9′ 4″ long Wavewalk paddle, and this is what he wrote us:
-”I’ve attached a photo of me using the paddle on a Stand Up Paddleboard near Rye, N.H. I really enjoyed having a paddle on both ends and think it’s an advantage over the single blade paddles. Especially when standing facing forward when paddling for speed or on flatwater.
-Jason”
As promised, Wavewalk is now offering new stand up paddles.
Our stand up paddle line includes single blade and double blade paddles.
SUP 7 and SUP 6.1 single blade stand up paddles
Tom and Jenny Buddington, from Florida, are continuing their exploration of their 2008 W Kayak’s performance envelope:
Today Jenny invented a new kayak surfing style that she called “W Kayak Tail Surfing” (temporary name, probably). To us it looks like surf dancing -Isn’t it super cool?
Photography: Tyler Buddington
A standup paddling board surfer asked me whether he could use his single blade, extra long standup paddle-surfing paddle for paddling a W Kayak. -Standup padding surf boards is becoming trendy in the board surfing community, and I find this question to be interesting.
Surfers’ paddles are single bladed and look like extremely long canoe paddles. They are usually made several inches longer than the paddle-surfer himself, and would work well for standup paddling a W Kayak. However, using such a long paddle would be uncomfortable in the lower W positions, which are riding (mounted), sitting and kneeling.
The picture below shows me demonstrating standup paddling in a W kayak using a single blade paddle made from one part of a Mohawk two-pieces double blade paddle equipped with the T-grip extension handle.
These single blade canoe paddles (or shortish standup paddle surfing paddles, if you prefer…) are 5′ 3″ or 5′ 1″ long, which makes them slightly longer than regular canoe paddles are. They are good enough for standup paddling – unless you’re exceptionally tall (I’m 6′). However, since these paddles are shorter than the surfers’ standup paddles they also work very well for the lower paddling positions, that is as a regular ‘canoeing’ paddles, which is what they were basically designed for.
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