Balance on a paddle board is not strength. It is a set of small ankle and hip corrections your body …
A waterproof waist pack solves the small problem that ruins paddling days: where to put a phone, a key and …
A paddle bag is a fifteen dollar item that protects a piece of equipment costing five times as much. Blades …
A paddler stays mostly dry until the moment they do not. That is the whole problem a wetsuit has to …
A wing is a handheld inflatable sail. You hold it, the wind pulls, and the board underneath does the rest. …
A drysuit is the piece of kit that decides whether paddling is a summer hobby or a year round one. …
Legwear is the part of paddling kit people think about last and regret first. Standing on a board puts your …
A paddle board seat turns a board into a slow, stable kayak. That is the honest description, and it is …
A paddle board on the garage floor is a paddle board you trip over, lean things against and eventually damage. …
Most dogs can swim. Very few can swim for twenty minutes in cold water, in a current, next to a …
A repair kit is the piece of equipment you resent buying and then use on a Sunday afternoon two hundred …
A fin is the cheapest part of your board and the one that decides how it paddles. Lose it in …
Getting the board to the water is the part of paddle boarding nobody photographs, and the part where things actually …
The leash is the cheapest piece of safety equipment you own and the one most often bought badly. A board …
Waterproof is the easy part. Every camera on this page survives being dropped in a lake. What separates them on …
A swim buoy is a bright bag of air on a waist belt, and it does two jobs that paddlers …
An anchor is the accessory that turns a paddle board into a platform. Without one, fishing, swimming or simply eating …
Almost nobody paddles in shoes. The footwear question is really about the ten metres before and after: the slipway covered …
Paddling gloves solve two completely different problems, and buying the wrong type is why so many pairs end up unused …
An inflatable board almost never fails catastrophically. What happens is a slow leak: firm on Saturday, soft by Sunday afternoon, …
A life vest is the one piece of paddle boarding kit you hope never to need. On flat water it …
A speaker on a paddle board has one job the marketing never mentions: surviving the moment it goes in the …
A phone in a pocket on a paddle board is a phone with a countdown on it. You will fall …
A carry strap turns a board that has to be dragged into one that hangs off your shoulder while you …
