Water Sports
Standup Paddleboard Racing: The Basics
So, you know how to hold the paddle correctly, have paddled for an hour or so multiple times, and can get through a session without falling off. Why not try your first standup paddle race?
Get what you need and learn how to fish this year
Julie Sprinkle—a fly fishing guide and the buyer for one Colorado fishing shop—provides expert gear-buying advice for female anglers.
That Damn Wave
Woman-to-woman instruction is just what Hannah Nordhaus needed to master surfing. At a women’s camp in el Salvador, she fine-tuned her skills and discovered the details that helped her catch those damn waves.
Fear and Anticipation
Soon, I’ll race 5,800 miles across the deepest, most powerful ocean in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Today, I’m surrounded by my gear packed in waterproof bags: oilskin trousers, sailing boots, baselayers, and enough granola bars to last five weeks. But those aren’t the only essentials I’ll carry with me.
Meet Bev Sanders
In 1997, Bev Sanders realized she was learning to surf the hard way—bobbing in the shore-pound, on the wrong board, all alone.
First Riverboarding Descent of the Sun Kosi River, Nepal
Vera Saulino tells of her intrepid expedition riverboarding down the Sun Kosi River, Nepal.
Around the World in 850 Days
With arms and legs like pistons, mental endurance to last a lifetime, and only one weakness (Mars bars), Sarah Outen paddles the world round in memory of her father—but also to prove she can.
A River Ran Me Out of Town
This is what it feels like to be sucked out of a raft and pulled underwater: First, the shock, and the rug-ripped-out-from-under-you feeling of confusion and losing your way. Next, a lung-burning squeeze in your chest as every particle of air is pushed out. Last, usually right before you break the surface, you go limp, giving in to wherever the current is pushing you. It could be up, but it might be down.
Row For Freedom
On December 4, six women will depart from the Canary Islands to row 3,00 miles unaided in the fastest trans-Atlantic row ever recorded.
Afraid No More
As I lay there, face down on the bottom of the passage, I reveled in the quietude of my breath under trillions of gallons of seawater. I was alone and I was content. I knew they would be searching for me and with any luck, they’d find me before my teeth started to chatter.
No Such Thing As Smooth Sailing When Racing ’Round Around the World
The pace of our training is the first challenge. I start slowly and clumsily; putting my thumbs in the wrong places and struggling to manhandle ropes into messy half-remembered knots. When your life depends on that knot, you’ve got to know it instinctively. The ocean doesn’t give you a second chance because you’re a beginner.
Water Sports Meet Namaste in San Diego
Standup paddleboard yoga is the newest trend in fitness and spiritual health. It’s how water sports say “namaste” and, according to Gillian Gibree of San Diego’s Paddle Into Fitness, it’s where yoga meets nature in its finest form.
