State of the Sport 2015

[magentawave]

Good, cuz it's still a freaking sausage fest in the surf so I'm all for women getting into it.

When ever I go out in Mission Bay on a nice warm day or any other flat water spot it seems women make up at least half if not more amongst paddlers out that day.  If the biggest growth is in recreational flat water paddling and based on what I see, yeah 11 percent seems low and perhaps not very accurate.

On another note, how can we get more women and also more people of both genders under 40 to post on the Zone?

[clayfeeter]

Re: the state of sup today
I agree with Pono Bill (I think it was) who noted that the sport continues to surge at a steady growth.. not a lot of peaks and valleys... just how anything healthy moves.. including hurricane swells (you want them to build slowly and last)

...it IS nice, as someone posted, that people now know what sup is... and also that every single one of my two 23 and 26 yr old daughters' friends want to do it!

[magentawave]

Are you the same Clay Feeter that started a windsurfing magazine way back in the early to mid 80's?

Re: the state of sup today
I agree with Pono Bill (I think it was) who noted that the sport continues to surge at a steady growth.. not a lot of peaks and valleys... just how anything healthy moves.. including hurricane swells (you want them to build slowly and last)

...it IS nice, as someone posted, that people now know what sup is... and also that every single one of my two 23 and 26 yr old daughters' friends want to do it!

[PonoBill]

I can answer that--yes. And also Standup Journal Magazine, the first print SUP magazine.

[southwesterly]

... and don't forget Bay Area Boardsailer that morphed into California Boardsailer and finally into Wind Tracks.
Clay has done them all. Very well I might add.