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Stand Up Paddle => SUP General => Topic started by: oceanAddict on August 03, 2021, 04:59:06 PM
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With all these discussion about SUP as a sport is slowing down and getting replaced by other sports it was nice to see that there are places where SUP is growing.
I grew in in St Petersburg when it was Leningrad. It is a beautiful, historically young (established jut a bit over 300 year ago in 1703) and historically significant city. It was build in Neva-river delta and has enormous number rivers, bridges and canals. It commonly referred as a Northern Venice because of that and because of original plans to have a part of city build exactly as Venice - with canals vs roads. When I picked up SUP I was always thinking how cool would be paddle around city one day. Happy to report, I was not only one thinking about it..
Few years ago a group of SUP enthusiasts there created a festival (http://fontankasup.ru/) when people paddling a big loop around city blocks, lot of them costumes. Here is a few links for you to enjoy.
Instagram
video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_noPiIp4p/
pics https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_5Hm3tj_f/
YouTube:
2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGGyFWB934A
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0-SUP - search for videos from different years
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That's awesome! All those inflatables.... Crazy. Like bumper cars:)
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Привет oceanAddict! ✌️ Я из Минска.
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That one guy is holding his paddle backward...
But otherwise... I'd love to be there 8)
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That second picture would make a great jigsaw puzzle 😜🤣
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Or, Where is Uoldo?