SUP festival in St Petersburg Russia

[oceanAddict]

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
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YouTube:

2021
         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
 
 

[TallDude]

That's awesome! All those inflatables.... Crazy. Like bumper cars:)

[gone_foiling]

Привет oceanAddict! ✌️ Я из Минска.

[Dusk Patrol]

That one guy is holding his paddle backward...

But otherwise... I'd love to be there 

[Windwarrior]

That second picture would make a great jigsaw puzzle 😜🤣

[Bean]

Or, Where is Uoldo?