Costa Rica Stand Up Paddle SUP
Important Details:
- Location: Jaco Beach and Herradura Bay
- Length of the Tour: 2 hours
- Pick Up Time: 8:00 am
- Min. People: 2
- Includes: Transportation, gear, bottle water and guide
- Recommendations: Board shorts, swimming suit, sun glases, sun block, towell, hat
- Rates: $60
Costa Rica Stand Up Paddle SUP Tour is designed for all ages and abilities.
Many people find this sport easier than surfing which makes it so popular. It is a great full body workout, significantly improving balance, coordination, strength and endurance.
It is a perfect way to see the beautiful coastlines of the Central Pacific from the open waters.
The area of Jaco Beach offers several beaches which are ideal for Stand Up Paddle Surfing.
Historically,
Stand Up Paddle Surfing also known as SUP is the most popular and modern water sports has its origin on the Hawaiian Islands. Was early 1960s, the Beach Boys of Waikiki would stand on their long boards, and paddle out with outrigger paddles to make photos of tourists learning how to surf.
The sport benefits athletes with a strong workout. Stand Up Paddle or SUPing has become very popular at warm beaches as Costa Rica and is gaining in popularity as celebrities are sampling the sport, and cross-over athletes are training with SUP. SUPs have been spotted around the world, anywhere there is easy access to safe warm waters, as well as in the surfing lineups of the world. Another reason for the rise in popularity of stand up paddleboarding is that, unlike surfing, Stand Up Paddleboarding is very easy to learn and pratice. Within one hour you can become very comfortable in the water and on your paddle board. Stand up paddleboarding is also more popular with women because of their lower center of gravity, women are more often skilled at paddleboarding than men.
Famous Big Wave surfer Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama re-introduced the ancient sport of paddle surfing to the modern water sports world. The first "modern" surfer to bring Stand Up Paddle Surfing out of Hawaii and onto mainland USA was Vietnam veteran Rick Thomas.
Surfers have converted because of the versatility of the new sport. Stand up paddle boarding offers surfers the ability to catch more waves in a set, as well as offering a better view of incoming sets.
Stand up paddle surfing or SUP is now the growing fastest water surf activity, it allows a wider range of people to get involved and even better SUP surfers need not schedule around high and low tides which is an advantage.
In Costa Rica you can learn and pratice Stand Up Paddle Surfing in many different beaches as Jaco Beach and Herradura Bay both located on Costa Rica's Central Pacific.
