Stand Up
Paddle Boarding Tours
Stand Up Paddle Boarding tours are a great way to get your first experience on a paddle board. There’s a definite learning curve to riding
a stand up paddle board, but it’s a relatively
short one. You’ll likely spend the initial
30 minutes learning the balance. That’s about
all it takes and some people pick it up pretty much
instantaneously. It’s not that hard. After
about a half an hour of fighting your balance, most
people seem to develop the muscle memory needed
and it is fairly easy thereafter. You really need
to get past this first 30 minutes before you can
start to even differentiate between one inflatable SUP board
and another. As such, a great way to get your feet
wet before board shopping is to do a stand up paddle
board tour or two.
Stand
up paddle surfing lessons
are great too, but
an SUP tour also has the advantage of introducing
you to some cool spots to explore (where you can
later bring your friends with you as the guide).
Most people who take the tours are first timers
just like you so it’s catered towards your
novice experience level.
When you go to buy a board and perhaps do some stand
up paddle board demos, you’ll be looking
at the biggest, most stable 11’ to 12’
boards naturally. These are great for beginners,
but once you’ve paddled around a few days
you’ll be just as comfortable on a slightly
smaller board in the 10’ to 11’ range.
These slightly smaller boards will be easier to
surf, easier to transport, and easier to store,
and an all around better board aside from the first
few days of your stand up paddle boarding career.
Thus it makes sense to do a few stand up paddle
boarding tours on the big boards, and then go out
a buy a board that makes sense for your situation
long term. To facilitate that process, we’ve
aggregated some stand up paddle boarding tour companies
below (both in our local San Diego area, and around
the country). This is a growing resource.
Get your SUP tour company
listed!
If you operate a company offering stand up paddle
boarding tours and would like to get added to our
business referral list, it's a two step process:
- Add a link to our site from yours
- Email us a brief on your company and let us
know the page where you linked to us and we’ll
gladly add your company to our list.
You can link to us however you like, of course,
but if you need some info on our company here it
is:
Tower
Stand Up Paddle Boarding
– Find SUP paddles,
paddleboard accessories, and the best SUP boards
for stand up paddle surfing and flatwater standup
paddle boarding at Tower SUP.
Email us at:
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in San Diego, California
Carlsbad SUP (Carlsbad, CA)
Two Stand Up Guys (Carlsbad, CA)
Adrenaline Water Sports (Mission Bay Drive, Sandiego, CA)
Adrenaline Water Sports (Mission Blvd, San Diego, CA)
Adrenaline Water Sports (Kernville, CA)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in California
Taho Adventure Company (Tahoe Vista, CA)
La Vida Laguna (Laguna Beach, CA)
Do Paddle Boarding (Laguna Beach, CA)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in Hawaii
Girls Who Surf (Honolulu, HI)
Hawaii Discount (Oahu, HI)
Honu Hawaii Activities (Maunalua Bay, Oahu, HI)
Hawaii
Surf Guru
(Honolulu, HI)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in Florida
AWS (Pompano Beach, FL)
SUP Key West (Key West, FL)
American Watersports SUP Tours (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Kai Boards (East Coast, FL)
Urban Kai (Tampa Bay, FL)
Lets Go Stand Up (St. Augustine, FL)
Gulf Coast Paddle Company (Gulf Coast, FL)
Lazy Dog (Key West,
FL)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in New York
Fairfield County Stand Up Paddle (Connecticut, NY)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in North Carolina
Kitty Hawk Water Sports (Nags Head, NC)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in South Carolina
Wrightsville SUP (Wrightsville Beach, SC)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in Virginia
Black Dog
Paddle
(Richmond, VA)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in other areas of the country
Center Focus Experiences (Sedona, AZ)
Surfari (Manchester by-the-Sea, MA)
Texas Sail Boat (Clear Lake Shores, TX)
Hill Country Surf (Austin, TX)
Adventures Through Kayaking (Port Angeles, WA)
North By Northwest Surf Co (Port Angeles, WA)
Stand Up & Paddle Cape Cod (Osterville, MA)
Paddle Surf Champlain (Burlington, VT)
Osprey (Annapolis, MD)
Harbor Outfitters (Sea Isle City, NJ)
Venture Out (Condado PR)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in UK
Harlyn Surf School (Padstow, Cornwall)
Coast To Coast Surf School (Dunbar, Scotland)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in Australia
OZ Stand Up Paddle (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in New Zeland
Standup South Pacific (Auckland, NZ)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in the Caribbean Islands
Stand Up Paddle Boarding (Cabarete, Dominican Republic)
Stand up paddle surfing tours in Canada
Rocky Point Kayes (Port Moody, BC, Canada)
Surf Ontario (Ontario, Canada)
Island Surf Company (Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada)
Stand up paddle surfing Tours in Mexico
Mexico SUP (B.C.S, Mexico)
Extreme Control (Quintana Roo, Mexico)
Ha Haak Paddleboarding (Cozumel, Mexico)
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