My summer was a very fun summer even if it was same thing the whole time. My whole summer the only thing that I did was stand up paddle board race and train for those races.

The first trip of the year was the annual D.A.R.T (Deep Cove Advanced Race Team) surf trip over march break in Tofino. We had a great week surfing, paddling, having out, and being in the Tofino news.

We got on the news for trying to do something that I’m pretty sure no one had done before. We tried to paddle a 6 person paddle board from MacKenzie beach to North Chesterman, which looks like this…

After we got around the point we ran into very tall messy waves that we could not get into the beach safely on so we turned around and ‘surfed’ on that board. The surfing just turned into madness. But either way it was cool that we got in the newspaper the next day

The next trip I went on was with my brother Evan and my coach Mike to the West Kootenay River SUP Race. We made a camp using Mike’s van (which he can sleep in, and it also has a couch) two tents, and a tent structure placed over a picnic table. (To see more photos check out those Instagram links)

(pretty cool)

This trip was possibly the most fun I’ve ever had at a race.

Next big race was Tofino again, but this time was the Canadian SUP Championships. I finished 3rd to Evan and another 16 year old.

The next big race was quite recent. I went to the Vancouver SUP Challenge at Spanish Banks in Vancouver. This was the race where our team took our official team photo.

What was cool abut this race is that we got to see and race against our friends/rivals from Hawaii Jeffery and Finn.

That was my very SUP summer.