Ready to be a Speedboarder?!
Being a Speedboarder involves your passion for the stand up paddle experience combined with your appreciation for how our efforts to build the best boards add value to your time on the water. You are more motivated to go paddling because you own a Speedboard ... The best board on the planet.
Since 2011 we have been mindful of the numerous reports from our paddlers about how great they feel being on a Speedboard and how there is something different and better about paddling on one. So try Speedboarding and become a Speedboarder!
Rodney McLain
I’ve always been drawn both to water-sports and competition so it was only natural that I became a true ‘waterman’ at a young age.
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I competed in every type of paddle sport imaginable and always considered my most successful racing seasons those where I competed in National level competitions of at least three different paddling disciplines. I earned my first National Championship in 1975 and since then added many multiple Championships in marathon, open-boat whitewater, outrigger, and flatwater/sprint. I was fortunate to represent the United States in the ’84 and ’88 Olympic Games and earned a 5th place finish in LA. Just to round-out the waterman credentials; I am also an avid surfer and regularly sail and race my 37’ sailboat near my home on the Penobscot Bay in Maine.
Veronica Ribot-Canales
Being a tiny racer has made me want a sleeker, lower volume board design so that I can feel more connected to the water I am gliding on.
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I love being able to represent a brand that takes their racer’s specific needs into consideration. Speedboard’s low, cut out decks have me standing very low practically on the water, lowering my center of gravity, providing more stability as well as enabling me to be more efficient in conserving energy by not dragging extra weight. Obviously speed and glide are huge factors in racing, and I feel like I get the most out of racing on a Speedboard.
Things I am grateful for:
- V-training on Cayuga lake 2017 on Pinkie (12’6” x 22”). Loved this board!
- 2018 Race for the Lake. V racing among the guys, not a woman in sight.
- At 2018 Race for the Lake, Burlington, VT V-1st place racing the banana (14’ x 25”)
- Coming into the finish running up the beach at Paddle for Plummer 2018
- At 2018 Cape Ann Sup-ah-bowl. V-1st place
- At 2018 Paddle for Plummer. V, 1st place 14’ x 25 (The banana)
- Last but not least, I’m grateful to Bob Blair for allowing me to come into the Speedboard family and very excited for the new Nelo partnership.
Dr. Bob Arnot
Dr Bob is a fearless paddler and an amazing endurance athlete. His SUP race career has many podium appearances and he is often beating paddlers half his age.
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At 72 years young he continues to seek to improve his technique, optimize his physical performance metrics and encourage others to do the same. He is both a motivator and is motivated.
As a world renowned physician/sports medicine specialist, author, media personality and supporter of crisis relief efforts around the world, one might think he would have little time for SUP paddling. He paddles and trains hard every week that he is near open water.
When Stowe, VT is covered in snow he is training on his XC skis or skinning up the mountain. Bob is a SPEEDBOARDER of the first order.