New Sports

In all generations across all sports there are new trends and sub sports. Windsurfing spawned kite surfing, Skiing thankfully spawned snowboarding and surfing, well it gave birth to aborted fetus named bodyboarding but hey we all make mistakes. I like to embrace a lot of the new directions that these sports take but I just want to comment on the resistance to these infant sports. A recent off shoot from surfing is Stand Up Paddle Boarding. A large amount of surfers see this new sport as being a blight on their sport and will hurl abuse at anyone doing it. But why?

Doing something new, challenging your brain, is what keeps us young both phsically and mentally. There is nothing more draining than doing the same thing everyday and its limiting as well. I took up SUP not long ago and it has meant that I spend a lot more time in and on the water. Those onshore messy days when I used to stay home are some of the funnest days I have ever surfed now. Why would you limit yourself when there is so much fun to be had?