Stand-up paddle surfing

found: SUP global website, 28 Oct. 2008:history page (Stand up paddle surfing, or SUP, is a surface water sport, a variant of surfing where the surfer uses a paddle to move through the water while standing on a surfboard derived from its Polynesian roots; the modern sport of SUP has its origination in the Hawaiian Islands wherein the early 1960s the Beach Boys of Waikiki would stand on their long boards and paddle out with outrigger paddles, hence the term "Beach Boy surfing"; in the early 2000s Hawaiian surfers such as Dave Kalama, Brian Keaulana, Rick Thomas, Archie Kalepa and Laird Hamilton started SUP as an alternative way to train while the surf was down; in SUP, one can paddle on the open ocean, in harbors, on lakes, rivers or any large body of water)

found: Stand up paddle surfing UK website, 28 Oct. 2008:About page (Stand Up Paddle Surfing is an ancient form of surfing that can be traced back to the very early days of Polynesia; recent history dates back to the 1940s when the beachboys (surf instructors) on Waikiki beach used to stand up and paddle out to the break using a one bladed paddle; Stand Up Paddle Surfing has been reborn in the first part of this century)