Category: Racing

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Resilience

To finish races…It helps if you don’t stop.A large part of “not stopping” is Resilience. Resilience is what gets you through those hard training sessions and races that just hurt. A lot!Resilience is not...

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Self Sabotage

Self Sabotage – It is a natural protective human behaviour to Self Sabotage when things get tough. To race well, we must learn to recognise when the “self sabotage mechanism is limiting us too much”, and find ways to overcome it.

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SUP RACE PACING

Most people only think about SUP Race Pacing half way through a race as their peers slowly pull away from them. You were not to know that they have been practicing race starts for...

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Why Race?

Why Race? So why bother Racing? Community: Challenges: Health & Fitness: Self Improvement: Fun: Mental Health: There are loads of reasons to race and as you improve, your motivations will change. Its worth looking at...

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What is SUP Racing

What is SUP Racing? Simply put: It is any race that you complete on a Stand Up Paddle board. It is probably the easiest type of racing (on the water) to get into, and...

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Self Talk for Performance Paddling

Self Talk is: Self-Talk can be Instructional or Motivational Self Talk: Instructional They will be discussed at length in the Skills posts Self Talk: Motivational Mind Training is still hard work but worth it...

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Paddling Psychology

Paddling Psychology
There are two areas that you need to perfect for success

1. Training Mindset
2. Racing Mindset

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Goals

Setting Goals is critical to paddling faster.

Here are some suggestions to get you started.