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First Ever SUP Riders Survey

Chris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:33:30 +0000

As of today, Jan 1, Stand Up Project is a membership site. But we wanted to give you a way to get a FREE membership. The parent of this site, Soul Surf Media, is working with a number of companies outside of the SUP industry to obtain sponsorships for new feature films and television projects. The problem is that they all want to know who you we (the SUP Community) are. The only way to answer that question is to ask you. Thus, Soul Surf is launching the first ever SUP riders survey to find out who is the SUP community.

I know what you are thinking, they are going to sell me a bunch of stuff. No so, we are not going to tie you to your data. With our utility – Survey Gizmo, we have set up ways to not match you with your data. We just need the data. Not that we do not care about you, but I just want to assure you that we are not out to sell your data to anyone. We just need to present an honest profile of the stand up community to our broadcast partners and other media outlets. To thank you, we are giving away Stand Up Project memberships for completed surveys. For 5 minutes of your time; you get a year’s worth of access to our content. Not a bad deal!

TAKE THE SURVEY
Happy new years everyone, and thanks for making the Stand Up Project a success.

Back Home 11-3-2009

Chris — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:10:39 +0000

The hardest part about putting this site together is the travel. To shoot and create the content is requiring a lot of time away from home. Ok, so yes, it means going to Hawaii for days at a time. But this trip was really all business. As I told Nate Burgoyne at our shoot yesterday – my feet never even touched a board the whole trip. The closest I got to being in the ocean was a brief swim down in Waikiki during a break between edits.
I had my traditional “I do not want to go home” break down a couple days ago after shooting Kainoa McGee at Pipeline. (let me say here that Kainoa McGee is probably the hardest charging person I have met. The guy is superman in my book – Pipe was so heavy that day and he was just on it).
A couple of you know this, but I work a regular old desk job during the day and the site gets it’s dues at night and on the weekends. I can kind of set my own hours so I try to get in early and leave early. It is not that I “hate” my job. There are some parts that I like- such as talking to and helping clients ( I do technology consulting ) with problems and finding solutions. But there are many things about my line of “regular” work I just could do without. A close friend wondered the other day how I ended up in IT – it is a very logic oriented world with little to no creative output. I sit at a desk, review and create reports. Sit on phone meetings and conference calls, deal with bits and bytes, get complaints about things being too slow , etc.. It is very much like any other desk job out there. I live a very split life. By day, the computer geek- by night, aspiring video maker.
It is funny to think that 12 hours ago I was on a plane coming back from Hawaii having met and interacted with people that I look up to such as Blane Chambers, Allen Mozo and Kainoa McGee, and spent time with new friends like Slater Trout and his dad, and reconnected with my close friends – Morgan, Nate and Nicole. As the intercom rings and I create a report for a phone meeting in an hour- I cannot help but feel a certain sadness inside coupled with anticipation of the work that is waiting for when I get out of the office today.

Hawaii, July 2009

Chris — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:23:47 +0000

While on island for the Molokai Race, got a chance to hang out with two of our big supporters- Nate and Bill from Sup Surf Mag.com

Nate has a great vibe and look upon the sport (we shot an hour long interview with him that will be coming to the site soon!). On this day he was testing out a board for Hyper Nalu, a short little thing that I could not believe he could paddle.

After a little paddle, we sat in their office- aka, Alii Beach Park and I got to do an interview for their radio show. Really enjoyed spending time with them and look forward to heading back to Oahu soon!

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Welcome!

Chris — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:13:53 +0000

Welcome to the stand up project! Between my 40 hour a week job at an IT firm, getting married and trying to find time to surf and enjoy life- this time came into being.

Hopefully we can continue building the library of work on this site and it will be a reference point for the state of Stand Up Paddling.

We are always looking for the following:

- People stoked on Stand Up who would not mind a camera following them around for a bit

- Local or Professional level Stand Up Paddle Events. Whether it is a neighborhood paddle or an all out world cup. We want to be there

- Stories in and around Stand Up Paddling. We are interested in telling compelling stories in and around the community.

- Music – we are looking for bands and musicians interested in submitting music for use both on line and in our DVD series

Most of all, I hope that you enjoy the amount of effort that has gone into this site up till now. It has been a VERY long, tough road to get the site up to it’s current condition. But at long last, the first wave of videos are on line and there are many more to come!