My TV Episode, Speed Check, Training Video, 5 Quick Training Tips, Gear

Where Strength, Inspiration & Perspiration Meets the Ocean.

Love the healthy way of life on the water with Imagine Surf

There is so much to share this month but before I continue I want to thank everyone who touches my life on and off the water, in big and small ways.

I hope I do the same for you.

Suzie

Please Watch My Special Television

Episode on Animal Planet

Aloha friends, this is a post to ask you to please mark your calendars and watch my personal and special television episode on Animal Planet to air Thursday, December 10, 2015. The show is called The Monster Inside Me.

Please tell your friends, your doctors and family to tune in.

Learn More Here

Feel the need for more SUP speed?

Check out the Makai GPS device by Velocitek

specifically made for SUP. Now available through

Suzie Trains Maui. Contact us for delivery on Maui or we can ship to, and on the mainland with free shipping.

Nothing is more motivating than instant feedback and with the Makai's extra large numbers, ability to handle the most extreme conditions with the most precise and accurate readings every half second; you can literally watch your improved paddling performance before your eyes.

You may think you're working hard and you may feel like you're paddling faster but the numbers don't lie. As a trainer and paddler I

highly recommend you add this to your training sessions. I love mine and so do some of the fastest pros here on Maui. Make your training sessions more effective and get the real results you want.

It's sleek and streamlined and easily attaches to any boards. Each unit comes with two mounts and USB charging chord.

Click here to learn more and order yours.

5 Quick Training Tips for All Levels of Paddlers

My client Alysha Sparkman downwind training for 2016 Olukai race!

What I've learned over the years of training myself and training all levels of paddlers for SUP performance, is that all of us can still learn more. From waves to flat water to downwind action, we can always improve our improve our strength, incorporate better nutrition, learn how to rest more, and we should examine often our training routines, and also how to manage our mind set.

I routinely come across many SUP athletes, even the pros; who over complicate their training and in the end their results are less than stellar. Usually it's because they over analyzed everything leading to paddle paralysis, drank too many weird concoctions and heaved their guts out at turn one, or most commonly over trained and/or got hurt or sick before their event and the list goes on. Learn more

Imagine Paddling

This Board...
Meet the Connector CC

The Connector is designed by

Dave Kalama who is the pioneer of SUP downwind paddling. Dave has been designing and testing downwind boards and winning downwind races since the beginning of modern day SUP as we know it. What makes downwind paddling fun and rewarding is the glide you get when you hook up a bump and are able to connect from one bump to another and string together a long ride with tons of glide. To do this you need a board that gets you on the bumps, and allows you to stay on the bumps. Its all about the right kind of rocker, outline and rail shape.

Learn more about this board and the rest of the line up of boards at Imagine Paddle Surf by clicking here. If you're on Maui you can check out the boards at Adventure Sports Maui

on Hana Hwy.

Indo Board Training Video " The Floater"

This Indo Board video training bite is great for surfers and stand up paddlers and will really "shake" things up. It's fun and super challenging for all levels. I called it the "floater" because it creates almost an optical illusion of floating like when you float on the white water with your board skimming across the top of a wave.

Even if you don't surf or paddle surf this exercise will help you improve your balance by placing intense demands on your core, hips, knees and ankles and is guaranteed to build total leg endurance.

Watch video here!

MAHALO FRIENDS FOR SPREADING THE STOKE!

NEW BOOK UP DATES!

How to Increase Your Stand Up Paddling Performance, Beginner to Elite

is touted by Distressed Mullet as the "SUP Bible."

I'm very excited to also share that Big Winds in Hood River, Oregon are now selling my book. Here is T.J. the SUP department manager and all around cool guy, showing the book here wondering why I didn't include Snickers as a good nutritious snack?

Please be sure to stop in and get the book for the paddler on your list this holiday!

If you can't come to Maui this year, I come to you. Virtual SKYPE training is fun and it works! Too cold to paddle? Let's keep your muscles warm and SUP stoke turned on high.

Not sure many of you know that if you can't make it to Maui this year I can come to you via your iPad or lap top. No sunscreen needed or sand to get in your board shorts! I've been doing this for some time and it's a blast.

Peter Davies from Maryland

I have clients all over the globe and if you've got high speed internet we're good to go. Some people I've paddled with here on Maui or the mainland and some I have not. If you can work a GoPro or small video camera, you can send me via Drop Box yourself paddling, your goals and we can get started. I provide you a simple equipment list and off we go. If you want a custom program that's a bit more but possible.

Then if you're able to come this way to paddle it is such a reward to meet you and see you on the water in real time! Contact me through my website for more details.

Peter makes it to Maui once a year. He is incredibly disciplined and makes my job so fun! I love seeing him and his wife Suzanne pop into screen. Keep up the good work Peter.

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