Text here Nathan Fletcher is the guy that stays in the water after dark. He paddles out when it’s windy and there are three-foot waves at State Park in San Clemente, Calif., or when it’s 25-foot and freezing in Half Moon Bay.
La Jolla’s Windansea beach is hallowed ground in the surf realm. The sport took root here in the forties, with surfers like Peter Parkin, Bob Simmons, and Woody Ekstrom. The next generation made their presence known at Waimea, Sunset, and Pipeline.
We’ve seen the next generation asert themselves on the ASP World Tour as of late, and now it would appear that’s trickling over to standup paddling. Over the weekend 17-year-old Connor Baxter took out a heady field in the Battle of the Paddle, an event that’s become the gold standard for the SUP set.
Sequence from the madness that was the 2011 Mr Price Pro. This one features Sao Paulo grommet, Jesse Mendes.