12 months on my thoughts on SUP

<body> <h1><img src='http://playak.com/images/topics/newswatch.png' align='left'><a href='http://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/Review/12-months-on-my-thoughts-on-SUP/?page=-2?src=rss#1161169'>12 months on my thoughts on SUP</a></h1> <p>My wife and I started SUP 12 months ago after seeing a couple paddling early one morning ,while we were having breakfast by the beach ,we thought that looks fun had a try and now we paddle three times a week HOOKED!Our first problem was finding somewhere where we could rent a board, unfortunately our local guy didn't really know much about the sport and rented us a 9' something board and said it will suit you both great. Well I am 6'2" and 100 kg and my wife is 5'7" and 65kg we had no chance of success.We had fun falling off and nearly gave it away being TOO OLD I am 56.However being a competitive person and sporty in my youth I didn't give up, did some research and bought a C4 Waterman inflatable 10'9" and presto we were both paddling within minutes and having a ball. The inflatable suited us as it was easy to store and transport.As we didn't have anyone in our area we could ask advice or try boards ,we used this forum to get advice and and have bought six boards so far . I...</p>  <script type="text/javascript"> _qoptions={ qacct:"p-caxN4R7Sm1pto" }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-caxN4R7Sm1pto.gif" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/> </noscript>  <script type="text/javascript"> __compete_code = 'f5ce360215a93b36d13349b6a65e881b'; (function () { var s = document.createElement('script'), d = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0], t = 'https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://c.compete.com/bootstrap/' : 'http://c.compete.com/bootstrap/'; s.src = t + __compete_code + '/bootstrap.js'; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = 'async'; if (d) { d.appendChild(s); } }()); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try{ var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-482486-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> <script src="/js/gaAddons.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body>