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Live Love SUP started as a simple photo blog. A way to document our Stand Up Paddle Board adventures around the world. We started paddling after moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2009 and instantly, like many others, fell in love with it! We founded a club in Abu Dhabi and have passionately been promoting SUP ever since to practically everyone one we meet. This passion has grown into so much more and taken us literally all around the world. Check out the original blog in the very early days. Â
With our home countries in Australia and the US, we have enjoyed traveling near and far and with each destination usually one question is asked, where can we SUP? As the sport has exploded around the world, finding somewhere to paddle has become quite easy. We have already enjoyed paddling in 25 different countries from Hong Kong to Slovenia, Italy and Mexico, a number of cities and on plenty of oceans, lakes, rivers, harbors and even some artificial waves too! Check out our Live Love SUP Destination Map. We not only love discovering new places from a different view, but we also enjoy meeting the amazing people who love SUP just as much as we do along the way.​ English may not be the same first language we all share, but we definitely speak the same language of SUP!Â
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Fast-forward to today - 2021 and we have expanded our SUP family, which now includes our daughter Mackenzie and son Parker. They have brought the biggest Joy to us over the last 5 years and our love of the water will surely rub off on both of them. While, we have been busy figuring out how to be parents and smother them with love, we admit, Live Love SUP has been growing slower than we'd like! However, just as they are growing, so does the passion to continue to build the Live Love SUP brand, connect communities and share this great sport with more people around the world. Plus we have so many new places to discover with our family and continue to share a life of adventure all together.
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Now, looking forward! The future is bright. We are excited to be launching a new website, focusing on lot of new great new products including SUP apparel and good as well a collection of Stand Up Paddle Art: Prints and Posters and SUP paddle jewelry! We're excited at new projects taking shape and plenty of new ideas!
We’re also excited to keep connecting with the SUP community and meet new paddlers along the way! Future collaborations, a commitment to sharing this sport with as many new people as we can and jumping all in to follow a passion that so many share – we would love you to join us for the journey! Â
After more than a decade of stand up paddling, it’s been amazing to see the sport grow, but also realize there is so much more in front of us. We know this to be true as even today, each time we pick up our board and paddle, it’s as exciting as the first time we took that first stroke.
Live Love SUP – it’s more than just a board and a paddle, it’s a lifestyle shared together, forever.
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