The ULTIMATE PADDLE BOARD COURSE for BEGINNERS. 

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I can't believe I'm watching this level of quality instructions for free. Thank you! ♥

This is probably the best online training I have seen so far. Thank you ❤

very cool, cant wait to try it!! thank you for the lesson

This has to be the best beginner lesson in all RU-vid. Thanks a lot and great job! 🎉

Fantastic video Ethan! Really generous of you to walk through the basics in such detail. Lots of great tips that I'll be coming back to in the weeks to come as I start my SUP journey.

You're a great teacher. Thank you.

thanks a lot for such a detailled video on the basics of paddle

Terrific lessons! You’re teaching style is simple to understand. Thanks!!

excellent video, one of the best sup basic training videos👍

Great Teacher Thank you !

Thanks for this! Learned some new tips! :)

Ethan - Brilliant Video. Thank you.

Great. Lass thank you

Thanks for the tips, I just started an on the two times I fell off, I wasn't able to climb back up, needed those tips so maybe next time I won't need to swim closer to the shore to stand on the lake floor first |D

best training video on youtube!

very usefull n informative video for sure. Thnx a lot

Great tips, thank you!

Purchasing two paddle boards tomorrow for my brother and I to have a go paddle boarding. We have no experience so this video I am sure will come in useful! We are only buying 9ft boards as they are cheapest although i have a 10ft one coming in a week or two. Thanks for the great tips!

Thank you so much

Great info! Really enjoy your videos. Some of my favorite SUP content on YT!

Thank you

Just had an amazing day paddleboarding in La Jolla, CA with some friends today. Thanks for this great instructional!

Good advice 👍

Thank you Ethan

Perfectly explained

Hi Ethan! Thank you for putting together a great tutorial. Very precise, clear, and good helpful information and tips. My family will enjoy the water more with these new techniques, especially with my kiddos. Take a break from kayaking and learn SUP. 🌺😉🤙❤

Very Impressive and now a subscriber! Thank you so much for making this very informative video.! You are clear and concise with excellent visual training references and I look forward to my SUP journey through your videos.❤

Great work Team

This is a great introduction, thank you! Just got a SUP and looking to launch in Hawaii this week. Thank you.

This was super helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Nice video!

Thank you, so much better than another artificial intelligence video, I learned a lot.

Such an amazing video man, keep it up. Me and my partner have just bought a board each and will try out your methods in a few days. thanks!

Wow!!! I’ve been thinking about learning to paddle board at the ripe age of 57 and came upon your video just today. I’m so glad I “found” you and hit that 👍 button and subscribed! Looking forward to watching more on your channel. Thank you!!!😊

Great video…….and stunning 🕶️

Thank you for your videos, I am paddling on Lake Thun, Switzerland, but still found your videos useful... Today I managed to fully capsize my board including drybag (the top side was down under and the fin sticking out, the drybag stayed firmly in the sup netting things) trying to learn the stepback turn... At first I struggled but once I aplied my basic optimist training from way back and grabed the fin and used it to push down whilst pushing up the lower edge it got turned right side up and I managed to climb on. Did 9km total today...(5. time on the board) though about 1/3 was whilst sitting. Definitively was glad to have worn a swimwest/sup flotation west, it helped imensly with my flipped board (failed to fall in correctly and put weight on the edge whilste falling)

A very good and instructive video thank you Ethan, I'm just about to start SUP paddling at the age of 59 when my gear comes next week , ordered an inflatable Aqua Marina Vapor + Beauchat shorty wetsuit beginning @ my lake on still days when it is just like a mirror :-)

Great video, thanks for the tips! Btw it's so important to be able to see well in the sunshine. What kind of sunglasses do you have on? It looks perfect for the purpose.

If I had a dollar for every time this guy said paddleboard, I could buy a lot of paddleboards.

One of the most nerve wrecking while you are paddling is to meet a newbie on a paddleboard who refuses your basic advices. The second hardest thing is to ignore them when you see them paddling with the wrong technics. I was a sport teacher, it is so difficult to stop teaching. This vid is great, a good job Ethan!

Looking to add more activities to our adventures. Was thinking about buying 2 paddle boards after seeing a few at Costco today for a very reasonable price. Very instructional video. I think i'll go buy those tomorrow and head to the lake this weekend, but first rewatch this again with my wife so she understands all of the stuff you covered. Thanks so much!

Thank you!! This newbie is researching before my first iSUP arrives next week! 🤩 * new subscriber!

We're all 'noobs' at some point. Let's embrace learning because I don't care if I look like an idiot. I care about doing what I love. I'm not out there to prove anything or impress anyone. Just get out there!

I wish I would have found your page a few weeks ago. I am a beginner on SUP, never knew it was a thing, but I am no stranger to the water. I have had years of fun on boogie boards and surf boards. (the big boards) I have had back surgery, and it was recommended by my physical therapist to do more core work to reduce back pain and sciatic pain. Also had a heart attack the same year, but I'm doing well now, at least the Dr is impressed. So I recently purchased an Ascend inflatable, that came with all the fun stuff. Mind you I am a larger fellow at 215 pounds and 5'11". So an 11' board is what was recommended, this thing is 11'L 34"W. I am not looking for all out speed, as I know that won't happen with this size board and my lack of stability at the moment. Went 5 miles on the water first day out. Used the paddle wrong, because why not? Lol... Did half kneeling and sitting with the paddle in the kayak configuration before I got the courage to stand, change out the paddle handle and really dig in to what I was doing. Was told this is a "full body exercise" well that wasn't a lie. The paddle techniques and mounting techniques would have been awesome to know before I went out the first time.

I keep my leash attached to my boyfriend.

I gotta say, I’m new to this sport and watch a lot of videos. You do a real nice job. Thank you. Where is this taking place? It looks perfect. Don’t say California. Please don’t.

Great video! I just went out for the first time with my 27 yo son on my two new Isle ISUPs. I have a hard paddleboard as well. We both got off to swim and i needed help getting back on the first time but not the second. Never knew about getting on in back so i may try that next. In the meantime I'm doing upper body weight training to help with the whole experience. Thanks again! How do you feel about the inflatable pfds? Less bulk for movement. I'm a decent swimmer but always will have a pfd d with me.

Can you show how to get on if you have two people?

1000th like !!

How many times can you say paddle board in 26 min? He may have broken the record and needs to enter this video into the guineas book of world records for consideration 👏

Thank you! SO helpful! Not to be a jerk but to be helpful…I hear that English is not your first language (which you speak incredibly well). In English, we use the phrase “more fun” or just “better” rather then “more better, more funner”. Not to be critical, just a tip….because you’ve given me so many just now😃!

Thanks for the informative video! Where did you get those huge shades? I’ve been looking online but no luck. Do they fit over glasses?

Other than the weight calculation how do you size length wise a board for someone?

Cool glasses dude. Where can I get those?

In your experience, what wind speed should make me nervous for flat water?

I'm 92 kg and surfing a 100L fanatic sup and 80% carbon paddle. I am surfing almost every day. I have tried paddles from Fanatic, Starboard and others. My paddles are breaking all the time right in the middle, sometimes also the on the top of the throat of the blade. This is an expensive problem. Please give some tips how to reduce the paddles from breaking or suggest some better paddles. I have tried super long, regular, and super short. Doesnt really matter, paddles are lasting 3-6 months max.

My biggest challenge will be getting my balance back after the winter. Then i will make it my challenge to make more kilometer so i can paddle to the next village. That will be 12kilometer one way

I cant swim very well i just use a p.f.d n i still sup

Anyone else think Ethan sounds like Mitch Hedberg?

Pad length for paddleboard

😎👍🏻

Wonderful beaches ❤ where are you?

A Type III PFD will absolutely help you 100% better in an emergency than not wearing one at all. To tell new paddlers not to rely on one to help you because it's not an open-ocean Type I PFD is absolutely inappropriate and a negligent thing to tell new paddlers. Type III USCG / ISO/CE 70NM PFDs designed for paddling can help right an unconscious swimmer as they will always have more flotation on the front than on the back. They also are designed to (and do) keep your head above the water (that's just a totally false statement you made). They aren't guaranteed to rotate an unconscious swimmer like an open-ocean life jacket, but they will still help because of their flotation distribution. Not to mention that it will aid in your rescue in any event by keeping you physically at the surface and making it easier for a rescuer to locate, rotate, hold, and get you out of the water. Without a PFD an unconscious swimmer or someone struggling to breathe or swim is far more likely to quickly sink under the surface and drown. On top of all of that if you aren't wearing your PFD it doesn't matter if you have a Type 1 open ocean lifejacket or not in the events you describe. Even if you are wearing a Type I Life Jacket in the situation of having a heart attack if you don't have help nearby then chances of survival are minimal at best. What a ridiculously extreme example to use to put people off from using basic safety equipment. That's some seriously negligent content in your safety section. I see you're an ASI instructor - which both makes sense that the advice to not to wear a PFD comes from a surfing background, and is a serious shame on ASI to not promote basic safety practices for paddling. It's seriously bad advice for beginners and any paddler. The number one contributing factor to boating deaths is not wearing a PFD. There is no situation in which it is safer to not wear a PFD than it is to wear one (not the same for leashes, by the way). PFDs save lives.

Well I’ve broke rule number 1 already. I’ve been boarding but I can’t swim.

Sir, where are you in this video? It’s gorgeous and there’s no one

ჯჯჯჯჟ. 26:17 26:17 26:17 26:17 😅😅

The way you swap hands 16:16 not in the way you mention the minute before :( You also miss discussing which way round the paddle should be - the bit in the water. Otherwise great video.

Video starts at 12:45

man, ocean sweepers are multiplying, smh

3 mins into the video and I lost interest in paddle boarding already.

Been tasked with teaching a class at work for guests how to paddleboard and kayak.. and I have very little experience on paddleboards. Will be taking some exact quotes from this for my lessons! Thank you for sharing the knowledge!!