Whitewater SUP on the Pigeon River.

The Pigeon is a class 3-4 river here in TN. It is like the Ocoee but has fewer rapids and deeper channels. It is a quick, warm and easily shuttled run, which makes it perfect for SUP.
Here in the southeast we haven't been using skegs on our boards. We like to boof rocks and run slides which would not be possible with skegs. Everything in this video is done skeg-less.

Stand Up Paddling the Pigeon River. from Aaron Koch on Vimeo.

The boards we use are the Imagine Rapidfire, Emotion Traverse and soon the Badfish MVP.

Enjoy the video and don't forget to go demo some boards at CKS.

Aaron

Badfish Stand up Paddle Boards!

Mariela and I went to Colorado for a few weeks in May and June. It was an action packed two weeks, with Paddlefest and Teva Mountain Games. If you've never been to the rivers out west, you are missing out. We stayed in Buena Vista, CO and surfed/paddled: Numbers, fractions and the BV and Salida Playparks.

Carving it up

We were able to surf some of the Badfish Boards, both down river and on waves. Mike and Zach are at the forefront of river surf design. It was awesome to surf some completely original designs.

Stand up River surf is a very new medium. Kayaks have been surfing river waves for years but SUP boards are relatively new.

Ollie

Badfish stand up Boards are available in a variety of sizes. 5' 11" to the 9' river runner. They are all hand crafted in Salida,CO.

Matt getting low!

If you are in the state of Colorado and you like to SURF? Get over and check out the boys at Badfish. If you just have to have one, get em at CKS!

See ya on the river

Aaron