Paddling Injuries: How Loving the Conditions and Training Works when We are Injured
Dealing with Paddling Injuries Spend enough time on this website, or the Paddle Monster Facebook page and you’ll notice two…
Tag: Suzie Cooney
SUP Downwinding Checklist: Catching Bumps and Staying Safe
SUP Downwinding Checklist – What You’ll Need to Start What is Downwinding? Downwinding is a specialized form a paddling that…
The Inland Paddler: The Fear of Falling
Let’s talk about falling. Or, if you paddle outrigger, huli’ing. Or, if you paddle surf ski, capsizing or flipping. If…
Downwind Dream Retreat Opportunity of a Lifetime
Maui Dream Retreat If you have any desire to up your downwinding game, or if you have the Maliko Run…
The Official Distressed Mullet Holiday Gift Guide Part III
Mullet Gift Guide Part III This is it, the final chapter in our guide for paddler gifts for 2017. For…
Top Reasons Why The Olukai Should be On Your Bucket List
Put the Olukai paddle race on your bucket list Tomorrow, April 29th, some of the world’s best downwind paddlers will…
The Inland Paddler: Carolina Cup Essential Kit
Essential Gear for Surviving the Carolina Cup Paddle Race I am really am making an effort to not take so…
The Inland Paddler: Facing the Dragon
Paddle Surfing Notes Sometimes, Mother Ocean knows you need to learn something. Sometimes, well, all times really, in order to…
The Inland Paddler: Learning to Catch the Vertical Bumps…
Or…Lessons from the Climbing Wall. This offseason has been great. I mean really great. I have been listening to the…
Gear Review: ACR Aqualink 406 MHz GPS Personal Locator Beacon
UPDATE: As of June, 2021 the MSRP of this valuable device has increased by about $40 since we wrote this…
Have Yourself a Gear-y Little Christmas: The Inland Paddler’s Holiday Gift Guide
Are you making your list, checking it twice? Looking to find something special for that paddler in your life who’s…
Ocean Safety is Ocean Safety – No Matter Where You Are
This Winter on Maui has been big, even already this early in the season, and recent incidents there prompted our…
Epic Maliko Firing this Week on Maui
Our friends on The Valley Isle of Maui have been posting some amazing shots of the huge conditions on the…
Staying Healthy After That Last Race
We’ve been hearing lots of reports from Chattajackers who either got sick soon after completing the epic Hellwinder down the…
Chattajack Anti-Freak Out Checklist
Editor’s Note: This is part of a Distressed Mullet series on on Chattajack Prep. Previous columns focused on Chatta-gear suggestions, what…
The Inland Paddler On Being the Bug
To quote Mary Chapin Carpenter, some times you’re the windshield. Sometimes you’re the bug. Last Saturday was a bug day.…
Watch the first Paddle Monster Webinar: Suzie Cooney Mental Training
This is a recorded webinar from the First Paddle Monster webinar series: You can train on the water and train…
Maui2Molokai- The Story of my First Channel Crossing
Editor’s Note: I had the good fortune of meeting Jenn Biestman on a training run with Jeremy Riggs right before…
Suzie Cooney kicks off Paddle Monster Webinars this Wednesday
On Wednesday at 6pm EST, Paddle Monster (https://paddlemonster.com) will host its first webinar with Suzie Cooney of Suzie Trains Maui and author…
Maliko Downwind SUP Training Session with Suzie Cooney 8th Annual Olukai Race
Right after the Pro Panel: https://youtu.be/Fyl-kNhxEYc of all the elite SUP and OC1 athletes, we had some good fun with…
Masters of Maliko with Dave Kalama and Suzie Cooney from Adventure Sports Maui
Masters of Maliko – Tips and Tricks for downwind paddle boarding. Specifically tips for Maui’s famous Maliko run. Taken from…
The Inland Paddler: The Learner’s Mind
It’s been an eternity since I was in school. But I still remember with great, great fondness almost all of…
Meet Jane Paddler: Kim Nalepinski from the US Virgin Islands
WHERE WERE YOU WERE BORN AND WHERE YOU LIVE NOW? I was born in Queens, NY, grew up on the…
The Inland Paddler: Great Expectations and the Neptunalia Challenge
Expectations. It’s all about the expectations. It seems like every time I expect to have a good race, expect to…
Book Review: How to Increase your Standup Paddle Performance: From Beginner to Elite by Suzie Cooney
I decided I wanted to increase my paddleboard performance. When I first started standup paddling some five years ago, there…
