. SUP
Stand Up Paddling is an ancient practice, born in the Pacific islands where fishermen stood on their pirogues to see fish in the distance and rowed to fight the waves coming out of the reefs. When they came back from fishing, they took advantage of the thrust of the waves using the paddle as a rudder, hence surfing. Traces of this can also be found in Africa, over 2,500 years ago, where fishermen used flat boats with bamboo poles as a paddle both in rivers and at sea.
. Surf
The first news about surfing occurs in Polynesia, at the end of the 1700s, when Captain Cook tells in his tribal diaries that “they rode the waves” with rudimentary wooden boards. In the 60s and 70s, surfing exploded as a modern sport in Hawaii and California and then spread all over the world. Since 2020 it has been included among the Olympic sports.
. Windsurf
The first prototype of a board with sail dates back to 1935 but it was in 1965 that Darby perfected the idea with the introduction of the boom. In 1968 Schweitzer and Drake patented the first windsurf and from 1970 began the production of the first pieces under the Windsurfer brand. Windsurfing ends its training course in Italy, at the Circolo Surf Torbole on Lake Garda, where the first official outings of the Mistral Competition were held, progenitor of modern windsurfing.
. Freediving
Freediving is based on the ability to physiologically adapt to immersion in water, it is present in humans as in dolphins and more generally in all mammals. There is news of the practice of freediving for fishing since ancient times and in every part of the world. Freediving as a sporting enterprise was born instead in the 50s with the pioneers of deep apnea, followed then by the variable set-up and dynamic Freediving .
. Foiling
Hydrofoils are perhaps the present and future of water sports. Navigation in Hydrofoil is similar to controlled aquaplaning, it is about gliding on the water, minimizing the contact surface and therefore the friction. Kai Lenny was one of the first riders to test hydrofoil in all its forms: windsurf, kite, surf and even bodyboard.
. Kitesurf
The first uses of kites to tow objects and people date back to 1200 in China. The real sport instead was born in the 90s in the wake of various disciplines that involve dragging with kites such as Buggying, Kitesailing and Kiteski. In the late 90s Jimmy Lewis introduced the first bidirectional boards and the Legaignoux brothers patented the WIPIKA Wind Powered Inflatable Kite Aircraft.
. Canyoning
Canyoning has a strong link with caving. In the recent 90s it began to spread rapidly in the various Alpine Clubs and to welcome practitioners from different disciplines such as mountaineering and canoeing. Canyoning is in fact the contact point of the downhill and climbing sports, the River SUP for example provides for the use of Canyoning shoes in the most demanding stretches and shares different equipment and safety devices.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
You can never conquer the ocean. You can only conquer yourself.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
