“I had a dream when I was young: surf the swell. No lip, no noise, nobody, just me and the swell.
I find it with the windsurfing, then with huge longboards, then with heavy 13′ boards… but SUP was the gift.
It opened the surf on sand banks, the kind of wave that nobdy imagine to surf, a silent surf on a long swell.
With the 12′ SUP, I got this pure feeling, but the surf was very straight.
But now, with the new Crusader L 11’9, everybody can enjoy this unic style of rides and do it full speed with huge turns !!! It is insane and open for the future. It means that we can take off at the outside when it doesn’t break, we can connect to the pic inside… It is not a surf goal, it is just different.” Patrice Guénolé.
SUPer : Patrice Guénolé on a GONG Crusader 11’9 L Highteck and a GONG Carbon paddle.

Source : Team GONG SUP, long boards stand up paddle surfers ;-)))
Photographer : Delphine Minssart.