Who is New Zealand Stand Up Paddling Inc?
NZSUP inc organises the national race championships and teams for international events, and campaigns on behalf of all paddleboarders in New Zealand on matters of safety, legislation and all other aspects of negotiation and liaison with other governing bodies.
Read our Constitution here.
You may be wondering why New Zealand needs a SUP association. Surely the sport is all about being free, able to go where you want to, away from rules, regulations and organisations! Well, yes it is, and that’s the way NZSUP wants to keep it. However, without a national organisation representing the interests of the sport, those rules and regulations will get imposed anyway. If you’ve ever taken your paddleboard into waves in New Zealand, then you have already directly benefited from NZSUP. Without the society’s hard work in successfully negotiating an exemption to NZ Maritime Law, you would have to wear a life jacket every time you went SUP surfing.
NZSUP is a non-profit society run by volunteers, but we do have some unavoidable costs that we need to cover, including website hosting, email hosting, annual audit fees, affiliation fees etc. By joining NZSUP, your membership fee helps cover these costs, and you will be supporting us to keep our sport developing and flourishing, building programs for coaches, advocacy for our sport in forums such as the Safer Boating Forum and enabling us to support high performance in our sport.
Please take the time to join NZSUP
Membership is just $20/year, and there are many benefits for members; you’ll get discounts from leading SUP stores, be able to enter our regular online challenges absolutely free, find local paddlers in your area, and much more. Most importantly though, by adding your voice to our community you help us lobby on your behalf. Joining is super simple, just click here!
NZSUP Inc is a member of the New Zealand Safer Boating Forum, a formal network representing a cross-section of national and regional government agencies, local body groups, organisations and the marine industry, involved in promoting recreational boating safety in New Zealand. Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) leads the Forum and works with Forum members to coordinate safe boating activities.
