OK NZSUP members, here are some fun challenges for you! You can enter as many times as you like, and results will be published after each challenge has finished. You will need to become an NZSUP Member to enter these challenges. Click here to join!
| Title | Distance | Type | Description | Start | Finish | Status | Enter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Santa pic | Photo Challenge | Show us your best Christmas-themed paddleboarding pic! | December 01 2025 | December 31 2025 | Active | ||
| 4km for Christmas | 4km | Distance Challenge | Finish the year with your best shot at a fast 4km. Any class of board, anywhere, just crank out a distance longer than 4km. You can enter as many times as you want - get going! | December 01 2025 | December 31 2025 | Active | |
| 4km for November | 4km | Distance Challenge | November 01 2025 | December 01 2025 | Completed |
Here is some more information on the different types of challenges.
Distance Challenges
You can enter a distance challenge wherever you are in New Zealand (or overseas – Kiwi expats are welcome to enter too). All you need is a GPS tracker watch or phone app, and a round-trip paddle of approximately the right distance (it doesn’t have to be exact), that you can complete, with the same start and finishing point. This is vital, to negate any significant current/wind/tide advantages.
Rules
1. Choose your paddle route, which needs to be a round trip of the required distance. It does not need to be exactly the required race distance, just any route that is at least the race distance. (So if it’s a 4km race, any round trip of more than 4km will be fine. Our algorithm will work out your exact time for 4km from that).
2. Start your watch when you start the distance. (So it’s a static start, not a running start)
3. Stop your watch/tracker when you complete the distance. Your GPS track should then show the distance completed and the time taken.
4. Screenshot your GPS track from your phone app. All it needs to show is date, distance, time taken, and ideally a map trace to confirm the ’round trip’ nature of your course. If you don't have an app that shows this, just a pic of your watch screen will be fine if it shows the necessary info.
5. Enter these details into the form, along with your contact details, board type, location etc. You can compete on any board – there are divisions for each board type.
6. Job done! Our system will then compute your time for the required distance, and the results will be announced at the end of the time period.
You may enter as many times as you like, unless it specifically states otherwise in the challenge description. If you've already entered the challenge, your existing entries will be displayed below the entry form.
Photo Challenges
Submit your pic! All pix will be displayed at the end of the challenge. We may award spot prizes, we may choose a pic (or pix) as our favourite, or we may ask members to vote for their favourite.
Rules
Please don't submit any picture that you don't own the rights to, and please do ensure that everyone who is shown in the picture (especially minors) are happy for the picture to be displayed publically.
Ideally, pictures should be no bigger than 1mb.
You may enter as many times as you like, unless it specifically states otherwise in the challenge description