If you talk to anyone that doesn't stand up paddle themselves, chances are you'd be met with some sort of scepticism if you told them it was dangerous.

Well upon meeting such a person, why don't you do a little educating about just how extreme this sport for 'surfers who are too lazy to paddle' can really be. The Seabreeze.com.au forums are a buzz right now with blood and gore stories of how paddlers thought they'd meet their doom. Here's a few stories from real paddlers, about what could have been their final moments on earth. (Not really, just minor mental scars! ;-)

"Just bought my first SUP a couple years ago and went out to the alley, could not stay standing up for sh$t in relatively calm conditions, fell off for the umpteenth time and realised that the dark torpedo a few meters away which was longer than my 10 ft naish mana had teeth....cracked the sound barrier prone paddling back to the beach." - SupaTrooper

"Short boarder paddled across in front of me whilst dropping in, I stepped off the rail of my 11'6 Nalu & grabbed my board across the deck so tht I didn't run him over & kill him. Left shoulder dislocated & relocated in one movement before I was thumped going over the falls." - Zeusman

"My scariest SUP moment of today was parting company with my board at the rock Sponge Bay & discovering as tension on my legrope grew that it was wrapped around the wrist of the hand that was holding my paddle. Don't even ask how such a thing could happen...." - GizzieNZ

And the best of all - "The price of buying Stand Up Paddle boards new, then the big drop when selling" - By Warwickl

Check out all the stories in the Stand Up Paddling Forums, and add your own near death experience (or not) to the collection. 

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