PaddleExpo: 05.-07. October Nürnberg Germany
The event opened its doors on Friday in Hall 7A of the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre. There were more exhibitors and brands than ever before with 158 exhibitor stands and 309 brands spread across 5088 sq metres of booths. The first two days of the show were busy with brands happy with the level of attendance and the interest shown in their products. Whilst The show dinner on the second evening was as always one of the highlights of the event with the show awards followed by Rai Puig presenting his new film Solo in Papua. Click through for the Source photo review of this year’s event.
1 Paddleexpo entrance
2 The main man at Paddleexpo Horst Fursattel
3 Show hall
3c parking for exhibitors is right next to the hall so super convient
4 Around the show
5 Around the show
8 Evening dinner
10 Award presentation at the dinner
12 Awards NSP for best paddlesport product
12 Show night dinner
13 Awards All the winners
Airboard bag with roll top pump system
Airboard paddle with integrated air pump
Airboard Whitewater built for easy manouvering in fast flowing rivers
Airboards Jo Steiner and Camen Zuercher.
Anomy's Chavi Rovira and Carlos Paloma
Anomy's The Way of Quyen Dinh, is tattoo style
Anomy's The Way of Tito Morello is their latest artist collaboration
AquaDesign's new four man race board
AquaDesigns Inga and Terry Barbier
BIC's Cross 110 uses their tough-Tec technology and is aimed at schools looking for longlife durability
BIC'S Performer is a price point entry pack of board, pump, paddle and bag
BIC's Peter Durham
Boardworks Parlay carbon construction raceboard
Boardworks Rick Karr
Boardworks The Froth high performance softboard
Bravo's GE 25 pump for inflating multipul boards so good for schools and clubs
Bravos Bravo's Nano easy transportable micro pump xx
Dyna-trade is now offering SUP paddles from Supr manufactured in Holland
F Ones Marc Hollenbach
F Ones Material is a lightweight all round family board with a high weight carrying capability
F Ones new raceboard with redesigned hull to offer increased speed and stability
Fanatic booth
Fanatic is now producing foils inhouse for SUP
Fanatic's new Strike raceboard
Fanatic's Sven Richter
Hala's Jimmy Hostetler and Josh Fix
Hala's Playita combines their carbon technology with their double stack technology that uses two chambers to add stiffness and a stronger rail.
Halas Radito now has twin fins and stomp box to improve performance in a variety of river environments
Indiana have launched a new mid price point brand Apatcha, all boards come with paddle, pump, bag and kayak seat
Indiana is now also offering a full SUP foil set up
Indiana now offers a smart fin bolt fast change system with integrated screw and plate
Indiana's Claudio Cureger, Maurus Strobel and Niki Dietrich
Indiana's 16 foot fast touring board built for the heavier user
Jobe booth
Jobe's Deska comes with dual dropstitch construction with has reduced the weight by a kilo while maintaining the boards strength
Jobe's Hank Hurenkamp and Sven Krekels
Jobe's womens lightweight, breathable and water reppellant 'stretch legging
JP Australia's booth
JP Australia's Cruisair light edition comes with hard tail edge which helps board glide
JP Australia's Cruisair light edition tail close up
JP Australia's foiling SUP board has bevilled rails to stop edges catching the water and special tail cutout to enable you to pump the board without touching the water. jpg
Light Corp's Gerd Weisner and Delko Canda
Light Corp's inflatable comes with hydro dynamic hulls which create less drag due to raised central spine.
Light Corp's Signature V2 raceboard with hollow construction comes in at under 9.5 kilos
Mistral booth
Mistral's Lombok is an enrty level board designed to make those first experiences as east as possible
Mistral's Mauritz Huisman
Mistral's slipstream air has 4 chambers (front, side tubes and main chamber) to add stability and stifness
Naish's Glide is a true adventure board with lots of carrying capacity front and back for longer distance trips.
Naish's Maliko race board has double carbon stringers top and bottom so stiffer is really better
Naish's Matte Naetzel and Damien Girardin
Norden SUP longboard ,they are finding these bigger boards have recently become much more popular
Norden's Free Racer a combination of free riding and multi purpose racing
Nordens Andi Wirtz and Kalle Graeprer jpg
NRS now offer a second brand called Star which offers affordable technology for the price point market
NRS SUP's come with automatic release valve for when boards are over pressuried
NRS's Mark Deming
NSP's award
NSP's Cocamat Allrounder which won the SUP award Is built using coconut fibre and other environmentally friendly materials
NSP's Protech is a combination of moulded eps core with lamination gives the feel of a custom surfboard at a good price point
NSP's Sander Blauw, Trent Pedersen and Andres Mencke
Onda is now offering a customisation service called Custom Factory for brands and retailers
Onda's Anna Monty and Paolo Green
Oukai SUP's Tim Aagesen
Oukai SUP's Wide Rainbow uses woven stropstich that makes it stiffer,stronger and lighter
Oxbow's Astec Search which is made in France, is the strongest and lightest in their range
Oxbow's Bamboo glider has a bamboo deck and their traditional colours and graphics
Pagaja is the first pan European booking system for paddling
Plastex based in Poland is now offering SUP race boards, following their huge success in the canoe market
POD also is the owner of Roller bone balance boards, this is their artist collab with Nane
POD distributes Aquamarina, the Rapid is a white water board with double layer constuction and six fins
POD's Richard Ems
Prowave's Stefan Bretthauer, gold medal winner Sebastian Brendel and Dyna-trade's Phil Mandeau
Red Original's full range of accessory products was on show
Red Paddle booth
Red Paddle's Christian Pellissier and Matteo Cau and Sarah Vosper
Red Paddle's recently launched compact SUP pack was put together to offer a lightweight easy carry solution for those looking to travel and explore
RRD booth
RRD's Air Venture Pro is a multi purpose board is super wide for added stability and has 3 attachment points for fishing accessories. jpg
RRD's Airace V5 has an anti torque system with 3 belts one down the centre and the other two crossed to stop the board from twisting
RRD's Paolo Jimmiereis , Dylan Tuffus and Jacopo Giusti xxx
Safe's Air Surfer easily transportable inflatable surfboard
Safe's Daniele Cimattiand Luca Lombini
Safe's East Ride multi purpose beginners board
SIC'S Mark Raaphorst , the man in the advert
SIC's RS inflatable has a wide tail with rails on the bottom to improve board tracking
SIC's RS is designed to offer the best combination of capabilities to get you first across that finsh line
SIC:Oxbow: BIC booth
Siren Snapper has vary high rocker line which makes it extremely manouvrable
Siren's Tiburon HCT long touring board is built for stability with heavier loads
Sirens Jorg Haustein and Axel Bischoff
Slastic eyewear have magnetic join on the front and ajustable arms to keep them stay securely on your head
Standout mens Airlong shirt combines stretchable lycra with air neoprene to provide a breathable water resistant top
Standout womens Airlong shirt
Standouts Aleksander Ljutic
Starboard booth
Starboard's Florian Brunner and Jorcani's Clément Morandière and Eliane Droemer
Starboards inflatable dual chamber construction uses a central chamber to add extra stiffness and offers extra floatation in case the outer chamber punctures
Typhoon's Ezeedon waterproof breathable dry suit comes with fabric sock for greater comfort
Typhoon's James Tinkley and Nan
Typhoon's latest top of the range 3 mm Kona comes with leg and shoulder color pops
Wave Hawaii's bamboo ponchoes are made from a combination of cotton and bamboo yarn which offers high water absorbantcy
Wave Hawaii's Carsten Raphael
Woo Outriggers Feline (orange and blue)is designed for European conditions where we have a shorter gap between waves
Woo Outriggers Kawan is for beginners, so easy to use and the go to outrigger for renters.
Woo Outriggers Mikael Schlub and Guy Ringrave
Young Pirates John Smith and Schorschi Schauf
Young Pirates Onesie with Kama-Tec water reppelant technology and polygiene
Young Pirates online custormisation system for personalised garments