Course Overview

Judge SUP surfing competition events in surf up to 6ft.

Ocean with breaking waves, with surf up to 6ft (1 metre).

Stand up paddle surfing judge within the stand up paddle industry.

• Identify the role and characteristics of a SUP Surfing Judge
• Understand the judge's code of conduct
• Identify SUP surfing manoeuvres, degree of difficulty and category (major, minor and transitional).
• Identify the criteria to judge SUP surfing performance
• Understand how to score a supper's performance
• Identify interference and effect on scoring
• Identify common scoring problems
• Understand how to manage conflict

• have personal advanced SUP surfing paddling abilty (perform and link advanced level SUP manoeuvres in the critical section of the wave).

Workshop
Duration: 1 day

Workshop course requirements:

At the workshop:

• demonstrate competency in identifying and scoring SUP surfing manoeuvres.

After the workshop:

Demonstrate ability to judge at 2 SUP surfing competition events, of at least 5 hours in total.

Duration:
Workshop: 5 hours
Plus post workshop paddling experience (as applicable).
You have 12 months from date of workshop to complete all course requirements.

Level 1 SUP Surfing Judge Training Manual 

The following equipment and clothing is required to complete the training:

• access to judge at SUP Surfing events

ASI SUP Surfing Judge certificate
(valid for 24 months from date of attending workshop)

Complete renewal form and payment
Undertake judging at 2 SUP Surfing competition events, of at least 5 hours, in the previous 24 months.