Summer has begun and with it our outdoor activities. The gym in the city closes and our ceiling becomes the sky, our mirror Tavolara, a wonderful island symbol of our coast.

For some years now the Lo Squalo restaurant has hosted our lessons. In addition to the interest for pilates with sea view and for water gymnastics, the interest for stand-up paddle and pilates above the table grows more and more.

I have had contact with the table since I was a child. I remember the summers spent diving from the windsurf boards of my cousins, then the passion for windsurfing, even though I’ve never been very good. And here as I try to learn how to juggle myself with sail and trapeze, I start thinking about what I could invent over that beautiful stable board.

A decade ago I discovered the SUP, the right table for my ideas that will finally materialize. Combining passion and work, I designed a protocol of pilates exercises, and not only.

Un ringraziamento va agli amici della Buona Onda che hanno creduto da subito in questa attività, facile e aperta a tutti, aiutandomi a darle vita. È un modo piacevole di vivere il mare tenendosi in forma. Ma il SUP crea dipendenza ed ecco che il pilates non ci basta più, sulla tavola vogliamo passare più tempo possibile, dall’alba al tramonto, fino al sorgere della luna.

Da qua nascono tutti gli eventi collaterali all’attività ordinaria e ogni scusa è buona per stare sulla tavola, uscite all’alba, al tramonto, alla luna piena, colazioni, aperitivi, pranzi e cene. Ascoltare un concerto sulla spiaggia? Molto meglio dal mare sul sup. Nonostante la base logistica sia la spiaggia Lo sup.

A thank you goes to the friends of the Good Wave who immediately believed in this activity, easy and open to everyone, helping me to give it life. It is a pleasant way to experience the sea while keeping fit. But the SUP is addictive and here is that the pilates is not enough anymore, on the table we want to spend as much time as possible, from sunrise to sunset, until the rising of the moon.

From here all the collateral events to the ordinary activity are born and every excuse is good to stay on the table, you go out at dawn, at sunset, to the full moon, breakfasts, aperitifs, lunches and dinners. Listen to a concert on the beach? Much better from the sea on the sup. Despite the logistics base is the beach Lo sup

Although the logistics base is Lo Squalo beach, we always try to organize weekend tours that will take us to enjoy the beauty of our island. Some destinations have become fixed appointments, and three of these are Tavolara, Bosa and Porto Pollo. Our presence in the swimming crossing from S. Paolo and Porto Taverna to Tavolara, where we assist swimmers, is now inevitable. As inevitable the crossing along the Temo, the only navigable river in Sardinia, which crosses the suggestive town of Bosa, on the west coast, always accompanied by the friends of NuAdventure.

You can’t miss the magical sunset over the dunes of Porto Pollo, after the circumnavigation of the Gabbiani island and the navigation of the Liscia river, reachable by crossing the beach. With the sup you come into contact with nature in a magical and exciting way, without ever getting tired. The most beautiful thing is to see the enthusiasm of my students, by now friends, who manage to infect anyone who looks, curious, at this activity. And this, as a teacher, I think is the most important goal, to see your own passion and the same desire to codify it arise in others.

Maria Forteleoni – Pilates teacher