Paddleboarding is a great exercise. It's when you propel yourself on a paddleboard using arms.
Wow! I've never been but I think it looks like fun. What else can you tell me about paddle boarding?
It's usually performed in the open ocean. The participant surfs and paddles unbroken swells to cross between island or travel between coastal areas.
That sounds fun. 
Yep, you get a good workout. Champion paddlers are able to stroke for hours and races are just warm ups.
Interesting so there are paddle boarding competitions, I always thought it was just done for recreation and fun.
Oh yes definitely! And the creator of paddleboarding was Thomas Edward Blake.
I wonder how he invented it. I wonder if he planned on making it or if it was just a coincidence. Is he still alive?
Well Thomas Blake constructed the paddleboard but there was a picture of a paddleboarder in a 1781 painting so it may have been around a lot longer. 
Hmmm I wonder if Thomas Blake stole the idea and called it his own... I guess we will never know. Anything else interesting about paddle boarding?