How to Inflate Your Stand Up Paddle Board - An Electric Pump & Manual Pump

Inflating a Paddle Board Using a Hand Pump

You have 2 options that both Have pros and cons to them.

1：Manual Pump can be used anywhere but takes effort to use 2：An Electric Pump required no effort on your part, but you do need to be near a main source to power it.

A hand pump is your first option for inflating your paddle board. This is a rather uncomplicated method, as you get with the pump a pressure gauge, a washer, and a hose. Once you connect the hose to the pump, you have to manually add air pressure to your paddle board. You do this via a plastic handle that you pump up and down.

As the inflatable paddle board begins filling with air pressure, you may find that pumping more air into the SUP board becomes extremely difficult. This isn’t you just getting tired out. There’s more resistance to each pump you make once the board fills past a certain point. That can make finishing quite an ordeal.

Hand pumps have some upsides and downsides. Starting with the good stuff, filling your inflatable SUP board using a hand pump is a good form of exercise. You can also inflate your board to the precise pounds per square inch (PSI) or pressure you want and nothing more than that. Best of all, hand pumps are extremely portable. Since they’re not electric, you can use them anywhere: at home in the garage, on the beach, or any other place with sturdy ground..

As for the downsides, those exist, too. Hand pumps are a pain to use, both literally and figuratively. Like we said before, it’s possible to exhaust yourself before you even grab your SUP board to paddle. You may have a harder time out on the water because you tired your arms out prematurely.

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Step 1: Take your inflatable paddle board out of the travel bag. Unfurl the deflated board completely.

Step 2: Check the pin in the valve. This is often yellow. Is the pin upright? If not, you want to set it that way now. Otherwise, all the air you put into the board through pumping will come hissing right out again when you stop. You’d then have to start all over again.

Step 3: Take the hose that comes with your hand pump and connect it. One end should attach to your hand pump and the other to your PSI gauge. Without this, you have no means of tracking air pressure as you inflate your paddle board.

Step 4: Double-check that both ends of the hose are attached super tight. Like a valve pin that’s not upright, you can otherwise lose a lot of air..

Step 5: If your pump valve has a protective cap, you want to remove this now. With your washer, rinse away debris or dirt that may linger under or on the cap

Step 6: Keeping your hose straight (no tangles or sharp angles, please), grab your pump handle using both your hands. Depress it by pushing down on the handle completely, then let the handlebar come back up.

Step 7: Repeat this as necessary. If you want to get to 10 PSI, you’d need to manually pump between 100 and 125 times. If you want to fill your SUP board to 12 or even (or in the case of my iRocker) 15 PSI, you’ll have to pump 125 to 175 times.

Step 8: Take the hose off from your hand pump, putting the protective cap back on.

Step 9: Disconnect the other side of the hose and pack up your gear. Get ready to ride!

Inflating a Paddle Board Using an Electric Pump

When you have an electric pump, you don’t have to do much of anything in terms of work. There’s certainly no manual pumping, although you must have a source of power to use your electric pump. Most SUP riders use their car’s cigarette port, and you can do the same. Just make sure you disconnect everything when you’re done or you could accidentally end up draining your car’s battery and stranding yourself!.

p>Step 1: You want to begin as you did with the steps for inflating your paddle board with a hand pump. Take your deflated board, unfurl it all the way, and then lay it somewhere flat. The top side of the board should be facing up.

Step 2: Again, check on the pin in the valve, which is still yellow. Flip the pin so it’s upright if it isn’t already set that way.

Step 3: Your electric pump comes with a hose, so you’re going to want to connect that to the paddle board’s inflation side. Double-check that you’ve attached your hose to the right side and not the deflation side by accident. Otherwise, your paddle board will not inflate!.

Step 4: Like you did before with the hand pump, it doesn’t hurt to check that both sides of your hose are securely attached. Some electric pumps will lock if you twist the hose towards the right.

Step 6: Watch your pressure as the paddle board fills. It’s possible for some pumps to fill even more air than the PSI limit you set, so you don’t want to completely ignore the reading on the pressure gauge as you go

Step 7: Let the electric pump automatically fill your inflatable paddle board. As mentioned, you might have to wait about 10 minutes for this, sometimes more, sometimes less. Don’t panic if the board feels like it’s inflating very fast right away, as that’s normal. Inflation speed will slow down somewhat after 10 PSI.

Step 8: Stop inflating once your air pressure reaches 15 PSI, as that’s the highest pressure limit set by most electric pump manufacturers. Most of the time, your board should be fully inflated at 12 PSI anyway.

Step 9: If it’s not, then a few pumps with your hand pump can get it higher, such as up to 15 PSI. There’s never any need to inflate beyond that point, well, unless you want to end up with a popped paddle board.

Step 10: When you’re done with the electric hand pump, turn the hose in the opposite direction than you used to lock it, so left. Take the hose off both ends, put the protective cap back on, and pack up your pump.