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Who would sup Nias?

Frothing

Chris as you know there are also some waves in Vicco for those those with balls big enough that will swallow a SUP easily.

Terrific post with brilliant surfing. These are the guys that paddle out prone then sit on their boards and jump up when they see the wave then wobble around and paddle into the wave. They are usually on really small boards and rip bags and it looks fantastic. Is it stand up paddle surfing though when the only time you use the paddle is to get into the wave and then help you to turn your board? This is a serious question and I'm not judging just asking for opinions. Mine is that if I was their age and had their ability I would use a short board. You can get deeper in the barrel and work the face inside. The Vaz bros do amazing things but to me it's like driving a modified shortened Rolls Royce in a formula one race, it's doable but why? If they did the whole thing standing up on larger boards then that's different then because you're actually driving a stock Rolls Royce in its own class in challenging conditions. This is just an opinion and certainly not a condemnation of the fantastic stuff they do. Opinions and thoughts would be appreciated because I must be missing something

Leroy13 said..
Is it stand up paddle surfing though when the only time you use the paddle is to get into the wave and then help you to turn your board? This is a serious question and I'm not judging just asking for opinions

Very interesting question. I will try to translate into english the recent post by Patrice Guenole that was wondering the same thing (here: www.gong-galaxy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4458 for the French-reading people) "If you don't stand up all the time, it is not SUP". His answer is to try to design boards that can be both really SUPed (always standing up, no prone nor kneepaddling) and prone surfed without a paddle. He basically tries 2 directions: Just SUPing on longboards with barely enough volume, and designing extra narrow SUPsurf boards (<25"). I have been lucky to try these boards last month, in a 40+ knots windy session, on a rocky point, backside... and it can be done, even at my 53 years, open new feelings, but is physically (and mentally) exhausting.

But this is worth a dedicated post. I will try to translate the original post tomorrow and post here on the breeze to start the discussion rolling

Ah,what would a kid know!(just joking)

Thanks for that Cola's I think its an interesting question. I'm positive it's because I'm just plain lazy. The wind and resulting surface turbulence would also aggravate my hip replacement and very much challenge my average ability

Would love to get a real go out there it's one of my bucket list waves for sure.

ChrisClarke1 said..

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Who would sup Nias?

I don't think I would SUP Nias If I ever do get to SUP Nias? I'd be on my 12ft PSH gun. I surfed Nias way back in 1982 mate there was no one there maybe 6 surfers it was very primitive back then I even got Malaria had to spend a week in a Singapore Hospital I was f####d up. I surfed the place 12ft on a 6'8'' Single Fin some Big Stand Up Barrels "Yes Please Mr Wizard" Nais is known for breaking like Hawaii's finest. I nearly drowned on one occasion I even hit the bottom which was unheard of at Nias before the earthquake, one more second and would not be siting here today what a flogging I got "heavy". I believe it breaks more constant now since the earthquake but with 60 guys in the take off zone.

Hear are some old photo's

12ft Nias



Getting Shacked off my face


A Winfield Red in-between Sets WTF

Midnight Surfing

My first ever Outrigger Canoe Experience


Octopus for Breakfast

Duck for lunch she cost me 4,000 rpa I had to cut her head off then Pluck a Duck "HEAVY"


Going on a bit off a Tour Mentawis is where

My Accommodation

Downwinders 22nd Birthday "Bintang Time"

Awesome footage , charging where I come from , admire there ability is what I enjoy , should be called big ball brothers. I bet there were crew out that day that didn't even get near the take off zone , shoulder sitting on surfboards , that's not surfing either .To get barrelled on a sup on a wave like that , you need a narrow board with a low rail , hard to stand on that waiting for waves . I myself like the adaption to get amongst it , puts a lot more waves on the sup bucket list .

Love your "shroom" singlet...

personally i think jacko's sup barrels would have to be right up there with the best. he gets pretty deep in side them.