Doggie real men start at 100 kgs

62mac said...

Doggie real men start at 100 kgs

So asea is a real man then

I can say that cos he never comes in here

Cool to hate sups?

I don't think it's cool to hate anyone, hating won't achieve much.

Sup does look pretty lame though, I reckon kayak's are the go if anyone's that way inclined. Just stay away from the breaks I'm surfing please.

Can't say I've seen anyone surf one well apart from the pros.

Let's hope boogie boarding takes off in popularity again, at least they're nice and soft if you hit one[}:)]

I hate everyone, but then I'm pretty uncool.

nutsy said...

Let's hope boogie boarding takes off in popularity again, at least they're nice and soft if you hit one[}:)]

The problem is though that they all sit so close to each other and it makes for a much bigger target to miss.. Sometimes trying to teach these kids etiquette of not sitting on the inside of people all the time gets a little frustrating

CMC said...

... I only ride my shortboards now when the conditions really suit them ...

Yeah, you see guys that say that on the SUP forum. Then they say it's been years since they got on a SB. You end up with abominations like this:



Makes me cry. Or dogman, who had a couple of really good SB vids but no more (although he's one of my favourite SUPers due to his proper body mechanics).

I hate the heavy reliance on the paddle and how people can't turn their board without it. It must be possible, because you see people doing bottom turns so the boards obviously can turn off the rail. But I almost never see top turns - they just kind of hit the lip and let gravity do the rest. There's no rotation off the top. The cutbacks suck - those flat, lay-on-the-paddle things. The loss of balance sucks - sit on the paddle all the time, forehand and backhand (like those guys at Newport Wedge).

I worry about people like OG SUPs daughter. So many bad habits developing. There was that recent pic with her with the stiff front leg, heel planted/toes in the air, body rotated the complete wrong way, laying on her paddle. It would do her good to lose the paddle for a while and develop some board riding skills, not pivot-round-a-pole skills.

About time forum got some life to it,well done sub and cmc

Legion said...

CMC said...

... I only ride my shortboards now when the conditions really suit them ...

Yeah, you see guys that say that on the SUP forum. Then they say it's been years since they got on a SB. You end up with abominations like this:

Mate, I just shaped myself new a 6'8 single fin cruiser. Not long ago got an EPS 5'10 Fish that I don't like too much, an EPS 6'0 Carbon wrap stringerless before that, my favourite board of all time is a 6'2. I ride my shorties quite a lot. Have a bunch more than this as well. My Simon 6'5 RP that I watched him actually handshape for me is an old brown favourite that I like to ride in good waves.

This morning I rode an pro's ex board HP 9'1 Mal after training on a 14' Race SUP. Yesterday I went for an hour paddle on a clubbie racing paddle board.

I also own a surf ski and an OC1. I paddle with a 6 man club. Not to sound conceited but I'd say I'm pretty open to anything that floats. Never ridden a goat boat or body board though, i'd be embarrassed

I'm in the water everyday before 5:30am, are you? I just don't get people being narrow minded about what they ride as if it defines them as a person. "Oh, I'm a shortboarder", really? who really cares? You are not what you ride, you're who you are.

crustt said...

Looked like young Tommy was having a ball and a good workout, those waves weren't worth surfing on anything else but a sup, so what is the problem?

Hit the nail on the head mate!

To me its all about having fun, who gives a toss what board someone rides and how well they do it. I ride shortboards 70% of the time but when its small, fat or mushy I have dragged out mals, foamies (coolites) and now SUP's and have had just as much fun on all of them. Do you reckon TC would have normally taken his shortboard out in that mush in the above vid, probably not so he takes a SUP out and has a hoot. Why deride him for getting out there and having fun.

crustt said...

Looked like young Tommy was having a ball and a good workout, those waves weren't worth surfing on anything else but a sup, so what is the problem?

It looked slow and cumbersome for TC but id did look like a hell of a workout

Makes me wonder how I'll look just starting out if guns like TC look that slow. I understand its a big board and all but it's TC. He was my idol growing up. I just assumed blokes like that would still through a SUP around like a rag doll.

Here's a recent post on the SUP forum:

GizzieNZ said...

... the Naish Hokua 9'5.....light & low volume with good performance & very stable feeling.

Only one of those things is possibly true.

Light? 8.6kg - 4 times a shortboard.
Low volume? 140L - 4 times a voluminous shortboard.
Good performance? Compared to a 30' boat, maybe.
Very stable? Maybe, I wouldn't know. I'd expect so with those measurements though.

You're deluding yourselves.

Legion said...

Here's a recent post on the SUP forum:

GizzieNZ said...

... the Naish Hokua 9'5.....light & low volume with good performance & very stable feeling.

Only one of those things is possibly true.

Light? 8.6kg - 4 times a shortboard.
Low volume? 140L - 4 times a voluminous shortboard.
Good performance? Compared to a 30' boat, maybe.
Very stable? Maybe, I wouldn't know. I'd expect so with those measurements though.

You're deluding yourselves.

Legion I think those comments are comparing the Naish to other SUP,s not shortboards

Legion said...

Funny to see the SUP riders all come in to the SB forum and back each other up .

The Funny bit is how angry it makes you. You have gone to great extents over time with photo essays etc to prove your point, they are amusing. Cracks me up.

Also mate, I don't need backup I'm sure I could do a pretty good job of stirring you up alone....

The even funnier bit is that you are probably time poor in reality and when you get a chance to get to the ocean you have to be on your shortboard to try and prove to yourself that one day you will ride a wave in a way you really know you can.. It's your identitity, 'I am Legion, short..... boarder' Hahah.

CMC said...

The Funny bit is how angry it makes you. You have gone to great extents over time with photo essays etc to prove your point, they are amusing. Cracks me up.

So I play my persona well then . I type almost as fast as I can speak. It's no big deal - procrastination from work. I reckon you could type 'tom carroll "the snap"' and get a google result in less than 30s too.

CMC said...

... you are probably time poor ...

Flexi hours.

doggie said...

crustt said...

Looked like young Tommy was having a ball and a good workout, those waves weren't worth surfing on anything else but a sup, so what is the problem?

No probs if ya wanna look like a kook

Problem is that the kook ratio out in the water is probably 75% at any given time. IF you class SUP riders as kooks then all well and good you should be happy. Dont know why all the complaining then. Would much rather surf with a heap of kooks than like here sometimes on the Goldy when its chockers full of pros.