doggie said...

Dazza65 said...

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

Thing is Dazza, on the Goldy if you want I reckon the ratio is more like 80:20 paddler to
board. can go anywhere for a good uncrowded surf. I
was over in Feb and had some great uncrowded surf, even at Greenmount. If thats an excuse
to ride a SUP well it isnt a good one imo, get a mal..

I agree Doggie I regularly get uncrowded waves on the GC and ride my SB's 70% of the time.
Have a mal and only bring the mal or SUP out for the small stuff ie below waist high. I am
not a grommie anymore and I can't be stuffed paddling a 5'10 22'wide fish as the enjoyment
wouldn't be there.

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

dogie and legion are sooooooooooooooooo into not blowing their cooooooooooooooooooool.

hahaha school girls rule

you guys have got to stop thinking your still 13 years old


legion, good surfing is good surfing, yes dogman has the right technique or as you say .mechanics

I also don't like the shorts over wetsuit look.

who does

fire in the hole

Legion said...

There was a guy on my last trip. I mean, I don't really know any SUPers but guys on the SUP forum do, I've seen the pics. It's apparently a crossover from the kitesurfing guys.

i can't see the point of doing it ,no practical benefits (but there was a time in my young life where i thought white volleys were mandatory with blue jeans and white t-shirt!!)
there is one exception where boardshorts over the wetsuit is justified and that is if you have the dakine harness shorts,the harness bar attaches to the boardies rectified by buying another harness for the cold days when you wear a wetsuit
if you wanted to split hairs there is a distinction between kitesurfers and kiteboarders (where the boardshort over the wetsuit thing comes from )ie twin tip boards strapped and people riding surf specific boards with or without straps
personally i am pretty sh8te with straps on a board so i just ride my normal 6'4 epoxy without straps gives me alternative when the wind is onshore and from a surfing viewpoint i spend a sh8tload more wave time actually standing/controlling my board than i do in a normal surf ie 3-4 mins riding time on waves in a normal surf as opposed to maybe 20-25 mins or more kitesurfing..hardest part is teaching yourself to ride switchfoot after so many years of surfing ...
i still would go for a surf first anyday but there aren't many kitesurfers locally so crowding is never an issue.... somedays i can't get the first few lines of the Dr Seuss classic out of my head kitesurfing (or surfing for that matter when its uncrowded)

On the far-away island of Sala-ma-Sond,
Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond.
A nice little pond. It was clean. It was neat.
The water was warm. There was plenty to eat.
The turtles had everything turtles might need.
And they were all happy. Quite happy indeed.

Here's another thing to hate - Stand Up Push-with-a-stick Skateboarding. WTF? I really, really thought this was a joke when people first mentioned it but I was wrong.

And another - yoga etc on a SUP.

And another - Laird and how much people want to be like him. Be your own person.

chrispychru said...

fire in the hole

hahahahahahahahaaaaaa -

default said...

no its not ok - SUP is friggen RAD

ahahhahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!

Like lifting weights lying on a swiss ball.

Oh yeah, I can appreciate the visual aspect. But if you wanna do yoga for stretching purposes, why do it on an unstable environment like a floating board? That's going to compromise how much you can push your stretches and is a recipe for injury.

The SUP skateboarding thing - there's a whole forum dedicated to it and by the looks of it it's pretty active.

It's nothing to do with what's cool, although you SUPers seem to have a hangup about not being cool.

It's to do with the equipment. If I'm riding a wave, I want to be on the most high-performance equipment suited to the type of surfing I like to do.

If I rode a mal, I might look to get a SUP since I'd be used to trimming and not doing much. Big, long flowing turns. But I like a maneuverable board that I can turn sharply and quickly to its maximum potential. I don't like to just point a big log in a direction and hold on, like TC's floater earlier on in the thread.

well i dont give a fark about being cool. the only thing i agree about on this whole thread is that people should have manners and should only venture were they are not a risk to themselves or other people,thats in the water or dry land. not to try and tell people what is functional and not,thats just rot. if someone wants to go in a straight line go for it,it is not hurting me. as for your egg doggie, ihave seen many people tear bags out off it on that style of board in all sorts of surf(not me) yet i think you will find there is about 10% off people who can actually surf hp short boards and get the most out of them. such is the resurgence of retro boards with a new school twist. most people will far more enjoy surfing them as opposed to a hp sb. most people buy hp sb because of marketing and what is cool. i see more people struggling on a hp board than any other craft on the goldy, which is pretty funny

Crikey, this thread is still going. What have I started.

Rode the 9'1 Mal again this morning, was the perfect board for the fat weak swell we had.

Come doggie man up mate get 901 up ya

Laugh at Chrispy's post,true I see guy's struggling like sh-t on HP SB's.

They don't know what their missing,going vertical is much more fun on a
901

62mac said...

Come doggie man up mate get 901 up ya

Laugh at Chrispy's post,true I see guy's struggling like sh-t on HP SB's.

They don't know what their missing,going vertical is much more fun on a
901

Vert on a 901, come on down