Question: What is a "Real wave"?

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Vince68

675 posts

Vince68

WA, 675 posts

22 May 2017 5:25am

Yeah so a real wave! Are there impostor waves out there, has nature picked up one of those fake diplomas? What makes a wave real. I thought a wave was a wave it's either there or it's not

Can someone please explain?

Faff

VIC

1417 posts

Faff

VIC, 1417 posts

22 May 2017 8:28am

Ground swell?

Stuthepirate

3591 posts

Stuthepirate

SA, 3591 posts

22 May 2017 11:25am

Well for most of us a "real wave" is 2ft onshore mush with a difficult shorebreak, lateral drift and weed to contend with.
For the select few a real wave is logo/mast high cross offshore reef breaks.

Al Planet

TAS

1548 posts

Al Planet

TAS, 1548 posts

22 May 2017 12:29pm

JP once produced a board called the "Real World Wave" specifically for riding "Real" waves unfortunately it turns out that we all live in a WoW simulation so the board was of no use to anyone except eyeMhardcore.

Mark _australia

23648 posts

Mark _australia

WA, 23648 posts

22 May 2017 2:34pm

One day I did ride a RealWorldWave on what I estimated to be a 'real' wave - so I did feel like I was keepin' it real.

Jupiter

2156 posts

Jupiter

2156 posts

22 May 2017 4:00pm

A Mexican Wave ?

Mark _australia

23648 posts

Mark _australia

WA, 23648 posts

22 May 2017 4:18pm

are they the ones always taking our jobs?

jn1

2754 posts

jn1

SA, 2754 posts

22 May 2017 7:14pm

Gravitational waves were conjectured by Henri Poincare in 1905 and observed in 2016 using the Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. Now weather or not a JP Real World Wave board could ride those waves is open to conjecture. So, another Nobel Prize could be had

. Wow, wouldn't that look good on the C.V.

Mark _australia

23648 posts

Mark _australia

WA, 23648 posts

22 May 2017 5:50pm

^^^ speaking of gravity - I did have one of the heavier variety once, slapped it and rode the waves in.
OK, maybe twice.

Anyway, Vince, how we doing? Helping, no doubt....

jn1

2754 posts

jn1

SA, 2754 posts

22 May 2017 8:12pm

Was her name Virgo ?

Or was that a his ?

dmitri

VIC

1040 posts

dmitri

VIC, 1040 posts

22 May 2017 8:51pm

Any wave that you can ride without an expensive rig on a top of the board is the real wave

Mastbender

1972 posts

Mastbender

1972 posts

23 May 2017 1:28am

I guess it would depend on what the definition of "real" is?

Vince68

675 posts

Vince68

WA, 675 posts

23 May 2017 4:57am

Ah yes thank you all clear as mud now. One thing that is clear, nobody really has a proper clue! except for JP (maybe because it's their term) but they haven't provided an explanation yet. I guess that if it is above knee height it's a wave and anything that is logo and above, i think, that's when ** gets real

Imax1

QLD

4937 posts

Imax1

QLD, 4937 posts

23 May 2017 11:28am

If you didn't dream it , it was probably real.
Also stay away from those cheap Chinese copies , they'll break before the end of the run.

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