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Downwind and Racing / Re: Stunning speeds of the pros
« on: November 27, 2018, 02:32:43 PM »
Don't consider those absolute times in a vacuum. Tenorio is very close to the speed of the best pros.
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Downwind and Racing / Re: Stunning speeds of the pros« on: November 27, 2018, 02:32:43 PM »
Don't consider those absolute times in a vacuum. Tenorio is very close to the speed of the best pros.
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Gear Talk / Re: Toothpick, ultra narrow tippy race boards. What would you want to know ?« on: September 11, 2018, 10:51:04 AM »
Its not in spite of or because of. She had one other top female paddler there and she has a past history of being an endurance beast. In a tighter battle the last percentage points are going to come into play but that race was won by the padddler on the board, not the board under the paddler. The 23 was overkill in those conditions, it’s an ocean board for her.
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Gear Talk / Re: Please explain these boards to a newbie« on: September 06, 2018, 12:23:34 PM »
25 is usually the best compromise. The few actual good days of DW that Florida gets per year will be challenging on a 25 but the other 95% will be fine. I have a Vapor and it handles anything Florida can throw at it. The flying fish boards are fun DW boards and surf really well but are more technical than the vapor being more race focused. Having “downwinded” the Florida chop in pretty much every condition on boards ranging from 23 to 29” I prefer the vapor as the one board quiver.
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Gear Talk / Re: Need help: flatwater hard boards for long-distance racing/touring« on: July 27, 2018, 10:21:45 AM »Unless you are of very slight build, narrow boards are a royal PITA.^ outside UK & US people weigh less on average. So that advice depends where you are. Some lessons have to be learned. We’re all guilty of trying to buy speed at some time or another. I even knew better and still did it my own self. Cognitive dissonance at its finest. 5
Gear Talk / Re: Need help: flatwater hard boards for long-distance racing/touring« on: July 23, 2018, 02:21:31 PM »
All things being equal, and they never are, I had two boards of the same make and model 23 and 25 and in a flat sprint for one minute the 23 averaged .15 mph faster through 8 runs. I also didn't use the 23 in about half the races I did because races are rarely flat and windless. Touring it's utterly pointless to paddle a marginally stable board unless it's for the "challenge". Racing is so utterly chaotic and unpredictable that you should err on the side of stability. You're also 6'2 not 5'7 and coming from a 28" wide board with not much paddling experience. 23" boards, despite the new hotness of 21.5 and 22" boards are still tip of the spear equipment.
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Gear Talk / Re: Need help: flatwater hard boards for long-distance racing/touring« on: July 23, 2018, 10:01:27 AM »
I’ll come out and be the first to actually say it. Don’t buy a 23. Start out at 25 or if you really feel you need to then get a 24. A 23” board won’t offer you anything more than a 24 or 25 will besides instability. Your racing results are going to ride entirely upon your fitness, not your board, provided said board is intended as a race board. The difference in speed between them is far less than you probably think it is.
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Sneak Peeks, Rumors, and Wish Lists / Re: It’s that time of year - 2018 Race Board Gossip ?« on: July 21, 2018, 08:59:25 AM »Did anyone see the new 2019 Naish Maliko? Considering the effort they used to go through to make the boards look good thats a plausible assumption. The paint scheme on this one is a bit of a WTF to me, it just looks weird and completely uninspired. 8
Gear Talk / Re: SIC Bayonet shape vs. Bullets?« on: July 17, 2018, 02:21:43 PM »
I'd say that's a pretty accurate first impression of it. The real magic is that it just never really feels that way once things get festive, it really doesn't make sense. 9
Gear Talk / Re: SIC Bayonet shape vs. Bullets?« on: July 17, 2018, 01:23:46 PM »
While I realize you’re asking about a direct comparison and I have no experience with a V2 I will say the vapor is ridiculously stable. It will handle some truly nasty conditions. Other than flat water speed I don’t think that board really has a weakness. Could be lighter, could pressure ding a bit less readily but that doesn’t really have anything to do with it’s capabilities.
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Gear Talk / Re: new Fanatic strike« on: July 03, 2018, 03:47:41 PM »I don’t think any of you guys would have any problems paddling a 14x21.5 board. But whether you could be fast when paddling it in typical race conditions is another matter altogether. There are plenty of people who seem to measure their worth by how narrow a board they can stay on top of. But that’s not worth a damn in itself. You have to be faster on it than you would be on a 23-25” wide board. And that’s the tricky bit I drew the line at "do I enjoy paddling this board?". I raced a 23 in flat water but it just wasn't worth it as I had to train on it as well and I never really enjoyed it. The 24 was essentially as fast with all the added stability benefits and it was a board I wanted to paddle, not one I needed to. I never beat anyone paddling the 23 that I didn't already beat on the 24 anyway and the best performance I had was on a 25 because conditions were mixed and the guys on 23s struggled to keep up in the open water portions and couldn't make it up in the flat water. 11
Downwind and Racing / Re: Light DW <25 knots contenders« on: June 26, 2018, 06:24:28 PM »
You already have a vapor. That board is outstanding at pretty much any non racing activity. That's the one board I won't sell.
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Downwind and Racing / Re: Best downwind board for my area? (SW Florida)« on: May 28, 2018, 11:13:41 AM »
Vapor. It's great at pretty much everything downwinding in Florida. Covers everything we get and is superb in the ocean in general.
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SUP General / Re: Sharing Strategies from other Sports« on: May 25, 2018, 04:31:57 AM »
I went to a 23 for a bit but abandoned it after a few months. It really took any enjoyment out of paddling. I only ever paddled it because I needed to, not because I wanted to. If I were competing for wins I’d probably have stuck with it but there’s no board I’ll be ever be able to average 6mph on.
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Flatwater and Touring / Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race« on: May 18, 2018, 03:22:35 AM »@AREA: the board you are referring to sounds like a fun fun fun board. If it were a hollow construction, I'd jump on that rather quickly. I am thinking long term here, so durability has got to be way up there on my list. Installing a fin box in a hollow board will be tricky. 15
Technique / Re: Stroke Rate for Distance« on: May 11, 2018, 02:21:45 PM »I think I know why the SUP paddle power meter was never released (beyond limited market) and how to fix the issue. The easy way to add a power meter to a paddle would be a strain gauge on the shaft. I did that with my paddle pod and never got values that seemed usable. Over long-ish distances attempting to measure the force while paddling with consistent effort applied to the shaft the strain gauge values fluctuated wildly. The relatively consistent accelerometer values and vibration curves didn't show any useful correlation to strain. I only measured the acceleration of the paddle blade, not the board, since what I was trying to measure was relative performance of the blades. In general a stronger person can apply that force more efficiently. If you can lift 500 pounds and I can lift 400 and we're working with a load of 300 you'll do reps with a lower effort. I perhaps need to drop to 200 pounds and lift at a higher rate to match your total work output. A part of a plan like paddle monster is gym work to add strength. |