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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2015, 04:54:48 PM »
If you catch a wave, you're riding on the top of the world - & you are surfing...
........ even if just your body, or a boogie board, surfboard,
short board, fun board, long board, SUP, canoe, jet ski, Hobie Cat, etc.
You are riding a wave, you are surfing. Simple.
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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2015, 04:56:32 PM »
There's  a break  near  me  where  to  be  a  real  surfer  you  have  to  not  wear  a  leash ,  your  board  must  be  white  only, and  your  wetsuit  can  only  be  all  black .  I'll  have  to  ask  them  about  SUPs.

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2015, 05:06:20 PM »
Every proner will SUP at some point if they want to stay standing up while riding waves. VERY few are able to pop up properly into the later years due to knees, backs, etc, then it's SUP or sit on the beach

I don't know about that.  I see plenty of guys well into their 50's and even 60's and a few in their 70's who prone surf and have no problem "popping" to their feet. 
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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2015, 05:23:51 PM »
I hate the word SUP. I never use it.

When I flatwater I paddle a paddleboard.

When I surf I paddle a surfboard.

It's standup surfing. We do it on a surfboard. We are surfers.

Surfing is not simply the act of riding a wave. It requires a surfboard. Whether you lay down and paddle with your hands or stand with a paddle in your hands makes no difference.

Stop calling it a paddleboard. It's a surfboard.
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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #19 on: August 02, 2015, 05:26:11 PM »
Well one way to look at it is this:  SUP was originally done on prone surfboards.  Granted it was a novelty but it was still done on surfboards not designed to be using a paddle.  It was an alternative to lying prone or kneeling and then popping to your feet.
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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #20 on: August 02, 2015, 05:27:03 PM »
Body whomping, hand plane, mat, boogie board, surf board, wave ski, canoe, SUP, kite, et cetera et cetera. All different and fun ways to ride a wave. Only insecure, immature, and the unevolved give a rat's ass about what anyone else thinks or doesn't think..

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #21 on: August 02, 2015, 05:46:10 PM »
I never heard of waveriders until I came here.  I am not sure if I have ever actually seen one in action, though lots of the surf kayaks.

Great session on the Costco Especiale, Rat.  Once in a while, it must be good to flip off the equipment obsession and just surf. The surf instructors around Sharks ride the soft tops all the time and flip them around, stand on their heads etc. a good reminder it's about skill.

I have always wondered if I could prone from a regular surfboard, but I have never wanted to waste a session finding out.

I pop up from prone maybe zero to five times a session, depending on the waves and whether I am already in the water, but don't have time to go to knees or stand and can only jump on the board to catch an incoming.  It doesn't bother my body to pop up on a SUP, but prone also means paddling out prone and doing everything prone, so that might be different.  I am still curious about it, but don't know when I will try it out.

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #22 on: August 02, 2015, 06:06:31 PM »
On a technical note, I'd say it's stand up paddle surfing, and prone surfing is not prone surfing, it's surfing. Same problem i have with water skiiers saying "snow skiing". The snow part is unnecessary, it's skiing. But when people say stand up paddle surfing isn't surfing' they aren't making a technical point, they're being dickheads.
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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #23 on: August 02, 2015, 06:42:41 PM »
As Laird says in That First Glide, "if this isn't surfing, I don't even know what surfing is".

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #24 on: August 02, 2015, 10:41:57 PM »
Spent the afternoon in fins bodysurfing with 4 buddies, no one around and we laughed like little kids for over an hour. I'll call them all and tell them that we weren't surfing if you guys say so, but as I remember, we were having too much fun to talk about the nature of what we were doing.

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2015, 01:38:05 AM »
I've body surfed, SUS, and "prone surfed" all in the last two days.  When observed or described linguistically correct, they are all different.

But at a certain moment, just after takeoff, they felt and looked the same to me.

It's not surfing?      Sure feels like it.

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2015, 03:45:03 AM »
if i knew nothing about any form of surfing and came upon a beach for the first time in my life and saw a group of proners and SUPers, i would think there's one bunch of guys sitting/lying around on boards and another bunch of guys standing/balancing on them all the time.  if  i were naturally lazy, the proning version would be my preference.

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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #27 on: August 03, 2015, 04:14:27 AM »
I think I'm beginning to see where some of the confusion is coming from.

If you were to just tell someone you were going surfing, most people would assume you'd be riding a surfboard. That would include longboards, kneeboards, shortboards and standupboards, all of which are surfboards.

Some are using the word generally as it relates to any activity that involves riding a wave. In this case, the word needs the proper adjective, such as body surfing, kayak surfing, kite surfing, etc.

Standup surfing doesn't need the adjective. It is surfing done on a surfboard. It is the very definition of surfing.

surf·ing
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noun: surfing

    The sport or pastime of riding a wave toward the shore while standing or lying on a surfboard.


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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #28 on: August 03, 2015, 04:41:35 AM »
Why do we give a shit WTF anyone else calls it. Anyone that says its not is a dick, why do you care what a dick thinks?
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Re: Riding waves on a SUP: Is that surfing?
« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2015, 05:41:41 AM »
Why do we give a shit WTF anyone else calls it. Anyone that says its not is a dick, why do you care what a dick thinks?

Good point.




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