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Stand Up Paddle => Sessions => Topic started by: surfinJ on June 24, 2016, 12:17:00 AM
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When it's small the temptation to milk every bit of the wave into the shorebreak becomes strong.
Somewhere in the foam cycle my camera got loose and started going south with the rip. I should have released my leash as I went after it.....
The good news is, these Sunova's are built very strong and my repair guy is a wizard.
https://vimeo.com/172074372
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Ouch, beautiful conditions, is that Cape Cod?
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In between hossegor and biarritz, france.
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Wow that seems like a small wave to do that much damage so easily !! Not sure if I buy the whole Sunova is a tough board after seeing that !
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In between hossegor and biarritz, france.
Wow I was close,, not!!
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Wow that seems like a small wave to do that much damage so easily !! Not sure if I buy the whole Sunova is a tough board after seeing that !
Even small shore pounders are notorious for snapping noses, especially longboards and SUP's.
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Even though I'm a newbie when it comes to sup surfing, I know when I get my new sup I'm never going to keep riding a wave to milk it for all it's worth where it basically breaks right on the beach sand where the odds of damaging my sup are very high.
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In between hossegor and biarritz, france.
On my bucket list of spots to surf. Is this close?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaCXjnGXp14&index=57&list=FLetRdTMKVzMbNGDqRZ8FmgA
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The spots name is Parlementia, sits in between the villages Bidart and Gučthary. It's about 20 min south, the queen of the coast.
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Wow that seems like a small wave to do that much damage so easily !! Not sure if I buy the whole Sunova is a tough board after seeing that !
Wow, l dreaded this sort of response.
Any board will break if put in the wrong spot. This was a small wave, ok, but it was a long period swell in about a foot of water. I was expecting a fully broken board when it happened. I've broken some boards over the years. That it didn't should be a boost for the Sunova brand.
I know I'm planning my next one
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Even though I'm a newbie when it comes to sup surfing, I know when I get my new sup I'm never going to keep riding a wave to milk it for all it's worth where it basically breaks right on the beach sand where the odds of damaging my sup are very high.
I don' t know about you but one of the first things I learned is that good sense stays behind when I am stoked. I took a pass on kiting because it looked like so many kitemares were errors of judgement and mine is no better than anybody else's when I'm stoked.
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I'm pretty sure I did something similar with my innegra Prowave recently. How and when, and how long, I don't really know, with some fierce days from El Nino.
The innegra is pretty tough and has given me a year an a half of care free outings several times a week, so I am not that miffed, and the nose didn't crack off. It left a splintered area about 18 inches long on one side and a few fractured holes on the other. I think with a standard board, the nose would have broken off.
Strange thing, I still don't think the absolute inner foam was breached and the board isn't sponging.
I am in the process of repairing the spots as I find them, but I guess the Prowave is on it's way to becoming a Supcheat beater.
I took my neighbor's Pearson Arrow custom 9'2"x32.75" that you surfed when you were here. It is the second time I have been on the board, and it made me feel like a balance champ. I was able to do all kinds of pretentious thinkgs like 360 buoy turns and stepping and even standing close the rails while turning. I can do an 180 turn around on it in about 2 seconds. I looked like a standup guy for a change.
Everything I learned about turning on the Prowave also worked great on the Pearson board, with the Pearson board managing very adept bottom turns and riding up and down the face down the line. I could step it like crazy because there is so much space.
The Prowave changes with fractions of an inch of foot position, so it was fun having broader sweet spots for everything and the Pearson seems made for somebody my size. The Pearson also has a very nice, controllable "slide" characteristic that is hard to describe. I can see why the Pearsons are favored for stunt sliding on wave crests and white water.
I'll take the Pearson out again today, the Prowave will probably be back in service Sunday with Supcheat bandaids.
By the way, Jay, the look of pained "Oh, Hell" on your face was priceless, but I'm sorry about your (new?) board.
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I don' t know about you but one of the first things I learned is that good sense stays behind when I am stoked. I took a pass on kiting because it looked like so many kitemares were errors of judgement and mine is no better than anybody else's when I'm stoked.
Thank you, guilty.
I took my neighbor's Pearson Arrow custom 9'2"x32.75" .... I looked like a standup guy...
Hey Carl, you should make the Pearson your daily driver. Longer sessions and more waves to get you ready for the bigger days on the Prowave.
And thanks but no worries about my board, it's in good hands.
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Jay, you are a bad, bad man! Great video, sorry about the Sunova. I remember a while back we discussed a certain popular DW brand's unwillingness to take punishment.
Hopefully your water temps are warming up!
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rbgar said
"Is that Cape Cod?"
ha ha.... I said
"Sheeesh, that looks like Cape Cod shorebreak!"
and yes.... anyone who knows that type of shorebreak understands 100%, that it is easily enough to fold any board if you are unlucky enough to get caught up in it..... it's the shallows, not huge size that pound you...and you can't escape if you are in the wrong place. I almost drowned last winter in 8" of water (broke my Prowave HRS, which is damn near bulletproof)
Bad luck sJ.... hopefully your guy will do a great job in time for summer LB sessions!
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@surfinJ
Those were some absolutely beautiful waves to surf in the video you posted. I would love in my lifetime to ride some waves like that.
Thanks for sharing the video.
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No sh!t ouch! That was nasty! But that video was cool and that jam was INSANE! On the bright side I actually lol when the shore break was first getting you and the singer screamed out! So there's that. Good luck w/the repair. I blew out two fin boxes New Years day in 2' shorebreak. $200 repair between the boxes, labor and a new set of fins. Worst fin wreck ever for me.
...and for what it's worth, I think your break there in France reminds me of Cape Cod from Creek's vids. Beautiful bucket list places for sure!
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Loved the music.
Spot looks great.
Glad the board will be ok
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Ha great video.
I am the same way about the shore break. I get too stoked on a wave and just go for one more turn and I'm rolling on the sand. I think a wetsuit increases your willingness to do that as well, because rolling on the sand without one is a lot more scratchy.
The other day I was at a wave in central Oregon where there was a back wash that created a mini ramp that would intersect with a wave most the time. This was so fun to jump over, that I did it over and over again even thought it put me in the shorebreak impact zone. Getting out of the wave earlier I would be right in the channel and conveyor belt back to the 'line up' (I was alone), but I would just ride past the channel to get to that ramp and spend 5 minutes dealing with the shorebreak to get back out. Fun is fun.
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Thanks, glad to share in the love of the surf.
That was some tail slam Cookie! My board should be ready in a week, don't want to know the price. For pennace I've forced myself to use solely my 8-4,
no matter the conditions.
The song was, Isla de Encata, from the Pixies.
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I've never broken a board on a wave, but I've turned two into junk in ten inches of water. Creased my Tilton longboard at thousand peaks and broke a slightly delammed Jimmy Lewis 11er into three pieces at the same place. For that matter, decades ago I turned about 4K worth of windsurfer into garbage on the beach at friendly ol' kanaha. I saved was the fin and the booms. All I did was step off it wrong and miss the grab for the mast. The shorebreak did the rest. I must have looked like Bobo the clown trying to rescue my stuff. Thank god there were no gopros and youtube back them. Mr. Fail.
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I had to think of Night Wing as I walked over the dunes, behave myself and don't take off on the suicide shore break temptress.
I'm lucky to have a board much less get it fixed when I fail.
Not a ounce gained and some carbon to neaten it up.
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