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SUP General / Re: Standup - Is it easy?

« on: June 05, 2009, 08:45:10 AM »

Started 2 months ago...200lbs on PSH 10'6" AA
Amazingly frustrated first 6 sessions, but then i didn't even try flat water, and used homemade paddle.  Trying to charge OH and just getting pounded over the falls in unusual ways didn't help.

Worst thing for me is that i was competitive cyclist, and my quads were way too tight to get the jiggle-hula thing going at first.....i've laid off the road riding, but I'm suprised that i haven't heard  much on this forum from cyclists... It's a real problem for that muscle group.     Suspect now that i have the feel, can ramp up the miles again, but that aspect was a huge shock, and painful cramps in our cold water.....

Going out with Water Kook didn't help!  he had head start, bigger board, lighter,
and better athlete.  Plus apparently very large epiglottis!

All that having been said, two months later, i just want something scary big

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SUP General / Re: What about the hate??

« on: June 05, 2009, 06:43:52 AM »

Love the referee shirt!!!!!
Actually some (UnderArmour) are polypro and rashguardy
Got to have black hat though.....maybe keep a flag in the trunks

I'm already there with the whistle 'cause my kids

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Sessions / Re: Quicky Vid with Cool Perspective

« on: June 02, 2009, 04:08:08 AM »

That is excellente!

You have a good feel for what's going on beneath you

Of course, we all want to see the wave face shots.....bubbles streaming down the concave etc, but i'm sure the camera would rip right off.

However, a man who is clever with glass and foam could maybe bury the box a bit?
(what with all your spare time and all.....

739

Gear Talk / Re: PSH 10'6 WAA review

« on: May 29, 2009, 07:28:58 AM »

44 gallons
0.7 Akebono
nobody uses cubic feet in sup (yet!)

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 29, 2009, 05:47:04 AM »

Ps,

I believe I have added enough here....

Clearly there was a baaad week of no swell here.

Bouys are starting to bounce           See Ya!

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 29, 2009, 05:44:42 AM »

Time to be serious

The smallest PSH board (by volume) is the 9'3" Ripper

At 123 liters ....You have to weigh 270 lbs to sink it in fresh water.
   
Specific gravity salt water =1.025    Weigh 276 lbs

Everybody says Hawaii more salty in summer  i dunno, but seems so

And I really belive a standard deck pad probably adds what 5 liters?.

So yes.... Akebono needs a 9-3 Ripper on each foot

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 28, 2009, 05:26:37 PM »

Ok,
  But just for fun:
  Akebono  6'8"  fighting weight 517 lbs  =235 kilograms

  Displaced 235 liters (or 62 gallons ...sounds cooler to me)

  HE COULD DUCK DIVE THE 11' Wide All Arounder!!!!        (178 liter/47 gal)

  that would be something to see......

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 28, 2009, 08:24:15 AM »

Alright, I cave. 
Nothing beats humor like science.

But you gotta admit, I got prettty close just guessing the 10'6 was 142.5
AND.....Akebono would need Two 9'3" rippers!

744

Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 28, 2009, 04:01:42 AM »

For clarification:

   If your board can float this man, it is a 1.0 Akebono
   
   (Alot easier than "liters")

745

Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 28, 2009, 03:34:41 AM »

On a serious note:

   Don't forget to add 1 Gallon (3.7whatever liters/ .08 Akebono) of float at a mimimum for the deck pad .

     
Ps Scotty,
   Starboard graphics ARE the best of the production windsurfing boards, and sup line pretty cool too IMHO.....

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 27, 2009, 06:21:40 PM »

we use green on all our money to show how environmentally conscious we are.

didn't know we had $100 dollar bills though..my wife told me i could only have 1's and $5's

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 27, 2009, 05:32:11 PM »

Go ahead and give another great american innovation away.....

SO.....going METRIC ?...?
Forget about calling your board a 10'  ....call it a 305

"Guess i'll just bus out my trusty 278...."

Centimeters of course....thats what windsurfing boards are labelleled with.

So what industry, and how much metric....just some?   
 
This is a HISTORIC opportunity.
YOU....this forum is trying to decide an industry standard. ( ...maybe for real!)

First, I don't think you should do it......nobody puts volume on a surfboard. 

BUT......WHY NOT?:
    "This is a 40 Gallon sup....should work for you....take it or leave it."
    or my standard:    "1/4 Akebono"    If you don't know Akebono too bad for you

And it's "a pint a pound, the world around"  conversion is easy....
(8 pounds a gallon....20 Gallons floats 160 lbs.....and you don't have to figure out how many kilograms you weigh.......changes with salinity, just like liters and kgs do)

COME ON....let the Euros have hash, legalized prostitution, really old buildings and TERRIBLE GRAPHICS on their windsurfing boards...!    Please don't do it!

Why do you think windsurfing died off?    Too many people running around wondering if they didn't have enough liters/centimeters/meters.....all the hot chicks left the building!!!!
Bunch a techno nerds left muttering to themselves on the beach, comparing numbers   "what size sail/fin/board is that?"......( i still love to sail despite it all

Blane....someone will do it and be richer for it i guess......just Mahalo for my 10'6....all 142.5 liters!

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Gear Talk / Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!

« on: May 27, 2009, 09:54:39 AM »

I windsurf/prone whatever it takes.

I don't see the volume thing as that big......they all float, and the stability is more in the planform.   Ok, so it's one more number......

BUT PLEASE:
   This is the US of A.....
   If you really want numbers, do we have to be all metric?

   I mean I hated when sails went from square feet to square meters.

   Why not put the numbas in gallons!
   
   Better yet, just size'm
         "This board will float One Akebono"         

   Don't let the Euros take this over too! 

   I know, I know....but you gotta admit.....

Ps.....The windsurfing volume numbers are really guesstimates, and often wrong

   

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SUP General / Re: sup joke

« on: May 25, 2009, 05:22:27 PM »

That dude is so old, he cuts an inch off his paddle every time he goes out.

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SUP General / Re: What about the hate??

« on: May 22, 2009, 03:52:26 AM »

On the cape, we have a bunch of shortboard groms who will not be able to SUP anytme soon..... lotsa reasons....not much money, peer pressure, small cars, small living quarters ....i remember being 18 and living out of a rusty toyota corolla.....a 10 footer and paddle would not have fit my world.

i figure these guys could be haters as this thing gets bigger here, and i know there's people buying SUPs without much water time,  so i'm hitting them where it counts......i've got a van 1/2 full of Clif bars, that i hand out like Johnny Appleseed.    It ain't much money, and I've even tossed a few across a parking lot with fair accuracy

Nutrition is big in that world!!!....and it starts a conversation and puts a positive spin on things.

The 24-30 hardcore group is a little harder to talk up but we're trying!