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SUP General / Re: Is Cape Cod the Hotspot for Great White Sharks?

« on: July 03, 2016, 02:59:42 AM »

Since I frequent the Galveston Bay complex on the upper Texas coast, we have lots of big sharks which are dangerous. We like to call them the "Big Four". They are bull, tiger, hammerhead and mako. The bull shark is always around during the day and night in shallow and deep water. The tiger, hammerhead and mako are quite often caught from the beach while surf fishing at night by people who specifically target them with long heavy rods and Penn 12/0 reels.

In my opinion, our bull shark is the most dangerous because if the water is deep enough, it will cruise far up into fresh water rivers which flow towards the Gulf of Mexico. A few years back, a fresh water fisherman fishing with rod and reel for channel catfish caught a small 4' long bull shark in the Trinity river 30 miles from the coast.

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Sessions / Re: SUP Surfing Sessions - YouTube channel videos

« on: July 03, 2016, 02:18:19 AM »

Thanks for posting those videos. I've spent a lot of time on YouTube looking for sup surfing videos. Some of those you just posted, I had already seen. When I get my Hammer 8'11", I want to take it down to the upper Texas coast and try my hand at sup surfing.

Below is one of my favorite sup surfer YouTube videos. The sup surfer, Paul Csige, is using a Focus Torpedo 8'10". No fancy moves in this video. Just long great rides with some nice slow motion shots in it.

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Sessions / Re: Summertime Stoke

« on: July 03, 2016, 01:58:33 AM »

And another good set of photos too.

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Gulf States / Re: Houston/Galveston and Surrounding area

« on: July 02, 2016, 09:09:36 AM »

@ford

Since my Hammer 8'11" should be arriving in the middle of July, I've been trying to find some places to take my Hammer on Galveston Island. I've found two decent live streaming video cams along the Galveston seawall. They are the Surf Cam and the Sand Cam. In the bottom left corner of the cam, you can control these cameras too, but the drawback is if someone is ahead of you, you'll have to wait your turn to control the camera to see what you want to see. You have to watch through a 15 second ad "first", but after that, the ads don't appear anymore as long as you're on the cam site. I like to watch these live streaming cams in full screen mode since I've got a 24" monitor.

http://www.galveston.com/sandvideocam/

http://www.galveston.com/surfvideocam/

BTW, on the Surf Cam, when the camera is turned towards Pleasure Pier, I've seen a few sup boarders and also some surfers on their boards.

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Technique / Re: Take Off Your Damn Shoes!

« on: July 02, 2016, 06:06:17 AM »

After reading these comments in this thread, I'm also going to have to look at Vibram. Right now, I'm just using some soft rubber booties.

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Gear Talk / Re: SUP Sports "Hammer": 8'11"x31" or 9'5"x31"

« on: July 01, 2016, 08:40:36 PM »

@WarDog

I haven't seen a foil sup on your site. It looks good and I like the brushed seafoam green color. I'm a sucker for seafoam green. Since you made this foil Hammer for yourself as an experimentation, I guess you're thinking about adding another customization to your Hammer line of SUPs in the future.

If you make a video of it in action, I hope you post it in your SUP Marketplace on this site. That is a "hint". 

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Gear Talk / Re: SUP Sports "Hammer": 8'11"x31" or 9'5"x31"

« on: July 01, 2016, 07:12:52 PM »

@WarDog

I forgot to mention those two vent holes and the pad in my previous post. July 4th's Monday temperature is supposed to be around 99 degrees where I live and combined with the oppressive humidity, we'll have a heat index between 108-110 degrees.

Our beach water temperature on the Bolivar Peninsula is 88 degrees right now. With July just starting and our brutal August air temperatures still to come, we should hit a beach water temperature of 90 degrees (or more) before August arrives.

Thanks for giving me an ETA (estimated time of arrival). BTW, that seafoam green color sure looks "cool". 

You stay safe this holiday weekend and if you're on the water with your sup, catch a wave for me. 

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Gear Talk / Re: SUP Sports "Hammer": 8'11"x31" or 9'5"x31"

« on: July 01, 2016, 05:30:51 PM »

@WarDog

My Hammer looks real shiny. Glad to see my sup is coming down the home stretch. I'm just guessing, but it looks like all that needs to be done is for the fins to fit in the fin boxes, seafoam green paint, one black pinstripe, your logos on the sup and there is a possibility I could be doing some flat water supping on my subdivision's lake in the third or fourth week of July. On your website where you state it normally takes 5-8 weeks for completion of custom sups, since the blank was delivered to your shop on June 8th, I tentatively planned on it being finished by August 8th. I'm glad to see it looks like it will be sooner. 

I really appreciate the photos of my Hammer build you post in this thread. When I see this topic highlighted with a new post and see your username, I get excited with anticipation of a new comment or better yet, a photo or two (or more  ). As they say, "Good things come to those who wait". 

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Technique / Re: strong side paddle into wave

« on: July 01, 2016, 05:04:43 PM »

@supthecreek

I especially enjoy reading your comments in this thread. Combined with your series of photographs, I plan on putting them to good use when my new sup arrives.

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Downwind and Racing / Re: Gale warning downwinder.

« on: July 01, 2016, 04:45:04 AM »

Another very good video. Lots of gliding from those waves produced by the swells. As always, I enjoy seeing your videos.

Thanks for sharing.

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Sessions / Re: Infinity Slo-Mo

« on: June 30, 2016, 12:41:13 PM »

I prefer to watch SUP surf videos in slow motion. It lets me see the details on how they shift their bodies which in turn correlates to their foot work on the board in conjunction with where they are on the wave.

Newbies, like me, can learn a lot from watching these slow motion videos.

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Sneak Peeks, Rumors, and Wish Lists / Re: Jimmy Lewis Prototype

« on: June 29, 2016, 08:37:04 AM »

I missed that "small print" for the liters in the schematic drawing.

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Sessions / Re: Summertime Stoke

« on: June 29, 2016, 07:20:07 AM »

I enjoyed seeing your new set of actions shot photos. My favorite is the one with the ship in the background.

I click on it and enlarged to it's 1920x1080 size. If it would have been a really crisp and sharp photo, I would have "poached" it for a Desktop photo since I use a tower computer with a 24", 1920x1080 monitor.

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Sneak Peeks, Rumors, and Wish Lists / Re: Jimmy Lewis Prototype

« on: June 29, 2016, 07:01:18 AM »

One small detail that was left out. How many liters is it?

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SUP General / Re: Foiled again.

« on: June 28, 2016, 12:58:01 PM »

To watch the video, all I did was click on the blue box with "watch on vimeo" and the video started playing when I clicked on the blue start button in the vimeo video.

I'm using the 64 bit linux Mint 17.3 operating system using the 64 bit linux Pale Moon browser.