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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: How are you getting Primal?

« on: February 10, 2011, 05:54:47 PM »

I'm sure you know that a lot of diets are converging on the same place: limit or eliminate grains and starches, eat a lot of vegetables, meat is OK but don't go crazy. Healthy fats are fine in moderation. Take it easy on the fruit.

That's what I've been doing for the last three months. I feel great. I'm losing weight slowly but getting stronger fast. I do limit how much I drink, but mostly because I don't feel great the next day. Not a hangover, just not as healthy feeling.

I don't say that Americans should take on a Mediterranean diet, all I said is that there are a lot of variables, and if you haven't seen hyper-healthy 65 year olds that drink a lot of wine then you haven't spent much time in Italy or France.

We agree more than we disagree, but while I'm typing this there's a nice glass of St. Francis Old Vine Zinfandel next to me, and my late lunch today (just finished) was smoked salmon with a little fresh mozzarella, capers and home grown basil, and a big fat beefsteak tomato made into Caprese salad with fresh mozzarella, basil, and a drizzle of olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar. Primal--not so much, delicious and healthy, you bet.

If I had one of my great cuban cigars with me, I'd probably smoke it because I'm just so fricken content.

People are sick and fat because they eat 1.5 meals per day at McDonalds and never get their fat asses out of the car. What we're doing, by comparison (even in the spectrum between you and me), is healthy beyond belief even if we slip the reins a bit. Maybe BECAUSE we slip the reins a bit. But we damned sure don't go to Burger King to slip them.

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Downwind and Racing / Re: The winter Gulch report

« on: February 10, 2011, 05:34:11 PM »

Wow bra you get one big fucking mouth I hope you can back it up when come time. I hope you not one off those guys just hide behind the computer. I really hope you can backup your wise ass mouth.
I love to see the day I bump into you at one of the races.

Geez, Ninja, chill out, it's a joke. PDX is the funniest guy that posts here. You might not get the joke, but you should assume it IS exactly that.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: How are you getting Primal?

« on: February 10, 2011, 04:31:18 PM »

It all depends on your definition of what healthy is ??  Don't know to many healthy 65 year olds that drink any amount. In

Then you just live in the wrong place. Spend some time in any of the Mediterranean countries. Most people there drink at about a bottle of wine per day. They are extraordinarily healthy. meaning, lean, fit, with healthy immune systems. They live long lives and drink far more than fat, unfit, sick Americans do.

People will grab onto the flimsiest evidence that supports their views and treat it as gospel. No one really knows the consequences of long term diets, there is far too much genetic variation and far too many variables for a rational study. We will never know exactly how all this stuff works. It's all a guess.

Personally, I limit my intake of alcohol, but my aim is not to have the longest possible life I could have--if it were then my best bet would be near starvation. My aim is to have a great life that's full of all the things that make life worth living. That includes the pleasure of sharing a beer or a bottle of good wine with friends. Or to sit down at a great meal with friends or family and enjoy myself without considering theoretical health effects.

I'd just as soon my life seem too short because it was fun, than it seem infinitely long because it isn't.

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SUP General / Ding King Party

« on: February 10, 2011, 04:17:20 PM »

After the MCKC race on Saturday there's an opening party at Ding Kings--the new location. If you haven't been to the new joint you should definitely see it, lots of cool stuff underway up there. And knowing Mark I expect plenty of beer and talking story--It's a pretty whacky crew up there. Right across the street from Haile Maile general store, so if you're hungry afterward you can cross the street to one of Maui's finest restaurants. You usually need reservations there, but if there's space you can eat in the bar.

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SUP General / Re: Happy Birthday Jimmy Lewis

« on: February 10, 2011, 01:28:28 PM »

I saw Sean a week or so ago at the Cannery. Still the same great guy--no surprise. That's pretty much how I remember it Dog, but I clean forgot to mention all those SOS boards that were around. Still are--I still see all three (red, blue, green) pretty often.

Bill Foote was always in there too, probably because he was cutting EPS years before Clarke shut down.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: How are you getting Primal?

« on: February 10, 2011, 01:20:35 PM »

It's called balance, Ninja. I try not to preach anything, I don't know enough, and I have a hard enough time keeping my own shit together without telling someone else what to do.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: How are you getting Primal?

« on: February 10, 2011, 11:51:43 AM »

say, here's a question:

how much do you guys drink?  me, well, i kind of like a half a bottle of red in an evening, more or less, but i don't think it's doing my gut any good. 

IMHO you should be seeking total body healing. Not justifying a specific amount of alcohol to consume. In all honesty going primal they had no wine in existence. So I don't honestly think there should be a correct answer to your question and if someone does answer your question there full of shit.

I love beer and I love really good wine. For me the answer is really simple--quality trumps quantity. Give yourself a financial budget for wine and focus on good to great. One bottle of Far Niente Chardonnay equals five bottles of ordinary (but probably very tasty) but it's a wonderful experience in the right setting vs. something you automatically drink.

Beer is a little more problematic. I just have to not buy much. Good craft beers are just not that expensive. And I know what you mean about cheap beer after a race. The MCKC always has beer I would turn my nose up at any other time, and I swell down at least three. Tastes fabulous.

As far as no wine in existence goes, probably not so. Evidence of alcohol as far back as anyone can find artifacts--give how spotty the evidence is the prevalence of vessels to make alcohol is telling--we've always liked the stuff. One of the most obvious evolutionary changes in homo sapiens is how alcohol is metabolized. There are a large number of Asians who metabolize alcohol differently than the rest of our species. Takes a VERY long time for something like that to happen. 

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SUP General / Freebie Day

« on: February 09, 2011, 09:56:12 PM »

Sometimes when you don't expect much, you get it all. Like today.

I had an appointment this morning with some folks to talk about photovotaics at Ponohouse, so dawn patrol was out even though the buoys looked promising. So I did a P90X workout with Diane--Plyometrics--and then after the appointment I mucked around at the house, cleaning the garage a little, putting the carb I rebuilt back on my motorcycle. Looked at the whitecaps in the ocean behind the house--they looked like the wind had a lot of north in it. Not great for a downwinder. About ten I looked at the wavecam for Kanaha, expecting to see windsurfers and blown out waves. Instead I saw SUP guys.

I checked the wind at the airport--hardly anything. The wind angle was leaving Kanaha in a lull. Said goodbye to Diane, and beat feet. Hookipa was big and blown out, Spreks looked awful, got to Kanaha not expecting much, and there were overhead waves, glass, and hardly anyone out.

How weird.

I paddled out fast, expecting to get in a short session. The waves stair stepped all day, the wind came and went. Awesome. Epic. Wonderful. All that.

About 2:00 we got a long set that had to be twenty feet on the face. Totaled the lineup. I got out over the first three, but number four had my number. Major pounding. My eight foot heavy leash turned into 15 feet of shoelace. The set was so big the lifeguard fired up the jetski to check for bodies. A lot of folks went in. Looked like me, Maui Wave Warrior, a couple guys I don't know, and a few longboarders.

The wind picked up a little, but I paddled out and got my wave of the day. Probably close to a 20 foot face. Looong drop. and I didn't screw around, just ran down the wave in the power band going as fast as I could. Got past all the places likely to section and had some fun, running up to the lip, hanging, then blasting down and swooping back up. What an awesome feeling.

Got a few more, it started getting rough on the faces. Rough enough that I bounced off my board twice in good sized waves. Maybe Brett Lickle has something there with his footstrap. So I split and did some grocery shopping at Costco. Ran into Tracey Dudley and bored her with some blow by blows. She said she looked at the swell from her house but could see the whitecaps outside, so figured it wouldn't work. Most days that woulda been the deal.

My arms are pleasantly dead. I thought about a late session, but didn't go. Brought up the wavecam about 6:00 and sure enough, nice big waves with folks dancing on them. Damn. If I only had a little bit of shoulder left...

Last winter was crazy good. This winter is sneaky good. Seems like if you want to surf you can always find a wave. Might not be in the places you'd normally look, but I've surfed every day I've tried to.

But today was way up there. And I wasn't even expecting much.

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Technique / Re: Why do I suck

« on: February 09, 2011, 09:28:29 PM »

Amen, Brother, amen. I started building Xtreme Geezer because I've seen way too many guys bowing out to the sidelines because they're getting old. Like there was some kind of rule that you should stop charging hard when you pass some certain age.

Screw that. No, really. Screw that.

I posted an article on Xgeez today about a company in northern canada that still flys DC3's commercially http://www.xgeez.com/2011/02/dc-3s-still-flying-commercially/. Imagine that, an airplane 75 years old that still flies every day. My race car is 51 years old. Some good things just go on and on.

The big trick is to treat every day, every adventure, as a blessing. I'm going to go hard until I can't go at all.

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SUP General / Re: What to do. Advice for the rental places?

« on: February 09, 2011, 07:38:03 PM »

I don't think it's very difficult, I wonder how the kite shops all seem to get it right. You still can't rent kite gear, you have to take lessons or buy it. No question that an idiot with a kite and no training is going to be a danger to everyone and themselves. SUPs are certainly not that dangerous, but any board can be when it's in a place the rider shouldn't be.

I think the shops are missing a big opportunity. Require some kind of indication of competence or take a lesson. Really if the lesson aspect was sold properly there would be a lot more rentals, not less. People are intimidated by the whole idea of getting on a SUP.

How to get that going--not sure.

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SUP General / Re: Happy Birthday Jimmy Lewis

« on: February 09, 2011, 07:27:16 PM »

Yup. I had a JL 11er quite a while before I ever saw a Laird. I bought one of the first Lairds too--a slightly blemished one that I got from Laird via Teddy--went over to his house to pick it up.

One thing for sure, Jimmy had boards in quantity long before anyone had more than a few. He had a lot of confidence that boards would sell. I went by his house to pick up boards for the first showcase we did and he had them stacked in his big garage to the rafters, and that was just stuff for Maui. He had container loads going to the states. For a long time the only boards you saw in Maui were Jimmy Lewis, SIC Ku Nalus, and Munoz or customs.

Jimmy did a board before the 11er too--I think the 11'7" was the first board, and it might have been out as much as a year earlier. It was too narrow for big guys, but smaller folks with good balance loved them. I still have one, use it for a longboard and for wavesailing.

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SUP General / Re: Happy Birthday Jimmy Lewis

« on: February 09, 2011, 10:26:58 AM »

I thought Jimmy had quit having those. I think if anyone wants to say happy birthday they'll need to do it in person. He never struck me as guy that spends any time on a computer.

As far as marketing goes, the golden rule is that 20 percent of people will like it, 20 percent will hate it, and 60 percent won't care. If you drive marketing by what people love or hate you'll just run in circles. Personally I like the retro garage calendar look. I reserve my hate for the Rusty stuff. And honestly, neither of them should care.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: Fatness Weekly Weigh in Thread

« on: February 09, 2011, 08:33:20 AM »

Ate out at a "good" restaurant last night, behaved myself (more or less) and I feel like crap this morning after a poor nights sleep. Seems odd, but when you start eating better you can separate out your body reaction between good food and junk. Just like when you first get on a surfboard you don't feel any aspect of it's design, you're too busy just riding it. But once you start to really use it you can feel things like a fin moved back, or thick rails.

With a body flooded with junk food, another chunk of junk makes no difference. But once you clear the decks that one unhealthy meal has a clear effect. 

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: sprained mcl coming out of a wave, crap!

« on: February 09, 2011, 08:22:33 AM »

Doesn't seem to hurt the one I'm using. Rinse it with fresh water and let it dry or it will smell pretty bad.

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SUP General / Re: Wave Garden

« on: February 08, 2011, 10:24:39 PM »

From the look of the wave I'd say there's a gate under the water. More or less how the Kelly Slater Wave Pool works, only straight line instead of curved