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Gear Talk / Re: Leash Length
« on: December 09, 2010, 02:48:55 PM »
Same as above only tail handle. I'm surprised that a guy who hangs out with stump leper would be grabbing a saver.

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SUP General / Re: Shoulders are shot
« on: December 09, 2010, 10:56:31 AM »
You were styling all morning, very pretty to see. If I were you I'd get a SUP that works just like your JL longboard. Actually, I have a JL 11'7" you should try. It's my longboard (because I'm fat) but it was Jimmy's first attempt at a SUP. You're welcome to try it and I bet you could either find one somewhere cheap or get Jimmy to build you something similar. Nobody builds noseriders better than Mr. Lewis.

Oh, and welcome to Team Advil. Accept no substitutes. I get generics for everything but Advil. I'm sure it's purely a placebo effect, but it works ten time better for me.

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Travel, Trips, Destinations / Re: Welcome to Hawaii
« on: December 09, 2010, 10:51:27 AM »
Grammar doesn't matter when you're saying smart things.

I see Randy out all the time now on his longboard. You'll never meet a less intimidating guy if only because he usually has a big grin on his face. As far as I can see he gets all the waves he wants. Part skill, part wave knowledge, part he doesn't want every wave.

I drop in on him all the time, but that's just me. The only thing I've gotten really good at is bailing out of waves when someone is on the inside. I have a dozen good techniques now and in a typical day at Kanaha I get to use them all.

Bottom line though is the guys that are good, have local understanding of the waves, and can go hard and deep will get lots of waves under any circumstance. That's why I think the guys who don't surf that well are so cranky about SUP. We're taking some of the leftovers that are the only thing they can get.

I do feel bad for the women surfers, who tend to be way too nice. I watched a really good lady longboarder pull out of three waves yesterday after she was snaked by three different guys. Shmucks. They knew exactly what they were doing. If she had been 6'5" and 225 they would NEVER have pulled in on her.


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Gear Talk / Re: Apps for Droid
« on: December 09, 2010, 09:51:23 AM »
I wonder why no one has developed a heart rate monitor for smart phones. Seems like it would be a pretty easy thing. A band with bluetooth xcvr an app and an api.

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Travel, Trips, Destinations / Re: Welcome to Hawaii
« on: December 09, 2010, 09:17:48 AM »
It's been pretty good. I burned myself out pretty comprehensively the first day the waves returned, but yesterday was fun too. I've been chiding myself over just going to Kanaha and hanging out at lowers in the crowd, but I know what you mean about surfing spots that are a little remote by yourself. I didn't have any close calls last year when I started doing that, but my imagination is pretty good and I've had to do enough long swims to know that they are always scary.

I'm not inclined to drag someone else along, that would kind of defeat the purpose. I think after a few more good swells I'll get back into exploring. I'm also going to find a swimming coach and get a touchup on my swimming--it's not like it used to be.

For right now I'm having a great time, crowds or not.

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SUP General / Re: SUPs Bannned on Oahu Beach
« on: December 08, 2010, 07:24:13 AM »
I actually saw some idiot the other day peeling his hard boiled egg starting with the big end. Me and my handy billy club put an end to that travesty, of course.

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SUP General / Re: Have you read " The Wave " by Susan Casey
« on: December 08, 2010, 07:14:36 AM »
Not only is Haile Maile still there (and still great--had lunch there a couple of weeks ago) but it's now just across the street from the Ding King/Sandwich Island Composites so you can walk over after lunch and see all the new toys Mark and his crew are building. Of course you need to be careful, it can be a very expensive lunch. I looked at the new bullet and my wallet got dizzyingly light.

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Travel, Trips, Destinations / Re: Welcome to Hawaii
« on: December 07, 2010, 05:36:28 PM »
I can't move my arms. 6:30 to 11:30 stop for lunch  1:00 to 2:30

Not big--well, some overhead to 1 1/2 set this afternoon--but nice, no wind, and lotsa waves. I can't move my arms.

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Events / Re: Santa on a SUP Portland, ME.
« on: December 07, 2010, 07:15:29 AM »
Pictures, we need pictures.

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Travel, Trips, Destinations / Re: Welcome to Hawaii
« on: December 06, 2010, 08:55:04 PM »
Ain't it cool. Though today was flat with no wind on Maui. Supposed to be better tomorrow. Have fun.

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SUP General / Re: Have you read " The Wave " by Susan Casey
« on: December 06, 2010, 08:33:07 PM »
It IS two separate books, maybe three. One is the science bit, the other is shipping, and the third is big wave surfing. Some authors would stitch that together well if not seamlessly. She really didn't. I guess that's a criticism, but it didn't effect my enjoyment of the book. I usually have a half dozen going at once anyway. It's that ADD thing.

Lauren Hillenbrand is a really fine writer. Glad to hear she has something new. Make that seven books going at a time, assuming its available digitally. .

I ran into Brett Lickle out at Kanaha a week or so ago, and then again at Whole Foods, getting lunch. Every time we talk we usually do "injury inventory", recounting our latest medical disasters and physical problems. Boring and gruesome for everyone but the two of us but we have a good time. His leg looks at least 100 percent better than last year. Really cool. Last year it looked like a stick with skin, this year it looks like a pretty healthy leg, and would look normal on most people but his other leg is pretty massive. Neat guy, I really enjoy him. He's about as no bullshit as guys come.

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SUP General / Re: SUPs Bannned on Oahu Beach
« on: December 06, 2010, 08:21:38 PM »
Similar to when snowboarding was not allowed at Ski Areas.
It took some forward thinking people to reach out to the Area management and present their case.
Of course ski areas had the ability to financially gain form allowing snowboarding.

As you point out, snowboarding was really different. Ski areas thought they were in the SKI business, which is amazingly wrongheaded. They are in the business of collecting money from people--largely families--for access to their facilities. The kids wanted to snowboard. Gee, goodbye families.

If the half world switched overnight to motorized snowboards, only the pointlessly stubborn and soon-out-of-business would ban them. Almost as goofy as record companies thinking they were in the record or DVD biz, and newspapers thinking they were in the dead tree business.

One of the thankless jobs of marketers is to move clients from the business they think they are in to the business that actually makes them money. Clients go to seminars to learn how to do this, come back all charged up and do it totally wrong. "We're not in the digital projector business" one client told me, "we are in the presentation business!" Great, says I, how are do you plan to charge people for that? (what a wet blanket asshole I was).

The market won't act to ease the conflict between Surfers and SUP. For one simple reason--what market?

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SUP General / Re: SUPs Bannned on Oahu Beach
« on: December 06, 2010, 07:45:52 AM »
I don't call it drunk, I consider it wine-enhanced. Where are my reading glasses, I'm not sure I spelled whine properly.

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SUP General / Re: SUPs Bannned on Oahu Beach
« on: December 05, 2010, 11:54:31 PM »
Wow, what happened there. I'm thinking Randy is screwing with me.

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SUP General / Re: SUPs Bannned on Oahu Beach
« on: December 05, 2010, 08:43:29 PM »
And hey, Corran AND Tim, it's Robben Island.  ;D

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