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Random / highest waterfall in a kayak

« on: December 14, 2010, 12:23:46 PM »

http://www.dump.com/2010/11/30/highest-waterfall-in-a-kayak-189-ft-video/

Maybe this should be in the crash and burn thread ... but.  And also I'm sure it'll just be a matter of time before someone tries to do this on an SUP.  My fav all time surf t-shirt has in big bold letters... I LIKE THE DROP...  well this guy took one.  Geeze.

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Technique / Re: Use Your Hips

« on: December 14, 2010, 08:46:30 AM »

Ditto what PDX says about swimming and hips.  Recently I've been working with someone on their swim stroke and getting the guy to kick from his hips with straight legs is the biggest challenge.  With paddling I have always imagined it like a boxer punching from the hips.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: what are you doing ?

« on: December 12, 2010, 07:18:04 AM »

MDs are limited as to what advice they may give by the specter of mal-practice.  In the movie Love and Other Drugs, they poke fun at people who get info online but the fact is MD's won't give that advice and folks are motivated to find all the info they can.  When I had an A-fib, they told me nothing about nutrition and supplements that might help.  In fact the nurse stated that I'd be back in a few months with another A-fib like having a spastic ticker was going to be a fact of life for me.  Well I was rather ticked off and went to the net.  So far so good with what I learned.  For A-fib that was max amount of magnesium, Co-enzyme Q-10, and fish oil.  Now I'm doing coconut oil as well and some hippie concoction for joint inflammation... and I don't help people push start their cars anymore.

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Random / Re: Passing judgement on the new Obama Book

« on: December 12, 2010, 06:57:45 AM »

I haven't read this new Woodward but my best guess as to how he gets info is: one, his Yale card and two, that since he propelled himself as the ultimate journalist after All the President's Men many years ago, he has been used as a pawn in DC for trashing other players where he and his books have become just another part of the DC fabric.  These players are stab-you-in-the-back MFers.  There's a reason rational men call it Foggy Bottom.

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Random / Shuttle Launch

« on: December 11, 2010, 10:05:08 PM »

You got to be interested in this stuff to be patient enough to sit through some of the clips shot at 400 frames per second.  But if you are and you have a half hour or so then it will truly blow your mind.  Many different camera angles documenting a launch.  Drink some brandy, smoke a stogie of your choice and kick back.  Cape Canaveral on your computer.  WOW.

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Random / Re: the slide of faith

« on: December 11, 2010, 02:41:11 PM »

Thanks for the clarity.  First thought was that it was a hoax cuz how in the hell could they ever get someone to take that kind of chance.  However in the wake of seeing all the crash and burn threads, I thought, well if all those boneheads could do that all stupid crap and hurt themselves then maybe someone could convince this human cannonball to do the same.  But what you wrote makes sense. 
Eliminating unnecessary risks is a constant thought for me these days.  I'm way over my nine live quota and won't even walk down the limu slime at the Maliko boat ramp to launch for fear of the old banana peel slip.  My pal tried to convince me to follow him and surround myself with "white light".  I said no I'll take the long way.  He falls on his ass and dinks his rudder.  Sometimes people can just be plain old delusional about their chances when they take chances.

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Random / the slide of faith

« on: December 11, 2010, 01:09:37 PM »

engineers supposedly designed this...

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Random / Re: Freedive--Astonishing control

« on: December 10, 2010, 11:53:50 AM »

Pretty dramatic.  Typical French.  But very well done.  1080p too. 

For our purposes and what we need in terms of breath hold out in the water, sit and take a time check of the time it takes for a wave to break and dissipate.  At Jaws it's still well under a minute.  Most surf spots, under 30 seconds.  Most guys who are out there can do at least a minute and if you can't it is probably something to focus on.  The problem arises when one has to dive under multiple waves.  The first three or so may be doable but as the number increases you may begin to feel your legs go numb and then you're not diving deep enough and getting pounded worse. 

This happened to me six years ago in the Mentawais.  The surf tripled from six feet in one set.  I tried to paddle out to a forming boil and only managed to put myself square in the impact zone.  Cord snapped like nothing and I proceeded to get my ass kicked by a never ending set.  Each time I came up I signaled to the Captain Martin Daly, who was sitting in the ship's small tin boat, that I was still alive and worth saving... if there was a break.  By wave ten I was barely getting under and really taking a brutal pounding and wondering if this was it.  Came up and there was a small break in the sets.  Martin dashed in and I hurled myself into that boat.  We got away by the skin of our teeth as the the sets resumed.  The rest of our crew had been swept totally around the corner of the small sandspit of the island where we were surfing.  The sea turned a freaky cobalt blue and swells were brushing up against the side of our big ship.  We got onboard and got the hell out of there. 
But that circumstance is rare.  Most sets here in Hawaii are three or four waves with the exception of a rising swell in which all bets are off.  Learning how to relax while you get pummeled is the key.  Easier said than done when you can hear boulders rolling around on the bottom. 

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Random / cats on wasabi

« on: December 09, 2010, 10:45:46 PM »

I know it's not petting sharks but last night our cat saddled up with us and salivated as Shirley and I ate some brown rice sushi rolls with a little eel in them.  Shirley had mixed up a hot batch of wasabi and after we polished the sushi we shoved the tray aside thinking why would it be interested anymore and focused on some mindless drivel on the tube.  Our cat moves in and takes a hit, looks up at us and well if you've ever ODed on wasabi and made a face, that's what the cat looked like.  Then it bolted like it had been hit with 20 thousand volts.  Never seen an animal look like a human before.    It was just a simple case of curiosity and the cat.

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SUP General / Re: Shoulders are shot

« on: December 09, 2010, 10:32:18 PM »

Thanks.  Liked the board and the old logo.  Keeping the rails thin ... yeah I like it.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: what are you doing ?

« on: December 09, 2010, 10:23:32 PM »

In the movie Pulp Fiction Jules says, "My wife is a vegetarian so that kind of makes me a vegetarian... but i do enjoy a good burger."   he proceeds to eat this guy's Kahuna burger before he blows him away.  Funniest thing I've ever seen but the point is ... pick a woman who eats right and that helps a ton.  Mine eats like a bird and it rubs sorta rubs off.

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Gear Talk / Re: Wetsuit time... the winter wetsuit thread

« on: December 09, 2010, 07:37:46 PM »

Not to be confused with Joe the plumber.

Was the Latin gal describing a cut-off-low prrrressure?  We'll hope for a cold spell or shower.  Sure looks better than Guy Hagi

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SUP General / Re: Shoulders are shot

« on: December 09, 2010, 04:39:32 PM »

SL... what are you riding?

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Gear Talk / Re: Leash Length

« on: December 09, 2010, 04:36:45 PM »

SL... A  grisly image.  That'd ruin my whole day just witnessing it.  

DJ- cool vid

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SUP General / Re: Andy Irons reportedly dead

« on: December 09, 2010, 04:27:19 PM »

Strand,  Having a hot wife is probably the best of anything.  Ditto what PB says about the Hatteras altho it flies in the face of the theory that it's better to look marvelous than to feel...  But man the kids are everything.   My best years at the camp you referred to were from '71 to '80.  By '85 I was back on Maui and finally settled down with a steady job and the single Dad of two boys at the ripe age of 35, thinking that my surfing years were over.  Funny how things turned out.   

One the subject of someone passing ... the thing I have always avoided has been funerals.  I feel like I digest the sum and meaning of someone's life in a very individual manner and lumping those feelings in with a group conciousness just seems like diluting those very individual feelings.  And having it splashed all over the media with no control from the people that care... well to me that's the worst. 

A lawyer huh?  One of my best friends here, that used to shape for the pros, is now a lawyer.  I think he's as adept as you are about playing hooky, in fact I surfed with him this morning.