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SUP General / Re: Really!?
« on: February 18, 2013, 08:44:05 PM »
There is one very well known and universally respected board designer and shop owner here in town whos lead shaper I approached to design a custom SUP based on one of their short board fish designs that I have and dig on. I was summarily blown off in short order by the lead in house shaper and sent packing. If I wanted a SUP there were plenty of places that sold generic Asian pop outs that would fix me up, so see ya. I was stumped, isn't cash king? Turns out the shop owner refuses to get into SUP design, he is convinced it's a passing fad that will fade out in due time, (like those admittedly weird recumbent bikes that only Squidward rides.) There is a resistance out there to give the sport it's due, or provide the funding support it needs. But I tell the nay sayers that they are witnessing evolution in progress: there is a new animal in the water who is faster, stronger and more capable in nearly all respects. We are just beginning to realize the potential and open up the territory. The notion of Boludo's 7-3 Simmons would have been inconceivable a year ago.  "Better" is debatable, but SUP certainly is a hell of a lot more fun and, like the hoky pokey, that's what it's all about.
Apologies to anyone who digs those goofy bikes.

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SUP General / Sophie's Choice
« on: February 18, 2013, 02:54:25 PM »
Was talking with a friend down at the pier in San Clemente yesterday watching the lousy chopped up mess mock and ridicule us. The conversation turned to equipment and he asked me which board of mine I liked the most, which one I would keep if I could only save one.  I never really appreciated Sophie's Choice until that moment.  It would have to be my 7'8" King's Simmons - may God have mercy on my soul but that board rocks. (Believe the hype). How would you choose if you had to take that long somber walk to the garage and choose only one?   

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SUP General / Re: Are Big Waves Really Deadly? A Case Study
« on: February 13, 2013, 08:34:41 PM »
(Not so) funny thing about that gnarly injury is that she said everyone was,understandably, freaked out when she climbed in the boat. But that it just stung a little, like she was slapped really hard. Learned my limits in El Salvador when I rode the elevator shaft down a ten foot face. Went to pop up just as the lip pitched, after taking two more on the head I found my new Stewart S-rail fish snapped like a dry twig. Going back down there this October to a little town called El Cuco and taking a ponga every morning to a hollow juicy right hand point called Punta Mango. Things will be different this time on my 7-11 Hobie sup.
I hope.

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SUP General / Re: Are Big Waves Really Deadly? A Case Study
« on: February 13, 2013, 07:37:33 PM »
Kerala Kennelly after a viscious Teahupoo wipeout.

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SoCal / Re: SoCal Board Demo Day
« on: February 11, 2013, 09:26:15 PM »
Dave Daum and his wife Rhonda just dropped off my new 7-8 King's Simmons last Saturday morning. They could not be a nicer couple, especially to come by my home in San Clemente to personally drop off the board on their way to Newport Beach. And the hype is true, the thing is a rocket, took me by surprise on the first wave and watered my eyes on the overhead sets Saturday afternoon at SanO. Anyway, Dave said he's going to be there on the 23rd with a nice selection of his boards. Looking forward to it, hope its a few degrees warmer this time.

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Gear Talk / Re: Corbean or similar?
« on: February 08, 2013, 11:32:33 PM »
I'm 5'11", 170# have the Coreban Vibe and dig it. Funboard / fishy shape is a blast and it loves the chopped up small crumbly mush as well as overhead juice. Ralph from Suposition turned me on to it.
BUT, mine is beginning to develope clusters of little bubbles on the bottom. My boards are in their bags if they are not in the water, never leave them out in the sun or baking in the car. I don't mean to hijack the thread but anyone have any thoughts on this? I shot a note to Coreban to see what they think.
Otherwise I can't say enought good things about the Vibe and think it sounds like the ticket for the conditions you have there Green.

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Technique / Re: Caught in the big stuff - how to deal
« on: February 08, 2013, 11:43:42 AM »
Who says you can't duckdive a sup?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HevYcQvpdoU


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SUP General / Re: Strand Leper is not alone!
« on: February 05, 2013, 10:23:40 AM »
 
  I used to get supremely pissed at idiots in the line up, especially the angry aggros that treat every session as they are in the finals for the big money - which is the dominant attitude at Trestles where I used to prone surf. I even just flat out quit surfing for about six months after I witnessed a fight in the water there, no kidding fists of fury in waist deep water as the clowns tried to keep their footing on the reef.  But then I tried stand up and can't begin to explain my appreciation for the aloha in the sport.  The mature attitudes and friendly camaraderie of everyone I have met over the last eighteen months have reaffirmed my faith in the California surf culture. Hell I even like some of the butt boarders down at the Patch.  I have a garage full of short and long boards that I don't really anticipate ever taking out again, my stoke is pegged to the right again after having nearly bottomed out.   
That being said however I did get sucked into a confrontation with a proner and his two buddies at Church.
I was surfing all alone on the north end when they paddled out and sat on my rail. After a bunch of grumbling about Sups said loud enough for my benefit one guy flat out told me I wasn’t allowed there. I explained the rules on the Marine base vs. the state beaches on either side of us, using a little more colorful Marine language than I needed to having been on active duty for ten years, a good portion of it at Pendleton with 3/5 an infantry battalion. Things got heated until I asked the lead loud mouth how big his board was: he was on at least a 9-0 while I was on an 8-0 and that ended things pretty quickly when he refused to answer. I told him that shutting the fcuk up was a good move on his part. And of course I have been surfing Church since 1991 and I have never seen one of them there before or since. I wasn’t about to move, 3 on 1 seemed like a fair challenge, then some other Sup buddies paddled up from San-O and the scratchers eventually slunk off.   
So to my point: No amount of spiked blood pressure and cortisol on our part will change the attitudes of the other guys and gals, whether it is sweepers vs. scratchers, or in the arena of politics or religion. People believe what they want to believe and will only see that evidence which confirms their bias, opinions, or prejudice. All we can do is be a reflection of the change we want to see in the world and hope that more self aware people take notice - kumbyaa.  But most importantly, if you don't want to get tied up in the criminal court system and pay a lawyer 250$ an hour for two years, if you are lucky, followed by finding everything you own on the line when the guy you beat down on the beach sues you in civil court and you pay your lawyer for another two years, then don't even consider giving him that beat down that he so richly and decidedly deserves. Anyone who has been sued knows exactly what I’m talking about.
And the point I have been trying to reach - my sure fire tried and true method for dealing with these guys in and out of the water. I just pretend I don't speak English. I just smile great big and channel Latka Gravas, putting on a crazy halting Slavic, Portugese, Spanish accent butchering up words like a broken speak and spell. I've done this plenty of times and I get a good laugh as they paddle away exasperated and confused. It works in all kinds of situations EXCEPT with your spouse, my wife is wise to it now.

PS. Joind the hype, picking up my 7'8" King's Simmons this week, hot coat is drying at this very moment. My stoke meter is pegging out.   

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