Massive Attack Costa Rica - Kieran Grant

[I-Sweep]

Have a great weekend - hope you get a surf in…

Here's a cool edit from Florida ripper Kieran Grant - enjoy

[J-Bird]

Wow, CR looks so nice, great surfing...I love the "duck dive" at 1:50.

[eastbound]

nice vid--love massive attack

not sure that duck dive'd work on my 8'4"! not that ive got the skills......

[FeralInBaja]

What a ripper kid. Tengo celos (jealous...) Jajaja! I googled that he's riding 24" wide boards and weighs 170. Gonna "opine" in board size thread. I tried one of those "duck dives" after seeing a vid of Kai Lenny do one, he seemed pretty stoked on it, so what the hell, right? A wave about a foot smaller than Kieran's duck dive, maybe a foot overhead, but way hollower. I got pitched!!! I fear that when I start the vid thing, I'll have some cool tube-rides, cutbacks, etc., but I'll be best known for my ability to get freakishly pitched trying weird stuff. Jajaja! 7 weeks SUP'ing and try to stand-up duck-dive overhead surf. Perfect recipe for clownish beatdown!!! Jajaja! It was fun, partly cause I knew beforehand it was ludicrous. I promise to leave some of 'em in the edits, or maybe a blooper reel. It's the least I could do, given how cool you've all been.
Feral

[stoneaxe]

Sweet vid...such smooth lines and great paddle use. Love the funk of massive attack as background.


feral...we're getting our popcorn ready....

[PonoBill]

170 pounds. Geez. I'd need amputation to weigh that. I was 260 at age 15. I weigh 20 pounds less now.

I've got a geezer version of that duck dive going. I "invented" it by accident on the Columbia River where I discovered that I could hold the nose of my L41 under water by just shifting my weight forward--no foot movement. It lets me go backwards in the current. But the wide, flat nose gets shoved up hard when I punch over a steep wave face on the paddle out when I'm surfing. So I tried the forward weight shift at the base of the waves, and it worked like a charm. With the width of the L41 I don't get as much water over me as Keiran does, but I punched through some stuff I would never have made it over--the L41 almost does a loop over my head if I don't duck it.

It's board-specific for me though. I tried it on the Foote and never got to see where the board went. Might get better with practice, but the two times I tried felt totally hopeless.

[stoneaxe]

Too deep with the foote and it will create a vortex as it sucks everything down.... . You have to be aimed up with the foote.

[PonoBill]

I wouldn't know, the board disappeared like some kind of magic trick.

[Ake G]

Good Stuff.

Got the Mezzanine album on my iPod somewhere

[eastbound]

unfinished sympathy

[Sup-up]

Stylish riding.  Great soundtrack.

[Mil-Surf]

One of the better ones I've seen recently for sure!