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I say ‘recent’ but it was actually an ASL board test from years ago. I’m guessing things have only got worse since then

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:10 am

can one of you know it all cnuts please tell me what the fcuk is a pop-up?

I don't even know if I do a pop-up.

From your recent footage, Nick, I would call it a stumble-up. Accompanied, I’m assuming, by an audible grunt of effort

Imagine the earnest Guardian articles if learning to ride a bike was an adult thing. “My instructor made it look easy, zipping around balanced atop a sleek machine with impossibly skinny tyres, barely even holding on to the steering bar. I took a deep breath and climbed aboard my chunkier steed whic...

Drailed wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:16 pm

Jesus fccck, trying to compare riding a bike to someone learning to paddle out in average conditions, paddle onto a wave and trim across open face face. Fccck, there is no comparison. Wtf are you cnuts harping on about.

The tortured howl of the adult learner

I think you’ve answered your own question

Surely the likes of Lewis Hamilton at Kelly’s pool have throughly torpedoed the myth of surfing being difficult to learn?

*pedalling

Have a wee search for Danny Macaskill vids stevo. I think you’ll enjoy them

Just to let you know, your explanation is at the “I tripped over backwards, naked, and unfortunately landed anus first on this exceptionally well lubricated traffic cone” level of plausibility, Cranked

He'd probably recognise it as a longboard, fit for my purposes. But if he did, he'd only have to tell me once for me to understand his argument. I'm too old to be dropping into halfpipes or learning how to kickflip. Even though with croissant gone I'm probably the youngest here. Did you ever get on...

Out of interest cranked, what did you think that boo would have been looking to achieve by loosening his wheels?

Wasn't it Albert Einstein who said that the definition of insanity is driving over and over to the same shitty crowded beachbreak and expecting it to be different?

I wouldn’t be seen dead in one either, btw

Weren’t you about to pull the trigger on a $650 custom?

You’d think I’d get some thanks for saving Steve 250 bucks but, no. Just another shift of the goalposts

Amsterdam wetsuits (no, me either) does something similar https://www.bigsun.nz/products/amsterda ... arm-spring

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:39 am

I think you're right.

Nineplus stylist, 3/2 bz, gbs seams (as far as I can tell from the pics) $400 https://aus.nineplus.com/collections/we ... -shortie-1

Flat lock seams. Heapa shit