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by MrMik
Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:30 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
Replies: 618
Views: 117545

Re: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015

Last year at Burleigh: http://forum.realsurf.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=11096&sid=c7ee6248bb36642c6c99ceca878c9154 It sure does wonders for publicity to be recorded with a shark: Not much chance that surfer would have seen his photo in a major Australian surfing journal without the wil...
by MrMik
Sun Jul 19, 2015 9:49 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840193

Re: Ask Carroll

Or is it: "Where did these 13 kuks come from? "
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by MrMik
Sun Jul 19, 2015 9:48 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840193

Re: Ask Carroll

MrMik wrote:Close look:

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Is that: "All dialled in!' or " Where did that kuk come from???"
by MrMik
Sun Jul 19, 2015 9:45 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840193

Re: Ask Carroll

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by MrMik
Sun Jul 19, 2015 9:43 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840193

Re: Ask Carroll

When you look at the photo below, you know his next bottom turn, top turn combo has been fully specced and uploaded. He's just such an advanced surfer. Far from it! If you look a little closer, it becomes clear that someone like Mik got in the way of Mick and he is just flabbergasted, just for for ...
by MrMik
Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:44 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840193

Re: Ask Carroll

Ah, that's exactly the method I use. My wife tries to catch me out sometimes by asking "Is that a new board?" but you soon realise its just a try-on and she doesn't really have a clue. That's where kids really become problematic: They remember every board and spot the new ones immediately, and ask ...
by MrMik
Tue Jul 14, 2015 6:08 am
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: The winter of our content.
Replies: 175
Views: 113529

Re: The winter of our content.

el rancho wrote:New Japanese satellite takes a new photo of earth every ten minutes

http://himawari8.nict.go.jp
Very nice!
Check out the line-up of three hurricanes at 2015-07-07, 1200hrs.

How come they never fill in the isobars at the south pole?
See: http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
by MrMik
Fri Jul 03, 2015 10:45 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840193

Re: Ask Carroll

Yea, I sort of figured there were no short cuts. Sometimes when out in the water you seem to have those aha moments relating to body positioning, paddling technique or some other thing that make an immediate improvement in your ability to surf/catch waves. I was thinking of taking a few months of u...
by MrMik
Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:59 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: The winter of our content.
Replies: 175
Views: 113529

Re: The winter of our content.

WWB = Wet Weather Bib?

or World Wide Butterflies?
by MrMik
Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:15 am
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: The winter of our content.
Replies: 175
Views: 113529

Re: The winter of our content.

And a chance for a cyclone...
by MrMik
Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:35 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: that wetsuit discussion...
Replies: 2945
Views: 1119675

Re: that wetsuit discussion...

I must declare that I have no real idea about the average annual income in Africa, but I bet that I'm right.

If I loose, I'll brew the beer to go into the drone for the 2-wave-holddown challenge at Steve's place.

It'll be mean....
by MrMik
Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:31 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: that wetsuit discussion...
Replies: 2945
Views: 1119675

Re: that wetsuit discussion...

If I'm only going to get two winters out of a suit then a $200 Need suit makes more sense than a $500 brand suit. If you are accepting to get only 2 seasons out of a suit, and then buy another one of that brand again, they have turned you into a consumer. Or, you might have walked along just like y...
by MrMik
Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:04 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: The winter of our content.
Replies: 175
Views: 113529

Re: The winter of our content.

How come the water was so murky at Lennox on Tuesday and Wednesday? I stuck to my general plan to avoid the rock jump, and paddled out in the rip in front of the dead tree on the beach, in the middle of town. The waves were good enough and the crowd factor negligible compared to the point, so I did ...
by MrMik
Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:08 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: Guns.
Replies: 160
Views: 155447

Re: Guns.

Here we go, the solution for my gun dilemma:

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Unlike my custom 8' McCoy, this one seems to be built for speed, not comfort.
by MrMik
Sat May 30, 2015 7:31 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: that wetsuit discussion...
Replies: 2945
Views: 1119675

Re: that wetsuit discussion...

Just a quick update regarding my Patagonia R1 wetsuit that had problems with cracking external seals. As already mentioned earlier, it was replaced on the spot, with much apologies. The hardest part about returning it was picking a time when the suit was dry, so I could hand it back! I did not even ...
by MrMik
Sat May 30, 2015 6:46 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: that wetsuit discussion...
Replies: 2945
Views: 1119675

Re: that wetsuit discussion...

doubled up somehow.
by MrMik
Fri May 22, 2015 12:45 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: that wetsuit discussion...
Replies: 2945
Views: 1119675

Re: that wetsuit discussion...

Add in environmental impact and social justice issues during the production process, and disposal / recycling when it's getting old. That's kind of funny when you burn a lot of fuel checking a few different surf spots in a car likely made in a country with low labour costs, surfing a board made of ...
by MrMik
Thu May 21, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: that wetsuit discussion...
Replies: 2945
Views: 1119675

Re: that wetsuit discussion...

How much difference (to it's longevity)
will it make if the suit gets rinsed with fresh water each time after almost daily surfing?