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Join the local surf club and use thier racing skis for free. If you really like it, buy one that doesn't leak (club skis always seem to leak). Maybe it's all the flipping I do.
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ha ha boo what a shame so few of us know the true implications of this, your first and only slip toward tarderyalakaboo wrote:I first paddled a full length ski on a river during a flood
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That's a point worth considering. Nick probably has the luxury of leaving his craft in the clubhouse.alakaboo wrote:And they are also fcuking impractical things to move around on land.
The novelty of loading a ski onto the roof, especially if it's a tall vehicle like 4B, then unloading it and carrying it down to the shore wears off pretty quickly.
Another thing to consider is a test drive if it's at all possible. I was given a ski by a guy at work about 5 years ago. It was an early model Wavemaster.
I couldn't stay on the fcuken thing. I won medals at S.A. state titles in my younger years on skis, but I couldn't balance on this ski, it was like trying to balance on a length of poly pipe. Ended up giving it to Redhead club.
Someone told me the deeper the seat, the more stable. Apparently later model Wavemasters have a deeper seat, or lower waterline or both, and maybe a slightly flatter bottom.
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Nick, are you running the Pub to Pub next Sunday? Do you run for exercise?
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Nah not doing the Pub 2 Pub. Some of my squad are.
I run with the dog, just little runs like 3-4k, and do some run training for the super clubbie races, but I am not really built for it, shoulders and upper body too big and I'm sorta too short in the legs. Plus I'd rather be in the water really.
That paddle race, the Reef 2 Reef, is on Sept 20 if anyone's into it.
I run with the dog, just little runs like 3-4k, and do some run training for the super clubbie races, but I am not really built for it, shoulders and upper body too big and I'm sorta too short in the legs. Plus I'd rather be in the water really.
That paddle race, the Reef 2 Reef, is on Sept 20 if anyone's into it.
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Here that petulance???Nick Carroll wrote:Nah not doing the Pub 2 Pub. Some of my squad are.
I run with the dog, just little runs like 3-4k, and do some run training for the super clubbie races, but I am not really built for it, shoulders and upper body too big and I'm sorta too short in the legs. Plus I'd rather be in the water really.
That paddle race, the Reef 2 Reef, is on Sept 20 if anyone's into it.
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I'm keen on the reef to reef. Just that the board I'm using is so fckin narrow I cant kneel on it. So I will just have to paddle the khunt lying down the whole way.
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Dudes, what's with all this self-flagellation?
Take it easy, relax.
Take it easy, relax.
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Reckon theyre piping in some sweet yacht rock on those things?
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Bertie Higgins singing Key Largo.
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nice with a quad setup
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How many kms is the R2R? Will people laugh if i came stone motherless last?Nick Carroll wrote:Nah not doing the Pub 2 Pub. Some of my squad are.
I run with the dog, just little runs like 3-4k, and do some run training for the super clubbie races, but I am not really built for it, shoulders and upper body too big and I'm sorta too short in the legs. Plus I'd rather be in the water really.
That paddle race, the Reef 2 Reef, is on Sept 20 if anyone's into it.
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Nick, what % of surfers are goofy? Is it like a 50/50 split?. Totally useless fact I guess but I'm a little hungover and it's an idea running around my head right now.
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ah about 10k, no of course not, nobody minds how you go in things like that!Kunji wrote:How many kms is the R2R? Will people laugh if i came stone motherless last?Nick Carroll wrote:Nah not doing the Pub 2 Pub. Some of my squad are.
I run with the dog, just little runs like 3-4k, and do some run training for the super clubbie races, but I am not really built for it, shoulders and upper body too big and I'm sorta too short in the legs. Plus I'd rather be in the water really.
That paddle race, the Reef 2 Reef, is on Sept 20 if anyone's into it.
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Well I think there's a more even split now than there has been in the past. Where I surf it feels pretty close to 50/50 but it probably varies depending where you are in the world. There's no anti-goofy prejudice thing in surfing anymore so it's not like everyone feels any pressure to be one or the other. But I don't have any stats on it at all so what I'm saying is purely observational.Beerfan wrote:Nick, what % of surfers are goofy? Is it like a 50/50 split?. Totally useless fact I guess but I'm a little hungover and it's an idea running around my head right now.
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50/50 is big call for a self confessed bloke with short legs. I'd argue more like 80/20. I surf a fair stretch of coast (Southport to Coffs) due to travel for work, and surf almost every day. I can not remember any surf in the last few months where there is more than 20% goofy surfers in the water.Nick Carroll wrote:Well I think there's a more even split now than there has been in the past. Where I surf it feels pretty close to 50/50 but it probably varies depending where you are in the world. There's no anti-goofy prejudice thing in surfing anymore so it's not like everyone feels any pressure to be one or the other. But I don't have any stats on it at all so what I'm saying is purely observational.Beerfan wrote:Nick, what % of surfers are goofy? Is it like a 50/50 split?. Totally useless fact I guess but I'm a little hungover and it's an idea running around my head right now.
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Nick, do you have many EPS boards, in what conditions do you like to surf them? Do you find them a little more sensitive then PU boards etc...
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