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Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:01 pm
by The Mighty Sunbird
I think they look shit but I would try one to perfect my 369 air reverse nutcheck wallet grab

If it was free

And there was Hendrix











And TITS!

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:19 pm
by Drailed
godsavethequeen wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:31 pm
You've lost me. Truly. Is it a feeling of being left behind? Of no longer having the same relevance in a world that you have been a pretty key figure in for a goodly portion of those 45 years? What would a 30 year old Nick Carroll think of wavepools, do reckon?

You fccckn mind your tounge boy. Thats our national treasure you're disrespecting.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:30 pm
by Cranked
godsavethequeen wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:31 pm
You've lost me. Truly. Is it a feeling of being left behind? Of no longer having the same relevance in a world that you have been a pretty key figure in for a goodly portion of those 45 years? What would a 30 year old Nick Carroll think of wavepools, do reckon?
Wave pools are anathema to me too. They just seem the opposite of the surf ideal.

I've been surfing Indonesia and WA for 40 years now. The incredible landscapes and contexts of places like Gnaraloo, the Bluff, Uluwatu, Gragagan, Timor, Lombok and many other places are the complete antithesis of a wavepool. It seems sordid, suburban, restricted, constrained - there's no music to make your soul sing.

And then a big swell hits and and a sort of hyper reality manifests: I'll be just watching, but what a thing to watch. Wave pools?

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:52 pm
by Nick Carroll
godsavethequeen wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:31 pm
You've lost me. Truly. Is it a feeling of being left behind? Of no longer having the same relevance in a world that you have been a pretty key figure in for a goodly portion of those 45 years? What would a 30 year old Nick Carroll think of wavepools, do reckon?
listen you silly cnut, go back and look at what you accused me of. Muddle headed searching for cheap social media likes. As if I could give a shit about that stuff. You think I don't know my mind about surfing? I am deadly fcuken serious, if you'd said that to my face I'd have had to walk away or slap ya.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:56 pm
by Drailed
Nicks very angry :shock: :shock: :shock:

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:59 pm
by The Mighty Sunbird
The thought of nick slapping godsave breaks my heart

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:03 pm
by Lucky Al
hey hey break it up break it up! check out this video of the thing from stab mag: https://vimeo.com/234779991

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:06 pm
by Lucky Al
from the wsl site, woo woo:

Image

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:09 pm
by Lucky Al
hmmm, maybe i'm being drawn to the dark side.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:21 pm
by godsavetheking
I call it as I see it Nick, and if you're unable to argue without descending into cheap insults and playground threats of slaps then I think we're probably done here

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:03 pm
by channels
Beerfan wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:07 pm
Nick Carroll wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:21 pm
Oh I imagine some people would be able to rationalise it. I can't. It makes me want to throw up, just a little bit.
Been thinking more, it's just odd. Obviously most surfers live near water. So if you spend millions to build one, you either go near water, and hope a small amount of surfers try it, or build it inland, and hope it becomes a novelty sport?. How do you convince investors in that scenario? Or are there already investors who are either stupid, or happy to gamble on what looks like crap odds.

Thinking about it logically, if it was down the road and cheap, I'd try it after 2 weeks of onshore puss, but who would actually intentionally jump in the car and drive an hour, and then pay to surf it ? If the surf is that bad where you lived, you probably wouldn't be interested to start with.

The business logic behind it is interesting to think about
This.

I reckon anyone who has lived in Perth over summer would be quite ok about surfing this.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:12 am
by Cranked
No fcukin' way for me channels. Whatever they did it would be Perth's best wave, the queues world be enormous.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:03 am
by offshore1
godsavethequeen wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:21 pm
I call it as I see it Nick, and if you're unable to argue without descending into cheap insults and playground threats of slaps then I think we're probably done here
What about tits, godsave; would tits help smooth things over?

Beautiful wave Lucky Al, but kinda boring and repetitive after a dozen or so watches. Great for practice and board and fin design I reckon, but similar to watching half pipe snowboarding. As far as contests go, I vote No, well maybe one per season.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:44 am
by Slobadan Madicubich
Lucky Al wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:03 pm
hey hey break it up break it up! check out this video of the thing from stab mag: https://vimeo.com/234779991
Conservative Obsessed Ludite wrote:
STOP IT !!
That's surfporn using an unnatural form of stimulation
No i didn't look at it & am so passionate about it that the only footage ive seen was the first one in the water treatment plant.
Im in a perfect position to have a fanatical opinion on the subject.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:16 am
by Beerfan
channels wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:03 pm
Beerfan wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:07 pm
Nick Carroll wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:21 pm
Oh I imagine some people would be able to rationalise it. I can't. It makes me want to throw up, just a little bit.
Been thinking more, it's just odd. Obviously most surfers live near water. So if you spend millions to build one, you either go near water, and hope a small amount of surfers try it, or build it inland, and hope it becomes a novelty sport?. How do you convince investors in that scenario? Or are there already investors who are either stupid, or happy to gamble on what looks like crap odds.

Thinking about it logically, if it was down the road and cheap, I'd try it after 2 weeks of onshore puss, but who would actually intentionally jump in the car and drive an hour, and then pay to surf it ? If the surf is that bad where you lived, you probably wouldn't be interested to start with.

The business logic behind it is interesting to think about
This.

I reckon anyone who has lived in Perth over summer would be quite ok about surfing this.
Pfft, legion could build one that'd be a mix of pipe and cloud break with the tools in his shed

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:23 am
by Cranked
So true Beery. Legion's talents are wasted in Perth's suburbia, he needs an industrial behemoth he can use to reshape the planet.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:02 am
by tootr
Plenty of cheap(ish) flat land in Perth no?

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:30 am
by Drailed
Surfing wavepools be like rooting prostitutes. Sure you get to have another turn but its nothing like the real thing and probably leave you feeling a little but dirty.