what is your favourite part of a wave?

[fong]

i like the drop it's always the best for me

and the lip when it's just sitting there asking to b hit

so wat part of a wave/ride do u like best

[halfy]

the Barrel and the bowl which is situated at the Barrel's doorstep

[Raker]

the lip

[--++sunstroke++--]

The foamball

[surfin39]

Very tough ... it's easy to say the beginning middle and end, it's all great and sometimes for me it depends on the type of day as well.

Before a wave I get a rush from the anticipation as a set looms knowing you are about to get one of them.
The adrenalin rush when it dredges out below you and you know you are committed.
I love a deep take off where you have to just get up and race it or eat it.
The sound of a big dredging barrel from the inside that sounds like a train going past.
The feeling immediately after hitting the lip or pulling off a fully buried rail carving cutback.
The final floater where you hang up there as long as you can and you stick the landing.

After 30 years I still love all of it, like I said beginning, middle and end.

[crooked]

backdoor sections and the very start of the wave - you have just stopped paddling, you are just about to take the drop, you can see the section lining up in front of you....

[CARPARKKING]

the Barrel and the bowl which is situated at the Barrel's doorstep

hahahahhahahahahaha

[rae]

the part where you realise there's possibly a split second of anything but a closeout when the immeadiate world is full of way too many closeouts.

[Colonel Fiction]

Nice thread Fong, good idea.

I have a limited repertoire, but I have two favourite things:

1. Forehand, after a cutback, just as I turn to come back around to face the wall again - on rare occasions I time it just right so I get a burst of momentum on the drop back into the "pocket' (or whatever the fcuk you call it). Great feeling - it's a physcal rush and, for a moment, I feel like I actually know what I'm doing. Better than jagging a reo.

2. Doing anything successfully on my backhand.

[smackthatlip]

3 favs. The sweet anticipation looking down the line as you get to your feet on a goody. The pit of course and flying off the bottom and seeing the lip saying " hit me, hit me". The anticipation of things almost rivals the act of actually doing them me thinks

[Kunji]

The barrel, bowl and any ramps.

[austeve]

3 favs. The sweet anticipation looking down the line as you get to your feet on a goody. The pit of course and flying off the bottom and seeing the lip saying " hit me, hit me". The anticipation of things almost rivals the act of actually doing them me thinks

Yeah I'd agree with that...taking the drop & seeing what is unfolding in front of you

[Hawkeye]

Right about now I'd settle for any part of the wave. Haven't been wet for 6-7 weeks.

It's been a combination of working stupid hours and being too fatigued to even think about it, then getting sick on a Friday from being so run down from said work schedule, and then finally slapping my pushbike onto the pavement at 50km/hr last week because some frikken moron decided to coat the kerbside lane down The Spit Hill with a copious spray of sump oil.

The upside was that miraculously I didn't break anything, didn't get run over, didn't lose much skin (so much oil) and got a cheap helmet to replace the one I destroyed.

But then my mates had to go and rub it in, didn' they? Took off up the coast for the weekend to some isolated spots around Forster. Great timing. Thanks, fellas. I'll remember that.

[cs]

have to be the bowl, anything can happen from there.
Speed out and do a cutty, snap or stall for a barrel, or point it up for a lip hack (usually to fall off...)

[breaks]

A hugely long wall lining up in front. You don't know what's in store - bowls, lips, sucky sections or just pedal-to-the-metal speed.

[FISH]

high on the shoulder ready for the drop

[muggo]

In the barrel or even just the pocket of one of those thick, rip-bowl sand dredgers. Feels awesome just to make it through em

[Longygrom]

For me its definately coming off the bottom into a super fast but precise high line.

Just the feeling of driving off the bottom and releasing mid way up the face, riding it high, the gliding back down and setting yourself up for massive hack in the next section, a clean round house or even to race the tube and backdoor the oncoming section.