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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by channels » Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:07 pm

godsavethequeen wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:39 pm
Surely the likes of Lewis Hamilton at Kelly’s pool have throughly torpedoed the myth of surfing being difficult to learn?
Surfing in a wave pool is surfing?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by godsavetheking » Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:15 pm

I think you’ve answered your own question
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To tell the truth eggs are one thing I avoid buying when I’m grocery shopping. So you may say I’m an intermittent egg buyer who usually lets someone else buy them.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Nick Carroll » Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:09 am

lol everything's difficult til you know how to do it

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:33 am

Legion wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:34 pm
steve you're just showing your limited range again.
lol, every Cnut on earth can ride a bike.

bad choice of subject matter to demonstrate "limited range".
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:36 am

godsavethequeen wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:39 pm
Surely the likes of Lewis Hamilton at Kelly’s pool have throughly torpedoed the myth of surfing being difficult to learn?
Taking the ocean out of the equation shows it's relatively simple to teach someone to cut across a wave.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Cranked » Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:36 am

steve shearer wrote:
Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:33 am
Legion wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:34 pm
steve you're just showing your limited range again.
lol, every Cnut on earth can ride a bike.

bad choice of subject matter to demonstrate "limited range".
Everyone who can ride a bike can surf. 10ft mal, 1' of foamy wave, riding prone... you're surfing.

But really there's a range of skills for both and I think the difficulty for surfing and bike riding at the professional level is pretty similar.

Here's an example:
https://youtu.be/9-rL463HPQA

If you don't think that is as skillfull as anything in surfing then you must have had a lobotomy
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:06 pm

Cranked wrote:
Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:36 am

Everyone who can ride a bike can surf. 10ft mal, 1' of foamy wave, riding prone... you're surfing.
Not really.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Cranked » Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:34 pm

So you're going to arbitrarily define a certain skill level before you acknowledge that someone is actually "surfing".
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by steve shearer » Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:57 pm

I think that is an appropriate position to take on a surfing forum, no?
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Drailed » 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.
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by offshore1 » Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:33 pm

Where does channels' ride rate?
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Drailed » Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:47 pm

Still harder than riding a bike.
Trev wrote:I have always had a lot of time for Dick
smnmntll wrote:Got one in the mouth once, that was pretty memorable

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Yuke Hunt » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:25 pm

What about a monocycle ?
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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by godsavetheking » Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:28 pm

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.
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Beanpole wrote:
Mon Sep 04, 2023 10:48 pm
To tell the truth eggs are one thing I avoid buying when I’m grocery shopping. So you may say I’m an intermittent egg buyer who usually lets someone else buy them.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by PeepeelaPew » Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:46 pm

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by godsavetheking » Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:56 pm

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 which, to my relief, had been fitted with extra wheels to keep me upright. ‘Here goes nothing’ I muttered as I launched away from the kerb, my bum already protesting at the cruelly hard seat...”
Beanpole wrote:
Mon Sep 04, 2023 10:48 pm
To tell the truth eggs are one thing I avoid buying when I’m grocery shopping. So you may say I’m an intermittent egg buyer who usually lets someone else buy them.

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Re: Where did you surf today ?

Post by Drailed » Tue Nov 24, 2020 6:41 pm

:lol:
Trev wrote:I have always had a lot of time for Dick
smnmntll wrote:Got one in the mouth once, that was pretty memorable

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