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[pirate_agenda]

Ok cheers nick. I know all about weight bearing excercise. I'm doing every squat variation known to man and Romanian.

can you do pistols??

[alakaboo]

^^Ryan Lochte does it in 24sec with an underwater butterfly kick

20.8 short course, without a dive

[andy2476]

Nick, which style swim fins or flippers would be best for building up strength ( and hopefully a little mass ) in the pool?.

My right leg quads are still quite smaller than my left, and I'm thinking of some swim training. I do have issues with pain when extending my leg quickly and powerfully so was just going to get a snorkel, put some fins/flippers on and just use my legs to do laps at a slow steady pace.

extremely low impact, Very good for cardio . Just sayin'

[Drailed]

Terrible for prostate cancer though apparently according to a recent report I read. Are you a keen cyclist Andy, what are your thoughts on that?

[Yuke Hunt]

Terrible for prostate cancer though apparently according to a recent report I read. Are you a keen cyclist Andy, what are your thoughts on that?

Andy won't have any problems with his prostate ... he's a perfect arsehole ...

[andy2476]

Terrible for prostate cancer though apparently according to a recent report I read. Are you a keen cyclist Andy, what are your thoughts on that?

it's a myth

[Beerfan]

Nick, which style swim fins or flippers would be best for building up strength ( and hopefully a little mass ) in the pool?.

My right leg quads are still quite smaller than my left, and I'm thinking of some swim training. I do have issues with pain when extending my leg quickly and powerfully so was just going to get a snorkel, put some fins/flippers on and just use my legs to do laps at a slow steady pace.

extremely low impact, Very good for cardio . Just sayin'

I'd wear all the Lycra in the world to get my right quad to look like it used to. I can't extend my leg powerfully though just yet. I have been riding my bike though, definitely good for the legs.



Pirate, pistols are pretty fucking hard mate. Not yet

[Karlos]

Check out Harry's emerging bald patch.

[BA]

Yep, he's gone. I think his brother's got an even bigger hair famine going on.

[Yuke Hunt]

Forget about that male pattern hair loss ... I'm far more intrigued by that zipper on Sophie's dress.

[andy2476]

It's almost like the germans won the war. Marcel Kittel The Arian superman looking down benevolently on his weedy inbred subjugated English subjects.

Are you seeing this GSTQ ?

[Drailed]

His legs look so out of proportion to the rest of his body though.

[steve shearer]

his neck looks a trifle under-powered to hold up that head.

[Trev]

Forget about that male pattern hair loss ... I'm far more intrigued by that zipper on Sophie's dress.

Who the hell is Sophie?

[andy2476]

His legs look so out of proportion to the rest of his body though.

The rest of his body doesn't have to do much

[Yuke Hunt]

Forget about that male pattern hair loss ... I'm far more intrigued by that zipper on Sophie's dress.

Who the hell is Sophie?

You know ... Kate ... soapy to her mates.

[spork]

NC, have you ever ridden a log? where you any good at it? why not?

[Nick Carroll]

NC, have you ever ridden a log? where you any good at it? why not?

Like a longboard? I've ridden heaps of longboards, from a 7'3" cut down White Kite to a 1962 Johnny Rhodes that weighed about 25 kilos and was literally as flat rockered as an ironing board

I'm OK on a longboard, like any water craft you get better at riding one in a specific way with practice. For me they are corrective therapy, like they are really good for re-setting your technique on shorter boards, because they force you to relax and get your mind ahead of things.

But as a surfer whose roots are really in 1970s short single fins and who mostly rides short-breaking abrupt waves, I feel very limited by a longboard and so rapidly become bored with riding one, so I'll never get super good at it.