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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Sat Jul 25, 2015 3:11 am

Davros wrote:Nick what's the go with your bro and Eye Symmetry, does he own the company? Have you been riding them as well, any good models?
No, Tom doesn't have any financial involvement in Eye Symmetry, I haven't ridden any but the ones I've seen Tom hauling around look pretty fcuken good to me.

Max is actually a good example of the above. A young board maker who has arisen out of the dynamic surfboard making markets of the last few years and is focused on deep quality - and succeeding.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by offshore1 » Sat Jul 25, 2015 3:55 am

Nick Carroll wrote: That said, I am vulnerable to marketing, I can be sucked into trying or buying something if it makes a convincing case for being worthwhile on a wide range of levels. I can feel the puppet strings being pulled and I do give in all the time on small ticket items.
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Davros » Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:23 am

Thanks Nick, they look great, and some interesting designs. Sculpt surfboards another gaining momentum as well it seems, been seeing them pop up and guys doing good things on them as well.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Kunji » Mon Jul 27, 2015 7:59 pm

Nick, what are the top 3 features you'd like to see added to the realsurf forums?
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by --++sunstroke++-- » Mon Jul 27, 2015 8:10 pm

Kunji wrote:Nick, what are the top 3 features you'd like to see added to the realsurf forums?

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:55 am

^^christ can you imagine.

- easier image posting. like what is this, some 2000-era Content Management System. wait, what?

- a bit less terror of naughty words.

- a functioning search function.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by foamy » Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:34 am

Nick, congratulations to you and Tom on the Molokai to Oahu! Awesome!
By all reports, in tough conditions.
How was the race?
How was your entry into Maunalua Bay thru the breaking waves?
How have you and Tom pulled up?

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Post by Nick Carroll » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:08 am

Tough conditions, yeah, if you hadn't trained. It always baffles me when people say that, "wow, the conditions were tough"

Ummm ahhh it's 32 miles of open fcuken ocean for chrissake. what the FCUK did you expect, the Little Mermaid come and waft you across in a pink chariot? 19 people pulled out during the race which is a record. I felt sympathy for one of them, a paraplegic guy who did the race last year with the help of a team of handlers etc, but couldn't go more than a couple of hours yesterday.

Unsurprisingly the race was dominated by super clubbies who are actually ready to do things like that, and Travis Grant (#1 unlimited SUP) who is a tough bastard.

We had a pretty good time, Tom and I work well as a team, I got us started and put us in a good spot, he's not fast like me but he went out and held on and gave me time to re-set and gain ground back each time. I was going around 51/2 hour pace and he was going around 71/2 hour pace and we almost exactly split the difference. In the end there often isn't a big difference between 20 mins faster and 20 mins slower, might just come down to a line you draw in mid race. It sounds odd but I actually find that open water style of paddling quite relaxing in a way -- you have to focus quite intently on the water in front of you because that's where you see the troughs appearing, the front sides of the runs you wanna pick up, it's a bit like watching a fire burning, it lulls the language part of the mind which to me is as good as a holiday. I kept seeing and replaying the water movements last night in my mind for a long time.

They stuck a buoy right out in the middle of the bay outside the surf zone, you had to go around it and in, we had planned this move to make use of Tom's surf skills, I paddled the last messy water past China Walls (which was actually very fcuken fast) and over to the buoy then handed it off to Tom, who pulled off four or five waves consecutively across the bay and brought it home in style, it was funny watching all these people fcuking up all around him while he skated through.

Pretty sore and drained today, plus some sunburn, exposure in the Molokai race is harsh and almost unavoidable, but nothing a day of R&R won't fix

Super stoked for two of my racing squad, Kendrick and Fletcher, got first and third in the elite solo stock, the toughest race there is.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by chrisb » Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:16 am

Did you guys complete the race on a tandem board? How big is the board and where do you each position yourselves eg. one prone while the kneeler paddles?

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Trev » Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:49 am

chrisb wrote:Did you guys complete the race on a tandem board? How big is the board and where do you each position yourselves eg. one prone while the kneeler paddles?
Yeah. I wondered where the "non paddler" was, too. Thought maybe a support craft but that make things pretty messy.
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:46 am

chrisb wrote:Did you guys complete the race on a tandem board? How big is the board and where do you each position yourselves eg. one prone while the kneeler paddles?
oh for god's sake.

When you do team paddle board races, you take turns. You have an escort boat. One paddler is on the boat, the other is on the board. The boat can't be ahead of the paddler except when a changeover is happening, which means the boat circles well ahead and the other paddler jumps overboard and waits in the water for the on-board paddler to get there. They then swap, the new paddler takes off, and the boat circles around and picks up the guy who just got off the board.

We were paddling a stock ocean racing board, 12' long. Unlimited racers use anything over 12, usually 17 or 18'. Teams aren't allowed to use unlimited boards.

The way Tom and I did it, I started and did 40 minutes, then Tom did 30, then we did 20 each for a couple of hours till we were well past halfway, then dropped to 15, then 10 a few times, then 7 a couple of times, then 5. Then I did the wall section, about 10 mins, and Tom went to the beach, another 10 mins. The idea is to get warmed up, hold a solid but relaxed pace through the middle, then try to build through the hard shit as you come toward Oahu where there's currents and crazy backwashes off the cliffs and all that.

Near the finish line I jumped off the boat and got on the board and we paddled the last 20 metres together, that was the only tandem moment.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:49 am

Oh and every paddler or team has their own escort boat. Like, it's 4000 feet deep in mid channel. You can't see anyone unless you're within 100 metres of 'em. If everyone just went without a boat, people wouldn't pull out, they'd just die instead.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by crabmeat thompson » Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:43 pm

you reckon you could do the channel solo, nick?
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:24 pm

I have done the channel solo three times.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by crabmeat thompson » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:48 pm

but what about when your 70?
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Davros » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:58 pm

Nick have you ever been unfit? As in really let yourself go, put weight on, drank to much, eat crappy food and pretty much got a bit sloppy.
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by godsavetheking » Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:00 pm

How much of you, by the end, wanted to kill your brother for paddling so fucken slowly? Did you find yourself at any point clenching and unclenching your fists and saying in a squeaky voice "Well maybe this time we could try to go a little bit faster and a tiny bit longer"?
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by steve shearer » Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:04 pm

I'd like to see Braithy and Nick team up for next year.
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