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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
You prefer it as a second tier (CS) or top tier (CT) event? I much prefer it as a CT event. I'd definitely prefer it to be part of the Championship Tour. Snapper is usually a pretty fair playing field, giving contestants an even chance, as opposed to somewhere like Margies, which apart from the fin...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
I don't mind having the Challenger Series here. Its good for the economy and Snapper is the perfect platform to hold a contest. The infrastructure doesn't have any long term impact, but it does create a carnival atmosphere, when they cordon off the Snapper Rocks Rd. Beach announcers serve more than ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Geoff McCoy has gone to the big nugget in the sky ... 1944-2024.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Where did you surf today ?
- Replies: 30106
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Re: Where did you surf today ?
For the life of me I can't see any advantage in that nose design ... you could square it off, round it off or leave it fucking pointy and achieve the same results.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
And he was the winner.
I'm probably one of the few people who actually like the idea of a mid-season cut, but what I don't like is sending the competitors out in sub-par conditions with so much at stake.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
- Views: 6489831
Re: Just general surfing stuff
I remember NC years ago saying in a fin discussion here, that plain old fibreglass fins were the best. Any other rigid construction that cost more was a waste of money. There are two variations of fibreglass fins, the original layered fibreglass, that gets cut from a template and foiled, and the fi...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
I have. Had a beautiful custom 6'9" Peter MCabe step-up. Came with cheap plastic FCS fins. I'll never forget the day I swapped those out for a stiff pair of fibreglass fins of the same template. It literally was like going from driving on bald tyres in the rain to feeling like I was in a Porsche wi...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
yep. Total fin area is easy to feel. Different materials easier to feel. Confirmation bias, moite. I’m certain that in properly blinded testing you wouldn’t be able to pick up any differences Indeed. Fin size and template variations are definitely noticeable to most, but separating the nuances betw...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
FCS bringing out a few more classic templates (like MF, AM) in fibreglass and marketing it like it’s a new breakthrough after years of telling everyone how good honeycomb, carbon, and hollow fins are. Most punters wouldn't notice much difference between the different technologies, performance wise.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Injuries Blog
- Replies: 130
- Views: 33346
Re: Injuries Blog
Any failed roof jumper there ?
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Where did you surf today ?
- Replies: 30106
- Views: 11402659
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: Twin fins as go-to boards
- Replies: 457
- Views: 324276
Re: Twin fins as go-to boards
one of his Nigel Beckham copies ?steve shearer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:35 pmWould love to try one of these, sized right.
I know they go good on your backhand.
https://www.nealpurchasedesigns.com/sto ... 34-x-2-916
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: Twin fins as go-to boards
- Replies: 457
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Re: Twin fins as go-to boards
Is he still making boards Yuke? Yeah, but he moved out of his factory in South Tweed when the landlord doubled the rent late last year ... he's in Burleigh somewhere now. Makes a nice board. I was surfing with the shaper of SWS (Stone Wild Surfboards) last week, down on the Coffs coast, he's not sh...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: Twin fins as go-to boards
- Replies: 457
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Re: Twin fins as go-to boards
I been surfing MR twins with the stabiliser in my 5'10" Mick Roach Spooky Point ... soooo good !
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Travel & Health
- Topic: Hernias
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1056
Re: Hernias
You should still be able to surf with a hernia (maybe a little discomfort). In 2016 I went under the knife to repair not one, but three hernias, and I took a couple of weeks off just prior to the procedure to go and surf my brains out, seeing as there can be a lengthy wait afterwards.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Where did you surf today ?
- Replies: 30106
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- Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: Travel & Health
- Topic: Hernias
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1056
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Just general surfing stuff
- Replies: 11659
- Views: 6489831