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rail grabbing on pop-up, good or bad?

spent two hours in the water...weak but clean waves that weren't closing out for once. i've slipped back to being bit of a rail grabber while popping up of late, so used the easy conditions to focus on using the deck for pop-ups and break my bad habit.

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i'm just waiting for the re-release of the bahne superflex, then i'll get back to injuring myself like it's 1977 again.
wonder how i'd feel about the board now, and how it would stack up against modern boards.

Any of you "up north blokes" know the best place to stay in Kempsey? Also any good food places, pubs? Anywhere to avoid? Closest wave? forget kempsey...you want south west rocks. Heritage Guesthouse 221-23 Livingstone Street South West Rocks (02) 6566 6625 eat at the surf club. if you're there for ...

Pretty much 70/71 up till the world titles at Bells really. After that they started to go get longer again in reaction to the results, more pros going to Hawaii plus people riding longer funny boards for Indo. The pintail Nat rides in MOTE was complimented by a 5'10" square tail with a big flexi fi...

Fish craze might have been cause in a time of thin boards all that extra volume in the fish helped a lot of fat buggers catch more waves and feel better about their surfing? that makes sense...the fish had a a stand-up counterpart, while the slab, also with plenty of width and volume, never did hav...

Had a few kneelo mates before I moved over here. Sometimes we'd swap boards if the surf was shitty. They were all fast and surfed very flat. Couldn't cut back unless you got down real low and held the rail. Even then the turn was so long you could read a book. Singles and twins - never tried a thru...

Fish craze might have been cause in a time of thin boards all that extra volume in the fish helped a lot of fat buggers catch more waves and feel better about their surfing? that makes sense...the fish had a a stand-up counterpart, while the slab, also with plenty of width and volume, never did hav...

How does the surf in California compare to around Sydney etc ? Because of the distal long period and much weakened nature of most swells (they literally have to crawl across a massive continental shelf)............... The flat-faced, long walled nature of the waves is really suited to longboards an...

does titanium flex? or is that not a desirable property?

i have some japanese titanium camping gear -- a cup and cooking pot. they are lovely items. a fin would be quite special. keep up the good work!

ok, the massive continental shelf might explain something...in california they have 14 sec plus swell periods in winter..up to 22 seconds. that type of swell period in sydney would be absolutely brutal. but it never seemed quite as brutal in california. however, i didn't dare paddle out in northern ...

nick, i recently read "two years before the mast" by richard dana. for those mot familiar with the work, it's an an account working on sailing ships on the californian coast in the 1830s, when san diego had a population of 150 or so and san fransisco consisted of one building. dana befriends a group...

unfortunately, i'm already committed...the deposit on the bunker spreckles surf trip isn't refundable.

a five hour surf today. :-D-: my lips feel pickled by the saltwater. there'll be no poetry recital this evening, i'm having trouble speaking. there was no "dropping swell" at tama. it was bloody big and clean. i found it a little big on the larger sets and retreated to bondi for a more leisurely sur...

Nick oh great one I want to put a garden shed in my backyard but do not want to pay some one to pour a concrete slab. How do you build the formwork and successfully pour and set a concrete slab for a small backyard garden shed. Also you better have some good carpentry advice because I want to build...

philw wrote:hi purple, do you wear goggles while riding your mat? i've seen a mat riding fellow in goggles at tama a few times…you?

that might just be me...i sometimes wear sunglasses in the surf...either on a mat or kneeboard, depending if the flags are up.

Never mind all these fish n chip jaunts, cuttlefish loves board porn. Where can he fondle some beautiful resin tinted lovelys on his way down south? the best board porn on the south coast....mick mackie 37 Powell Ave, Ulladulla give him a call: (02) 4455 4077 also stocked at a few shops along the w...