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steve shearer wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:39 am

Whats turf toe?

I had to Google it, too.

crabmeat thompson wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:26 am

the ligament holding the big knuckle on the big toe gets stretched or torn.

on the pain scale it's right up there. worse than a break at least ... and the time it takes to heal is just obscene. i spent the best part of 4 months at the start of this year out of the water. 6mths later i still can't put all my weight into a duckdive on it. basically taught myself to duckdive with my other foot now.

Use ya knee ya fccckn kook

Says the guy who's never duckdived an eight foot wave

Hats off to the bloke paddling out at DY at 6.15am in boardies and lycra rashie. 8c.

Featured on Swellnet, this Tim Bonython clip of the recent big Cloudbreak swell is nuts and the best I have seen so far of that swell.

http://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-d ... t-day-ever

god, the Carmina Burana soundtrack was painful though.

so much drama.

also not the best edit of that swell.

I can't pay too much attention to that stuff. The guys are superhuman freaks and I can't envisage what it would be like to paddle into one of those beasts. I honestly cannot.

Needed Cerebral Ballzy tunes

Any views on how long it takes a PU board to lose its spring. Is this an urban surfing myth? I've often wondered.

Been riding a board with a Burford blank for about 5-6 years. Probably ride it about it about once a week at least, It's pretty yellowed up now (sun drenched from living in the back of a car).

Interested to know your views lads.

Once the deck's sunk so much that you've lost 2litres + of volume

I think the stringer and type of glassing has the most effect.

buddy wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:37 am

Once the deck's sunk so much that you've lost 2litres + of volume

Interesting point there buddy

Thud wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:13 am

Any views on how long it takes a PU board to lose its spring. Is this an urban surfing myth? I've often wondered.

Been riding a board with a Burford blank for about 5-6 years. Probably ride it about it about once a week at least, It's pretty yellowed up now (sun drenched from living in the back of a car).

Interested to know your views lads.

I reckon it would vary considerably based on a whole lot of shit

It’s not an urban myth though. Polyester resin brittles out over time, you can beat up the foam core through repeated impacts and pressure, and little leaks here and there from minor fractures in the laminate will assist that foam breakdown.

There’s no way back from it though, once a board goes it goes. Epoxy resins definitely help protect a board from the process

Cool, thanks Nick. Yeh my deck is caving under my back foot. Might look at an epoxy board.

PU cores last a lot longer than EPS cores though.

I'm really not sure about that whole PU board losing it's life thing.

I've got poly boards 20+ years old that surf fine.

Few years back I was marooned without a shortboard....it was the great winter of 2007 and I'd snapped all my shortboards. A mate said I've got an old McCoy under the house that you can take.
It was more ding than board but I made it watertight and got it back in the water..........fcuking surfed unreal for the rest of the winter. That board was made in '95......it's still under the house waiting it's next go out.

well yeah that's why PU/epoxy is generally the go

they definitely break down, it's just a matter of how often you surf 'em and all that other stuff. I have 20 year old boards that go fine too but I don't surf 'em even once a month.

I understand that is a technical and scientific reality but for the life of me I can't find any practical proof of it in terms of my "lived experience".

PU/Epoxy gets just as trashed on the rocks, dents just as much and I can't discern any difference in feel on a well ridden 5 year old board between it and PU/PE.

I might not be sensitive enough to detect the difference or there may be confirmation biases or placebo effects at play.

With polystyrene/epoxy you can put in a stringer, 6oz on the bottom, a 6 and a 4 on top and still have a board as light as a PU with only 4 on the top and 4 on the bottom