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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by ajohnsen » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:00 am

How do the chickens go, Steve?

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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by steve shearer » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:08 am

Great.

The big one is a sussex hen, beautiful bird. Very feisty, will take on snakes etc etc.

She mated with a silky rooster so we have two smaller silky/sussex crosses.

Going up to the Bangalow Poultry Show in April to get some more hens.

http://www.bangalowpoultryclub.com.au/auction.html

PLs take a moment to read the pome about Essery's browns.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by kookster » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:10 am

ajohnsen wrote:How do the chickens go, Steve?
Ideal when the waves are feathering a bit... or if you snapped your egg the day before... I'm not sure which one comes first...
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by murrum » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:20 am

steve shearer wrote:Great.

The big one is a sussex hen, beautiful bird. Very feisty, will take on snakes etc etc.

She mated with a silky rooster so we have two smaller silky/sussex crosses.

Going up to the Bangalow Poultry Show in April to get some more hens.

http://www.bangalowpoultryclub.com.au/auction.html

PLs take a moment to read the pome about Essery's browns.
There is always the Moruya District Poultry Club Auction in mid April if you fancy a longer drive. The president of which is the aptly named Barry Crapp.
Surely the 6'3" would get a workout down this way that time of year.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by steve shearer » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:29 am

Sounds like a good excuse for a roadtrip Murrum.

I've got a lady whose promising me some anconas which she reckons will blow me away so I'm keen to honour that committment.

Would love to get an Ancona rooster.

Amazing birds.

http://www.wilkamdai.com/breed_of_the_m ... ncona.html
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by crabmeat thompson » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:30 am

Not one thruster, huh Shearer?

Some of those shifty beachie peaks at all different times of the tide around your abode would be crying out for the fast response and twitchiness of going top to bottom on a modern hps thruster, wouldn't it?

I can understand the long walls of the point accommodating the big drawn out lines of quads nicely ... But for sure, I woulda guessed you'd have one thruster as a go-to kind of board.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by steve shearer » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:32 am

Not by design, just found the round-tail McKee quads to do what a thruster does but better.

First thruster in the quiv is a 6'9" Gunter shaped round pin,,,,that went great at Chopes and the Point.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by Nick Carroll » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:39 am

damo666 wrote:As a question from my totally uniformed, novice point of view Nick - when turning up to your average beachie, how do you choose from a quiver of 5 boards when at least a few of them seem to overlap?
Ah yeah, I don't drive around with all those things in my car damo.

In my own head they don't overlap much, each has a different feel and one (the AB) only suits really solid waves.

God help me I have about 40 boards at the moment.

Sometimes (how fcuken indulgent is this) I take two boards and stick one in the sand and go out and surf the other for a while, then switch over. Terrible eh.

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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by Natho » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:40 am

Nice quiver Nick, fck I was beginning to wonder if anyone on here rode a normal performance shorty these days.

Give us a go of one of those MC fakers.gimme gimme gimme.i want. :lol: :D

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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by Nick Carroll » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:41 am

steve shearer wrote:Why did you go right to left instead of left to right?

I found that confusing.

Also, you're looking a bit thin : not doing a gautama on us?
I wanted to fcuk with your head.

Buddhist, ha that'll be the day.

ps maybe if you get another twinzer style thing, shift the lead fins in a bit closer to the big ones, I remember getting one from Will Jobson in CA in the early 90s and those little fins were really tight on the big ones.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by Nick Carroll » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:45 am

Natho wrote:Nice quiver Nick, darn I was beginning to wonder if anyone on here rode a normal performance shorty these days.

Give us a go of one of those MC fakers.gimme gimme gimme.i want. :lol: :D
Yeah all right.

I'll lend you that board test one if ya want.

pm me re when/where etc

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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by steve shearer » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:49 am

Natho wrote: normal performance shorty these days.
Is there such a thing?

Seriously?

That concept seems as dated as grunge and Donkey Kong.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by crabmeat thompson » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:59 am

steve shearer wrote:
Natho wrote: normal performance shorty these days.
Is there such a thing?

Seriously?

That concept seems as dated as grunge and Donkey Kong.
I dunno, depending on your height, weight and ability, anything from a 5'10" to a 6'4" thruster, good to go from 2-5 foot would fit a HPS stereotype.

No fishes, retro fishes, quads, bonzers or twinzers fit the profile.

Like it, or hate it, pro surfing and the tour demonstrates the most consistently best surfers on the planet, performing the highest degree of difficulty moves on waves. And all bar one, use the HPS stereotype for a reason.

I'm a hack at surfing, and I want to link sections and ride the wave for as long as I can. Getting barrelled or doing a big turn is a nice bonus ... But, it's reos, cutties, and snaps as well as floating or climbing over foam sections are what allow me to ride the wave as long as possible, and a hps is the best tool in the shed for that particular job, imo.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by steve shearer » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:06 am

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No fishes, retro fishes, quads, bonzers or twinzers fit the profile.

You're off your trolley Braithy.

I accept your argument about Pro surfing but there's so much more hi-perf surfing going on outside the tour on all kinds of equipment.

Exhibit A : Dan Thomsons radical planing hulls are way outside the paradigm of modern shorties. Scroll down and watch Tom Curren on a 5'1' by 171/2 by 2 1/8.

http://dantomo.blogspot.com.au/
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by ajohnsen » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:09 am

Nick, what's the benefits of the carbon flextail? I'm guessing less flex so better hold in bottom turns? And better for down-the-line speed?

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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by crabmeat thompson » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:23 am

steve shearer wrote:
Braithy wrote:


No fishes, retro fishes, quads, bonzers or twinzers fit the profile.

You're off your trolley Braithy.

I accept your argument about Pro surfing but there's so much more hi-perf surfing going on outside the tour on all kinds of equipment.

Exhibit A : Dan Thomsons radical planing hulls are way outside the paradigm of modern shorties. Scroll down and watch Tom Curren on a 5'1' by 171/2 by 2 1/8.

http://dantomo.blogspot.com.au/
Look at the examples needed to display these alternative boards. Seems like a stretch for the average punter to surf like Curren or Slater to get them to go.

For every Curren & Slater you show me, I can show you a retired pro like Egan, Occy, or Ross Williams doing the exact same thing. But because it's a 6'2" hps they're riding, it looks like just another day at the office.

If the new shapes and styles (or the retro in some cases) were so productive and effective for high performance surfing, wouldn't more be willing to use them on tour or in events even as wildcards?
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by steve shearer » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:26 am

Braithy wrote:
For every Curren & Slater you show me, I can show you a retired pro like Egan, Occy, or Ross Williams doing the exact same thing.
Bad example. The best surfing I saw down at Bells was Occy riding a kingpin quad, which lies outside your HPS paradigm.

Egan has been all over quads as well.

To say high performance surfing can only happen on ...xyz...is just a bland denial of current reality.
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Re: post your modern day sickness

Post by crabmeat thompson » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:43 am

steve shearer wrote:
To say high performance surfing can only happen on ...xyz...is just a bland denial of current reality.
That's not exactly what I'm saying. If quads & alternative craft were as broadly as effective as the hps, more pros would be on them. And the average punter, who can't invest an exorbitant amount of time in fin research to get the best out of their bonzers, twinzers and quads nothing will beat the hps shorty.

I love twinnies to death, but in most conditions, reaching point A to point B on a wave, the hps is the one who does that job the most consistently.

Egan & Occ's every day boards are all thrusters. Does that make them their go to design/ board?

In no way am I saying the new tech's don't have a place, and in some of those places they do outperform hps shorties ... but your bread and butter of performance surfing happens within the realm of the hps thruster.
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