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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:08 am

ajohnsen wrote:Nick, do you lead the life of Riley?
Who is this Riley person?

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:14 am

Cranked wrote:For instance, Wilkes reckon they track a bit, so recommends smaller fins, especially in the base
They track when the rocker isn't balanced against the concave; when this happens the water won't release throughout the rail line and will get a bit trapped under the lip of the rail in parts, which sorta pins the board on a straight line.

It's a sign that your mate needs to work a bit more on the design.

You definitely don't need as much fin volume on a super concave, just like with six-channels, the lift portion of a fin's function is provided by the concave. What you do need from fins in a super concave is feel. I dunno about the base thing, like one of the best fins I've ever used with MC super concaves is the small C-Drive template, which is mostly base (RCJ uses these fins on his megawave towboards). What the C-Drive does have is a lot of feel thanks to all the different little curves and shit.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by The Mighty Sunbird » Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:22 am

I find throwing the shaka is a great way to mortify my teenaged offspring.

And because I live on an island, it's totes authentic.

And, I refuse to be limited to only small airs, so no long single deep concave for me.
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:03 pm

The Sunbird: always a rebel.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by ajohnsen » Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:16 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:
ajohnsen wrote:Nick, do you lead the life of Riley?
Who is this Riley person?
Well, not Derek, although I'm sure he's living the life.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by The Mighty Sunbird » Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:48 pm

if James Dean threw shakas, he would almost be me
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Cranked » Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:27 pm

Thanks Nick, I'll see how it goes.
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by godsavetheking » Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:12 pm

Cranked, I switched from a surftech lazor zap to the lost weekend warrior, which has a deep single concave and a wide tail. I'm not sure how much of a 'dome' is on the zap - I never measured it - but it seems like the bottom contours of the surftechs were less extreme than McCoy shaped boards. It wouldn't surprise me if it's essentially flat.

Anyway, using the same fins in both boards (fibreglass pancho sullivan futures), the zap is incredibly loose but feels sticky. To get it moving you have to squirt it forwards with your back foot, like tic-tacking a skateboard up a hill. The weekend warrior is stiffer, even surfing it right back off the kicktail on the pad, but has more of its own natural speed (the rocker is quite a bit flatter than the zap, of course) and you can surf it more from the middle of the board if you want to.

The main difference in feel between the two is that while the zap (and other McCoys I've ridden) is dependable through turns but predictable (not necessarily in a bad way), the weekend warrior accelerates more. A couple of times in recent surfs I've gone for a bread and butter closeout re-entry with my normal turn pressure and found myself a foot or two above the lip. I don't fully understand how it surfs yet but it's got me excited almost to the point of flipping shakas at strangers
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by JET01 » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:10 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:(to er)
well as long as they live on islands it's OK.

Otherwise they are wretched perpetuators of a cross cultural mockery that makes white boy rock'n'roll look as original as hip-hop. isn't that right GSTQ.

GSTQ?
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Re: Ask Carroll

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by godsavetheking » Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:18 pm

Nah, they're more like those half airs that you do when you kinda convince yourself you're close to making it but in reality you've ended up laying back in the whitewater, parallell to the beach and with nowhere to go but down, usually tweaking your groin in the process. I think that twenty years ago I could probably have learned how to do airs properly on this board but I'm fucked if I'm risking near certain injury by trying now
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Nick Carroll » Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:09 am

JET01 wrote:
Nick Carroll wrote:(to er)
well as long as they live on islands it's OK.

Otherwise they are wretched perpetuators of a cross cultural mockery that makes white boy rock'n'roll look as original as hip-hop. isn't that right GSTQ.

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Oh come on. Australia's only a pretend island. It's a fcuken continent. You don't throw shakas on a continent.

godsave, learning airs is for when you are under 18 and surfing every day. Manage an accidental half-one if you must! You know, the way people convince themselves they got a barrel! but for fcuk's sake don't actually pursue it.

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by el rancho » Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:08 am

Continental Shakas are a definite no-no

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by The Mighty Sunbird » Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:58 am

Tasmanian shakas?
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by swvic » Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:18 am

Middle Island shakas must be ok. There's little penguins and Maremmas

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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by crabmeat thompson » Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:29 am

everyone on bribie island is throwing shakas left, right and centre. and rightly so ...
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Re: Ask Carroll

Post by Drailed » Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:11 am

Swedish surfers throwing shakas is a absolute f@ck!ng no no.
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Re: Ask Carroll

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