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Surfing is the hardest thing you will ever attempt and should you suceed, it will ruin your life.
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Shaping is taking all the ideas from surfing and just making it harder and should you suceed, you will have craft to ride for all your days.
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Making fins is taking all the ideas from surfing and from shaping and making it harder and should you suceed, you will write about how you should not make fins.
I thought all threads were devoted to generalisms!!
Swaylocks.com is a strange message board filled with a cast of eccentric, underground surfboard builders who post long angry rants about the state of surfing but will also nurture a newbie's first foray into surfboard shaping.
Once you have facial hair you can no longer be categorized as a grom
The modern shortboard is a hoax. It is the biggest distraction to surfing that we’ve experienced in 20 years, It’s a dysfunctional object ... It doesn’t want to bottom turn, it doesn’t want to turn in general.
A fish is a fish but when it has the rails and rocker of a modern thruster it is no longer a fish. It no longer surfs like a fish.
webbed gloves are socially acceptible if it's over 10ft
defensive longboarders that show up on forums are mostly relative newbies to surfing who are just frustrated with their lack of abilities...with $800 and a lesson at the local "Surf School" even BoBo the chimp could be up and riding on a longboard in less than an hour
I think...therefore I am....
......I think?.....
Surfblanks yellow + Sglass/epoxy resin = winning combination
per chippy
think it…
build it…
ride it…
report back here…
repeat often
Generalizations are all alike.
I generally don't believe in generalizations in general.
- Chinese boards are crap....
- So are anything not made in my country...
EXCEPT:
Quicksilver, billabong, Ripcurl, Hotbuttered, Peak, JS, JC hawaii, Bic, G&S, ETC....
My toaster, car parts, tools, computer, food, utencils, medicine, cosmedics, ETC....
lol....