First session out on a beautiful second hand Pavel this morning. Low tide. Rocks. Kickout. Board got away from me and crunched the nose.
Really bummed me out.
Dings make me feel alive! Like I pushed my abilities and took a chance.
Or really pissed because some kook took off on me and bumped my rail because the dork didn’t know not to take off on the shoulder or didn’t know how to turn and get out of the way! I depends on how I got it.
My go to, all round bread n butter board is the worst ding magnet i've ever seen. I could ding that thing in a pillow factory!!!!
Im sure im paying for the ding guys christmas party this year haha, gunna be a big one the way my board is going hehe.
Hey D.!
[quote="$1"] First session out on a beautiful second hand Pavel this morning. Low tide. Rocks. [/quote]
Add "no leash" to the equation, and you have a recipe for dings!
hahaha
Could be worse...
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Dings make me feel alive! Like I pushed my abilities and took a chance.
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I've seen you surf. You do that every time you go out! I think you just like ding repairs cuz it gives you a chance to miss Survivor LOL!
Nah, survivor isn’t all bad. Skinny girls in bikinis and all… It’s the Bachelor that chases me into the shaping room every time!
I'm a backyarder...I made business cards that say "Stingray Surfboard Repair"......
Dings don't make me happy ......The money you give me to fix your dings makes me very happy! :)
They don’t bother me much unless it’s a nice new board.
I know of a guy who was known to purposefully send his new boards in to the rocks to ‘break them in’ and not worry about dings.
Another friend suffered multiple hideous dings right off the bat on his new board. I mean BAD dings… ripped outfin box, MASSIVE rail gouge, etc. He went all paranoid/psycho and swore the board was “cursed.”
I saw a funny one just a couple of days ago. Some middle aged woman was at my local spot, trying to surf. I say “trying” because it was less than knee high, high tide, and onshore. IOW, completely unridable. Her car was right next to mine. A big SUV. As she tried to put her board on the roof I noticed there was not one square inch of wax on her brand new generic longboard. She then failed to get it onto both racks, and it slipped tail first onto the rocky parking lot. BIG CRUNCH!! Tail was all mashed in.
Well, at least she didn’t have to worry about drying it out or removing any wax before fixing it!
How do dings make me feel??? Whoa. Wait a minute. Your not my wife are you? Honey, is that you? Mike
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How do dings make me feel??? Whoa. Wait a minute. Your not my wife are you? Honey, is that you? Mike
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Just sit down on the couch over there, and relax. Now we'll try this once more. Lets talk about feelings. Dings, for instance - how do they make you feel?
They make me feel bad… especially when I do it to somebody else’s board.
I borrowed a brand new Robert August 9’2 from my brother-in-law… never ridden. The wind was good, so he decided to kite. I unstrapped the board from the roof, and got distracted… I turned to help my sister get some stuff out of the back of her truck, and the board blew off the roof. I felt so sick to my stomach I almost threw up. The nose rail was all bashed in and a small ding on the tail. The worst part was telling my brother-in-law.
A couple weeks later, I showed up with a brand new 9’2 I built for him… triple stringer, tail block, gloss and polish… and said, sorry… here you go… and offered a trade. He wouldn’t take it!
I felt sick all over again.
Made a board, triple stringer for a buddy. First go out and it’s heavy shore pound, had to time the paddle out. He gets his legs wrapped up in kelp and tries to extract himself and WHAM! A wave comes and snaps the first six inches of the nose leaving the top lam connected. His nose is hanging off and I tell him to just tear it off and try anyway. We had duct tape what was there to lose at that point? He says no so I made him pay pennance and he had to watch me surf for about an hour. After that it was back to square one.
I’m with the Rooster on this one!!! Good topic for Oprah Show!
rogelio
Puzzled. Ever since getting on the coil train I havn’t gotten one on them. I even had a board wash into a jetty. But other than that on my PU’s usually pretty pissed, because it is almost never in the water, always on land putting them away or taking them out.
Howzit noleash, Dings make me feel like I need to fix them before I use the board again. Aloha,Kokua
I have multiple emotions about dings. When I am in San Jose at "Old Mans" trying to teach my Daughter to surf on my favorite board at the time an OLE "Bumble Bee" and tandem paddle us over a bunch of mussel and barnacle encrusted rocks, resulting in a massive bottom gash, way thru the foam: I feel pretty damned bad. But otherwise say nothing much and pretend it's "no big deal".. I tell her: " That's what I do, fix dings".
I hate fixing dings, on other people’s board, for me it is a failure, and a waste of time. Surf wax, sand, salt water, leashes, fins all get in the way or mess up something down the line. In the time it takes to fix a ding I can shape a new board. And then people seem to always expect the board to look as new. It is a set up. And then good luck getting paid what it is worth or anything at all. For those who have figured a way to do it successfully my hats off to you! The worst is when somebody fills the ding with wax, or leaves duct tape on for so long the only thing left is adhesive and a couple frayed threads.
I gave up doing ding repairs for other people. Too much of a hassle, and never paid enough for the time and effort.
Doc (where’s he been?) always had a policy of charging extra for dings that had duct tape or wax applied to them. Makes sense to me.
dings in other peoples glass jobs
make me feel diffrent
than dings in boards
I have glassed myself.
the ones I have glassed
I feel
complacent,like not in a rush
some I have left unpatched
for years.The boards survive just fine…
contemporary production glass jobs
I feel deeply concerned cause their
days are numbered ,these dings ignored
lead to rapid demise broken in half ,
water soaking into delam spaces
general neglect of just enough
glassing is a recipe for replacment.
dings fill me with remorse for soon
to be lost wonderful boards ,
and pride of workmanship
for strong glass jobs.
…ambrose…