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[ 3]"Slow rides last longer, you enjoy being in the wave more time. [/] It’s like good sex
The more it lasts, the best it gets.
Enjoy surf as you enjoy life…slowwwly "
JStephen
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Hi Paul,
Still on the same speed subject I see!
That’s a nice quote, but actually it doesn’t follow that a slow surfing ride is going to last longer than a fast one. Very sorry to have to point this out to you and J !
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the length of ride, (in time) is independent of the speed at which the surfer travels (except that if you go too slowly you will lose the wave) There’s no way that going faster shortens your ride! In fact going faster will often make the ride last longer.
But don’t let me spoil your fun, each to their own. Go ahead and have another slow one.
All the very best of British to you
Emma
I wonder if the flip side of that holds true …if I have a really small weener , I’ll compensate by riding a really BIG board with a TOO BIG fin , so then I can feel better about myself ??
just a thought for the NEW week ahead
ben
Chip,
We’ll see who gets the last laugh when the “board of board” quiver is sold for $31,500.00 I am not sure what price I will ask for my entry.
BTW, my board will be very short with thin veneer and a micro fin. I can only hope this burden of over compensating will not affect my soon to be determined askig price.
cp
it ain’t going to happen…
Hi Paul,
Still on the same speed subject I see!
That’s a nice quote, but actually it doesn’t follow that a slow surfing ride is going to last longer than a fast one. Very sorry to have to point this out to you and J !
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the length of ride, (in time) is independent of the speed at which the surfer travels (except that if you go too slowly you will lose the wave) There’s no way that going faster shortens your ride! In fact going faster will often make the ride last longer.
But don’t let me spoil your fun, each to their own. Go ahead and have another slow one.
All the very best of British to you
Emma Main Entry: obsessive-compulsive
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Great, thanks Ben, I feel so much better now that I’m adding a 8’10" to my quiver…
Just need a really big fin…
cheers
Hicksy
How big?
Sent a 10.75 to Brian.
Standard box can only handle up to 11, then go fore/aft.
Hit up old windsurf shops in your area.
Hello Lee,
Here’s some video footage of waves where going slow would be a short lived option:
(please excuse the panning, it was raining and I had two people holding a sweater over my head which made it like taking a video from inside a scrum!
These waves are 15 feet (Imperial ruler)
www.woodensurfboardbuilder.com/AAA2
This one goes to our ‘Sandmine’ beach camp and shows what went down a few days before the big swell.
Sorry, my computer doesn’t allow for downloading of vids. I’m still living in the past.
But speed is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overated.
I’ve ridden Wiamea once, Pinballs 3 times prior, Pipe countless (over 70days), Sunset easily double that, and OBSF BIG as often as anyone alive.
The wave gives you speed, the surfboard is along for control.
A fast board just loses control in big fast waves, so it’s useless.
Now tiny fast waves could be another thing, but that’s not my area of expertise. When it’s small, I have no trouble making waves any surfer can make, so whatever boards I have are fast enough. Most waves, I like to hit the lip a few times, and control gets me there, speed just takes me out to the shoulder, to wait for the wave!
Mr Lokbox -
Please refrain from personal attacks. Not sure that this is appropriate forum for psychiatric assessments.
Thanks!
DIFFERENT STOKES 4 DIFFERENT FOLKS!!!
Seriously! Some guys like going slow whilst others like speed, heck some even like riding big boards with big fins 4 purposes nothing to do with speed…
GOOD SEX???
ISN’T THAT A REDUNDANT PHRASE?
some unimaginative [or unsatisfied] “ladies” out there might say it’s an ‘oxymoron’ …for us GUYS , sex is ALWAYS good !
I tried explaining that to a work office cafeteria full of women once …nearly got myself emasculated [look it up]
ben
i dunno, man…there is definitely such a thing as bad sex. just picture throwing a paper airplane into the hangar for a Boeing 747…and it’s a really beat up, broken down, nasty-ass hangar…yeah.
A piece of advice from a guy who’s been with the same women for 25 years and work around women all the time. Never try to explain anything about guys to women. They only want you to reinforce what they would like to believe about us. No wander chicks hate you. Grow up. Whatever that means. Mike
oh dear …and that’s the last thing I read as I’m about to go to bed ?
"oh dear oh dear
glaaamin glaaaamin … with the exploding fuselage ,and the cockpit, and the ailerons, and struts , going out of control ! …glaaamin glaaamin … "
Hello Lee,
Here’s some video footage of waves where going slow would be a short lived option:
(please excuse the panning, it was raining and I had two people holding a sweater over my head which made it like taking a video from inside a scrum!
These waves are 15 feet (Imperial ruler)
www.woodensurfboardbuilder.com/AAA2
This one goes to our ‘Sandmine’ beach camp and shows what went down a few days before the big swell.
OK, so you have footage of large closed-out waves. So where is the footage of you and Roy riding THAT surf and proving the alleged merits of your (collective) craft? I see pictures of Roy riding tiny surf in your photo montage, but nothing of him in the bigger speedier surf, proving the claims.
I can understand the feeling of isolation to the majority of the surfing world. I envy the surfing/camping lifestyle that endures the jpegs. I don’t fully embrace the antagonism that shadows the craftsman and alter ego. What’s with all the heal biting?
No big deal, just something for you to check out. Getting out the back wasn’t possible. The swell jacked so fast. The day before it was small, and then it got really big and washed the sandbank away. It was mindsurfing only. In the mind, maybe the waves were makeable. In reality, who knows? Maybe next time.
About the thread subject . . . I won’t comment on sex, but being a stick in the mud logical type I was just pointing out that Paul and J were incorrect in saying that surfing slowly makes a ride last longer. It just isn’t true.
Have fun
Emma Stewart.