Sweet clip I think most of you all will enjoy
http://www.grindtv.com/player.swf?i=20419
enjoy!
Sweet video. Man, talk about “dancing the wave”.
I’m In the starting stages of building a little fish, and watchin that video makes me with my board was already done.
Kelly Slater.
Phenom.
Freak.
The Natural.
Was he riding a fish or just a little twin? Does he always ‘burn’ other surfers? Mike
Thanks for posting that! Really an awesome clip doing so much with so small a wave.
…if I just had that board… I could do that too!! HA!!
wuz thinking same: high-profile fins and pulled nose… looks more like a 80s twinfin. enjoyed the footage tho. i guess when y’re 8X world champ you can burn peeps… those guys prolly went home happy “Hey babe, guess who cut me off today!”
Isn’t the last guy riding the winner in Malibu? That’s one hell of a tight cutback on a twin fin.
The first fish KS rode was one of mine that I built for my Brother Ray.This was like in 97’(? something like that),at San-O. My bro and others said KS periled the first two waves.He didn’t give up though,he kept on it till he could ride it somewhat.Kelly was awed at the way Ray could rip-up small Old Man’s on the fish.Herb
He’s riding a Merrick twin fin MTF more oin the style of MR than LIS it has a really pulled in tail.
here is a link to see the board. there is the option of a tiny trailer fin thats why there is a third fin box.
Sweet video.
Twin fin I think as well. I know KS to be a huge power surfer but I can’t imagine anyone pivoting huge keels like he was doing…but then again he IS a freak. half human/ half aquatic creature.
-Rio
…Slater made the full out of this crappy wave…
very difficult to obtain speed in that condition…
also, I see a lot of kooks and bad surfers in this video
Technicially yes,and no.
MR said that he got the idea for his boards from The T&C twinnies eg. Larry Bertleman Model/Randall Kim Model.
Bertleman revamped the fish to suit his surfing and the type of waves he rode on a regular basis.
Someone asked here awhile ago,“How come the fish faded out in the 70s”.,…I answered, “For the same reasons they will fade out again”.
Welcome to the Revolution !
Herb
He’s shredding no doubt!
thats definatly the kind of thing you can do on supertwins and mtf and twinfinners etc. they absoutly fly once you get a little face to play with.
I just got mine back from the ding repairers to fix a nose ding and 6 surfs later (3 days) I get a massive rail dent from were the board got ripped out of my hands through a duckdive and smacked me in the head.
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Someone asked here awhile ago,“How come the fish faded out in the 70s”.,…I answered, “For the same reasons they will fade out again”.
You think so? I dunno, speakin for myself, I am actually a longboarder and self-admitting “weekend warrior” my skills on a thruster and in our small waves don’t get me far I am very stoked with my homemade “big Fish”, it allows me to do more than my mal does and yet is easy enough for a weekend kook like myself to master. If I look around me, most of my buddies are in a similar situation, sure when we go on vacation to far away hollow places the thruster becomes viable, but for here in our mush? Nah… parallel keels, long rail lines with a chine and flat tail keeps us going on small mush. I keep em big too, 6’2" to 6’6" at about 2.5 thick to 3 inch on the big one, and noses at 18-19 inch, mids to 22.5 and tails around 17… this is magic in shlop, especially for a big guy like me (100kg’s). Over here, the big fish is gonna stay a while, in bad surf with mediocre surfers having a fantastic time! My next one’s will play with fin setups, being influenced by all you guys with funky quads and SC’s and Chipfish-multi-fin-prawn-bushfire thingies… etc… I am looking forward to that…
As for K-man? in my humble opinion, this man is so talented, he could surf circles around all of us on a garbage can lid…
"As for K-man? in my humble opinion, this man is so talented, he could surf circles around all of us on a garbage can lid… "
I watched him paddle out on a rental long board once, on the first stomach high peeler he went to the nose for a nice cheater five that ended in a fin spin 360 on the close out section, second wave, long nose ride with toes almost over, third, backhand nose ride to fin spin. The rest of the session was full of sweeping cutbacks, deck walking, nose rides, spins…yep, he can ride a wave with anything.
It’s already fading out…it doesn’t mean some of us will give up on them…Magicman didn’t…
I didn’t…and you see where that got us…didn’t you ?
Herb
Just like you said, Slater could surf on a door, and rip on it. A good surfer is a good surfer on whatever he or she rides. It’s not the board guys, it’s the rider. Get a good surfer on a good board, and you make a great surfer. Get a poor surfer on a great board, you still get a stink bug. That vid was incredible, that guy really knows how to weight and unweight, and completely finish a turn, it’s almost like he was the best surfer in the world or something.
Slater could do the samething with a 5’10 Thruster in those conditions. The fish will fade away like Herb said. I’ll be sad, I’ll be sad because I’ll have to share more waves with the fishes crew that went back to their longboards.
I wish everybody surfed fishes! Start the campaign today!!! SAVE THE FISH!!
-Resinhead
Thanks! That’s great stuff. Running in the upper left corner of my screen rught nownm, thansjk ahhaoin. SO i’m not syure if I like this old hull stufff better or watcjing twitchy-butt rip around kooks
Good eclectisoteric music jams to go along with those clips too.