Oh McDing, you just say that about my contributions to make me feel good, thanks… Well, I was just feeling a little reflective yesterday and I really love this forum so I just had to get that off my chest… laughed a lot with both of your replies tkelly and Mcding, lose/lose jejeje very funny, happens to me everytime I make the mistake of disagreeing with my wife jejeje.
artz, didn’t know Channel Islands was going to be sold. What’s the price, maybe if I win the powerball loto next year… Well, Right now they got Dane Reynolds and Yadin Nicol who I guess are the new generation rippers plus Tom Curren, Rob Machado, Taylor Knox who are all well known and appear constantly in ads and in magazines. I believe people will always want to buy their boards, who knows I might try one someday but for the price, I would rather spend a little more and get a custom from Barnfield, Junod or Pavel… Or if I had the time, get some blanks and make a lot of not so good boards myself. What I really like about CI is that they have a very user friendly classification of their shapes and they give you an idea of how much volume one needs and how it can be distributed in the different dimensions of their various models/shapes. Seems like they got people asigned to answer all the surfboard dimensions related questions in their blog too.
Yes, I have lost some weight and can feel it in my surfing, just got a used Kane Garden quad high performance fish and it’s 5’9". Still getting the hang of it as I have only surfed it once but I can catch waves easily on it. How did I do it? First, I quit drinking beer for like 2 months(August and Sept) and instantly lost like 8 lbs (was drinking over 4 beers a day, no hard liquor but stout makes you fat). After that I have drank beer on three ocassions and only 1 or 2.
Second, I made a drastic change in my diet, I decided to stop eating like a 225 lbs fat fudge. Although I ate healthy foods, I began to control portions, eating intervals and what I eat at what time of the day (no food after 8 PM). When I wake I take some lemon and boiling water with a bit of honey (got this from a nutrition article by Kelly Slater) then I go excersice. After my workout or surf, I make myself a fruit and coconut milk shake and eat a boiled egg or whole wheat toast with all natural peanut butter. About 3 hrs later an example of lunch would be a big salad with fat free dressing (all natural ingredients) with 1/2 cup of rice and about 6 oz of fish. Fruit or another fruit shake or frappe for an afternoon snack (no coconut milk this time) and finally dinner. Could eat anything for dinner, for example, I just ate spaghetti with fresh basil, mozarella and groung lean beef, I just watch the quantity. If I know I won’t exercise the next morning I try to avoid big carbs for dinner. Night snack when I feel like it can be 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and some papaya. I think diet is #1 with a close second being cardio excersice.
Third, I decided to be a little irresponsible with work and more responsible with myself, every morning I take an hour to do some hardcore exercise, I can do it because I am self employed. If there’s waves, I surf for an hour at any uncrowded location that permits me to catch lots of waves paddling constantly back to the lineup to catch another one. If waves aren’t that good I grab my bodyboarding flippers and go for a 1 hr jog through a sandy coast close to the office, If while jogging I see a small barrel, I put on the flippers and bodysurf 2 or 3 waves and without stopping I get out of the water and keep running until the hour is over (good cross training). Sit ups and push ups every other day and meditatie for everyday 15-20min after I wake up befor sunrise (exercise for the spirit). I began my jogs at 20 min and as I lost weight I increased time and intensity because I felt like my body was asking for it.
Finally, I try to avoid stress and get at least 6 hrs of sleep. I am still about 24 lbs from my goal(170 lbs @ 10% fat), the last 10 lbs have been much slower than the first 20 or so but the idea is to just keep the discipline and results will come. Hope this helps Artz.
