Kendall, I’m with you. I think we should get a pot going to send an official Swaylocks liaison out to New Zealand. 
-Carl
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Forget building the board…
Quote:I wonder what motivates you to say that ?
Quote:I think there’s only one shaper qualified to make those at the moment
Thanks for the compliment, it’s not true though, the boards are easy to make, if a little time consuming, and there are many Swaylockians who could do a better job of it in terms of woodworking than I can.
Quote:How about a field trip to Roy’s neck of the woods instead. Then we can see for ourselves how phenominal these boards are… clear up this matter once and for all.
We will not be ‘cleared up once and for all’, building and riding boards is an ongoing organic process, . . . . . nevertheless you are welcome
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let me throw a spanner in the works: i’m less interested in speed than i am in joy. is there a device out there that measures happiness?
i don’t want to be the fastest surfer, i just want to be awestruck, alive, inspired, appreciative, grateful.
at the end of the day, it’s only surfing.
Molasses is a good laxative, and should move the obstruction, but for the best results quit swallowing spanners
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id be interested in contributing info do a to 12 pound compsand olo
A 12 pound olo will paddle well but won’t ride very well, can’t you wind it up to around 36 pounds or more ?
A light olo will be gutless and will have F all momentum, poor penetration, will be slow, and will flap all over the place when hitting chop and offshores , the olo boards of the ancients were not heavy simply because they hadn’t invented EPS, they were heavy because they worked better that way
Depends what you mean by olo though, I’m assuming that you are talking about 16 feet plus.
I am taking the 17 out with the GPS tomorrow morning, we have a small swell, interested to see what the log can do speed wise in tiny surf.
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i dunno
theres no precedent because it hasnt been tried!
it could be made as stiff or flexy as you like
i was thinking maybe 12 to 14 ft
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Here’s the GECKOHEAD
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I’ll wear one of these to my next job interview .
[thanks for the fashion tip , Roy !]
cheers
ben
…this shot is definately in the running for the funniest photos on sways for a while award winner …
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Hey Spuut and Roy, to Roy, I think that guy who said you looked like an ass murderer meant axe, I hope so. Roy this is a fascinating topic and you are definately holding your own. I would like to ask you this, all measurements aside, do you think and seing that you are only talking about top speed for a moment, that your top speed is faster than , say Mick Fanning’s top speed coming of the bottom, say 5 or 6 ft Kirra, or a wave there abouts, maybe one of his lip runs, just a moment in time , like the ones you measured. Do you think yours would be faster than his, because there will be times when he will be going straight as well. The same question could have any of the top guys substituted for Mick, I just chose him, cheers H.
John,
thats what i was trying to determine when i asked Tom/Roy about it. i think modern pro surfers will have faster moments than olos on thier thrusters too… im sure the rate of acceleration on the modern pro’s shortboard is much higher too!
I am honestly not trying to write Roy off. I mean who knows, he might be going faster. I would like to know if he thinks he is, because I know those guys would have to be attaining some pretty high speeds, in moments of time. H.
you would think with all the moolah in pro surfing they would have figured it out by now
Hi John, I don’t know, I suspect that those boys are moving pretty quickly at Kirra, would be nice to find out, not much use guessing though…
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Roy,you wanna talk speed??
The only sea going vehicle faster than a windsurfer!!! A new benchmark for you? LOL!
Seriously though, I think you will dig their keel design…
Hey roy, see it doesn’t take much to get evidence to support your self. I would love to actually expierence those speeds(just hope I don’t fall)
I already have evidence, that’s what the gps readings are .
Went out yesterday, played around in a waist high shorebreak closeout, got 23.4 kmh.
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Hi Brett,
A bigger wave offers more speed potential (all else being equal) than a smaller wave, but that doesn’t mean that it’s always possible to go faster on a bigger wave, as there are lots of other factors involved
A feeling of speed is quite deceptive, like yesterday I felt that I was getting the most out of the conditions ( a couple of seconds of clean face before it closed out) and was hoping to have done over 30kph. . . I FELT like I was going fast, and probably was relative to the wave, it’s like a scale model or something, a feeling of big drama and lots of speed on a crashing (even got a brief tube) closeout but really only 23kph.
Other times on a bigger wave I have felt like I’m just cruising and have been surprised to be geting over 50kph. . . . … I think everyone has experienced the feeling in the tube or racing down the line on a perfect wave when it feels as though one isn’t moving (like a time warp) . . . . . the point is that eyeballing it isn’t reliable. . . . it even happens with videos, sometimes I can look at a section in a video and think it’s fast, other times I look at the same clip and it seems impossibly slow, I can’t explain this but we are organic beings so it can be expected I suppose,that’s why the gps is so useful.
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Roy, thats the best explanation ever from you.
Thanks Roy.
Regards, Spuuut.