What is a high performance surfboard today ?

General Discussion
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most competent surfers

IMO? showing off … to the line up

easier to achieve …airs?

fit experienced surfers

sub 6’performance

 

cant walk… do an air in a closeout

squeek out a doggie door after a pig dog

hold your arms in the air, just before you jump

off…   the crowd sitting on the beach goes wild 

clapping ,only after putting down a beverage,

unless they were distracted by a passing bikini

or international star being interviewed on 

work release.open the cover of the gazine

thats where the performance is

…on the inside cover.simon says…

touch your nose.

…ambrose…

we strut but our hour on the stage

and then we are gone.where do I mail

the rats ass for egocentric surfing ?

I have an extra rats ass.

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OMG! Pizza is the new performance enhancer.

That faller is amazing! Tearing the shit out of Padang stylishly graceful .

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@ amrose

what? just because we cant do the new school stuff doesnt mean the boards those kids ride arent fun for everyone. i said that everyone can surf the boards, not surf the same way. I think that was a response to the intent of your prose

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old school new school

good old golden rule days.

the schools of fingerlings

turn thirty their waist lines

turn to waste lines IOW

another ride is a miriad of 

realized and wasted options

of how a wave could have

been ridden.

 

The point ,or as you wish the intent

of my prosthetic reverie as prose

is to attempt to draw a line betixt

the goal of turning surfing

into a performance art form

and diluting it’s primary identity as

an experiential zen meditation.

the whoring of this Psuedo Spiritual

Pastime morphing into a cash cow

put on a pedestal to worship like a 

golden calf is well hard to swallow,

unless of course you are on the 

payroll.

Purity of intent /olympic ideals

and the like are what truly drives

the evolving effective alternative

wave riding evolution.Performance

has its place,build a stage and wait

to see just who wants to stand there.

Are these thespian mores what determine

the limits of credibility? Just as actors are the

yard stick by which we are all measured

should ‘Performers’ decipher what we ride?

I think not.Making a wave riding tool and then making it go

That is the stuff.

mimic is for neophytes and yearlings

to lean from all diciplines

is to truly validate life long surfing.

 

…ambrose…

‘One day I will learn to surf’ she said.

I said no, it will take you 50 years

to learn surf.