Hi Manowar,
this thread is one of the best (together with Ben’s matsurfing thread)!!! A picture says more then a thousand words, so keep them coming!
Some time ago i bought one of the wakeboarding PDF’s too, to keep me alive when paipo boarding.
greetings!
You and I need to start a support group.
hahahahahahah YES good idea:
the PFD - Users Anonymous 
we can use the motto “it’s ok not to drown” or something woooohahahaa
I’d like to take a moment to congratulate Scott for his 3rd in the Grandmasters Division of the 2007 Kneeboarding Surfing World Championships. It was clear to me when I arrived in Santa Cruz during my first session (see initial pics in this thread) that Scott was surfing with more purpose. The turns were a bit faster, linked a bit smoother, and the speed he generated was used to get a bit more radical in all of the usual spots. Of course this carried over into the Event and was fun to see. Over 5 days there are ups/downs but to stay alive is quite exciting. He used his local knowledge well to overcome some heats with poor or inconsistent surf and ended up with a very respectable finish. Way to go Scott! During one of his heats his bro ManOWar called me and I gave him a brief play-by-play which was exciting. Unfortunately for Scott, I was made to promise that if he advanced from that heat I had to “sock him hard in the arm from his brother”. I think Scott understood because he later shared half of his sandwich with me that really hit the spot. Maybe I didn’t hit him hard enough…
Hey Ben! I’ll tell you about my kneeboard. I’m only 5’10" and about 142 pounds. Mine is a Flashpoint that I got last June. It’s 5’9" x 22 3/4 double-flyer swallow tri-fin. Thickness 2 5/8 but it flows nicely to the rails and is very easy to duckdive but floats me well. Tail (at 19" up) is 18" and nose is about 16 1/2 I think. The bottom has spiral V that Bruce Hart seems to have mastered. The board is surfed off the rail for the most part, especially with center fin in forward position. It directs to the top on a dime and makes hitting the lip or doing big reentrys very easy. Overall the board is very fast and tube rides like a dream. It’s for waves up to 8’ faces, but I’ve ridden it in bigger waves with the center fin back, which makes a difference and draws out the turning radius to give more projection during and out of the turn. I love it. Hope this helps!! Brad
…thanks very much for that info , Brad !
can i have a photo or two , showing the fin/s setup , too , please ?
cheers mate !
ben
…? any more photos , please ??
cheers !
ben
Withdrawals, Ben? I’m trembling and waiting for the new ones too.
What hath Dale wrought? Some of Days 3-4.
Run on his carbon fish
then back to basics
Soul on ice
Dudley begins a journey of a 1000 miles
John Mellor on a nice one
defiant with his full mat & uncut UDT’s
Scott’s blistering 1-2
Thank you, Dale, for this board
Steve a grizzled veteran - “damn”
with JD Bailiff and El Nino
where it began and ended
El Nino bears a striking resemblance to a young David Hasselhoff in that candid of you three. Congrats on a job well done Mark.
and I bear a striking resemblance to an old Dennis the Menace, so all the credit goes to his mother.
the house that hosted the dale incl. ladder to roof
joel’s only office
coolest room in the house - run slept here
coldest room in the house - no heat whatsoever but steve sacked up
black spoon, carbon-eps fish, dale mat, and wilderness single fin
living room
carl’s edgeboard, jamie’s green spoon
the essentials
backyard with firepit fed by neighborhood construction materials
view from the roof down the block to Pleasure Point
at the end of the street make a right and a fast left
to the end
and today you’ve got a minus tide and onshores
john mel the legend
fluid…
but he wrenched a knee on one of these turns
and missed the firepit session that evening
run and his quad fish spoon, a confident call in small surf
getting everything
out of every bump
distant past meets distant future
myself i was too chilled to go out
just sat and reflected soberly upon…
another day
a certain encounter
that put two cracks in the rails by my ankles
before i gave it to tony from down under
who had it patched and signed by his mates
at the world kneelo contest
sacrilege or stoke? your call
“sacrilege or stoke?”
Beautiful board… sorry it broke.
TOTAL stoke to have turned it over to a fellow KBer and for him to have it with all the signatures as a momento of his trip to U.S.
Well done!