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« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2008, 11:25:00 AM » |
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Leashes are great but there is no good reason to not act like you are leashless even when you are wearing your leash. You will become a much better surfer on many levels if you try (even though you will not always succeed) to end the ride with the board smoothly in your hands even when you wear a leash.
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« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2008, 11:35:16 AM » |
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Leashes are great but there is no good reason to not act like you are leashless even when you are wearing your leash. You will become a much better surfer on many levels if you try (even though you will not always succeed) to end the ride with the board smoothly in your hands even when you wear a leash.
Bingo! Mentioning that I surf leashless is not a suggestion. I wear a leash a most of the time when I shortboard but I try and surf as though I don't have one when I do. Sometimes I DO go for a somewhat optimistic last hack on a wave and lose it but you gotta take a chance once in a while. |
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« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2008, 11:36:29 AM » |
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I have a few pictures of practitioners boards going into the jettys.I'll have to remeber to make a special folder for them.
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« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2008, 11:38:28 AM » |
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AND I would say that where I surf, the number of leashless boards lost are FAR fewer than the number of boards I've seen ditched and shot right in front of me and all over the freaking place.
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« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2008, 11:42:57 AM » |
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I have a few pictures of practitioners boards going into the jettys.I'll have to remeber to make a special folder for them.
why don't you take pictures of people ditching their boards in the face of a 3 foot wave? shooting their boards at the end of a wave? So what? People lose their boards on occasion, leashes break when people depend on them every wave too. |
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« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2008, 11:43:55 AM » |
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Finishing the wave has always come natural to me.
When its over its over.
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« Reply #21 on: June 27, 2008, 11:52:02 AM » |
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if i cant kick up and over the wave I simply crouch down lay back down on the board. I do have a bad habit of just stepping off the board when i'm in close to shore, which is not a great practice. too easy to twist an ankle, cut your foot on a shell, or lose your board and have it hit someone.
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« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2008, 12:04:09 PM » |
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board ditching is a whole other thread! I definitely need to make an effort at finishing waves better, when i kick out over the wave half the time i still jump off next to the board, but for some reason it's never a problem when it's the last one to drop back to prone and belly ride it in...don't know what my problem is...fark i want to go out now and fix this! I have a few pictures of practitioners boards going into the jettys.I'll have to remeber to make a special folder for them.
why don't you take pictures of people ditching their boards in the face of a 3 foot wave? shooting their boards at the end of a wave? So what? People lose their boards on occasion, leashes break when people depend on them every wave too. |
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« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2008, 12:06:17 PM » |
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FINISH!!!!!!!!! FARK....... this pisses me off. to many people blow waves. milk it for everything its got.....make it 5 to the beach! If I log it its leashes 100 percent of the time. if I have to wear a leash im shortboarding. I will ride my shortbaord leashless if its gutsless windchop or shorepound. but yea nothing feels better than doing a few turns pumping pumping pumping seeing a section in fornt of you and just going 100 percent at it. Im always trying to get as much out of the wave as possible.
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« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2008, 12:07:24 PM » |
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"Proning out" on a big day is fun. Dive on my board at the last minute and boom! the wave explodes behind me and I get shot to the beach in a big ball of foam.
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« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2008, 12:12:47 PM » |
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definitely on the small days... FINISH!!!!!!!!! FARK....... this pisses me off. to many people blow waves. milk it for everything its got.....make it 5 to the beach! If I log it its leashes 100 percent of the time. if I have to wear a leash im shortboarding. I will ride my shortbaord leashless if its gutsless windchop or shorepound. but yea nothing feels better than doing a few turns pumping pumping pumping seeing a section in fornt of you and just going 100 percent at it. Im always trying to get as much out of the wave as possible.
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« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2008, 12:22:26 PM » |
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Warning I lent my long board to Ameerah for the summer.I am no longer responsible for it's actions.
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« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2008, 12:23:36 PM » |
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Crackie and Loose Amnf Frocker got it!! Go for some big Hack Or a FLOATER!! Tou try like ten of them and make One You'll be SO Stoked!!
Don't be a zombie and fall off the back!!
And Wave Dancer. Make two Files.
1) Leashless guys swimming for their boards
2) Kooks falling off the back of their boards as the finish.
$50.oo the second one fills up quicker!!
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« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2008, 12:24:29 PM » |
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I rarely use a leash. Hate the damn things. Also, rarely lose my board. Finish with a turn, sixty of a kickout.
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« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2008, 12:27:51 PM » |
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cool seacliff about the leashless surfing. i've been surfing leashless for the last few weeks. (though not surfing too often in the small stuff, unfortunately) i had dropped the pace clock at my local pool on my ankle while trying to move it and have had one awful bruise on my backfoot so i haven't really had a choice. it was a little awkward at first, but i'm just now getting the hang of it. good advice by other people. hoping for more chances to continue to practice.
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