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#350 Re: One for the surfers
April 03, 2008, 10:24:02 pm
Dunno! few people round this way are on it, I am keen to train and get good for the severn bore around Sept! Tim Mellors is showing of at the mo, and Salidita some guy from Montauk was on it, this place is good to go as the outer reefs are to eppie to Long board, the goat boater did ok!

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#351 Re: One for the surfers
April 03, 2008, 10:25:41 pm
But I am captin Kook!

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#352 Re: One for the surfers
April 03, 2008, 10:38:04 pm
Read Hunter S Thompons' CURSE OF LONO

A rare but re-issued (and not so rare, but pricy & worth it) A2 format book w/ Ralph Steadman full colour illustrations.  The madness of the text loosly follows the last journey of Cook and has some interesting parallels w/ Thompson and Steadmans' coverage of the Honolulu marathon.
« Last Edit: April 03, 2008, 10:44:16 pm by Houdini, Reason: Fotze. »

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#353 Re: One for the surfers
April 03, 2008, 11:17:09 pm
Will do!

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#354 Re: One for the surfers
April 09, 2008, 06:11:48 pm
You chaps no much about surf in soloman islands or possibly east timor?? found a few bits and bobs on line. potential for work on three month basis.would be keen to surf as well!

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#355 Re: One for the surfers
April 09, 2008, 07:32:32 pm
Soloman islands are pretty knarly 'out back' from my experience. I'd take your foamy back to Sennin if I were you Ben.  ;)

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#356 Re: One for the surfers
April 10, 2008, 05:19:28 pm
HA HA HA Barrack. we'll call it quits then. Climb next week.? Actualy soloman islands do look pretty gnarly.. political unrest etc. Could be a bit of an adventure. 

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#357 Re: One for the surfers
April 10, 2008, 07:59:15 pm
HA HA HA Barrack. we'll call it quits then. Climb next week.? Actualy soloman islands do look pretty gnarly.. political unrest etc. Could be a bit of an adventure. 

Ben,

do some work you loafing fool.



I'm not jealous





no




really





DoH!

BTW, you got that Patriot off yr old man yet?? You got some trails to do dude  ;)

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#358 Re: One for the surfers
April 12, 2008, 01:17:45 pm
Ha ha.... I will pay the price for this loafing for sure! fun at the mo tho! Yep ill bring the bike up.. you should see me on a downhill trail tho. Complete lack of control. not my strongest discipline for sure... generally end up twisting/tweaking something every session. and been a few years since ive been out. 

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#359 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 07:06:21 pm

this is just to good not to share.

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#360 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 07:15:02 pm
Thats got to be Pipeline??? 2nd reef?

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#361 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 07:18:33 pm
must be 2nd reef!

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#362 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 07:25:13 pm
I would love to watch the pipe masters, its the closest I will ever get to being on it!!! do not think many Brits charge it!

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#363 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 07:29:44 pm
i'd pay alot of money just to hear a pipeline or mavericks or jaws bomb going off.
the moment the lip hits the water below must be worth hearing live.

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#364 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 07:40:52 pm
i'd pay alot of money just to hear a pipeline or mavericks or jaws bomb going off.
the moment the lip hits the water below must be worth hearing live.

Almost this time last year, i was in the Santa Cruz area, so thought id go and find Mavericks. Not that hard if you do a search on google! Got there and it was pretty flat. I was gutted. I kind of expected pounding 40 footers.... Nice place though and even when flat has a spooky feeling about the place!

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#365 Re: One for the surfers
April 14, 2008, 10:23:34 pm
I'd pay alto of money just to hear a pipeline or mavericks or jaws bomb going off.
the moment the lip hits the water below must be worth hearing live.

You know, Its absolutely fantastic audio stimulation, combined with adrenaline and fear when that metallic clattering impact of the lip is detonating towards you. A five foot wave makes this, Imagine the double figure ones???

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#366 Re: One for the surfers
April 15, 2008, 08:36:16 am
Biggest waves I have seen were at Victoria Bay near George in SA. Usually a great point break, but was closing out right across the bay and pounding. Walked out to the point to get close (torrential rain) and one wave hit the sea wall (2 ft wide stone and concrete) which promptly collapsed. Amazing to see.



Vic Bay on a mellow day. By parents have just moved to 10 mins away.

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#367 Re: One for the surfers
April 15, 2008, 12:31:43 pm
Biggest I have seen was in the Hurricane swell, Sept, 2006, (Gold Rush #1).
Zorbas outside, perfect A frame. Pumping with the offshore howling.... no one rode it that day, and the sth wst big wave crew where all out!!!

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#368 Re: One for the surfers
April 20, 2008, 05:29:47 pm
New board, 10.o Gordon + Smith Californian tri stringer, 50 50 rails, bit heavy...

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#370 Re: One for the surfers
April 23, 2008, 03:22:38 pm
When I click on the link my e-mail browser opens... ???

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#371 Re: One for the surfers
April 23, 2008, 04:00:44 pm
I have no idea how i did that, or if that was even possible?



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#372 Re: One for the surfers
April 24, 2008, 09:15:00 am
Ah.. I saw that had been published and will get around to reading it.  I just hope the author has done a proper job and explored some of Dora's clearly unpleasant character flaws as well as his talent.  He's an interesting character....

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#373 Re: One for the surfers
April 24, 2008, 12:55:40 pm
Thought I'd talk about surfing in the right place for a change.

Llantwitt local Nate Phillips has been known to charge Pipe and others spots in Hawaii..

Can anyone confirm or deny that Llantwit Major is like a crap mirror version of Lynmouth?  Heard it was classic on it's day been there when swell was too small and the set up didn't look as good as Lyndaka or were my eyes decieving me.  All my relatives are in South Wales so always take my board just in case, normally go to the Gower though.

Got up at six today, to take advantage of swell and southerly winds at ....... you'll never guess where...... Lynmouth.  Solid 3 to 4 ft and peachy clean 2 others in, wind switched west and ruined it by nine.  Who needs exotic locations when you can get perfection and quiet waves for 2 hours before work?  (OK so I had to wait several weeks!)
A chap arrived at nine, he didn't need to ask, just saw the smile on my face and drew his own conclusion.  He drove away cursing about not getting up early enough! The early bird catches the worm. :great:

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#374 Re: One for the surfers
April 24, 2008, 01:29:54 pm
When I used to work in S Wales I stopped in at Ogmore and Llan Major once or twice to check them out, but never saw them really working that well. Enough to inspire me to get in, put it that way. Not seen it in a decent swell so can't confirm quality, but you would suppose it would be a bit better known if it was as good. Got Rest Bay on a nice swell once or twice, but usually ended up at Llangenith or occasionally at Caswell if it was big (quite busy when it is) or Horton in huge storm swell (westerly is Offshore there).

I'm lucky enough to work 20 min walk from the  beach and work flexi hours, so can often get dawnies in, and catch Sunrise on the East Coast. Just a pity it's Aberdeen.

Regarding our earlier goofy / reg discussion, my girlfirend is the only goof I know who likes to ride backhand. Guess it's from too many years of snowboarding. Works for me though, as it means we both prefer rights!

 

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