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Ever break your nose?....of your board that is

Postby surfernoob » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:15 am

ive started shortboarding and its been great. went surfing today and it was low tide, didn't realize how low, and when i duck dove under a small wave i coulda probably gone over the nose of my board hit the beach bottom. i knew nothing happened to my nose, but it just got me thinking how its possible people could break there nose that way, and probably many other ways. so i'm wondering if anyones ever broken the nose of their board and if so how?
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Postby NJKILLSYOU » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:20 am

my friend let one of his friends use one of his boards a few weeks back when we went out, he pearled it and i guess it hit the ground. it took off about an inch from the nose and delaminated the bottom of the board about 10 inches down.
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Postby isaluteyou » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:31 pm

miscalculated shooting the pier and hit it sqaure on - bye bye nose
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Postby pezzo » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:58 pm

surfed into a rock lol
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Postby Bewilderbeast » Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:37 am

Yep!

I've got a lovely nose shaped ding in the bottom of one of my boards for my pleasure too!

In hindsight it was a good thing. I was properly kooking it up that session before that happened, I surfed much better afterwards!! :lol: What a wake up call! :shock:
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Postby hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:35 am

i broke my nose clean off once at a beach break (where waves as big as 7 foot face smash right onto shore)
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Postby easty » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:15 am

Ive lost a fin after hitting a shallow reef !. Cannot really advise duck diving in knee high water !!!!
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Postby Bewilderbeast » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:01 am

Ooops, miss read this post! :oops:

Thought you meant YOUR nose not your boards!! :roll: Oh well, bact to the plot.....Yep, done that too!
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Postby Jimi » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:50 am

Heh, I haven't broken any board noses, but I've repaired about 4... It's not a particularly hard repair (compared to fins/fin boxes) but it's difficult to make look good... especially if you delaminate part of your board.

got my nose broken by a tennis racket though... :?
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Postby doormatt » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:51 pm

I never have personally, but the baggage handlers at either manchester or lisbon airport managed to snap the nose clean off for me.

I was pretty annoyed at the time but the other day I got a cheque from the baggage company for £370 :-D
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