Big drops

[ANZAC]

Focus on the bottom turn.
Forget the drop, getting to your feet should be just a mechanical action. Focus instead on setiing up for your first monouver or the barrel and concentrate on a big g's botom turn. Think ahead.

[garbarrage]

You're made with 2 ears and one mouth, and that's the ratio you should use em in.

man my mates are gonna be sick of hearing that by this time next week!
IMO bodyboarders are feckin mentallers... they've been surfing one huge wave over here that i can think of off hand for years that surfers have only just tapped... and they need a jetski to do it. much respect!
secondly read somewhere on here a few weeks ago that the most important thing about learning to take drops is to get to your feet as its much easier to take a wipeout while standing. this has helped me loads in the last few sessions as i'm making way more waves. also you don't piss people off as much cos it looks like your there with intent!
thirdly, admitting your fears is the first step to overcoming them. if you're not afraid of wiping out. then what else are you afraid of?
also maybe head back to the beach to work on it. more peaks means less pissed off experienced surfers!

[The Fafanator]

I have no problem with bodyboarders, infact sometimes bodyboarders are way better mannered than surfers. But the problem is, over here there are about 3 or 4 bodyboarders that keep stealing waves from everyone, even the oldest locals, one of which is 72 years old and still rides a shortboard. (and a proper shortboard, not a flippin fish.) If a surfer showed that attetude then I would be just as pissed, if not more since he can do more damage. (6ft of fiberglass vs 3ft of foam.)

Oh and btw I am afraid of the drop, it is all that adrenalin, it is like bungy jumping, taking that jump is the scariest part, not because you think the rope might break (unless you are an idiot.) but just the extream amount of adrenalin that your brain can't quite handle.

PS I have no ide4a what I am doing that is pissing people of, so if someone can kindly tell me what it is that annoys people so much about me, I would be ever thankfull. (And bear in mind, I am only 14, and thus I post like a 14 year old, so please be tolerant.)

[Big Man]

Maybe you should take up a less exciting sport then, if you don't like the adrenaline. how about extreme knitting?

[The Fafanator]

I like the adrenalin, but I am afraid of it. A once heard someonse say something that is probably the truest thing on earth. "The thing you are most afraid of doing is often the most worthwhile thing to do." So what I try to do every day is catch the biggest set that comes through, pull into closeouts, paddle out way above what I should be paddleing into, and, take a huge drop. The problem is I have some trouble doing that, and I need to force myself, and a little bit of help can only, well, help.

[PapaW]

Once again you have answerd your own questions in your own posts...

You know Walls are also good to talk to... seems you don't need a reply!

[The Fafanator]

Even though I know the answers to most questions I have in life I need someone else to tell it to me before I listen, I don't know why it is so I only know it is so.

PS Do you know of any surfing forums with mostly people between 14-17 hang out on, I am geussing I will be recepted better since they will be able to tolarate me better, since they are reletively the same age as me, while as I understand most of you guys are adults.

[PapaW]

Perhaps? http://mlpeod.9.forumer.com/

[O_Danny_Boy]

faf, are you near a window/ sharp object/exposed electrical wire?

[Surfing-Innovation]

WHY??? Why has this idiot not been banned from every forum on the internet???

Faf - you average 3.49 posts a day on here - yet not once have you ever posted anything that has been worth reading - not on this forum, or the many MANY others that you are all over like a rash, pretending to be someone you clearly are not.

You post about things you have no knowledge of and despite several warnings, have never, ever let up.

I'm not a particularly violent person, but you would drive a saint into murder!!

If I was at the break you pretend to be at, I would happily harrass you out of the water (if you ever actually went in) and the devil in me would be tempted to drive over your board.

Do yourself a favour - STFU before someone far less charitable than me takes a REAL dislike to your antics.............

[drowningbitbybit]

You post about things you have no knowledge of and despite several warnings, have never, ever let up.

This may be the best yet from the Faff...

Looks weard, and cool. Ever tried that on a shortboard?, if not, I think you should, but put on two side fins for stability, otherwise you would just slide off. Also try and make a really small fin and put it in the middle of it, and tell us what it feels like. Keep up the creativity.

Telling Roy Stewart how to make weird fins!!

[derbyshire surfer]

'Proper shortboard not a flippin fish', I have a fish.....and a longboard and I've borrowed my mates bodyboard. Guess you're just trying to annoy every type of board rider on this forum....well done, you're doing a good job!!!

[kitesurfer]

I like the adrenalin, but I am afraid of it. A once heard someonse say something that is probably the truest thing on earth. "The thing you are most afraid of doing is often the most worthwhile thing to do." So what I try to do every day is catch the biggest set that comes through, pull into closeouts, paddle out way above what I should be paddleing into, and, take a huge drop. The problem is I have some trouble doing that, and I need to force myself, and a little bit of help can only, well, help.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... l+diarrhea

I think no.1 describes you perfectly faf!

KS

[The Fafanator]

You post about things you have no knowledge of and despite several warnings, have never, ever let up.

This may be the best yet from the Faff...

Looks weard, and cool. Ever tried that on a shortboard?, if not, I think you should, but put on two side fins for stability, otherwise you would just slide off. Also try and make a really small fin and put it in the middle of it, and tell us what it feels like. Keep up the creativity.

Telling Roy Stewart how to make weird fins!!

I am just interpreted what he sayed, he sayed that it fels almost exactly like a board with no fins, and common since tells me if you put it on a shortboard without anything to stabalize it you will just slide out, since it has little rail to compensate. And the one with a little fin in the middle, why not try it? I have no idea what it would do but he might as well try it.

[Surfing-Innovation]

Are you really as f**king stupid as you are making out?? Instead of typing xxxxx on here, go and actually READ what people write - better still, go and stick your finger in the socket that feeds power to your PC and do us ALL a favour (make sure you lick it first to make for a really good connection to the mains!!)

[O_Danny_Boy]

a paddle behind the ears soon sorts 'em out! Easy as when they get cheeky!

tool

[waverat]

danny boy, are you a bodyboarder? No offence was intended, but it shits me when I go for a wave and these little Pricks drop in from all over the place! You'd get the shits too!

[O_Danny_Boy]

danny boy, are you a bodyboarder? No offence was intended, but it shits me when I go for a wave and these little Pricks drop in from all over the place! You'd get the shits too!

na mate surfer, much respect for spongers watching them charge places that are unmakeable on any other craft

ive never had any problems from spongers, on the other hand ive had plenty of trouble from goat-boaters with no etiquette who think the ocean is a lake taking off whereever/whenever they want. usually with no control over their craft, a craft that weighs far to much to safely be used in a crowded line-up. if been run over a good few times and ive got bits of fibre glass at home to support my case

[Surfing-Innovation]

I'm with you on the whole goat boat thing - they do my box in!! We get a lot in Anglesey and they just paddle, turn, catch a wave, paddle turn, etc, etc - never bother waiting their turn and either snake or drop in without a care in the world.

I've yet to meet a single goat boater with even a mild regard for any etiquette.........

[garbarrage]

actually have met one with good etiquette... but i think he was the exception that proves the rule! paddled into an unwelcoming crowded lineup and manage not to hit a single surfer the whole session.

on the other hand, was out last weekend and 5 of them arrived all around me. was the only surfer there. thankfully the sets were really spaced out with not much in between or probably be typing this from hospital. a$$holes completely muscled me out. didn't catch even one of the few and far between waves after they appeared. surely they'd be better off in a river somewhere. what do they get out of it?

thinkin of buying a waterproof drill and some snorkel gear just in case it happens again!