I've had it and I'm getting one.

[jaffa1949]

OK you lot, you all want to go short you can barely surf,, you want to know how to bottom turn>
You can't duck dive it because it is too long you aren't up with the fashion. Well Uncle jaffa has had enough of the same old queries and after a long search has seen that the answer is out there.
It provides the answer to the petrochemical contribution surfing makes to global warming.
All transport costs in flying to remote surf destinations are cut.
No dings that need nasty chemical repairs.
So courtesy of Galilee surfing the actual inventors.

Get with the next thing in surfing and clean up your act

[waikikikichan]

Need to get a tiny leash attached to the heel strap just in case the boots come off.

[pmcaero]

looks like a dumb Photoshop but.... an interesting engineering challenge. Some sort of powered boots or flip-flops with built-in stabilization...
If they can make hoverboards that fly over a mile, something like this should be doable as well.

[Big H]

Jokes aside, the whole wanting to surf a board too small is a real point of frustration for me at the moment............currently high season here, the breaks are loaded to the teeth, and for the most part, loaded to the teeth with short boarders who cannot surf their short boards because:

[list=]They cannot paddle very well
Timing, positioning, and other basic skills are not good enough
They are getting in each other's way and falling all over themselves[/list]

I watched one surfer take off and start down the line last week....immediately dropped in on....literally.....the drop in was actually a forward roll as the guy popped up but never raised his head and just went ahead and pearled then flipped body then board right in the face of the poor guy on the wave.....at my regular spot I have not ridden a wave on the popular peaks alone save for a couple of times over the last 8 sessions....went for a wave this morning while this guy was insisting on trying to cut me off by fade paddling across me from the inside...I popped up when the nose of his board was about a foot away....he was looking at me the whole time so it wasn't like I was surprising him other than I didn't back off (I was deeper anyway)...he hit the brakes and rolled off his board in the process and his board shot out and hit someone else who was a potential drop in save for being taken out by the cutter......


......a zoo, a real zoo......it is what it is and I've been on my tough epoxy boards with self preservation in mind.....not a lot of fun lately.


IF this whole "the smaller board I can ride means I'm progressing and a better surfer" mentality persists, the lineups are going to be nothing more than parking lots with speed bumps floating all over them because the bumps sure can't catch a wave on what is under them, and they wear out pretty quick trying to paddle their little boards around and wind up doing stupid annoying things like all paddling for the first wave of the set, missing it, then just sitting inside because they are too tired to paddle back out right away which in effect blocks anyone else from trying to get a wave because half the lineup is floating around with tired eyes and tongues lolling out of their mouths trying to slow their heart rate down enough to lay back down on their boards like a sack of potatoes with their legs wide open and wobble back outside.....on their 6'1" hybrid swallowtail board that they got talked into buying as they didn't want to get something that they'd outgrow too fast.....


People can be as silly as they want with choices that they make......I get annoyed when it affects me.....crowded lineups with newbies on boards too short affects me......................color me annoyed.

[dtc]

Well, I guess the ash stopping flights will have some positive impact, get people off the beach (because they cant actually get there).

I saw some footage of people trying to exit the cave at Uluwatu - that would seem to reduce the number of beginners on a peak.

[jaffa1949]

Ulus has a couple of anti beginners features, the cave the coral heads just to the padang side of it, which eat boards and bodies should you mess up in your timing of exit from the cave.
Then there is the sweep that takes you way down to Padang and if you are not a strong paddler.........Hmm nice !
There is a side cave from a small sand beach at low tide to get back wrong tide and wipe out you can be stranded on the wrong side of the cliff, sit and wait till the next low.
Should you miss the boulders and the cave well Padang is one one option or a climb up the cliffs with your board and the long walk back to the Warungs along the road.

[Big H]

.....and with traffic at the moment it is more than an hour each way from the Jimbaran McD's.....


......alot of "anti" at the moment!

[oldmansurfer]

By the way I hear there is a good chance the Padang Padang contest is going to run tomorrow must mean the forcast is good for tomorrow

[Tudeo]

wanting to surf a board too small is a real point of frustration for me at the moment..

I like it when others use smaller boards they don't have the skills for. Gives me on a higher volumed board an advantage. But I try to avoid the Zoo-waves as much as possible, rather an uncrowded hard wave than getting frustrated by impossible crowds at the populair waves.

[Big H]

Convienence is no longer convienent......Im going to have to start going out of the way to the harder to reach and more difficult spots as well.

[Big H]

By the way I hear there is a good chance the Padang Padang contest is going to run tomorrow must mean the forcast is good for tomorrow

I heard the swell direction is a little off but its l9oking pretty good for today.

[oldmansurfer]

By the way I hear there is a good chance the Padang Padang contest is going to run tomorrow must mean the forcast is good for tomorrow

I heard the swell direction is a little off but its l9oking pretty good for today.

LOL I forget it's tomorrow over there already....they should be making a call in another hour or so I guess

[billie_morini]

Need to get a tiny leash attached to the heel strap just in case the boots come off.

Correction, Whacky. "Need to get an invisible tiny leash!"[/color]

[saltydog]

Bet it paddles like a longboard and rides like a shortboard!