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How to ride a quad modern fish

Postby waikikikichan » Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:35 am

How to ride a quad modern fish by Rob Machado.



My take aways from this video:

1:43 Dealing with the building wave and going rail to rail to stay in the pocket.

2:19 Gliding in, no rush to stand up early.

0:21 Squared off bottom turn and later a hang five nose ride.

( and a whole bunch a full wrapping round-houses )
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Re: How to ride a quad modern fish

Postby IB_Surfer » Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:05 am

I love my quad fish, but there is no need to really think about how you will ride it. I have a stomp pad on mine and I press on it hard, sometimes it slides out, but I still get some wicked fun snaps from it. Just go out and try it
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Re: How to ride a quad modern fish

Postby ConcreteVitamin » Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:48 pm

I love clips showing Rob. I want to surf like Rob. Or just surf
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Re: How to ride a quad modern fish

Postby Prancing monkey » Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:52 pm

I just got this before lockdown. Not sure if a speed dialer qualifies as a modern fish but deffo a quad.... However the only thing I could probably replicate in that vid would be to wear a red suit. Like all decent sports people he just looks like he has so much time....I really need to get back in the water....
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Re: How to ride a quad modern fish

Postby waikikikichan » Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:28 pm

Prancing monkey wrote:I just got this before lockdown. Not sure if a speed dialer qualifies as a modern fish but deffo a quad..

Beautiful board. Love the double wing swallow.
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Re: How to ride a quad modern fish

Postby Prancing monkey » Thu Apr 30, 2020 6:42 am

Can't wait to try it out. Got a good second hand deal on it and have a pretty set of speed dialer fins on order for it too. First time I tried a quad I didn't get on too well, but it was a jack of all trades board (a bulky 5 fin hybrid) , so this time figured I would try something that is designed around being a quad. Generally tend to find in life that a product designed to do everything usually does nothing very well (I. E. My useless 3 in 1 sander) so let's see if that adage applies to surf craft as well
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