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surf kid-what kind of a wave do u need to surf?

Postby oamar » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:54 pm

hey,im bigining to surf, do u need other qualaties other than size in a wave in order to surf, like consiseancy of the wave? or anythig ealce,
pls reaply, thanx 8) :lol: :D :)
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Postby WooD » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:00 pm

Maybe I'm strange, but wave shape, and form are my prioritys over wave size.

I'll take a 2 foot glassy ground swell any day over a head high wind blown mess.
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Postby RJD » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:32 pm

If your just in the white water, not getting out back yet, then anything that doesnt beat you up too much(and gets you mooving) is good enough.

Once you can paddle, pop up, trim the board somewhat & get out back you want nice clean waves, 2-3ft or so till your used to catching green faced waves.

When your learning part of it is learning abotu waves, whats good, whats bad, when its worth going out & staying out, or staying in.
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Postby dondiemand » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:39 pm

WooD wrote:Maybe I'm strange, but wave shape, and form are my prioritys over wave size.

I'll take a 2 foot glassy ground swell any day over a head high wind blown mess.


yup, same here..waves that peel slowly, coral/reef breaks have the best shapes in my opinion :)
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Postby Dec » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:14 am

dondiemand wrote:..waves that peel slowly, coral/reef breaks have the best shapes in my opinion :)


Umm..not all of them Image
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Postby isaluteyou » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:05 am

Dec wrote:
dondiemand wrote:..waves that peel slowly, coral/reef breaks have the best shapes in my opinion :)


Umm..not all of them Image


Thats one mean looking wave. Give me bloody 1ft ankle slop over that any day :lol:

But seriously Form is better than size. So often ive been in big surf that was all messy it's just not as fun more like hairy :lol:
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Postby oamar » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:26 am

thanx for replin,
so can u surf on any wave witch is decent sized but some are better than others, or ar their some decent sized waves that ar impossible to ride?
cos i live in kenya witch is in africa and their ar no surf shops here so i have to ship one in, so i furst i need to find out if our waves ar rideable cos i cant reurn it!
thanx alot c ya :lol: 8) :o :D
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Postby Dec » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:51 am

Send some pictures of an average/poor day and a good day. It's hard to tell just from typing.

Good Luck
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Postby oamar » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:22 pm

hey, im going to the beach over the weekend so ill take some pics and send them to u,but it isnt the big wave season, c ya :D :) :o
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Postby oamar » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:31 pm

oh and dam thats a huge messy wave in your pic! wouldent like to wipeout in that :!: :shock: :shock: :shock: 8) :D
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Postby Dec » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:51 pm

It's a huge wave that has sucked almost dry over a reef. So he is pretty much about to eat a lot of coral...and get held against it for a while! Not a nice thought! :shock:
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Postby drowningbitbybit » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:59 pm

Dec wrote:It's a huge wave that has sucked almost dry over a reef. So he is pretty much about to eat a lot of coral...and get held against it for a while! Not a nice thought! :shock:


Have you read his account of it? Goes something along the lines of "I could see it was a mutant but my tow partner seemed to think it was okay, so I went with it. Then suddenly there's this monster mutant all around me... (quite a lot more) ...I so so so almost made it" :shock: :lol:
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Postby Dec » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:07 pm

drowningbitbybit wrote:
Dec wrote:It's a huge wave that has sucked almost dry over a reef. So he is pretty much about to eat a lot of coral...and get held against it for a while! Not a nice thought! :shock:


Have you read his account of it? Goes something along the lines of "I could see it was a mutant but my tow partner seemed to think it was okay, so I went with it. Then suddenly there's this monster mutant all around me... (quite a lot more) ...I so so so almost made it" :shock: :lol:


:shock: :shock: :shock:

How can you almost make that?? It just looks like thousands of tons of death on his head..over thousands of square meters of deadly rocks and reef!!

I watched some laurie towner stuff..that's quite amazing!

Definately they have my admiration!
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Postby northswell » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:05 pm

That step that that wave creates is mad. And is this not the wave that they took the inflatable croc onto in memory of Steve Irwin. Might be wrong there. But i have seen some mad paddle in surfing and tow in on that wave, its just that step that appears from nowhere. :x
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Postby scuba steve » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:03 pm

I wonder what he was thinking when he looked up and saw that :lol:
Hit the lip, or go for a nice carving cutback?
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Postby dougirwin13 » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:57 am

Probably "I gotta get out of here as fast as I can!"

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Postby SoCal WaterSpout » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:16 am

That cannot BE real!!! :shock:

Seriously, that would crush a person.
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Postby bluesnowcone » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:11 am

i was that picture without the person about a year ago, and now theres a person in it and i swear its the same picture, but is he did ride that good on him, i would of shat myself
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Postby dougirwin13 » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:23 pm

Oh, it's real.

Shipsternsis a hell of a break... Very heavy.

But not as heavy as Cyclops.

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Postby bluesnowcone » Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:47 pm

the only place i will never ever surf in my life is cyclops anywhere els i will probably give it ago
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