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Originally posted by winddude
hot pics boys.
instead of looking like a toy soldier on a moulded plastic base.
No Winddude, not a toy soldier...
more like a surf-puppet.
lol.
The twin-tip (slash wakeboard) has to be one of the greatest departures in board design,
to have carved waves in recent surf history.
When ex-wakers crossed-over to kiting and discovered waves,
the standard mould for wave-riding vehicles was definitely broken.
(Wakeboards had ventured out in the waves in the past but the boat often sunk in the shorebreak).
The norm shape for the art of surfing became abnormal.
That's why a dude like Winddude has a problem relating to a twin-tip kitesurfing board.
To him,
it looks like some kind of plastic base for a toy.
He's used to the "surfboard shape".....
not a thing that looks like a snowboard that scalps liquid powder.
But poleboards have radically changed over the years as well, Winddude.
They started out like mega-paddleboards, then they morphed into 1970-like singlefins only thicker and longer,
and now they have shrunk into shorter, chunkier mini-mal type things.
The kneeboard with it's crippled rider is another strange wave-tool.
I never liked them but they served their purpose.
Their greatest claim to fame is that the first surfer to ever duck-dive was a kneeboarder.
That was in South Africa in the mid 70's.
The kneeboarder invented the escape act that changed surfing forever and made it magic.
Stand-up surfers soon learned the trick once it was revealed and shapes became more refined.
