Girt by sea

billob said...
Finally i made it no more crappy flat water - into the surf doing down winders happy days! Flat water has its place but the ocean is the bomb

True that!

Ken9 said..
You are right the ocean is the bomb! Just wait until you ditch the twinnie and straps for a surfboard, it will be like the the first day you did a downwinder, like the day you had your first full strength beer, like the day your first child was born. I remember the first day i downwinded on a strappless like it was yesterday. I think i remember it like it was yesterday because it was yesterday - howling south easter 4ft waves burleigh to spit. Magic

I remember the first time I went strapless on a surfboard. How freaken horrible! It instantly stripped away 50 % of my fun. That is boosting on the way back out.

SmoothRider said...
Me too. I love hitting the waves front on just before they break and boosting off them. It's great fun :)

Especially when there's poleys lookin at ya
Flapping the sail trying to get some fuel through

SmoothRider said..

cauncy said..

SmoothRider said...
Me too. I love hitting the waves front on just before they break and boosting off them. It's great fun :)

Especially when there's poleys lookin at ya
Flapping the sail trying to get some fuel through

All they see is the bottom of my board

3D terrain is where its at! For me the holygrail is to punch of a wave lip (head high or bigger) in cross on to cross off conditions and then land downlooping on the next wave face ride it down the line. I don't pull it off very often, But when I do...... OH yeah.

Gapping a 2 waves. Taking off one and landing on the down side of the other also Oh for awesome.

In onshore conditions doing a massive boost of a pitching lip gliding through the air and landing back on an unbroken section of the same wave.

I also get a perverse sense of joy punting a jump of a monster white wash. Looking down as glide over the madness below. As I'm doing that I sometime scream at ocean " take that ya farker! ya can't catch me!"