That was great Hilly...his surfing is unreal!

Great stoke feeder, thanks. And your words STC, perfectly describe why the kid is totally inspiring.

Antho said..
That was great Hilly...his surfing is unreal!

O to be 30 years younger and have talent

Lacey... your like an old fisho threading a smelly piece of bait on ya hook and through it in to see how many bites you'll get!!! haha love ya work

Absolutely ripping it up

Very nice kid, very cool family. I see them from time to time surfing Laniakea.

I will never say another word on stability on short sups
Brilliant video

Look, this trajectory for SUP is leading nowhere. Mo is already paddling not standing up as much as he is standing up. The logical progression of this is that you only stand up when you are on a wave, and use a prone surfboard. That is where this is currently headed. At that point it is not stand up *paddling* at all.

What we need IMO is a paradigm shift. We need a manoeuvre that you can only do with a paddle, ie. something that traditional surfing can't do. A signature SUP move, like hanging 10 is for longboarding. But we are currently waiting for the exceptional person to come along who will show us all what is possible, and create a new style of surfing overnight. Maybe that is Mo, in time. But right now, merely copying shortboard surfing moves (only making them slower and less extreme due to the size of your board) is not getting him, or us, anywhere. Unless your goal is to look like a distinctly average surfer who is using a paddle to try and compensate for his board being too big to do anything too rad.

It's got nothing to do with longboarding vs. shortboarding. It's to do with disappointment at the lack of invention of our discipline, and competitions reinforcing extablished moves rather than encouraging forging ahead in new directions.

Bring me something new, not kids paddling on their bellies copying another sport altogether.

I dunno. I've never proned in my life but I really enjoy going shorter and shorter in my SUP boards and trying to carve faster and gougier turns. It just feels good. I don't compare or judge it against anything.

Does he use the paddle to catch the wave or does he paddle prone?

Yeah that's more like it for sure. I wonder if his amazing recovery on that drop was partly due to having a paddle as a third leg. I'm viewing it on a tiny screen so can't see if this is the case.

I'm surprised that people this skilled are not using the paddle to unweight themselves more, to do tricks etc. There has to be mileage in that somewhere. Of course I'm nowhere near skilled enough to make anything like that work, but that's the sort of thing I mean when I say we might be able to use the paddle to enable us to do thing that surfers can't. Or any other watercraft for that matter. Once that happens then the sport has become something unique, and we will have to start thinking up new scoring criteria for comps that don't just ape those from shortboard surfing.

But think it through yourself: look at the direction that SUSing has taken over the last 7 years or so, since the days when every board was essentially a surf longboard, and project it forward another 7 years if we follow the same course. Are we just going to keep on getting smaller and smaller boards and shorter and shorter paddles, until we are riding surfboards carrying a teaspoon? Or is it more likely that we will have to find new ways to develop, especially in order to keep the sport accessible, and to carve a niche all our own? That's what interests me. Probably out there right now is some 10 year old kid who before long is going to suddenly do it all a new way, and then we will all be doing the "720 reverse drop" or whatever the hell it will be that she or he shows us. I hope so, anyway.

hilly said..
Area 10 and Lacey please return to grumpy old longboard forum. Pretty sure KS earns 1000s of times what Mo gets if he gets anything from SUP.

The guy rips and his use of the paddle is awesome. I am sure he rips on a SB too but this is on a sup, something to aspire too. Most of us paddle out through the chop on our guts. I like the way he surfs which cannot be said of many on a surf sup.

if he waits for a wave with the board under water up to his waist, spends a lot of time prone paddling , very talented,


well its not Stand Up Paddling IE SUP, is it.

that's the nuts and bolts of it like it or not.

as Ive said many times the sport of sup surfing lost its way years ago when boards dropped under 9 ft.

it had its own identity then lost it trying to be something else other then fun, a board to ride fat or small or lumpy waves.


I want some red thumbs dam it

that board must be about the size of my shortboard, maybe a bit longer but looks about 23" wide. awesome skills.
speed to boot.
man must be hard work but!

laceys lane said..

hilly said..
Area 10 and Lacey please return to grumpy old longboard forum. Pretty sure KS earns 1000s of times what Mo gets if he gets anything from SUP.

The guy rips and his use of the paddle is awesome. I am sure he rips on a SB too but this is on a sup, something to aspire too. Most of us paddle out through the chop on our guts. I like the way he surfs which cannot be said of many on a surf sup.

if he waits for a wave with the board under water up to his waist, spends a lot of time prone paddling , very talented,


well its not Stand Up Paddling IE SUP, is it.

that's the nuts and bolts of it like it or not.

as Ive said many times the sport of sup surfing lost its way years ago when boards dropped under 9 ft.

it had its own identity then lost it trying to be something else other then fun, a board to ride fat or small or lumpy waves.


I want some red thumbs dam it

+1

Stand up surfing is not Stand up paddling and this is where the problem lies

It is a break away from the paddling scene

It should be recognised as stand alone and a progression in stand up and accepted as that

People will critique others without recourse across all forms of social media and forums
Why this happens is due to us being all different

Accept stand up surfing boards are shorter narrower and able to be ridden to their fullest by some incredibly talented young blokes

It is very different from shortboarding and has a completely differemt approach to riding a wave, wave selection, mingaling and jostling in the line up etc etc
One
Bump you dig a rail and you miss the wave
Positioning is everything riding a board rail to rail
Try it without a paddle on a wider longer board boardering 7 1/2 ft and 26 - 28 inchs wide

Its friggen hard !!!

Go the SUSer's I say and enjoy your craft the way you want

Moderators please start up a new section for SUSer 's !!