After staying on the sidelines a bit, I seem to pick up that the cruisey aspect of surfing the SUP on this forum has been stampeded by the Stroke/Stroke/Stroke mentality of Ironpersons and World Champs with clinics and bettering your own importance.

can the moderators of this forum split it into cool vs obsession?

Answered honestly by good ol dave who lives many hours drive from surf.

Next.

Spot on Scotty

Well i can see were baldrick is coming from, ( other than i think dj is a wealth of info & i rate him) but like angie says in the last 2 weeks there have been posts i havent even bothered opening. If you dont want to read it dont !! I am also pretty much only interested in surfing my sups, but will also have a paddle with my girl on the lakes I do know what you mean though baldrick , it has been a bit boring lately when all we hear about is the distance thing. just my 2 cents !!

Like my dog?

Yeah nice dog, Scotty.

I'll be posting a surfing vid later tonight (or maybe tomorrow) to try and swing the surf/distance ratio back a bit.

BTW - Woogie is actually an awesome SUP surfer too - he smoked me at the Snowy contest a few months back.

Yep I totally agree Baldrick
Ive followed this forum since day dot and the past few weeks I have just lost interest.
I have a quick 30 second look every night and come to the same conclusion... BORING
Just dont click on the threads that DJ has started
But in saying that, overall, SUP by itself is the most coolest and addictive sport around at the moment imo. Who cares if your a flat water fairy or a wave pig. The thing that matters the most is that your on your SUP

I think baldrick has hit a nerve here..... It's the competitiveness, the underlying self promotion and advertising that's poisoned this forum for me in recent weeks/months. The forum now seems to be full of experts and sales people. What I find really irritating is when they start competing with themselves on how many reads their posts get. How boring is that?

In saying that I don't think the forum should be split up - it's just different strokes for different folks.

It appears a few people are having a problem with this forum! Maybe it should be divided into two as it is in Hawaii, though as it stands SUP is an acronym for Stand Up Paddle not nessesarily Stand Up Paddle Surfing. Many many people are not lucky enough to live at or even near the beach and if they can experience pleasure in paddling on a river, lake, creek or stream then good luck to them and that they should wish to do this on the best possble equipment and learn the correct technique to do so, who is anyone to critisise? Man (or woman) comes with a built in desire to improve things, if we didn't, then quite simply we would not be here or if we'd somehow managed to survive you might find yourself out there on a log, nude, using a stick for a paddle! If this sounds attractive to some I'm sure this would be sorted out after a few unpleasant nosedives due to your trees' lack of rocker sending you on a search for a tree with more curve! See, mans' desire for improvement steps in again! Yes the answer is fairly simple, as many have suggested, don't click on the threads in which you have no interest or if deciphering this is a problem, lobby administration to have the forum divided. Whatever your point of view nobody has has the right to critisise others..........Stuey

All any one has to do is POST a topic.
There are only a few of us that do on a regular basis.
Do you think that it is easy to come up with different topics all the time?

DJ whatever you do, when you go on hols please take a telstra mobile internet service with you

Rod

boardbumps said...

Hey Oliver ,
are you really saying that experts and sales people have no right to post or to reply in this forum?

Errrr no. I don't know where you get that from? Like others who've made comments on this topic I just find some of the posts over the past month or so a bit uninteresting.

I think the self promoters, sales people and experts have the same rights as anyone else to crap on about whatever they want and don't think the forum should be split up.

And by the way you give back - your posts about making paddles was very interesting - good on you.

Might as well have my 2 cents worth I guess. I have only been supping for a couple of months and find some of the forum posts pretty informative and interesting (some).
As someone relatively new to the sport, and I am sure I am not the only semi-newby - I am really, really interested in posts by guys like DJ and Casso and Board bumps 'cos they are always talking about new boards and paddles and how all these different boards and paddles work in different conditions. Hey I know it's only my personal preference in what interests me but I bet there are ship loads of suppers out there in their first 12mths of supping that are keen to hear more about new boards that people have tried or purchased - it's not only interesting, it creates a bit of a network for people to make contact who are looking for new boards and don't always have the opportunity to borrow/demo boards before they hand over their hard earned $.
I personally work in the surf industry and have the opportunity to try a fair few boards and although I am very inexperianced in relation to sup I am more than happy to pass on my thoughts as a beginner/novice on any boards that I get to try if anyone is interested in the thoughts of someone so green.

I am new to SUP also and the diverse topics are good, if they don't interest me I flick through them or skip them. I don't have anything to offer myself so I appreciate guys like DJ that regularly contribute and keep the forum alive. Too many forums have been ruined by non contributing elements turning on the regular posters for petty reasons or just for the game of it . dont let it happen here.

45 Mins to Caloundra or Main Beach, or a bit over an hour by boat to Cape Moreton!

Why do you ask Stupey? (my names not bald dick)
And like others have confirmed, turning a cool sport into a vvankfest deserves a seperate forum!

yeah i know what you mean Marty hows the way Jake has changed now he dose some distance paddling to cool for skool .Its alright I'll still talk to ya.