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Created by Macaha > 9 months ago, 2 Mar 2017
Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
2 Mar 2017 1:48PM
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Goofy footer on a Naish wears blue rashie surfs Rainbow Bay.

At the hint of an okish wave coming he throws his paddle and prone
paddles onto the said wave,leaving his paddle floating at take off point.


Good or Poor form?

normster
NSW, 316 posts
2 Mar 2017 3:04PM
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finders keepers

DavidJohn
VIC, 17416 posts
2 Mar 2017 4:10PM
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Newbie..

mybrosweeper
NSW, 1016 posts
2 Mar 2017 4:13PM
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grab floating paddle, take leggie off, fasten around paddle, surf in, take paddle home, sell paddle on ebay, buy beer for self!!! no more floating paddle in take off zone!!!! win win win

JEG
VIC, 1469 posts
2 Mar 2017 4:14PM
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A body surfer pretend to be a sup surfer?

Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
2 Mar 2017 4:10PM
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mybrosweeper said..
grab floating paddle, take leggie off, fasten around paddle, surf in, take paddle home, sell paddle on ebay, buy beer for self!!! no more floating paddle in take off zone!!!! win win win


Your the man Mybrother hope your well mate.

mybrosweeper
NSW, 1016 posts
2 Mar 2017 5:20PM
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Ha... Hey Macaha, life is pretty sweet my brother......and for you?

Toomanyboards
NSW, 52 posts
2 Mar 2017 5:29PM
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i tried that couple of times missed too many waves and went back to using the paddle

SRrat
WA, 240 posts
2 Mar 2017 2:35PM
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Macaha said..
Goofy footer on a Naish wears blue rashie surfs Rainbow Bay.

At the hint of an okish wave coming he throws his paddle and prone
paddles onto the said wave,leaving his paddle floating at take off point.


Good or Poor form?


Poor form indeed!
Dont need jetasam to add to the flotsam

Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
2 Mar 2017 5:12PM
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mybrosweeper said..
Ha... Hey Macaha, life is pretty sweet my brother......and for you?


All good mate just older fatter and slower

mybrosweeper
NSW, 1016 posts
2 Mar 2017 6:19PM
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A canoe your not paddling solo mate. Still enjoying heaps of waves though, which is awesome!! How much have things changed on here? All the guys who use to post years ago have been silenced by the "pimping" bullshh%t and for me its taken a huge step backwards.
Great to hear from you !!

Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
2 Mar 2017 5:56PM
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mybrosweeper said..
A canoe your not paddling solo mate. Still enjoying heaps of waves though, which is awesome!! How much have things changed on here? All the guys who use to post years ago have been silenced by the "pimping" bullshh%t and for me its taken a huge step backwards.
Great to hear from you !!


Oh yeah some wild old days,but funny all the same.

mybrosweeper
NSW, 1016 posts
2 Mar 2017 7:21PM
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yeah bro hey, surf n let surf... dont get involved in the trash talk, just keep to myself and go right as much as possible lol..............yewwww.. stay cool man

mybrosweeper
NSW, 1016 posts
2 Mar 2017 7:23PM
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PS... if that paddles a quikblade Ill buy it !! haha

Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
2 Mar 2017 6:31PM
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mybrosweeper said..
PS... if that paddles a quikblade Ill buy it !! haha


I'll be sure to check his paddle out next time I see him,once he is on a wave I've seen him call people on waves but I just dont get his form,your either one or the other,I was hopping he was a reader of this forum and chimed in

Nozza
VIC, 2835 posts
2 Mar 2017 7:36PM
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I'm not qualified to comment on surf stuff, but I'd take the paddle in and stick it in the sand upright.
Next time he's out it's not there, but no aggro created - "Thought you lost it"

Ted the Kiwi
NSW, 14256 posts
3 Mar 2017 12:13AM
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mybrosweeper said..
grab floating paddle, take leggie off, fasten around paddle, surf in, take paddle home, sell paddle on ebay, buy beer for self!!! no more floating paddle in take off zone!!!! win win win


Mac is a hippster at heart so there is no leg rope for him to use - any other suggestions

Krist
QLD, 288 posts
2 Mar 2017 11:26PM
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Not the guy but have been guilty of doing this on occasion , now I see it as a hazard will make sure i am surfing by myself if and when I do it again and the reason I do it is I like to go back to my roots and have some fun prone paddling and crawling to my knees then clambering to my feet ( the reason I started supping) without the hassle of changing boards to my 9'6 mal that I haven't used for over a year now plus my elbow plays up so I throw the paddle and have a surf simply for fun but I may have done this 3 times out of the hundred or so sessions I have had supping

micksmith
VIC, 1674 posts
3 Mar 2017 6:45AM
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Is this really even a problem or are you whinging because someone is doing something different? Is he tossing the paddle outside impact or at it, hard to believe you would discard your paddle in the impact zone and then have to search for it every time you catch a wave

Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
3 Mar 2017 8:23AM
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Is this really even a problem or are you whinging because someone is doing something different? Is he tossing the paddle outside impact or at it, hard to believe you would discard your paddle in the impact zone and then have to search for it every time you catch a wave


Problem possibly his paddle could hit someone. Whinge haha noway the guy has a new nick name "tosser"

micksmith
VIC, 1674 posts
3 Mar 2017 10:01AM
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Macaha said..

micksmith said..
Is this really even a problem or are you whinging because someone is doing something different? Is he tossing the paddle outside impact or at it, hard to believe you would discard your paddle in the impact zone and then have to search for it every time you catch a wave



Problem possibly his paddle could hit someone. Whinge haha noway the guy has a new nick name "tosser"


Maybe, or it could drift out to sea depending on tide and as I said if it's tossed in the impact zone or outside of impact zone. Have you seen it in a broken wave

Kami
1566 posts
3 Mar 2017 10:22PM
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Recovering from SUP illness back to proned surfing... and scared about his personal thermometer

boundeast
124 posts
4 Mar 2017 12:30AM
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so a local in portugal doing this--his proner buddies would point out his paddle to him when he rtned to the lineup after each wave--one time he threw it over a wave, duck-dived the wave with tiny board then collected paddle outside and continued

looked cool by me

seems a similar whine to that of a proner who asked, "what happens to the paddle when you let go of it?"

reply "who knows--i'd have to let go of it to find out"

truth: twice i have let go---once when it was twisted out of my hand, another time when i got crushed so badly i had no idea what had happened to my paddle, just knew it was gone, and i had no drowned---few others to worry about in the water that day! never found that paddle--got beat to shlt proning around the impact zone looking for it--binos from the cliff and saw nothing---now i put colored tape on paddles with my cell number and "call for reward if found".

Johndesu
NSW, 549 posts
4 Mar 2017 5:06PM
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Macaha said..
Goofy footer on a Naish wears blue rashie surfs Rainbow Bay.

At the hint of an okish wave coming he throws his paddle and prone
paddles onto the said wave,leaving his paddle floating at take off point.


Good or Poor form?


I think poor form, - when I first started sup surfing (two years ago) I would sometimes prone paddle for a good wave with the paddle blade on the nose and the shaft across the board (handle on the right side) then quickly paddle and stand-up and grab the paddle with my right hand, this worked sometimes but I would never throw my paddle (and it is too expensive?:-)

Macaha
QLD, 21870 posts
4 Mar 2017 5:03PM
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Johndesu said..

Macaha said..
Goofy footer on a Naish wears blue rashie surfs Rainbow Bay.

At the hint of an okish wave coming he throws his paddle and prone
paddles onto the said wave,leaving his paddle floating at take off point.


Good or Poor form?



I think poor form, - when I first started sup surfing (two years ago) I would sometimes prone paddle for a good wave with the paddle blade on the nose and the shaft across the board (handle on the right side) then quickly paddle and stand-up and grab the paddle with my right hand, this worked sometimes but I would never throw my paddle (and it is too expensive?:-)


Yes I did the same until an ex seabreeze member gave me a few listens.

Johndesu
NSW, 549 posts
5 Mar 2017 3:05PM
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Macaha said..

Johndesu said..


Macaha said..
Goofy footer on a Naish wears blue rashie surfs Rainbow Bay.

At the hint of an okish wave coming he throws his paddle and prone
paddles onto the said wave,leaving his paddle floating at take off point.


Good or Poor form?




I think poor form, - when I first started sup surfing (two years ago) I would sometimes prone paddle for a good wave with the paddle blade on the nose and the shaft across the board (handle on the right side) then quickly paddle and stand-up and grab the paddle with my right hand, this worked sometimes but I would never throw my paddle (and it is too expensive?:-)



Yes I did the same until an ex seabreeze member gave me a few listens.


Also it is much better to surf with the paddle so you can get more power out of your cut backs & round house cuts (and it would be impossible to do a figure 8 cut back re entry without a paddle to assist :-)

LateStarter
WA, 589 posts
8 Mar 2017 12:37PM
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If you don't want to use your paddle, leave it in the car. Simples :)

darrenm
24 posts
9 Mar 2017 9:34AM
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So he does this;

* prone paddles onto a wave
* surfs the wave
* gets off the wave and then prone paddles back out into the line up again
* collects his paddle,
* only to through it away again when another wave comes in

WTF??????

Maybe he should try surf board riding instead. Seems to defeat the reason for riding a SUP in my opinion

Personally i would grab the paddle and snap in like a stick using my foot as the fulcrum. But only if he was bothering me enough and had an attitude.......hehehe



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