Seems like some guys are getting out in the line up on their SUP's without leggies....what's the go, I would have thought it just common courtesy to have one.

Thats just dumb

I have seen people doing this at the alley they hire from down the river and paddle out to the surf. Thanks to this I got six stitches to the head a couple of months ago

sharpie said...

queer// spelling again sorry,queenslanders!!!

I remember my first beer....

CMC said...

sharpie said...

queer// spelling again sorry,queenslanders!!!

We'll let you off on the incorrect use of punctuation if you allow some grace on the spelling.

I surfed yesterday for half of the surf without a leash, mine broke after about 4 waves and I was not ready to go in.

Nobody died and I didn't even take a swim. That's because it was knee high.

So - the surf was big enough to break a leggie BUT not big enough to wear one

CMC said...

billboard said...

CMC said...

sharpie said...

queer// spelling again sorry,queenslanders!!!

We'll let you off on the incorrect use of punctuation if you allow some grace on the spelling.

I surfed yesterday for half of the surf without a leash, mine broke after about 4 waves and I was not ready to go in.

Nobody died and I didn't even take a swim. That's because it was knee high.

So - the surf was big enough to break a leggie BUT not big enough to wear one

Yep, it was a brand new leash that I took the packet off to use.

Problem was the packet and the leash were over 8 years old and had been sitting in my garage. The mouldings were brittle, it snapped with the slightest pull.

Besides you only need a leash if you never fall off. I obviously do though or I wouldn't have snapped a leash. I just stinkbugged every wave after my leash snapped.

letmeguessfcsleash

CMC said...

Nup, C.L. But as I say more to do with age and degradation than product quality.

So are you saying that I am actually a quality individual - just suffering a little from age and degradation ?

CMC said...

billboard said...

CMC said...

Nup, C.L. But as I say more to do with age and degradation than product quality.

So are you saying that I am actually a quality individual - just suffering a little from age and degradation ?

Let's just say we all start out with potential, what we do with it depends on many things.

I am sure I'd be insulted if I was smart enough to figure that out gunna have to give you the benefit of the doubt and tell myself that it was your subtle way of telling me how much you admire me

As for legropes though - I have always used standard longboard 9ft leggies - usually O&E or Creatures and have never broken one. That maybe because I know my limits and that of my sups and it does nothing at all for my ego (or bank balance ) getting on seabreeze and bragging about how many leggies I break in a session. (and no chris thats not a shot at you at all but at - well you know the type )

Who are you, the Legrope Police! Because one of your deputies was out at Tally on Saturday!!!

CCC said...

Who are you, the Legrope Police! Because one of your deputies was out at Tally on Saturday!!!

Thank god he wasn't there Sunday!

sometimes it's just fun to see if you can just miss a few people

laceys lane said...

sometimes it's just fun to see if you can just miss a few people

With the size of board you ride I would have thought that it would have been how many can I get?!?

CCC said...

Who are you, the Legrope Police! Because one of your deputies was out at Tally on Saturday!!!

what ever champ....are you one of these to cool for school SUP'rs

i have heard back in the 70's ( i wasnt surfing then ) no one wore one...it wasn't cool

they also didn't have sealt belts back then as compulsory

jasdeking said...

i have heard back in the 70's ( i wasnt surfing then ) no one wore one...it wasn't cool

they also didn't have sealt belts back then as compulsory

No i used some thin rope through a hole drilled in my fin which nearly ripped your leg off when ever you fell, and that was only on a 7foot surf board,lets go back to those days ,with a sup and rope at least it will thin the crowd out with people injuring themselves

And the leggies were either a stud type or a hankie around the ankle, well thats all I had in the early years

And the rubber was like a surgical cord, snapped easy, great for swimming fitness and it makes me wonder today just how many people would actually be able to cope without a leggie?

IMHO, as for SUP, I never ever surf without one, just too dangerous for anyone else in the line up, while you might think its cool and good for you the fear factor when a sup board is coming at you is really scary...swap places with a bigger craft coming at you, it would be like a clubbie boat coming at you while you are on a sup