Cool to hate sups?
I don't think it's cool to hate anyone, hating won't achieve much.
Sup does look pretty lame though, I reckon kayak's are the go if anyone's that way inclined. Just stay away from the breaks I'm surfing please.
Can't say I've seen anyone surf one well apart from the pros.
Let's hope boogie boarding takes off in popularity again, at least they're nice and soft if you hit one[}:)]
I can see many uses for sups. None of em involve waves but.
Yesterday was hot, so I went down the river with flattie fishing in mind. Ended up on a mussel mission but only had a bucket. The BIG mussels I found were quite a swim, so swam out with the bucket, but hard to dive down leave bucket on surface come back up with mussels without losing some ( a lot ) Still had a feed of fresh mussels and flatties
If I had of had a sup? possibilities endless for rivers estuaries and creeks etc etc. Saw a few young (FIT) looking guys paddle past, looked like a pretty nice way to spend the day I thought, better than sitting at home getting fat on no swell days. You could even stop somewhere for lunch and a coupla beers?
Mind you, you could do it in a tinnie, but that would be lazy and you would end up fat hey Suba
I agree with keeping them out of the surf away from the line out though!!
Sometimes trying to teach these kids etiquette of not sitting on the inside of people all the time gets a little frustrating
^^ OG has been getting Kristy onto a SB for training so he must have thought the same.
I think with some cross training she will iron out the bumps in her style, with I could say the same 
Any one know what sort of car TC drives. Just curious. Probably got a few I guess
Looked like young Tommy was having a ball and a good workout, those waves weren't worth surfing on anything else but a sup, so what is the problem?
Select to expand quoteCMC said quote :I just don't get people being narrow minded about what they ride as if it defines
them as a person. "Oh, I'm a shortboarder", really? who really cares? You are not what you ride, you're who you are.
IMO probably the most sensible paragraph written on this subject I have read
What jb said. How's the big slow-mo at 1:00 
. This is the guy who defined power surfing with "The Snap", struggling to pull a floater.
The clip is just another answer why I'm not partial to SUP. The equipment hamstrings you and turns you into an insta-kook. These days there are plenty of modern shapes tailor made for small junky surf like that. Not 150L battleships.
I concede it might be fun to give it a shot. But to take it up at the expense of performance boards makes no sense to me at all.
Funny to see the SUP riders all come in to the SB forum and back each other up .
Here's a recent post on the SUP forum:
Actually that vid i think has helped me decide what type of SUP i know do actually want. One for paddling flat water and a bit of fitness. No real need to surf with it
I like a few spots of the vid when you get to see the old TC stance. I i think it was about 2 min in and he is one for planted out front and the back foot well back with a v shape formed by his legs as he is just running down the line
Actually i need to watch some of his old vid's from the day. Could be all the inspiration i need to get wet this weekend.
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. I type almost as fast as I can speak. It's no big deal - procrastination from work. I reckon you could type 'tom carroll "the snap"' and get a google result in less than 30s too.
AND a club wooda decided to shut that peak down and have a comp on it until the CLUBBIES decided to put the Flags Up
Welcome to weekend Perth
ps probably exaggerated the sponge numbers more like 300 because 70 - 80 of the little bstards would be just inside the impact zone floating like driftwood and not even realizing how sharp SB fins n noses are!!!!
Ah the weekend approaches and its gonna be hot hot hot and even a hint of swell
TRIPLE THOSE NUMBERS
rant over I will also be out there so triple those numbers and + 1
