Small waves are fun for experienced crew to ............for it is the small waves that build you for the BIG WAVES.

Small waves can cop an extra slashing with out the swim.
YOUR FITNESS can often be the difference between getting to your rig and getting out of the danger zone ,or not worrying about copping a another one on the head.

Are you taxed YET in the USA over there for the size of the waves you ride ?
The word is your next Government is going to introduce it to recoup all the money lost by those ripp off share market and bank crew.?

puffin said...

Nothing radical, nothing amazing, nothing particularly anything other than...fun on a four foot wave.

www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/2008/10/good-time-on-a-mellow-wave-video.html

You got the first bit right, but not really sure if I would call it a four foot wave! Maybe 2 foot??

maybe rephrase it as knee high chop can be fun!

yeah but most Aussies confuse mast high with double mast high! eg any wave at Currumbin always seems to be mast high! Local joke

whyner said...

When talking to people that don't surf, including windsurfers, I always talk about the wave face compared to something. Either waist high, shoulder high, over head, mast high etc. Save's confusion.

Two rules

1. When telling someone who wasn't there, say it was twice as big as what you think.

2. When telling someone who was there, say it was half the size as what you think.

In that case, Gerroa was double waist high from mid-arvo onwards.

as usual qwerty it was actually fun wind and waves til you showed up. thats 3 times in a row its died the second you hit the water. next time im just going to derig as soon as you show

dont tell me you have a case of twinphobia ( a severe phobia of the future suffered by people living in the past). If you thought that was good wind I dont think youve been getting out enough qwerty.

Kiter? please! Im just sick of listening to people who havent tried them constantly offer an opinion on them ( mainly negative), who am I trying to convince?? your the one who mentioned the additional fins.

dan berry said...

Kiter? please! Im just sick of listening to people who havent tried them constantly offer an opinion on them ( mainly negative), who am I trying to convince?? your the one who mentioned the additional fins.

Now now. my one line piss take was hardly a serious attempt at offering an opinion on them. I've never posted an opinion of them.
Your comment did remind me of kiters calling windsurfers "non-progressive", but I won't actually call you a kiter. I know your handle passes are still quite ordinary.

and CJW, I only recall mast high waves too. I could see my car every time I did double forwards off the lip.
I also invented a new move called the Crows Nest. thats when you ride the wave while standing on the tip of your mast.

qwerty said...
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I also invented a new move called the Crows Nest. thats when you ride the wave while standing on the tip of your mast.

That would be a sweet move
A case to whoever nails it first

Yep, listening to people talk about wave height is often good for a laugh. If it's really waisthigh they say it's one foot; headhigh is called two or three feet, then when it gets a few feet bigger than that suddenly the exaggeration flips direction and they're calling it logo high.

agh!? the hell with this, Im takin my toys and leavin.