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General question for the day - are the boards going well in these conditions, or struggling? What do you think?

cheers, @VJ, I have YT premium, but I send surf stuff to a couple of older rellies, if I think they'll be able to enjoy it.. (i.e. stuff with a social or geographical bent, or stuff that'll remind them of the 60s) and just wondering if I send a YT link of a live feed to them, if they get smashed with YT ads, as well as the WSL drone break shots..?
(I reckon jiggering browsers would be beyond them.. gotta be a pretty simple process for them to bother watching something..)

Just tried on the standard browser that comes with this computer ('major disease alert for Sydney!' in it's news feed) - I get two ads before the start of playing the feature. Maybe that's it?

yeh right, cheers @VJ like wsl has some license with yt... feel I woulda heard a butload about it in the live comp comments if there were ads on top of ads..

Got the jetski for the logs today, and it's needed. They've been 100% paddle until now. Cool to see the water flying off the tail rails as it goes along!

So it was very small yesterday, decently windy and off/side shore and the Ms and I decided for morning tea overlooking the beach. There was one guy on a log out, 1 to 1 1/2ft waves, with decent shape when they broke in between the lulls. He was catching wave after wave after wave, doing all sorts of moves from heavy fades to bottom turns and walking to nose ride, and it reminded me of the usefulness of a log - a way to have a session when you otherwise wouldn't bother, and get a wave count into the 1000s quickly. It reminded me of the area I grew up in, and the only way to surf it on so many days! Well done that guy. But our morning tea was delicious anyway from up on the cliff :)

Declan's surfing it well!

yeh, he is. I'm enjoying this, what with the howling sou'westerlies outside..

I wish they got scored points for throwing in a couple of bottom turns and smashing into the lip…float it down, back to the high section and nose ride a bit

I’d love a bash at that wave now..on my TJ Gem 2+1. Great boards. So much fun to ride, they turn so fast with a bit of weight over the fins.

Sam Bleakley's in the booth, if anyone wants to see @john.calhon's ex..
he got out of surfEXPLORE at the ground floor..
he's got some swellnet interviews, too.
seems a pretty good unit.

Roadkill you're talking early 90s longboarding there! If you can find Tom Carrol and Mr X doing the comp at Haliewa (sp?) and they were ripping it.

Thx, VJ. I will search it out for a watch.

Taylor Jensen got a good one there.

Very enjoyable viewing. This Taylor Jensen is so good.
I've got a 6'0 jhigh volume fun board with that Paulownia job. It sits in the water so nice. Not too buoyant but enough to plane super fast and carves through like butter.
Gotta love a Cats prelim win followed by a day of 6-8foot pumping Bells.

Yeah especially after that 1st quarter and the Hawks history of doing that to the Cats in finals!

I have the TJ Gem, it cost me $2500. 1 week later FireWire had a 50% off sale…fark I was pissed off.

You could see the water protesting off the rails of Gavin's board there, I reckon it must be undedged and going beyond the displacement. Needed are edges to release rails and 2+1 to hold the squirt through the turns today.

Epic TJ. He is so strong

Idone didn’t look too keen to go back out. Very slow

Loving your analysis and input @vj

Down rails rather than 50/50 (the boards seem to have downish rails), maybe even rounded square in the tail...

haha he looked pretty knackered @roadkill hey!
Seen Ringrose chargiing huge bombs down the coast. He's a madman.

haha he looked pretty knackered @roadkill hey!
Seen Ringrose chargiing huge bombs down the coast. He's a madman.

Taylor looking great, very smooth, gutsy on the big waves, experience showing

TJ had shades of that classic Slater downcarve from an old comp on that last section.

Yeah Idone got caught inside pretty badly, the boards' volume gets too much for the white water, ask me how I know...
Cheers SR, this is basically the path I went on when I was young in the 90s, couldn't relate to the anorexic potato chips, I found I ended up surfing 70's single shapes in the juice like North Pt or Kirra, the longboards were for smaller waves - not this!

southernraw wrote:

Loving your analysis and input @vj

100% agree. I went back and watched Idone’s wave after VJ’s comment On the displacement etc etc

I think I see it…so cool to learn how to watch comp surfing and the little things that count.

Yes I saw Slater in that turn! Well picked!

VJ = Yoda

Roadkill wrote:

I have the TJ Gem, it cost me $2500. 1 week later FireWire had a 50% off sale…fark I was pissed off.

Oh shit! Ask for refund!
Shaped all my shortboards and mids since the 90s, about to try first longboards in coming months. I reckoned so long as Lennie was still shaping I didn't have to, but what's happened in the intervening 25 years is a whole generation loved longboarding and really brought it forward, focusing on the style and glide, and board have progressed there - much smaller dimensions and weight than the 1960s originals. It will be fun trying to put this all into context in a shape.

Amazing the difference in fitness levels between the CT guys and the longboard crew.
Shows what an elite level the shortboard tour is at as far as athleticism goes. And they're having to paddle twice as much to cover ground and catch waves.

Wow. That takeoff.

OK 50/50 rails - why would you want it? Because it holds the board (big fin in back too) so you can get to the nose.

I believe these rails and the back half of the board DISPLACE in this situation, or a hybrid of plane/displace. Thus they are displacement hulls and hull hydrodynamics overtakes planing hydrodynamics

Why wouldn't you want it? Because the wave gets so big/powerful that the board goes into planing - the rails then become a disaster, trying to hold where the water flow is going way to fast, and delaminating.

What it feels like - out of control. I surfed some pretty big waves on our families 1960s cordingleys on the midwest coast, it was a bit of a lottery...

The 50/50 rails are soft and without edge, to add to above

I would see the Inoue's locally when they were younger, such nice people

So I dunno if anyone has a longboard gun on hand, might be useful.
In times past they'd have rules requiring 12" from nose and 12" from tail be a certain width, to make sure a wide mal outline was used, today that could be thrown out the window...

Unreal @Vj. And that last wave of his was sick! Loved the soul arch!

ahh was wondering about the parameters of what was considered outside of a mal in that respect.

velocityjohnno wrote:

I would see the Inoue's locally when they were younger, such nice people

Whereabouts VJ? He’s a Miyazaki local. A fantastic city…such a fun vibe with great people. I love the place.

A bit late here but TJ was ripping. Really impressive.

Here on the SC, in retrospect they must have come to get in practise in the waves here

Didn't know who they were, just polite great people who surfed well :)

I just thought you may have been to Miyazaki surfing.

That wave by blue then was a cracker

Looks like Delperro on the way with the magic 2+1, theoretically should go well

Been to Japan RK but not anywhere surfing. It would be a great trip, including some of their islands to the south like Okinawa and Bonin islands (think that's the name)

looks like Pt Nepean buoy has had a peak and is coming down
Wonder when the more S'ly component in the forecast notes will arrive

It's got that classic Bells Westerly wind brown water now.

Oh yeah that 2+1 carve...

Stewart is surfing well