stand-up bias
What woooy no porn tonight?
Check out the home page under Swellnet Dispatch 28th April Behind the Drop In. Not to mention plugs for quite a few boog movies & comps.
here we go again, swellnet runs fluidzone you freaks, that is full of boogers !!!! Do we complain that it has no surfers on the front page? Go and look there and stop whining !!!!!!
brian-wu, we (re)launched Fluidzone.com because we were getting so much bodyboarding content sent through to Swellnet that we decided it deserved its own website.
Phil Gallagher is the Fluidzone editor. Check it out - it's got more content than any other bodyboarding website in the world. And we're webcasting a whole bunch of pro bodyboarding comps as well (Turbo Pipe Pro, USBA Open of Bodyboarding, Fluidzone Shark Island Challenge, etc). I'm sure you'll be stoked.
Thermal Ben you've missed my point buddy. I don't visit swellnet.com for photos and video, I visit for the top notch reports and forecasts.
And before you mention fluidzone again, it's lame reports are second-rate, plus there is NO local forecast for queensland... WTF?
Anyway, for many years, swellnet had a point of difference; that it didn't ignore the bodyboard community like coastalwatch does. Now its going down the same path and ditching its loyal bodyboard followers, afraid to run anything bb related because it might upset the small minority of pretentious douchebag stick riders.
Did you really think you could phase out the bodyboard content an no-one would notice?
brian-wu, Fluidzone has the exact same reports and forecasts as Swellnet (it uses the same database). This was the whole idea - it's essentially Swellnet with specific bodyboarding content instead of specific surfing content.
Rather than 'ditching its loyal bodyboard followers', we've built a dedicated website and employed a full time editor exclusively to look after all of this bodyboarding content. And, we've spent a lot of time and money webcasting bodyboarding events around the world as well.
Why did we do this? Because of the steady increase in both bodyboarding and surfing content being sent through to us. Before, with only one website, there was a lot of content that wouldn't get run due to space limitations. Now we have two websites to spread it over, which means that a lot more images, news stories and videos get aired where they wouldn't before.
Not sure what more we can do to help the bodyboard community - feel free to give us any suggestions.
how come bodyboarders always find the slabs first luna park, cyclops, ours. wtf?
I guess the stand out Body boarders, sorry, flat out body boarders who are any good head further and further around the rock ledges to get away from the unbridled prejudice and hassling of the the fine upstanding citizens of the surf board crew.
The rest of the flotsam of the booger crew may follow or if they don't have the balls just stay as speed bumps in the usual lineups.
Further irony is that the gnarlier the ledges the less likely the majority of stand up crew will follow, and only the highly skilled testosterone and adrenaline surf junkies inflict themselves on the previous spot holders.
IMO for all the slabaholics, we enjoy watching you like we do the hits in State of Origin.
My point in all this, there are spots that are ideally suited to each type of surf craft just like there are forums ideally suited too.
Aaah jst go surfing and have a coffee afterwards.
fluidzone is perfect for body boarders, why are you whinging, its just a change or URL, wasn't that hard of a change for me. i still come on swellnet every now and again because i respect good surfing, but other then that fluidzone offers the same reports just more bodyboarding content.
how come bodyboarders always find the slabs first luna park, cyclops, ours. wtf?
By: "pigdog"
Stand ups where the first to surf Ours (Cape Solander). They first did so in 1968, before bodyboards were invented. I interviewed one of the fellas a few years back.
Stand ups were also the first to surf Cyclops.
haha that dude used terrible examples. boogers surfed "the right" first
Hey spongebob, love your 2/7 post. You know what they say? Not even a V8 pulls harder than a 16 year old.
And now for some guru shit ...... there is no one path, no right or wrong surf craft even in the thruster era.
"pigdog" wrote:how come bodyboarders always find the slabs first luna park, cyclops, ours. wtf?
By: "stunet"
Stand ups where the first to surf Ours (Cape Solander). They first did so in 1968, before bodyboards were invented. I interviewed one of the fellas a few years back.
thats an amazing fact classic! was wondering if anyone has windsurfed or sup at shipsterns bluff?
Jason Polakow may have tackled Shippies on a windsurfer, pigdog. I spoke to him a few years ago when he was looking at Tasmanian windsurfing options.. can't remember if Shippies was on the list. He has windsurfed Teahupoo though, so it's certainly possible.
Why is Coastalwatch predudiced against boogers? i've never seen a single photo of a sponger shreding on that site.
And now swellnet is going the same way. there hasn't been one booger shot on the home page for weeks... for shame!