Kneeboard Surfing USA Community Forum

ahh, censorship disguised as an economic consideration I like how you gentlemen are thinking - and Beeline's right, of course, about lack of dollar input from us "ordinary members" - but before you feel too guilty Beeline, at this point in time, you've made a 1234 well considered posts, co...

Ross thanks for taking the rawness out of your post. I appreciate it. Of course, the dates might just be a coincidence :roll: Though I had plenty to say on the subject, I too wasn't going to post on this thread - still, when I saw Flexman's 'passing', I felt it was best to say something. It seems th...

Interesting the closed minds on this thread. For future reference. [albumimg]6478[/albumimg] http://www.ksusa.org/Forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=6478 Stepehen Michael wrote in reply to flexman's last (?) post: To Flexman.... Thank you for the well thought out presention on this man who started me k...

Surfer May 1981 http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7216/mikedarcyetc8xh.jpg so MF, Lerner and Darcy were writing history all that long ago? Re lift in fins If lift in fins was important..... A toed in fin travelling along the line of the stringer might be expected to have higher pressure on the curv...

Gee, I just had a nice sleep and woke up to fix soemthing I wrote --- :lol: (I see no one noticed I put my foot in it :!: ) John wrote: have 3 boards that have no toe - in and they are quadfish.They ride like the keel fish but hold better and you don't have to setup your turns nearly as much.....(sn...

"From Q and A with the New York Times" Q. How can a plane fly upside down? Why doesn't the shape of the wings force the plane downward? A. The wing shape is designed to create relatively lower pressure above the wing as it meets the oncoming airstream, according to the Fort Worth Division ...

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Hy Hannya calling on bernoulli (or a venturi) to explain something is frought with danger. Many a bloody battle has been fought and lost/not lost on the subject, here and on swaylocks :roll: but it does exist in real life in a big west wind the lee side windows of my house are sucked outwards or Mr...

Hannya w regards to the "lift" this is part of the conclusion: The work has shown that the presence of fillets can decrease the overall drag of the fin, even though the viscous drag is increased due to the added surface area, the smoothing of the sharp edges between the fin and the board c...

Thanks for the refv KenM Interestingly traditional sails have an inner concave surface .... sounding familiar with latest fin design? http://cetic.swan.ac.uk/surfs/pdf_files/ASR%20Paper.pdf interesting ot article on glassed in fins versus boxed fins, and drag. Seems the rovings cause more lift. :lol...

KenM Sorry about that. :lol: I accidently slipped on the keyboard and wrote a small book. Thanks for the reference. Always good to have reading available! Should have said: 1)Though we are surfing on a mixture of air and water, 2)Presently Quad "boost" isn't claiming to compress air nor w...

this post edited because of verbosity :lol: Hart wrote: Air does compress to give advantage at times (even though aerodynamic engineers gave up on the idea c 1919) And yet we also know that water does not And yet when I sit in the lineup and look around at the water around me, what do I see. :?: Aer...

Willli what if you don't feel boost cos the acceleration curves you feel are very smooth, like the principal question on your mind when riding is "How do I slow this thing down?" good point Willli. But if you never change parameters on the same board , how will you ever know? :D I guess I ...

thanks mm!

talked me into buying (borrowing ) a set.

life is good


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ah, 4 votes for el zorro está de sus tuercas!!!!

but 11 for the important one

thought this was relevent Stevea (sept 25 2005) (snip) feel that flex can and does increase a boards performance via injections of squirt the FF provides at the moment you want without lag of plastic not that i can say ive felt lag but i have felt the squirt. Guessing stevea is talking about his qua...