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condolences to the family for this tragic loss. aloha and prayers from the Big Island.

i used to think Green Onions was such a cool surf tune (still do) spending a big part of my youth in Long Beach i think Sublime made me want to surf. great band for a pre-surf amp up. Badfish Baby your a big blue whale Grab the reef when all duck diving fails I swim but wish I never learned The wate...

"Six months in a leaky boat" Nice to see that you northern hemishere folks got to enjoy New Zealand usic from some Te Awamutu (about 40 minutes to Raglan) lads who had a band called Split Enz huge Split Enz fan here. back in the 70's Bold as Brass and the whole Dizrythmia album sounded li...

the SUP got it fricken handed to him :lol: he slid headfirst into the axe :shock: i'm not sure any of those wipeouts showed any premeditated escape technique and i dont think any of them penetrated out the back and escaped a thrashing. i'm not sure anything would do you any good if you lost it in th...

congrats guys! gotta love the name

totally agree with that Jamie. so much comes down to luck....bad luck.
when someone as talented as Tom gets hurt it just proves there is no magic formula.

all methods carry a risk. i was out out Rockpiles on the North Shore of Oahu and tried to ride one out but the nose got caught by the lip and driven down only to fly right back at me full force. one of the fins hatcheted my forearm (which was covering mt head in a defensive position) which led to a ...

wow!!! turned a out of control circus into an even more out of control pirate circus. awesome.
Chris, was that you in the green suit?

but the end of the day a close out is a close out and the end result is not in your hands. Pushing out through the back, jumping over the nose of your board, staying on for as long as you can will all have different results at different times. bailouts and closeouts are definitely like a box of cho...

Shelfbreak wrote:If anyone is keen to help the Captain locate his sack and advise him on how far apart his knees should be

this thread is going in a bad direction

how far should my knees be apart when exiting or dodging a barrel? just far enough so that with a really good pucker you can still kiss your a$$ goodbye :lol: if i want to end my ride in a barrel (and there is time) i like to intentionally pearl my board so it stops and i keep going forward and get...

Hey Farbz, the sun absolutely blazes there. take lots of really strong sun screen. i burned the hell out of the backs of my legs and where my rashguard and boardies met up. it was so hot by 10am when i was getting ready to surf that i couldn't get the sunscreen to really stick cus of sweat. the next...

looks really cool should get some great angles. gonna make duckdiving interesting

keep your knees fairly wide apart find the sweet spot to kneel on your board which IMO is further back not forward lean forward...don't sit on your ankles start out by not grabbing the rail. get a feel for riding without grabbing the rail. start turning! if you focus on the fundamentals then you wil...

lots of aloha and positive mana from the Big Island Tom
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