Best yet, stands down...
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:41 pm
What's goin on everyone? I'm brand new to this site and just wanted to get acquainted. I'm a student at the University of Florida and, as some of you may know me, M.O.W's son.
I was out at the "Santa Cruz mat/spoon convention" this past December and fortunately came away from it with a completely new view on wave riding. I've been a standup since I was 10 and never thought twice about trying out my dads boards. I just loved the standup feel (and LOOK I guess) and never thought about looking anywhere else. This past December in Santa Cruz, fate pulled some strings and left me with no other option but riding my uncles Blast. I planned on riding it standup but my first wave at Suicides was mushy so I made it halfway and started riding. I made a few bottom turns and was shocked by how "into the wave" I felt. I could see every angle and felt like that gave me an opportunity to make decisions quicker and more accurately. I stayed out for the rest of the evening, even paddling about a hundred yards over to little Wind-and-Sea and getting some fun barrels on the shallow sandbar. BY the time I got out I had not even tried to standup surf it once and was COMPLETELY stoked at what I had experienced. It was a side of surfing that I had never seen before (besides bodysurfing or sponging shorebreak on a really high tide). I was squeezing into barrels and getting speed like I have never felt before. Some of the local kneelos like Steve, Jamie, Derrick, Mark M, and my pops urged me into trying it out more. I have had a lot of fun and I agree that kneeboaRDING gives a look into something more than merely the look of the wave.
I look forwRD TO HEaring and seeing more from this "family" that seemed to except m e so graciously at Santa Cruz. Thanks again to all at the gathering. TRULY INSPIRING! Keep it up.
EL NinO
I was out at the "Santa Cruz mat/spoon convention" this past December and fortunately came away from it with a completely new view on wave riding. I've been a standup since I was 10 and never thought twice about trying out my dads boards. I just loved the standup feel (and LOOK I guess) and never thought about looking anywhere else. This past December in Santa Cruz, fate pulled some strings and left me with no other option but riding my uncles Blast. I planned on riding it standup but my first wave at Suicides was mushy so I made it halfway and started riding. I made a few bottom turns and was shocked by how "into the wave" I felt. I could see every angle and felt like that gave me an opportunity to make decisions quicker and more accurately. I stayed out for the rest of the evening, even paddling about a hundred yards over to little Wind-and-Sea and getting some fun barrels on the shallow sandbar. BY the time I got out I had not even tried to standup surf it once and was COMPLETELY stoked at what I had experienced. It was a side of surfing that I had never seen before (besides bodysurfing or sponging shorebreak on a really high tide). I was squeezing into barrels and getting speed like I have never felt before. Some of the local kneelos like Steve, Jamie, Derrick, Mark M, and my pops urged me into trying it out more. I have had a lot of fun and I agree that kneeboaRDING gives a look into something more than merely the look of the wave.
I look forwRD TO HEaring and seeing more from this "family" that seemed to except m e so graciously at Santa Cruz. Thanks again to all at the gathering. TRULY INSPIRING! Keep it up.
EL NinO