Share YouR "FIRST STOKE"That Hooked az a Kneelo!

[SamC]

yes I was able to get it fixed thanks goodness. And got to ride it in some realllly fun waves at Sunset while I was on the north shore. Don't really ride it too much now in heavy surf cause it is still pretty fragil due to how thin it is.

I love blacks though...get barreled everytime I'm down there. Cant wait to surf down south while i'm on break. Yay for almost board short season

[Fossil Man]

Bruce's boards rock, awesome design and meticulous craftsmanship, but because his design approach is very " minimalist ", and the antithesis of chunky, they do feel kind of fragile. Also if I'm recalling one of my conversations with Bruce correctly, they don't generally use S-glass, which I'm told by my glassing buddies over here, can make for a stronger (and yes more expensive) board. Love my Hart boards, but oft been concerned that like you, I might find " the smashpoint for my Flashpoint ". Bruce told me however when discussing the glassing for my board which I was trying to "Simonize", that Simon had yet to break a board I think . ( I however am considerably more clumsy than Simon ).

[SamC]

Well I also got my board specially thin because i don't wiegh too much myself. I also was trying lots of airs and and floaters after getting that board too...which is what I think made my knees go right through the middle once I hit the flats on about a four foot floater. Luckily it was a pretty clean cut straight across the middle so they were able to fix it. The board still rides about the same, just a little bit heavier around the midsection. I do have an epoxy board now for when I feel like getting a little bit dangerous

[CONTIKI]

Well I also got my board specially thin because i don't wiegh too much myself. just a little bit heavier around the midsection.

I'm a lot heavier around the mid-section...

[Man O' War]

Back on track... For me it was one wave at Rivermouth in Santa Cruz, my first one on my knees, a long right, maybe chest high with offshores and brown water. I wobbled up and got an angle and more or less in trim and couldn't believe I was flying down the line. Got whacked at the end, of course, and swam in for the board, which was homemade (also my first, about 42 x 20, virtually no kick, with a little homemade flex fin that hummed). After the session, some guy stopped me on the cliff and said that board was fast, I was really flying. No s#$%? I thought, so it even looks cool. That was the end of baseball and everything else right there.

[Jon Manss]

Hey Mark nice to hear from someone else who started there. My first knee adventure was at the Mouth during the early morning low tides of summer. I,ll never forget all the locals telling me the Mouth don,t break in the summer. But I,ll never forget.