Riding EVERYTHING
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:11 pm
Hi all. I surfed today. Alas...second session in a row where I didn't ride a kneeboard. But don't worry everyone, I have a legitimate explanation: my ankle is still healing from a near break on a skateboard ramp one week ago.
I was wondering if anyone on here has it in them that they want to ride whatever suits the conditions. And I mean WHATEVER! Now, a kneeboard is something that to me suits most all of what I do: short, hollow waves in the shouth bay, and the pointbreaks in PV when I get a chance to venture up there.
But sometimes, the situation calls for something a bit different.
On WED. of this week, I had to ride a sponge because the avenues were producing wild double-up shorebreak that sucked up and broke on almost dry sand. When the wave finally tubed and collapsed, you washed up on the sand like at Seal Beach! EVERY ride would have broken the skegs on the Blue Bottle.
Then there are days where it is so hoplessly flat that the only thing that looks good is a longboard--though I don't have a longboard, sometimes I get to borrow one and its fun when its FLLLLLLAT!
Then there are days when it looks fun to bodysurf because its tubing, but closed out near to the beach. And sometimes when its big, shallow, tubing and closed out and near the beach a sponge looks like a better idea because broken kneeboard=broken heart.
Does everyone get my drift?
Does anyone here get stoked on ALL equipment? I know everyone here is really dedicated to kneeboarding, which I am very serious about becoming skilled myself with, but sometimes its just worthless, walled or tiny, and you want to get out there but not frusterate yourself trying to kneeboard.
I was wondering if anyone on here has it in them that they want to ride whatever suits the conditions. And I mean WHATEVER! Now, a kneeboard is something that to me suits most all of what I do: short, hollow waves in the shouth bay, and the pointbreaks in PV when I get a chance to venture up there.
But sometimes, the situation calls for something a bit different.
On WED. of this week, I had to ride a sponge because the avenues were producing wild double-up shorebreak that sucked up and broke on almost dry sand. When the wave finally tubed and collapsed, you washed up on the sand like at Seal Beach! EVERY ride would have broken the skegs on the Blue Bottle.
Then there are days where it is so hoplessly flat that the only thing that looks good is a longboard--though I don't have a longboard, sometimes I get to borrow one and its fun when its FLLLLLLAT!
Then there are days when it looks fun to bodysurf because its tubing, but closed out near to the beach. And sometimes when its big, shallow, tubing and closed out and near the beach a sponge looks like a better idea because broken kneeboard=broken heart.
Does everyone get my drift?
Does anyone here get stoked on ALL equipment? I know everyone here is really dedicated to kneeboarding, which I am very serious about becoming skilled myself with, but sometimes its just worthless, walled or tiny, and you want to get out there but not frusterate yourself trying to kneeboard.
ride whatever suits the situation..... andrew....
