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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Not so much about surfing as about dolphins, but I kinda dig it, having been in a comparable situation out by Catalina some time ago.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Enjoyed seeing the shots of Deadman's. Surfed it a lot in the late 70's early 80's. Not surprised to see a crowd in the picture. Chuck Clance was a GGNRA lifeguard at the time. The name came not from the break but from the bodies that washed in there from bridge jumpers. Clance did the fishing out. Pee Wee {Bill Bergerson} was King in those days. Tim Pierce was KB power.
lars
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:02pm PT
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Despite all of our idealism and search for it, there is also impinging on us, other realities. Here is a wave in Java:
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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Thankfully, our waves here in Santa Cruz are pretty clean. These photos of me were taken by young photographer Jaiden Hopkins a few weeks ago at 26th ave.
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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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tahiti starts today, go seabass
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Aug 14, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
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I'm with you, C-Mac. The season can't get started soon enough. I'm needing it.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Aug 14, 2013 - 02:26pm PT
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^^^Greg you must be speaking of skiing, truly a complimentary mountain pursuit!!! :^)
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Aug 18, 2013 - 09:25pm PT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 18, 2013 - 11:38pm PT
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Klimmer this is a rebirth of the Aquajet project from the late sixties-early seventies. Some of those epoxy-honeycomb boards actually had propulsion, considered repugnant forty-three years ago. Exact means of propulsion is way updated here of course.
I had a series of hollow unpowered Aquajets; founder/owner Neal Townsend was giving me boards for awhile. Before leashes, the boards still broke up on the rocks here in Santa Cruz though guaranteed not to.... But great really lively springy boards. FAST. I won't ever forget how powerful and alive they were. Old Neal and similar cohorts had the earliest powered model but still didn't get much done.
Croteau. Fowler, Roger Adams, a couple others; a SF and Santa Cruz thing
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
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Aug 19, 2013 - 12:01am PT
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Peter,
Thanks. Seems nothing is new under the Sun. ;-)
But it seems as though they've really worked out the idea here in a nice very stream line way. You can take the motor pod out and clip in a hollow pod while your motor pod is charging on the beach, and surf regular without a motor. Then go back in clip in the motor pod and get going again.
By the way, the same motor pod fits into all the different surfboards, so you can have a quiver of boards and perhaps one or 2 motors and do a great deal of surfing. They have a charging unit for it also that you can take to the beach.
Anyway, very cool. A friend who has hurt shoulders who surfs is looking into getting one of these boards. He was the one who told me about it. :-)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 19, 2013 - 12:22am PT
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Yeah, K. I expect THIS time, the conjecture will be more successful though and many will see fun uses and those of us with various challenges (viz handicaps) will like the idea.
Just like if you and I were to introduce cams in 1952, with their 20-some-odd moving parts---- we would have been viewed as kooks and history just wasn't ready for all that such a device could offer. But today, we have many manufacturers vying for cam dollars worldwide. Hilarious how history rolls along.
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NorCalNomad
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Aug 21, 2013 - 01:20am PT
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Question about paddling. My fun board is 21 and some inches in width but being a lanky dude my shoulders are only about 18" across. Paddling it is pretty easy but leaves my shoulder feeling worked. Feels better (but a bit slower) to paddle my little potato chip short board (6'x18.5"x1 5/8" got it for free).
The shoulder beat down going to subside eventually or is it just going to be a pain for me to paddle with that width? To give a sense of upper body strength I can toprope 5.11's some 5.12's.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Aug 21, 2013 - 01:37am PT
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Nomad, I've noticed that it's getting the big boards going from a stand still that wears me out. If I focus on rocking the board back and then jetting forward on it to get going I save my arms in the long run.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 21, 2013 - 09:48am PT
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NorCal, sounds like your fun board is not really a fun board. If it works your shoulders and I can see why a wide board can do this to narrow-built people, then stay away from such wide designs unless you hardly ever surf. That repetition from paddling could come back to bite you.. Find a compromise.
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