My Own Surfing Thread!

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by Baz

Thanks Lee....nice video!

For some reason I always have the urge to go to Target after watching that video!

[tweezers74]

Train video rocks. Well, actually, all these videos and pictures rock! I love this thread. It makes me happy.

This is kind of off topic but in the same realm. I want to get a longboard since I can't catch many waves here in Arizona. Anybody longboard here? This video makes me want to do it so bad. These girls are so freaking awesome! I want to be like them! Looks so fun! I have watched this video a million times. It gives me such a rush...


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[tevake]

Hey Tweeze that is a cool video, those girls have skills and are having a blast:-)
Years ago my buddies and I , on the big island used to skateboard a giant slalom on a high mountain road. We would drive up with a cooler in the back of my VW beachbuggy. Three of us would ride while one could rest and drive. the run was about three miles long and took lots of turning in parts to keep the speed down to a survivable number in case of a wreck or the need to bail out on the side of the road.
One time we were resting at the side about mid way down, when we heard a weird high pitched sound coming down from above. Soon two young guys came blasting by at unbelievable speed. Just bombing the hill, something we had never done or really even thought too much about trying. they had slippers on their hands for brakes. these we saw at the bottom of the hill completely worn thru from being dragged.
Somehow our cautious geezer runs never seemed the same after that.
Damned young guns (thats meant in green)

Cheers Richard

[Geary]

Similar paths .. My friends and I had a great run on Haleakala that we'd do often, especially before snowboarding season. I did as much machine work on waverunners and skateboards as I did on automotive. For downhill carving, the addition of rear disc brakes was game-changing for us. Full speed ahead without fear of crashing.

[Bill Douglas]

Umm, I still have the scars on my elbows from doing that on steep twisty roads on the way back from surf trips.

[Baz]

"Surfers on the other hand, welcome the possibility of large ocean swell development."



Thought that was funny coming from a NOAA weather report concerning TS Beryl:

Brevard Times: NOAA Hurricane Storm Tracker: Beryl Barreling Toward Florida

MIAMI, Florida -- NOAA's National Hurricane Center storm tracker in Miami, Florida has issued a Special Tropical Weather Outlook at 11:00 a.m. EDT on May 26, 2012 due to the development of a 2012 Memorial Day Weekend Sub-Tropical Storm Beryl that has become better defined in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina, Florida and Georgia.



Sub-Tropical Storm Beryl has maximum sustained winds of 45 m.p.h., with higher gusts, and is located 330 miles east-northeast of Jacksonville, Florida. Sub-Tropical Storm Beryl is moving much faster than earlier today to the southwest at 9 miles per hour and is forecasted to make landfall near Jacksonville, Florida on Sunday.


A tropical storm warning is in effect north of Florida's Space Coast from the Brevard County - Volusia County line northward to Edisto Beach, South Carolina during the 2012 Memorial Day Weekend as the system moves closer to a landfall on the Southeastern U.S. coast.


A tropical storm watch is in effect from Edisto Beach, South Carolina northward to South Santee River, South Carolina.


Sub-Tropical Storm Beryl will produce high seas off the Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina Atlantic Ocean coasts which is bad news for boaters where Memorial Day weekend is traditionally a busy day for recreational boating and fishing.

Beryl is also bad news for retailers in the affected areas who rely heavily on Memorial Day sales.


Sub Tropical Storm Beryl could also produce dangerous rip currents for the 2012 Memorial Day weekend beach goers along the Space Coast and east coast Florida and Georgia beaches.


Surfers on the other hand, welcome the possibility of large ocean swell development.



Elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours:

We need rain too badly! Yipee!

[LeeH]

Hey Tweeze... have you heard about the Flowrider at the Rhodes Aquatic Center in Mesa?

[porwolf]

Yes there is surfing in Munich, Germany! How about that for a winter sport?

[tweezers74]

Originally Posted by LeeH

Hey Tweeze... have you heard about the Flowrider at the Rhodes Aquatic Center in Mesa?

Lee, I just looked it up and it looks soooooo cool! Thursday nights are Ladies Night, maybe I will go check it out to get my fix. Or I am seriously considering going to Big Surf and just doing some short rides there!

[Baz]

Hope I got the right thread for this pic.....

[Baz]

Outrigger Canoe Club.....and a little wave....

[tweezers74]

Cute pic, Baz! I like their boards! :P

[fhernand]

Okay I'm in on this thread...Hawaii 2010 Wiapio Valley...short breaks nothing to write home about but gorgeous views

[Geary]

Waipio is one of my favorite spots in the world. (My dad was born just down the coast.)

[Baz]

[Baz]

[Bill Douglas]

Yep.

[Baz]

Back to surfing...ahem....

[Flieger]

I'll have some of post #356 please.

[tevake]

The Pro Surfing Tour is in Fiji now so there will be some good contest footage coming soon. In the mean time check out some free surf video, and stay tuned in.

Cheers Rich

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