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foghater
Since 31 Aug 2008
135 Posts
Stoked
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 Thu Apr 07, 11 6:08 am |
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I ride what makes it fun for me and everyone should do the same.
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airpadre
Since 15 Apr 2009
25 Posts
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sirmichaelo
Since 26 Mar 2010
353 Posts
Maui
Obsessed
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| Thu Apr 07, 11 10:49 am |
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I vote for strapless.
I wouldn't take a landboard to a skatepark either.
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Nobby raish
Since 01 Apr 2011
21 Posts
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| Thu Apr 07, 11 11:43 am |
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straps make you think.......that's where your feet are spose' to be
and take up valuable,usable board surface.
feathering your weight,and stance are priceless.
no ego,just a humble path to nirvana. |
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Gman
Since 11 Feb 2006
4911 Posts
Portland
Unstrapped
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| Thu Apr 07, 11 12:00 pm |
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strapless hate for the foghater 
on more than one occasion been watching the foghater kill it and considered bolting some straps back on...
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Sasquatch
Since 09 Mar 2005
2102 Posts
PNW
Bigfoot
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| Thu Apr 07, 11 12:26 pm |
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| genek wrote: | | foghater wrote: | Damn I sure did stir the shit....
PDX monkeyboy I think it rubs people a bit the wrong way when you actually have a site called LOSE THE STRAPS ... others and I interpret that as .. lose the straps you kook..
Like I said I can ride strapless... quite well actually..and it does feel different..probally closer to actually surfing... but when its good size out here on the oregon coast.. 99% percent of strapless guys are just barley surviving...
I dont want to just survive.. I want to smack the holy living shit out of a lip, bust a kick ass air over a three wave 10ft close out.. just in time to grab the fourth wave.. arcing a g force bottom turn and straight up off the lip. and...repeat.
To each his own... just dont tell me yours is the only way.. |
Don't assume people can't surf overhead waves well strapless just because you haven't seen it much.
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Yo GeneK: Foghater see lots of riders of all types because when your down there hitting the waves, so is Foghater, as this person lives on the coast and sails the coastal waters 99% more than the rest of us. I think this person knows what they are talking about. . .
Most important point this person makes, is RIDE WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY. Can we stop the bickering now? Please. |
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tonyb
Since 09 Oct 2006
973 Posts
Stevenson in the summer & SPI in the winter
Bolstad Clan
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| Thu Apr 07, 11 2:36 pm |
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I ride both ways and have fun with and without the straps. With straps I can boost big, throw big ol slow 360's, smack the lip, and basically rip around all over the place. Without straps is much more of a flow and carve session, linking waves together while running 5 mile long downwinders.
Strapped board is 5' 6", strapless is a 6'. Rode both of them today and had an awesome time. No right or wrong, just different.
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
6081 Posts
forever labled as the
retired kiter & motorhead Unicorn Master
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holly
Since 09 Jul 2006
440 Posts
Hood River
Obsessed
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 1:35 am |
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| thats what she said!! |
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Pete
Since 29 Oct 2007
843 Posts
Opinionated
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 7:42 am |
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So yesterday at my local spot, it was blowin' like 20-30mph, waves were about 4-6 feet, looked really fun. I thought to myself, you know, that Holly seems like a really cool chick, and if riding strapless makes HER feel badass, I really want to feel that way too! And I really want to impress this Monkeybutt guy, because he made me feel all butthurt, and if I ride strapless, maybe he'll approve of me. Plus, who doesn't want to feel badass, I mean really, right!?
So, I take my trusty 5'9", and I just rip the straps right off, right there in the parking lot. I think to myself "I wanna be badass tooo! And I'm gonna do it today!" So out I go with my newly strapless board, and whaddaya know, I flew over whitewash with the greatest of ease, smacked the lip with reckless abandon, and floated huge strapless airs like never before! It was TOTALLY frickin' BADASS! I mean BADASS to the umpth degree!!
Wow, I thought, this does make me feel totally badass, and I can really feel my skill improving with every second of strapless ripping! Not only that, I could immediately tell that this strapless thing takes so much more skill, and the skill I have made me realize even more how super badass I really am. It was like badassness was just oozing out of my pores!!!
With my new super badass self, it was like the other riders in the water were like, so inferior. I'm like, dude, you aren't riding strapless, you are a plebian compared to me, out of my way man! All super badass strapless riders get right of way at all times, and don't even question whether I am badass or not, I am riding strapless, of course I am. DUH!
Thank you Folly and Monkeybutt for sharing with me this previously unknown side effect of riding strapless. I feel so badass right now, that I just fricken' floated into work today, I figured, these people driving around me are so NOT badass, that they just don't even matter to a guy as badass as me, and they just need to get the fock out of my way, and guess what, they did! Gawd I am badass! |
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Gman
Since 11 Feb 2006
4911 Posts
Portland
Unstrapped
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Wind Slither
Since 04 Mar 2005
2620 Posts
The 503
METAL
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 8:48 am |
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Kiting is like religion, as soon as someone tells you that their way is the only cool way and everything else is crap, you know to stop listening to that person.
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Sasquatch
Since 09 Mar 2005
2102 Posts
PNW
Bigfoot
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 8:51 am |
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| Wind Slither wrote: | Kiting is like religion, as soon as someone tells you that their way is the only cool way and everything else is crap, you know to stop listening to that person.
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Amen to that Brother!
You should really go to service at my church this Sunday, it's way better than you faith. |
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holly
Since 09 Jul 2006
440 Posts
Hood River
Obsessed
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 9:49 am |
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| LOL Pete now that's badass!!! You will be even more badass if you wear boardshorts over your wetsuit! |
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
6081 Posts
forever labled as the
retired kiter & motorhead Unicorn Master
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 10:48 am |
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Sounds like you had a good session; although I suspect that the session ended when your alarm clock went off.
I find that your kiteboarding will be much more rewarding if you don't really pay attention to anybody else on the water unless they are drowning or in your way.
Is that guy better than me? What trick did that guy do? When I first started, a large majority of my time on the water was spent with these thoughts in my head. Probably because I didn't really know what the hell I was doing and I was self conscious.
There is always someone better than you and there are always people worse than you. As gman pointed out, I think the honey badger has it all figured out. You think the honey badger is thinking about how you prefer to ride? No, he just wants to ride, he doesn't care, he doesn't give a shit, he's just a crazzy fuck.
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Sasquatch
Since 09 Mar 2005
2102 Posts
PNW
Bigfoot
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| Fri Apr 08, 11 11:15 am |
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I guess one can always count on last queefes out of Holly's bearded clam and or PDXmonkeyboy's prolapsed bunghole :0
Time to move on. . . New topic please! |
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pdxmonkeyboy
Since 16 May 2006
6081 Posts
forever labled as the
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