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- Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:36 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Anyone ridden a Hawaii Paipo Design XP
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9748
Re: Anyone ridden a Hawaii Paipo Design XP
Thanks Bob though currently I am living in the mtns of Southern Ecuador about 15 hours bus ride from good surf. And they seldom stop for pee breaks!
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:57 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Anyone ridden a Hawaii Paipo Design XP
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9748
Re: Anyone ridden a Hawaii Paipo Design XP
HIs site redesign looks GREAT! No way to contact on there, yet but if you talk to him soon, tell him at least some of "the public" likes it! I'm lookkng forward to any ride reports from test pilot because I like that more parallel outline a lot more I think. I made a pretty flat plywood &q...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:07 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: First Paipo Build
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7417
Re: First Paipo Build
[quote] More important is how thick./quote]
Isn't that what she said?
Isn't that what she said?
- Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:26 pm
- Forum: Swim Fins, Skegs & Other Paipo Gear
- Topic: fin Savers?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5046
Re: fin Savers?
I've made my own that worked very well. Couple blown out, useless surf leashes wherever you can find them; can't even remember where or how I got mine. Cut off the leash and just make connectors from nylon webbing, backpack strap sort of material. As long as the velcro is good they will last for years
- Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:54 am
- Forum: Paipo Web Pages
- Topic: Cool Mat Website
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8709
Re: Cool Mat Website
Duckdiving a mat is a skill for sure and only good in small surf. Grab front corners and shove down hard with body sort of lifted off mat; that forces the air towards the rear so front collapses and sinks. Really similar to ducking a hard board only that you can't shove w/ with your knee. Bigger sur...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:57 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Wedge wars.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2874
Re: Wedge wars.
This was going on when I was in high school, 1967-68 around there. Much worse I am sure as more and more rats in a small box but not a new war at all
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:25 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: HPD Flex Paipos - Small
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15512
Re: HPD Flex Paipos - Small
Too bad Dale is pretty much off the radar. He made flex design "guitar pick" paipo many years ago from carbon fiber. Don't remember much detail though. Also told me on tele that he almost got himself killed once when a glass/flex design failed catastrophically under load in beefy surf. Thi...
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:21 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Pacific Ocean water quality
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3698
Re: Pacific Ocean water quality
Do you mean as in "eliminating the hordes of surfers due to early death"?rodndtube wrote:Maybe the beneficial side effect will be to cleanse the polluted waters of SoCal?
- Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:56 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: HPD Flex Paipos - Small
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15512
Re: HPD Flex Paipos - Small
Love the experimental spirit! My first reaction, halfway through your post, when I saw the instagram vid was, "YIKES!" Had a feeling it was just a it too much. Fiber glass thin enough to flex that much just won't hold up. Wave forces are so much greater than we can tell from dry land and h...
- Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:14 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: 1947 Hermosa Beach surf movie
- Replies: 1
- Views: 934
1947 Hermosa Beach surf movie
Maybe linked here before but I don't remember it. This was just linked on surfmatters.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_H2cSOMcDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_H2cSOMcDo
Lot of fun stuff going on! Paipo, mats, planks...Surfing: "Riders of the California Surf" 1947 Hermosa Pix
- Sun Aug 04, 2013 2:57 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Latest Paipo Interview is GREAT!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1617
Latest Paipo Interview is GREAT!
Did not see that Bob posted this here (yet). Great fun and some very interesting design considerations
http://mypaipoboards.org/interviews/Jef ... 0713.shtml
Be sure to watch the video linked at the very end. And go directly to VIMEO for best viewing
http://vimeo.com/71420656
http://mypaipoboards.org/interviews/Jef ... 0713.shtml
Be sure to watch the video linked at the very end. And go directly to VIMEO for best viewing
http://vimeo.com/71420656
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:26 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Wavejet bodyboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4970
Re: Wavejet bodyboard
I think great fun for a quadriplegic but not for me. For me a big part of the fun and draw of surfing in general is to get away from technology and civilization as much as possible. The tech and all is necessary to some extent to get there but I REALLY don't want to have it with me in the water. Plu...
- Sat Jun 08, 2013 3:36 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Finless or Not?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19105
Re: Finless or Not?
i love this quote; everything works, its a matter of "IF" you like the way it works~unknown Another variation: Late 60's was hanging out in WIlderness shop in SB harassing Greenough and fingering Velo while he did all rope glass lay-up for new fin. Every question I asked him he answered w...
- Sun Mar 31, 2013 12:21 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Mega Platter Redux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14164
Re: Mega Platter Redux
Elbow pads are a good idea! Not sure about using the full deck pad in tropical or warm waters and how it interacts with skin. I always wear a rash guard of some kind. It would save on wax! Now... if I would only get my eyes fixed ;) I have always worn a rash guard or tee shirt in the "olden da...
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:48 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Paipo Building Advice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7417
Re: Paipo Building Advice
I have done the "early in" on a mat a couple times by shear luck. I hung way off the back and stiffened my body so I basically had one looooong rail line, mat and me and kicked big deep power kicks. As I felt the wave a bit I kept kicking HARD and gradually reeled the mat in. Of course, th...
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:09 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: a little Paipoporn
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2171
Re: a little Paipoporn
Except for some of the later edge boards got narrower by a fair bit...I thinkUncle Grumpy wrote:Every board I've seen and all I've read; GG's Velo's were all very close to 5' X 22"
My 2¢
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:10 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: a little Paipoporn
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2171
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:02 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: John Galera nofin on Youtube
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8499
Re: John Galera nofin on Youtube
A rolled bottom of equal width to a flat bottom will have less planning area so be somewhat slower but since the added curves are perpendicular to the water flow should not be pushing water I don't think. In a turn, somewhat different dynamics of course.
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:59 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: John Galera nofin on Youtube
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8499
Re: John Galera nofin on Youtube
Soulglider, no apology needed! That was an excellent and well informed rant and I loved reading it!!!
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:17 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Deus Ex Machina Bellyboard
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3239
Re: Deus Ex Machina Bellyboard
Ackkkk, surf politics...