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- Tue Sep 10, 2013 3:34 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Building my first Paipo
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16012
Re: Building my first Paipo
I never saw the point in a fish/swallowtail paipo since my lower half is still hanging off the back. I figured less drag is better so left it off prone boards. I did do a very slight diamond tail on my first wood mini-paipo (Cubit in Poobah terms). Meh. Maybe a very slight swallowtail? Straight acro...
- Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:25 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Paipo en Peru video
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7020
Re: Paipo en Peru video
My guess is that in waves typical of many Florida breaks where the waves tend to be slopier and weaker that a floaty board would help catch and stay on more waves. That is my finding and why I keep my wider, thicker foam/glass in FL, not my thinner, narrower board that I use in PR, CR and HI. Oh yo...
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:01 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Pacific Ocean water quality
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3731
Re: Pacific Ocean water quality
Here's some background from April 2012 on how they were studying things back then. As Rod says, a lot of coverage was from the Hysterical Press, and now there simply isn't a lot of coverage. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46932480/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/fukushima-radiation-headed-across-paci...
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:03 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Pacific Ocean water quality
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3731
Re: Pacific Ocean water quality
An old surfing friend called me out of the blue last Thursday night. We were catching up on stuff and he happened to say that we still had a couple of years left to surf - it sounded so finite. I didn't have a clue, but he put me onto this stuff. Apparently the radioactivity didn't disperse as expec...
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:14 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Professor Bob is Now Published!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1406
Re: Professor Bob is Now Published!
Nice going, Bob. Print is tough to crack. Funny how resurgent longboarding led to rediscovery of early-era shortboards, the alt-surfing movement, and finally got back around to acknowledging paipos. Meanwhile pro surfing continues to chase skimboarding circa Y2K, having finally caught up to and surp...
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:08 pm
- Forum: For Sale, Wanted or Trade
- Topic: Concave Vector for sale
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2068
Concave Vector for sale
A pretty clean looking example of the venerated Newport Paipo Concave Vector is currently for sale on Ebay. Don't know who is selling but I'd rather it stayed within "the community" rather than hang on the wall of some dental office. Although, come to think of it, it might look good on the...
- Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:06 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Finless or Not?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19981
Re: Finless or Not?
Morey's Swizzle incorporated bodyboard design into standup surfboards...at least rails. Brilliant thinker and craftsman, inventor and builder....a true visionary. The contemporary world of standup surfing, of course, does not value any of those things. http://www.catchsurf.com/index.php/swizzle-surf...
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:45 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Finless or Not?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19981
Re: Finless or Not?
After watching "bodyboarding" since its inception it seems to me that the original design came out astonishingly "final". Significant improvements have been made with design and materials and construction methods since the original kit boards, but a modern bodyboard would be inst...
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:31 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Terry Hendricks RIP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1639
Re: Terry Hendricks RIP
Sorry to hear. Didn't know the man personally but he always seemed to represent the best of that kind of "mad surfing scientist" vibe that has made surfing so much fun through the decades.
Nels
Nels
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:25 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Finless or Not?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19981
Re: Finless or Not?
I used to prone ride a 54" soft kneeboard, template roughly modeled after "Velo", that had twin O'Fishel fins. The rails were very "bodyboard". With the fins in, directional stability and good hold...such good hold that sometimes in very critical suck out situations I would ...
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:41 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Wegener Albacore
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8529
Re: Wegener Albacore
Aaahhh...okay, anybody ripped off the design and made one and tried it? Or tried a handmade one in Oz?
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:43 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Wegener Albacore
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8529
Wegener Albacore
The finless Albacore, as made by Global Surf Industries...
http://www.surfindustries.com/surfboard ... bacore.php
Anybody tried one?
Nels
http://www.surfindustries.com/surfboard ... bacore.php
Anybody tried one?
Nels
- Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:39 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Ab unexpected paipo hookup in Indo
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8412
Re: Ab unexpected paipo hookup in Indo
Being a rather beat-up old surfer I pre-date the bodyboard, which Bob correctly ties with Tom Morey. Tom Morey invented the soft-core surfcraft...with his Morey Boogie. Since the materials were available to anyone once the idea was released, legal needs forced the coinage of the term "bodyboard...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:34 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Ab unexpected paipo hookup in Indo
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8412
Re: Ab unexpected paipo hookup in Indo
Come on guys- if it's soft and finless, it's a bodyboard. If it's a hard board or has fins, it's a paipo or bellyboard. Yes, some guys are anal about traditional Hawaiian style paipo boards being the only thing to be called a paipo, but I don't see why the magic of the term needs to be cemented in s...