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Flojo - have you had a chance to try the Yuccas yet? And what flex level if you know? I'm considering...I tried a couple on for sizing and if I go with Yuccas I'll have to commit to fin socks or not, I'm right on the size edge.

Next time you are in the water try riding that backward...with the squared off end forward. Not joking. I'm assuming the rails are parallel (can't really tell from photo) but if the tail is narrower than the rounded end even better. Didn't catch the dimensions you were working with but there are no ...

Fat tail like that is good for catching waves and going fast but yeah, turning has challenges. I rode a board for a while back in the 70's that had a really fat wide diamond tail but my guess from misty memory is it was probably 12"-14" a foot up. Maybe 16" max. Great board for the ti...

Looks like it goes fast from that spray line. And like you have most of the rail buried. Video please!

Thanks for posting that stuff, fantastic, especially to see those boards.

Maybe we need to update the old Endless Summer/Phil Edwards lines about "being here yesterday" or "an hour ago"...

You should have been here half a century ago!

Another fun one...who knew at the time the 1970's were going to be such a hoot?

https://eos.surf/video/entry/tom-morey-boogie-72/

Morey was also engaged with innovating removable skegs (board fins). Forgot all about that, good call Rod. W.A.V.E. Set fins. Via the Mactavish/Greenough connection I suppose Greenough fins were commercially available through them. Stage IV - that was a good fin on a 7'9" Morey Pope I had back...

I too was sad to read the news. I didn't know Morey at all other than a passing email communication a couple of decades ago but I've known of him my entire surfing life. I'm an "old surfer" at this stage, and lately I try to keep my peanut gallery comments on most anything wave-riding to m...

Thanks for posting the link. Between that vid and the "boogie foil" series that came up after I think I got my questions answered. I like the idea of the feeling of "flight" but that looks awkward, uncomfortable, and without flow...beyond the suggested vid where the person just r...

So I was watching the videos of Hamilton riding Chicama on foil boards...has anybody around here actually tried riding a modern foil board prone?

So if I put Geoffrey's & Nels insights together, the leather comes from drunken masochistic cattle.

They seem like the only logical explanations. Nothing but the best for surfers!

bgreen wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:41 pm
I'm not sure what "responsibly sourced" leather is

I think that's when the cow cuts strips of its own hide for at least $15 USD an hour...

Just noticed you posted this less than an hour before I saw the ad the other day...great minds or something etc.

As much as this product doesn't resonate with me despite the "paipo" word...it's probably better than those sandals with bottle openers...

https://www.reef.com/s/ReefUS/paipo.html#email-signup

Everything about "paipo" gets me excited. Usually.

I'm sure this has been posted here somewhere but I couldn't find it offhand this afternoon. From January of this year. Id I missed it, maybe somebody else did too. Worth the time.

Paipo 1958-1965.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAp48UqnizI

I was watching a video of a wingsuit guy in the Swiss Alps and then this popped up. Kind of a jump from wingsuit to this but the face-first flying element is there in both. And while I was watching I could see exactly what I like about riding wave and where I'm at and what I want to get out of the w...

Now those two boards actually "speak to me"...far more than the board in the vid.

Read that Kuta was a clothing brand apparently being brought back to life, so maybe just a sponsor sticker?

Somebody with a paipo in Bali...anybody from here? Just the one first wave but there's enough lead-in to check the board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTzem2OhbEE

I'm kind of a finless type but I didn't want to leave you hanging out there. On a Frankenstein adaptation of a chunk of Wavestorm I placed the salvaged fins roughly like a mini simmons with the tips roughly to the squared off tail. So that was a couple of inches in from the rail. Untested to this po...

I've seen that product for a couple of years now. Somebody sold one on craigslist out of Huntington or somewhere back then even though they seem to be an East Coast U.S. item. I'm a sucker for hybrid stuff and always have been...long enough to remember advice that a hybrid of anything probably doesn...