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- Sat Apr 21, 2018 5:04 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17728
Re: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
Looks like maybe does not roll up. Just maybe gets flatter I don't know for sure, but that construction for paddleboards does roll up...just not like modern surf mats. Would go into a thicker roll. Still, smaller and easier to travel with than a real bodyboard or paipo. Inflated...well, jury is out...
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:38 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17728
Re: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
Just to blur the lines, muddy the waters, or let business travelers sneak in a few...the inflatable bodyboard! https://www.surfertoday.com/bodyboarding/14062-meet-the-boog-mat-an-inflatable-bodyboard-by-hubboards First one I saw was from Sea Eagle a couple of years ago, found this last night, and th...
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:36 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17728
Re: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
Also to be considered is the nature of the materials used in construction...But, in the end, the shaper has to make do without multiple compound curves or a static rocker curve, and with the unavoidable flex. Yeah, that's all true with bodyboards. Maybe it's an insurmountable divide when it comes t...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:25 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Things prone in general
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8654
Re: Things prone in general
I've seen various EPS softboards and have wondered about them...especially about their durability. Traditional bodyboard materials are stronger but crease. With something like Softech I wonder if they snap or if you can grip them hard enough to seriously dent. I take ridiculous care of my boards so ...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:19 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17728
Re: Bodyboards discuss (the soft paipo)
So has it stayed so similar to the original because that was the best design? Water is water and we are roughly the same sized people. So the task of the board isnt changing and there isnt a new problem to be solved. That may be "it" in a nutshell with regard to the bodyboard. The materia...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Things prone in general
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8654
Re: Things prone in general
you are much more of a technician than me I'm mostly theoretical...and I seem to have had a long-standing interest in materials. Our area in the post-foam surfing eras...Hollow W.A.V.E. boards, the Boogie came after Tom Morey left Morey-Pope, mats (nod to Dale Solomonson in Oregon there too but he ...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:37 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Things prone in general
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8654
Re: Things prone in general
Bodyboards currently have an interchangeable stringer system option available from several major brands. http://www.rideiss.com/ It's a very interesting concept, very affordable...but alas...it has no practical application that I can see for bellyboards of traditional construction. Maybe I'm wrong? ...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:26 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Things prone in general
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8654
Re: Things prone in general
As stand up surfers get older and the distain they show for SUPS I think they may look into the prone zone. I've really started to not care what people think of what I do, whether in the ocean or on land. I think it's best to keep it on the down low. I bodyboard because at 72 my balance is shot I k...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:29 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Things prone in general
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8654
Things prone in general
Sooo...I live sandwiched between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara...and I go way out of my way to avoid surfing with other people. Bodysurfing, bodyboarding, and bellyboarding make that much easier. Any decent wave is usually choking on standup surfers of the complete gamut of abilities, plus some SUPs...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:05 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 1269507
Re: TBG5
Heh heh...sorry about the semi-hijack there, back to nomastomas and his TGB5 and onward...
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:51 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 1269507
Re: TBG5
The interesting/frustrating thing about BBs is that they aren't mainstream. Boogieboards don't seem to stray too far from established parameters, with lots of test pilots in good waves. BBS and paipos on the other hand go in all sorts of directions. With all things BB, it is a very small market. El...
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:40 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 1269507
Re: TBG5
What can I say? Messing around a bit there, but...I know Indo is the Hawaii cakewalk for you guys down under, but it's so far away from the rest of us...if I were so lucky as to make that trip I'd take a boogie just to be sure of having something that is maybe a 75% "sure thing" performer...
- Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 1269507
Re: TBG5
Maybe sometimes you...Boogie!It's hard to get a board that rides well in all conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssf5y28RwK0
Nels
Providing an occasional voice for anarchy in surfing
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:56 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBXL
- Replies: 22
- Views: 211782
Re: TBXL
Dang, Bob, I know you're good...but that seems like a superhuman challenge...I hope to complete an interview with the late Peter Berry, creator of radical kneeboards
Would like to see it though.
Nels
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:53 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 1269507
Re: TBG5
Speaking of "old Hawaiians" and old school paipoboarding and bellyboarding, a lot of guys rode with their heads forward of the nose of their boards and the arm nearest the wave outstretched. Not so good for pearling probably but would give some protection to the old chinbone. Also moved th...
- Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:57 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: What are you riding at the moment?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14596
Re: What are you riding at the moment?
I'm curious too. I'm sort of on the bench at the moment, my beloved DiStephano soft kneeboard which I have ridden finless as a paipo for years and years having given up the performance ghost. Alas, a wall hanger for me. I'm over the thin plywood boards in cold water. They may get wet in warm summer ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:58 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Plywood paipo with a bodyboard shape
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3109
Re: Plywood paipo with a bodyboard shape
Looks like it went good to me. On my plywood paipos, also with no rocker, I found easiest entry was to catch the wave early, much earlier than on a bodyboard. As to spray, yes, mine also put spray out but it always was out to the sides or off the more open rail. Never into my face, for instance, whi...
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:30 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Mermaid Tails
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6474
Re: Mermaid Tails
For that matter you could just use a fin tether around one ankle and attach the other end around your other ankle when you get out in deeper water. Or some velcro strap. After all, you can mermaid/dolphin kick using regular fins without anything binding the two legs or fins...I used to do that doing...
- Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:47 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Mermaid Tails
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6474
Re: Mermaid Tails
The bodysurfing group on yahoo poked around with the monofin thing a good number of years ago. I have zero memory of what came of it. Good in pools if I recall. My guess (and it's my guess only) is that the monofins I see today and especially the "mermaid's tails" kind would have unnecessa...
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:41 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Thought experiment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6238
Re: Thought experiment
Keep the "thought" in "Thought experiment"...if it makes you happy then you must be doing something right, even if it's wrong...
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