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Show us a photo of your new board when you finish it. What are the dimensions of your current boards?

James.

Lucky bum. The water has been about 48 degrees here lately. Some good surf last week.

This looks interesting.http://www.sportguard.net/ribguard-products/. Might be good for rough waves and big drops!!!

ClanB, I did meet a bodyboarder who uses a leg leash attached to a plug to the nose of his board. You could try that at some point. Having the plug on the nose and attached to the ankle would drag better. I don't know if it interferes with paddling and kicking. My ankle leash does get tangled up or ...

I have been using an ankle leash for last 15 years or so. I used them even on my bodyboards. I got tired of having my arm almost yanked off when big ones come through. I have the plug at the tail of my board.

I like having volume on my board. I can catch waves much earlier or deeper and you can make through slow sections when on a thinner board would slow down or stop. But I cannot duck dive it in anything but small foam or through the top of wave. But I think it is worth the drawbacks. The volume really...

Thanks for your input. I will focus more board position with different maneuvers. I have noticed that holding body weight back at time has helped quite a bite. I usually turn right when I get on a wave. I only drop straight down when I catch a wave too late or I catch a bad wave and I don't want to ...

A very interesting board. It would be fun to try it out sometime.

Well I think that moving the thickness a little forward would help when taking a big steep drop it might help keep the nose out the water (The front end of my board is a little on the thin side. The thickest part of the board is about 4-6" behind where my chest rests when on a wave. Also it mig...

Well the Jury is in. I have ridden this board for about 5 months now and I think it rides great. I took awhile to transition over from a bodyboard. I have mostly been surfing at the point and reef breaks around Pleasure point in Santa Cruz. Even in big surf these waves are pretty flat once you get o...

What are the dimensions of this board?

If you scroll down, there are a couple of Paipo board things here today https://www.facebook.com/liquidsalt

They are 4.45" high by 4.37 long. They are in the medium range on their line. http://www.futuresfins.com/fin-detail.php?id=121&largeimg=blackstix_jc1_full.jpg My other pair are bigger. http://www.futuresfins.com/fin-detail.php?id=33&largeimg=twinkeel_t1_full.jpg They have great drive. I...

Here are the fins I have been using. They seem to work great (on my board 51" by 22"). They are Futures Vector II 460s. The foil really helps accelerate on turns. I have only side slipped once, when a wave closed on me from behind. I was going to try their smallest fin also, the "Supe...

Looks pretty good! Maybe we could get together and compare boards sometime.

Paipo Jim, I thought this was supposed to be a forum where people who have similar interests have friendly discussions about paipo/bellyboarding etc. I don't think peopIe should be hurling insults such as: "I personally consider Marin County to be in la-la land, full of people with too much mon...

Being born and raised and having lived my entire life in Northern California we always considered anything Malibu or the canyons south to be Southern California. Central California ended at Monterey. Monterey and north is Northern California.

I have been using Pro-force fins by Force fins for the last 6 years or so. I can kick for three to four hours without cramping. Regular force fins and Rip force fins don't have enough power. I have used both before switching to Pro-Force fins. I talked to the creator Bob Evans and he said that they ...

I had a good time on the Northshore last March. There weren't too many people. But this was after the main season. I was going to go over there this month, but decided against it. My son has been going to school over there he says it gets very crowded. Also if you look at the Surfline cams there are...

Rod, Where on the sternum are measuring from? The sternum is actually three bones and is about 8 inches long. Do you mean at the bottom of the sternum? (at the xiphoid process.)