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Board test for the every day surfer
- Thread starter trifish
- Start date
As little flow as humanly possible, obvious forced ollie motion...
Some people do airs and they look smooth. Others look like everything people criticize about Joe Crimo, but the chop hop is done in the lip instead of the flat, so now we have to fall all over ourselves flattering it.
I counted six (Sunday Brunch session at Mayport levels of ugly) pumps before each air. At a pointbreak. He looks like me trying to generate speed on a day when I decided to force a DD-style shortboard in near-grovel surf. Just rando arms and sh!t flying all over the place.
"Somewhere, a springsuit and booties are missing its surfer"
Toledo is a beast, but yeh I get it. I prefer his surfing more as of recently. I get bored with the air show even though they are impressive. The stuff Medina/Italo and some of those guys have been landing lately in events have been pretty wild. Even so I still found Morgan Cibilic's surfing of clean consistent turns refreshing in the recent events. Never liked how airs will bail some people out after having a horrible heat with everything else. Maybe i'm old school though.
I tried the flat earth with the MR stabilizer fin a couple of times, in a beach break and point break, and didn't like it. It felt slower and lost the crazy looseness. Maybe I'm just getting too old and need the power searing.
Yeah... It'd be like riding one of those MR boards (with the box for the stabilizer) with a set of standard thruster fins.
That's not smart.
You can go directly to the source, https://akubra.com.au, they ship internationally. They're not cheap and there are others that make similar hats (like the link below), but these are the real deal.
You also have "Will & Bear" that does real wool;
Will & Bear | Men's & Women's Hats Online
Australian hat label. Quality Men's & Women's wide brim hats for the road. Handmade from 100% Australian wool and finished with all natural details.
willandbear.com
Brixton is a more "Surf brand" that does similar shape hats (Fedora etc), but they're not a "hat for life".
What style of Akubra you think he's wearing? The choices on that site are huge!You can go directly to the source, https://akubra.com.au, they ship internationally. They're not cheap and there are others that make similar hats (like the link below), but these are the real deal.
You also have "Will & Bear" that does real wool;
Will & Bear | Men's & Women's Hats Online
Australian hat label. Quality Men's & Women's wide brim hats for the road. Handmade from 100% Australian wool and finished with all natural details.
Brixton is a more "Surf brand" that does similar shape hats (Fedora etc), but they're not a "hat for life".
Stylemaster BRAH, very dank
The Traveler looks cool, but i like the one he's wearing. Waxfoot has a sick one too. I like the one Mikey Wright wears.
haha, thanks, I got a cheap wool one for now (made in Chi-na). It looks cool, but the Akubra just holds its shape that much better.
I can go out and buy one, but I said to myself I'll only buy one, when I've got my Australian citizenship ... not that it will be hard to get, just as artificial motivation to get me to do all the bloody paperwork again
Hmm, hard to tell - I'd have said traveller or avalon, but can't find that colour.
I applaud your guys' confidence. I never see a wide-brim hat and think "oh yeah, that would look good on me!"
Besides, without a chinstrap, I don't see how they stay on in the water!
Besides, without a chinstrap, I don't see how they stay on in the water!
In addition to being the best surfer in the water whenever you paddle out, You're obviously incredibly handsome & stylish and can pull anything off. But I think we can all agree that not everyone who thinks they look cool in a wide-brimmed hat, does?
Although now that I think about it... most girls look sexy as hell in 'em.
Hats are good at hiding the pretty from a far faces
I think the Cattleman might be the one. Been lookin their site for hours. haha.
Gonna order one for me and wife (that way i dont get in too much trouble for ordering an expensive hat for myself).
Thanks Waxfoot.
I like Italo's surfing - I guess because I don't watch contests anymore? I'd like the air show more if there were more straight airs with grabs vs everything is a rotation.
I watched the bit about the Pyzel and the Mayhem today. I would not pick my first gen Sub Driver for that steep/tight pockety frontside and I would throw upright fins in if it's what I had for surf like that.
