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[griffinsurfboard]

Cool, me too.
Do you get by responding as you just did snubs the discussion you originally asked for?
That leads to … what you complain about. Over and over again.

I will never be able to match your existence .

I will pick one session from 1971
Surfing the Hook in Santa Cruz on a perfect bigger day with my friend Roger
Black a local surfer from Hawaii loaned me his brand new unridden Tri Fin BK sent him
What an awesome day and board

 

[griffinsurfboard]

at least a couple minutes at the reefs.

Kinda doubt a couple of minutes

Surfing is more than time on the board in each session which is its smallest part of the total experience - adventure

Like I said in the beginning my friend Tony at Slingshot brought this up when he was making and riding a ton of Kiteboards

 

[Woke AF]

I will never be able to match your existence .

I will pick one session from 1971
Surfing the Hook in Santa Cruz on a perfect bigger day with my friend Roger
Black a local surfer from Hawaii loaned me his brand new unridden Tri Fin BK sent him
What an awesome day and board

Ok, I’m not competing with you or anyone here. Just a guess. but I don’t think anyone here is either. Nobody has doubted what you have experienced. But just because you have had this lifetime experience and have drawn your conclusions does not necessarily make those conclusions true for anyone else.
I’m sure they are true for you and I’m totally happy for that, but if I disagree they are not true for me which has little to do with you.

it would be far more interesting if you said why that board worked so well for you that day.

 

[kool-aid]

Believe it or not, I actually track this sometimes with dawn patrol and an apple watch.

The most riding time I've ever logged in a single session was ~4:30.

That was over a 3-hour(ish) session on a fun OB winter day riding my CI Mid.

FYI, you can ignore members on the erBB by clicking on their profile and hitting the ignore button.

Did that the other day for Greg and do not regret it so far.

 

[sdsrfr]

Believe it or not, I actually track this sometimes with dawn patrol and an apple watch.

yep, this is where I got my “couple of minutes” figure from. The reef break I reference offers ~200 yrd rights and doesn’t need to be big or perfect to connect all the way through.

4.5min at OBSF sounds exhausting.

 

[griffinsurfboard]

4.5min at OBSF sounds exhausting.

Absolutley !!

 

[griffinsurfboard]

Believe it or not, I actually track this sometimes with dawn patrol and an apple watch.

The most riding time I've ever logged in a single session was ~4:30.

That was over a 3-hour(ish) session on a fun OB winter day riding my CI Mid.

FYI, you can ignore members on the erBB by clicking on their profile and hitting the ignore button.

Did that the other day for Greg and do not regret it so far.

Viewing everything I say in a negative way gets the results you are looking for .

We are sharing the idea of actual ride time because of my post = information that would not exist without it

 

[Mr Doof]

yep, this is where I got my “couple of minutes” figure from. The reef break I reference offers ~200 yrd rights and doesn’t need to be big or perfect to connect all the way through.

45min paddling out at OBSF sounds exhausting for one take off then biffing it on the bottom turn, then getting plowed back to the dry sand.

Fixed (and guilty of such flailing).

 

[griffinsurfboard]

200 yrd rights
Paddle back out
Wait your turn when that One finally comes
Repeat

From experience - a couple of minutes of board time would take several hours

 

[griffinsurfboard]

it would be far more interesting if you said why that board worked so well for you that day.

This would be great
It would include Kool Aids dreaded name dropping that adds to this Information that makes this day and board even better

This BK tri fin had the same Diffenderfer tri plane of that year - would love to describe what it rode like
Black was a featured Hawaiian in 5 summer Stories
Roger was the best surfer ever to come out of Santa Cruz
Just to start

 

[griffinsurfboard]

Information

 

[One-Off]

Believe it or not, I actually track this sometimes with dawn patrol and an apple watch.

The most riding time I've ever logged in a single session was ~4:30.

That was over a 3-hour(ish) session on a fun OB winter day riding my CI Mid.

FYI, you can ignore members on the erBB by clicking on their profile and hitting the ignore button.

Did that the other day for Greg and do not regret it so far.

We’re not really surfers. We’re paddlers.

 

[sdsrfr]

200 yrd rights
Paddle back out
Wait your turn when that One finally comes
Repeat

From experience - a couple of minutes of board time would take several hours

you were a white guy who transplanted to Hawaii - I am not surprised this would take you several hours to accumulate.

it should.

 

[j_mac]

200 yrd rights
Paddle back out
Wait your turn when that One finally comes
Repeat

From experience - a couple of minutes of board time would take several hours

This is the same for all gravity-based sports without assistance as there is an inequality of speeds that results in an inequality of time
surfing - paddle offshore minutes, on the wave seconds
mountain biking - 1 hour of pedaling up, hike the mountain with the bike on your back, 5 minutes down
bike jumps - hours and hours building and hiking the bike for seconds of flight time
snowboarding - walk up (hour) - minutes down
list goes on

The goals are either 1) optimize the slower aspect to make it more tolerable and sacrifice performance on the faster aspect, 2) balance/compromise between the two, 3) suffer on the slower for performance on the faster, or 4) get assistance (boat, electric, lift, rip current, drugs, etc)

Other than true lift or electric assistance... I would say the general tendency is toward the performance side with as much of a "cheat" factor to reduce suffering!

 

[griffinsurfboard]

mountain biking - 1 hour of pedaling up,

Thats part of the thrill , with trail riding + downhill runs

 

[griffinsurfboard]

you were a white guy who transplanted to Hawaii -

I was well accepted from the beginning being a shaper working for Local Motion , Lots of uncrowded places to surf too .

 

[casa_mugrienta]

 

[sdsrfr]

I was well accepted from the beginning being a shaper working for Local Motion , Lots of uncrowded places to surf too .

Then why would it take you so long to accumulate a few minutes of standing on your board in a single session?

 

[griffinsurfboard]

Then why would it take you so long to accumulate a few minutes of standing on your board in a single session?

Because what you claim is not possible , lots of time paddling back out , waiting for that good wave with respect of others etc.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Because what you claim is not possible , lots of time paddling back out , waiting for that good wave with respect of others etc.

Especially for the average surfer at the majority of spots in CA or the East Coast.