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Love Machine Surfboards
- Thread starter Havoc
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LOL my thoughts exactly. I thought maybe 10 months at most.
This. Learned how to generate speed on the 90s potato chips in knee high FL mush. Not that I would go back to those types of boards, but it definitely had some benefit, for me at least.
Lot's of people bitch about the glass slipper, but I've always maintained it made me a stronger paddler and taught me to use my rails. Also, at that time I only had one board that I used in everything......which taught me how to adjust my surfing to the conditions and not rely on the board itself.
Yeah, handicapping oneself to make yourself better is a time honored endeavor. There are better ways.
glasslipper
I have mixed feelings on this.
Like, I guess part of me is glad that I learned how to ride a glass slipper when I was young. I know I've said as much on here before. But also I'm glad that I never have to ride one again.
I was thinking, if I could travel back to 1998 and re-learn the basics of shortboarding at age 15 would I choose to learn on an extremely thin and rockered JS of the era, as I did, or a HP thruster from 2023?
Without a doubt I would choose the modern board. They are just a much better and more versatile tool and I think I would have progressed faster and had a lot more fun. The glass slipper taught me how to surf in the pocket (because you basically had no choice) but a modern board can also surf the pocket while also paddling and catching waves and making speed much better.
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Been thinking about this lately and funny enough the mind reading AI algos presented me with AI ripping shitty oceanside:
I haven''t watched this yet, but plan to over the next couple nights. Seems relevant to the 90s boar discussion we're having:
One of the greatest surfers of all time, still the take-off isn't smooth and the board goes to a dead halt at any resistance. Any other surfer wouldn't even get to their feet.
Not sure if you were even surfing in the late 80s to 90s but every shortboarder that could do a turn would ride those waves on those boards. That would have been a fun day in the summer where I live, still is.
Because surfboard diversity did not exist. Even owning a long board would get you mocked and shunned. There must have been eggs around, but I don't remember anyone having one. If you were young, you were a shortboarder or god forbid mocked longboarder. The occasional kneeboarder but they were just aliens.
Back to the original topic...I have a 6'9" LoveMachine FM that I love. At least till I ran over some kook at my local and blew the fin box out. Had it repaired at Ropers and the channel in the middle is not the same...Hopefully, the fin cant/position hasn't changed as I haven't tried it again yet.
My cousin cooked for Putin in Ibiza couple summers back some yacht gig , was this dude his interpreter ? so dig the Russian English dialect