time to work on your fitness. hopefully youll be dusting off that 7-6 right out of the gate.
( i know duf... way too much board)
Yup. Thinking the same thing. Place I leased has a pool that is only heated part of the year. May be using that short-arm full after all up north.
But seriously, having a lap pool like that is good, even if it's just 15 yards or so, still good for doing underwater laps and getting the lungs primed. I worry a little about that.
Went to my local today. Throwaway sesh as it was mostly just gutless, dumpy, mushy closeouts, even with quickly dropping tide. Too much west in the swell making it close instead of race. Oh well. Primary goal was to give that 6'7" roundpin a test run as I hadn't surfed it in a while. Glass on fins and the center one has a few cracks and a mm more play than it probably should have. Think it should be OK but may not be bad idea to check out that twin fin roundpin thread.
Overall, board paddled well but obviously way too lumbering for what waves were today. Doesn't seem to have any dings sucking water too hard. Should work OK for up north I'm hoping. Only surfed it about 15 minutes and then grabbed the 6'6" SD. Found some little corners but timing was just off. Either hitting the lip too early, trying to throw fins out the back, and not maintaining enough momentum to get back down the face (in my defense, the waves were really gutless) or floating sections late and dropping nose down an inch or two too late and bottoming out and slamming. Just, ugh. One in particular, my wife saw and we were both cracking up. Beautiful if not crowded beach day, warm (70 deg) ) water, nice day, but man, a lot of people in fullsuits. Maybe they were jujitsu guys trying to make weight or something.
Awesome thing was my daughter out on her boogieboard for over 3 hours straight just walking out to just inside impact zone and catching waves in. Over and over again. Major progression for her as it was only a month ago where she was lounging on sand. She's only 8 and not the strongest swimmer so went out to see how she was doing and she yelled at me that she was doing fine, did not need me there, and sent me back to the beach. Did same to my wife. Fully regulated.