River Surfin

by **RiverSurferDevin** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:27 pm

Hi every one, I'm Devin, a river surfer, but make it out to tofino in the summer for some real waves. Just wonderin, and other dudes or dudetes here river surfers??

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by **GowerCharger** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:24 pm

never tried it but it looks interesting, like one of them flowrider things. Dont you get dings from the rocks?

by **PapaW** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:04 am

Me and a few mates some times screw about in the rapid of the mountain rivers when its flat but thats about it. Bloody freezing in the rivers here.

by **southwestsurfer** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:01 pm

apart from the Bore which I havent surfed(yet) I dont know much about river surfing. Nice avatar btw, is it you by any chance?

by **RiverSurferDevin** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:40 pm

Naw, this wave is the Green Toungue, and the rocks are deep enough to not ding your board, and my avatar is me, at GT, on my 5'10 INT board. Thats the other thing about the rocks, with the INT boards, you can smack a rock and still be dingless! And the water is coooold here too, the Kananaskis is glacier fed(ice water). Hope to get out somewhere next summer other than Tofino and do some real surfing!

by cj » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:40 am

There is a spot on the great lakes that you can catch a breaker outside of the channel of a river, and surf into it...

I don't know anything about River surfing, but it looks interesting though,

I have only seen one picture of it, and it looked more like river body boarding, maybe it was just that picture, like I said, it is the only time I have ever seen a pic of it, not much for reading about surfing. Do you stand up? Do you use a regular surf board? How fast does the river have to move to make it surfable?

I have a small river that runs through my backyard, I might try it.

Fill us in on the how to's bro. and thanks for share'n

by **essex sucks** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:37 pm

i surfed the bore a little while back but did not think much off it i will stick to the sea. it was alright do it again if there was no waves anywhere

mark

by **RiverSurferDevin** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:55 am

Its awesome, and heck ya you stand up!! Almost any short board will work, but I use a 5 10 INT board, as they can take a beeting and not get dinged soo easly. And its not just the river u use, its when theres a rock under the water and it makes a big rapid, so you can surf it. Around calgary, most of the waves are just like surfing the whitewater, but its the best there is around here. Heres some pics of me. Oh, and my avatar is me riversurfing the GT (green toungue)

Darn, that's the only 1 of me that worked, the good ones or me are .bmp or something, so here are some pics of some other dudes, surfing the GT.

by **RiverSurferDevin** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:54 am

Got some new pics of me, just in cause any 1 cares.

by **surfishlife** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:42 am

it's a river right? with big, sharp and pointy rocks underneath? ouch! i fear for you in that last pic of you falling off your board..

but nevertheless, pretty cool devin.

by **LovintheSurf** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:15 am

dude i dont know but that looks kinda boring. All your doing is standing up on the whitewater, like not much room there to do anything. Maybe it just looks that way?

by **RiverSurferDevin** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:57 pm

ya man, i know, but i'm livin in calgary, so its the best ive got.

River Surfin

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