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For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:03 pm
by benjl
Just came across this on FB and thought it was pretty cool. How bloody long is that board!! Must be like 11-12ft?

4 or 5 steps down the Board and he's only half way! :shock:

https://www.facebook.com/NobodySurf/vid ... 146571566/

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 1:26 am
by dtc
see if you can find some Roy Stuart videos as well, although the boards arent quite as long nor is roy as good a surfer



(make sure you roy stuart 'surfboards' to your google search, as I've just discovered...)

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 2:20 am
by oldmansurfer
Here is a 13 foot board

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:37 am
by benjl
That board looked more like a liability than fun! What's the point?! Looks
and sounded pretty unfunctional

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 4:33 am
by oldmansurfer
He got tubed with it

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:30 pm
by BoMan
Image
No duck dives, corks or carves. :bow:

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:22 pm
by benjl
Man those are ridiculously long! Must've been chaos without leashes having those gigantic boards flying around

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:41 pm
by oldmansurfer
Those are hollow. Can you imagine the big wooden boards that the Hawaiians rode? They weighed 100 pounds or more and were way more difficult to steer. Most people learned laying down and then if they improved they rode sitting or on their knees and grabbed or pushed the rail to help turn it. Only those surfers who were fairly good at it stood up.

Re: For you longboarders..

PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 6:11 pm
by oldmansurfer

here is a very long board. Notice sometimes he makes a couple turns before the wave has broken