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Category Archives: Water Sports
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
I found this on Playak, a kayak site I visit frequently looking for technique and equipment information: This important and educational article was written by Mario Vittone and should be shared globally. The Incident – The new captain jumped from … Continue reading
Ultimate Rail Tape: Railsaver Pro
Carles Carrera is a fanatic SUP fan and a motorcycle engineer/designer. He also likes to take care of his toys. When he knocked a chip out of one of his new boards he immediately started looking at options, and didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Longboard Sailing, Stand Up Paddle Surfing, Surfing, Water Sports, windsurfing
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Great Standup Paddlesurf Video: Praise the Laird
I found this video on the Standup Zone–a forum I frequent (all too frequently). Its by a guy whose handle (or maybe his real name) is Beasho Free. Hmmm, anyway, what I love about the video is his stoke (ok, … Continue reading
So here’s how to Roll
This video just makes me want to surf. Bunch a guys having fun, but the bunch of guys includes Kelly Slater, Eddie Vedder, Brian Keaulana, and other lunatics. Kelly is just astonishing. He’s just screwing around and what he’s doing … Continue reading
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Who cares
No, this doesn’t really belong in Extreme Geezer–it’s a test of cross-posting from Dave Kalama’s website. Seems to work pretty well. Oh, and if you’re into Stand Up Paddle Surfing it’s a pretty interesting article. It seems that everybody around … Continue reading
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Diane’s New Long Lens
A couple of weeks ago Diane got a new long lens for the Nikon–a 180 to 500MM. I just downloaded the pictures to my computer–some of them are pretty neat. She put the long lens on our big tripod and … Continue reading
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I Got My Camera Back!
What an odd day. I spent most of it sewing new sleeves for all the rack pads on the funmobile. the surf looked big, and I bet it was going off in a reasonable size on the west side (ho’okipa … Continue reading
Posted in Around Maui, Stand Up Paddle Surfing
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Happy Ke Nalu Day–and a Really Cool Announcement
The surf looks really good today, but I wouldn’t know firsthand. I’m spending the first day since we got here out of the water. Doesn’t feel good, but there’s a lot of work to do to prep for the showcase. … Continue reading
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Caught in the Undertoad
I’m listening to Frank Sinatra singing “All or Nothing At All”. When I was a kid I always thought he was saying “caught in the undertoad”, never really understood what that meant, but I figured it couldn’t be good. Just … Continue reading
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Fabulous Four Days
Been running pretty much non-stop since we got back to Maui. I have this frantic feeling that if I don’t spend enough time in the water, then I’m going to really suck when we do the Board and Paddle Showcase. … Continue reading
my SUP(er) shoulder strap: how i did it in pix and words!
i need a shoulder strap on my board because i’m a skinny wretch and hardly have the strength to drag the thing 5 feet much less an inch further. the board in question is a 12-6 starboard. i’ve also performed … Continue reading
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Save the Children SUP paddle auction goes live
All proceeds from the sale of this paddle will go to “Save the Children” as part of a charity fundraiser on Lumberjocks.com, http://lumberjocks.com/stc . The auction is live on eBay. Help support it. Bid early and often….:) The finished paddle … Continue reading
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Artwork for “Save the Children” paddle
I’ll be auctioning off this paddle sometime in the next couple of weeks for a charity event at the lumberjocks.com website. I still need to epoxy and varnish the blade. Should be done this week. I’ll post it here and … Continue reading
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Long Paddle
I took a really long paddle today, went from the Sauvie’s Island Bridge in the Multnomah Channel up to the ship channel and coast guard station in the Willamette River. Almost all the way to downtown Portland. I figure it … Continue reading
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Happyfeet Video
Here’s some video from last weekend, demoing some turns and footwork in Nahalem Bay, OR I put a higher resolution version in the .mac gallery here
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Happyfeet
I went to the Oregon Coast this weekend to do some surfing with my friend Paul and his son Tyler. Stayed in my beach house in Manzanita. First of all, let me get the most important aspect out of the … Continue reading
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First outing impressions of the *board 12-6!
it’s the cat’s meow. waves were lefts, good for me, a nice 3′+ and peeling. my first surprise was that the 12-6′s lateral stability didn’t seem that much different than the jimmy11′s. that said, it felt a lot more stable … Continue reading
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Oh. My. God.
You’ve got to see this series. Insane. Click here. The interface is a little confusing–there’s a blue next button at the top right of the images. For the multi-shot images like this one you can scroll forward and back by … Continue reading
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Moody Morning
I got up early this morning to take a long paddle and found Portland socked in with fog. At our house it was clear and bright, but a hundred feet below my windowsill it was a flat white blanket all … Continue reading
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can i get a little starboard 12-6 feedback?
well, bob was going to come visit me in RI and let me try his starbboard but it didn’t work out for various reasons. but the fact that he has one of those boards — and the fact that i … Continue reading
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