Is there anyone who can ride unhooked down the line decently who goes back to riding hooked in because they actually like it better?

eppo said..
no spark it's called EVOLUTION...didnt you know...

I assume you're taking the piss Eppo.
But it kind of doesn't really add up, because whether you remember or not Felix was actually a big advocate of riding waves with twin-tips and boots and then later on was one of the last riders to loose the straps... So in a way your piss take is actually a piss take inside a piss take... I call it Pissception.

sir ROWDY said...

Brien said..
Is there anyone who can ride unhooked down the line decently who goes back to riding hooked in because they actually like it better?

Haven't heard of one so far .

Question answered.

Jedibrad said..
Felix is a legend but has more powered style

And the two hands on the bar with arms stretched above your head mid bottom turn…. is not "freed up"

I don't know…. maybe if our ideas of the direction of progression differs then there's no use discussing it??

I'm quite obviously not referring to Felix as a benchmark (or the style he has)...

I agree, two hands on the bar looks crook, I try not to do that ever... (not like you don't see tons of photos of people in mags hooked-in bogging off the top doing the same thing .)

You can have your own ideas, you don't need to be inline with my thinking.
I will say however that i think it's narrow minded to think just because you don't see people doing something well all the time, that it's not progressive. If you had never seen what people do wake-style kiting now you would think the exact same thing if you saw someone doing the first crappy looking raleys or similar.

So what is the definition of progression?

Maybe a hydrogen filled balloon/kite, unhooked, strapless, riding in a cross-on steady wind with a perfect peeling wave and you can wave the bar about with slack lines and ride the wave like a surfer until the wave ends and you have a kite available to get you back to the line-up without paddling?

Is surfing the ultimate and a kite is a handicap that has to be minimised?

eppo said..

sir ROWDY said..

Jedibrad said..
Felix is a legend but has more powered style

And the two hands on the bar with arms stretched above your head mid bottom turn…. is not "freed up"

I don't know…. maybe if our ideas of the direction of progression differs then there's no use discussing it??

You can have your own ideas, you don't need to be inline with my thinking.
I will say however that i think it's narrow minded to think just because you don't see people doing something well all the time, that it's not progressive.

I most definetly give up...

Probably a good move, it will be just like staying hooked-in, take the easy path .

Regardless of what i think is better or worse and why or why not one should do it, the stupidest part is there are people getting defensive over the topic.

Hooked, unhooked, strapped, unstrapped, surfboard, twintip, skate or whatever other weird craft you choose to ride.

Blow the bloody thing up and go kiting.

If your unhappy about someone else's preferences, stay down the other end of the beach.... cos its all fun and we hate haters.

sir ROWDY said..

eppo said..

sir ROWDY said..

Jedibrad said..
Felix is a legend but has more powered style

And the two hands on the bar with arms stretched above your head mid bottom turn…. is not "freed up"

I don't know…. maybe if our ideas of the direction of progression differs then there's no use discussing it??

You can have your own ideas, you don't need to be inline with my thinking.
I will say however that i think it's narrow minded to think just because you don't see people doing something well all the time, that it's not progressive.

I most definetly give up...

Probably a good move, it will be just like staying hooked-in, take the easy path .

But but Sir, he started it !!!

Dave Whettingsteel said..
Haha.... school teachers....:)

We'd be brought in for mediation now and have to sit through a lecture on bullying...!

Then we would leave with confused looks on our faces and start at it again...

cauncy said..

JBFletch said...
Regardless of what i think is better or worse and why or why not one should do it, the stupidest part is there are people getting defensive over the topic.

Hooked, unhooked, strapped, unstrapped, surfboard, twintip, skate or whatever other weird craft you choose to ride.

Blow the bloody thing up and go kiting.

If your unhappy about someone else's preferences, stay down the other end of the beach.... cos its all fun and we hate haters.

After all ,We're all on the same team ,

Yeah we are!

Even the unhooking crew are welcome!

Are we?

I really enjoyed unhooking down the line on my back hand, but then learnt to ride switch and havn't felt the need to unhook since. After reading this entertaining thread i think it's time to start unhooking whilst riding down the line switch, must be the closest thing to surfng ??

No straps of course, wouldn't want anyone thinking I was cheating

Unhooked, no straps?

Does this mean I take the pedals off my bike and select the biggest gear.

Strange analogy I know but it seems to fit.

KBwhokbs said..
Unhooked, no straps?

Does this mean I take the pedals off my bike and select the biggest gear.

Strange analogy I know but it seems to fit.

Funny you mention it actually, because in park BMX it's considered lame to have brakes... so it's not really far off.