swell is slowly showing signs of dropping but its still pumping !! Had 2 great surfs already Hope you all getting some.

Ahhh thats why I always try and have at least 2 in the car

Couple from this morning - one is for Boofy

Ted the Kiwi said..

thePup said..

Ahhhhh geez brother - that is a disastrous snap , looks such a nice girl too hard luck dude

+ 1 could not have said it better Pup Hope you have another one to play on

Yea boys got a few more they are a nice board I don't resort to shortboards when it's big,can become expensive!! but that board had been through hell in the pacific and Indo and survived didn't make it out of a pit and snap **** happens I guess.....dropped off round here today but the big swell has groomed some nice banks when half of Sydney goes home it's going to be fun

laceys lane said..

firewire tomo nano 5' 10 on loan as a demo. this ones got me excited even tho i have been on a shortie for 2 years.

please huey

I am looking forward to a full report on this one

hey ted. its been two years.


the board felt stupidly small and i actually had trouble sitting on it.

the waves were very very bad and small.

i got a few 1 move and 2 move waves, but again terrible waves.


a very light board to surf. i think it suits me- i like to carve with long extended swoops or throwing it out there and that square tail allows you to do that. really gets some speed doing that- and comes back under your feet with little fuss- not a board to be ridden flat imo.

chunky square ish rails with sharp edges a fair way up.

coming from my background it didn't fell to corky.

however i've never been a fan of shorter boards and would probably get the 6 ft er for that extra trim/glide. again from where im coming from 6 ft is still going to be a very small board. i was kind of overpowering this board anyway and would surf with large fins rather then the med fins that i surf it with

cheers

First one in at just light .... soon enough it was absolute mayhem - glad to be out now & will be even happier when they all piss off outta here

Macaha said..

where's your mate gone pup?

Hey mate how's things - which one are we talking about

Ahhhh - well I spoke to my little champion brother yesterday morning my time ..... he will be back online with us shortly & stay tuned believe me

How did ya go mate - get plenty or did it continue to die off ????

awesome - I'll be out first thing catchya then

laceys lane said..

hey ted. its been two years.


the board felt stupidly small and i actually had trouble sitting on it.

the waves were very very bad and small.

i got a few 1 move and 2 move waves, but again terrible waves.


a very light board to surf. i think it suits me- i like to carve with long extended swoops or throwing it out there and that square tail allows you to do that. really gets some speed doing that- and comes back under your feet with little fuss- not a board to be ridden flat imo.

chunky square ish rails with sharp edges a fair way up.

coming from my background it didn't fell to corky.

however i've never been a fan of shorter boards and would probably get the 6 ft er for that extra trim/glide. again from where im coming from 6 ft is still going to be a very small board. i was kind of overpowering this board anyway and would surf with large fins rather then the med fins that i surf it with

cheers

Thanks for that LL - always difficult when you do not have some decent waves to really get a feel for the equip under your feet. Interesting that you found it small. Although its is in length it is its still got a load of volume for someone of your weight n fitness. I think from experience this would take you 5 or 6 surfs before you stopped noticing it as much. I took my 5'10" out today after surfing the 6'2" and 6'6" all weekend and having only used the 5'10" 2 times over the last few months and it was super weird. I wasted 3 of my first 5 waves !! But slowly got back into it. Helped that it was really good and there were only 2 of us out

I am yet to even see a Nano in the flesh - interesting to hear that it has really sharp rails along way up. Did you find that the board was really unforgiving as a result or do the straightish outline and the concave get you through? I had always felt that knifey rails are terrible when its bumpy and unclean.

So really the big questions: Did you find enough in the crap conditions to convince you? Would you ride it again ? Will you get a chance in decent waves soon?

Can you get me a 6'2" FST at a very good price as well

Back to normal here 2-3 ft lovely clean waves with 4 out. Heaven. Might sneak out for a second session now

Just shared the lineup with a huge school of dolphins - they were in no hurry and played around me for about 15 mins - swimming underneath me and sharing a few waves - epic!! No one could believe it how friendly they were - with most saying "jeepers people pay to swim with these lovely creatures, how lucky are we!!!!"

What a day its been and its only 11:30am!

Had that yesterday briefly Ted .... a pod of about 6 jumping thru waves then spinning around & backflipping out again .... was wicked they were having a ball - I shat when one burst out of the wave came with me about 10 yards to my left on one set