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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Colonel Ronan Continue...?

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    That's crazy.

    I would love to know how to surf.
     
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    CelticKing The Green Monster

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    I would die if I looked up and saw the big wave coming down on me. haha
     
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    BLAZER PROPHET Well-Known Member

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    My wife & I took the twins (boys, age 21) to Kauai again last summer (I love tax returns!) and there is a body board only area with waves about 8' high. I got rolled by one of those and thought I was dead. Then I see people really getting wiped out by those or the 20' waves in the photo above and I realize just how incredibly dangerous that stuff is.

    All that said, I would have loved to learn to surf when I was younger.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    My dad grew up in Oahu. He used to love to surf the North Shore. When the family moved to the East Coast, he would only surf when there was a hurricane warning.

    He would have loved those waves, although I'm not sure he would have tried his hand at something that big.
     
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    Colonel Ronan Continue...?

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    Has anyone ever been impaled by their surfboard?
     
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    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    Im not a surfer but that wave looks completely normal to me.
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    That is the stuff you see on movies. People typically surf about 8' swells. Those are like 20'. edit maybe 30'
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    Did he ever move to Oregon? There are actually some epic waves if you go out far and have a dry suit to stay warm.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    Yeah, but he hated the cold water.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    If you look closely at that picture, the guy on the bottom left is MIXUM and he is complaining the wave isn't big enough!
     
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    BoBoBREWSKI BURP!

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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    I live at the beach in San Diego and see people surfing all the time. Those waves are GIANT compared to the ones here, maybe 3x or 4x... at least.
     
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    The_Lillard_King Westside

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    I'm not a huge surfer (brother lives in Hawaii and do it when I visit him), but here is my take of surfing:

    The biggest bitch is to paddle past the waves to get ready to surf . . . and for me I'm talking 2-3 foot waves. It's funny because I work hard to get out there, but then if/when I stand, the wave looks so small I can't believe those waves gave me such problems (paddling out and trying to catch them). It really is a funny realization when standing taht the waves don't seem as big as when you are laying on the board.

    That picture . . . tahnk god I couldn't even paddle out there to get into position to catch a monster like that. Laying down on a board (or probably even standing up) out there . . . I would feel like I could die at any moment.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Grew up on Oahu, then Southern California...the elite in Hawaii were the surfers, at the height of the craze in the early 60s...they made fun of me for not having a tan...fuck you surfers!! I am one of the original skateboarders!! Still have the mahogany laminated skateboard I made in 8th grade shop in Hawaii!!!
     
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