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Which way does your board come back

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Created by Piros > 9 months ago, 9 Dec 2010
Piros
QLD, 7045 posts
9 Dec 2010 10:26PM
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Been riding so many different boards lately and in the impact zone when you pull your board back , some boards are always right way up and others are always rolled over.Which means you have to flip the board over to get back on costing you valuable seconds to get through the next wave.

Is it tail shape or plug placement , there was no consistancy some boards just tend to pop right way up. Some boards would toom stone and come back right way up others just rolled over on the first tug of the leg rope.

Made me think that maybe a raised glass roving instead of a plug would help keep the board right way up.........?

Rob

teatrea
QLD, 4177 posts
9 Dec 2010 10:32PM
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All i know is mine is always wrong side up , and i just get it over and bam.Back to sqaure one.

Piros
QLD, 7045 posts
9 Dec 2010 10:40PM
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The Evil Twin would always come up 95% of the time wrong way up
My new PSH 8-11 is around 50-50
My 3 year old faithful Ron House 9-10 is 90% right way up .......?




Daneli
QLD, 1538 posts
9 Dec 2010 10:43PM
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I seem to have different results with both surfboards and SUP's if I cock my leg up close to my body during the wipeout, just as the pressure on my leggie starts to subside, I straighten my leg releasing the pressure on the board. Sometimes it seems to come up right way up. Sounds weird doesn't it.

Piros
QLD, 7045 posts
9 Dec 2010 10:46PM
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Daneli said...

I seem to have different results with both surfboards and SUP's if I cock my leg up close to my body during the wipeout, just as the pressure on my leggie starts to subside, I straighten my leg releasing the pressure on the board. Sometimes it seems to come up right way up. Sounds weird doesn't it.


Yeah I here you on that , could make a difference and looking at my own photos the Ron has it's plug way foreward compared to the other two.

shimmyshazbo
QLD, 251 posts
9 Dec 2010 10:48PM
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if i struggle and fight the board it turns upside down but if i relax and let the board run a little dragging me with it, it ends up the right way up.

husq2100
QLD, 2031 posts
9 Dec 2010 11:19PM
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have you considered rocker and specificly tail rocker....CG came back right way up 90% of the time...new LSD is always upside down and as you pull it back it just wants to submerine...CG is swallow tail and LSD is square tail

aus301
QLD, 2039 posts
9 Dec 2010 11:34PM
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my 9'3" Naish would generally be upside down 90% of the time I guess.

I could be wrong, but the board upside is frustrating, and maybe that is all I am remembering.

Piros
QLD, 7045 posts
10 Dec 2010 1:28AM
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husq2100 said...

have you considered rocker and specificly tail rocker....CG came back right way up 90% of the time...new LSD is always upside down and as you pull it back it just wants to submerine...CG is swallow tail and LSD is square tail


Rocker might be on the money but the Ron , PSH and DC all weren't that much different.

I don't like boards with too much junk in the trunk so my tails are pretty thin , I reckon it's coming down to plug placement from the tail , push it foreword a couple of inches to make it toom stone more to hold it deck up , pull the plug point back and it rolls.....? your Chris Garrets have been glassed by Dale so the plug points would be he same as my DC , so the swallow tail adds some weight to the quandary.

husq2100
QLD, 2031 posts
10 Dec 2010 8:56AM
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both CG and LSD have the plug pretty much the same distance from rear....the CG is 9.0 and the LSD 8.8...the main difference between the boards is rocker

billboard
QLD, 2816 posts
10 Dec 2010 12:29PM
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After this mornings effort - definately "on top of me"

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
10 Dec 2010 10:37AM
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billboard said...

After this mornings effort - definately "on top of me"


Good day then

planesailing
WA, 380 posts
10 Dec 2010 11:07AM
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In the old old days we had a hole in the fin and attatched legrope to that.
before that we used NUTHIN.
so stop your whingin at least its upside down and not heading towards the
beach on its own. lol.

husq2100
QLD, 2031 posts
10 Dec 2010 3:39PM
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planesailing said...

In the old old days we had a hole in the fin and attatched legrope to that.
before that we used NUTHIN.
so stop your whingin at least its upside down and not heading towards the
beach on its own. lol.


maybe we should just not wear them and thin the herd out a bit..................

oliver
3952 posts
10 Dec 2010 3:52PM
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I've had a few boards now and they always land the wrong way up, except for the time the tail of the board landed on my head and the little side fin scalped me and I needed 9 stitches.

Simondo
VIC, 8020 posts
10 Dec 2010 6:57PM
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planesailing said...

In the old old days we had a hole in the fin and attatched legrope to that.
before that we used NUTHIN.
so stop your whingin at least its upside down and not heading towards the
beach on its own. lol.


Or the rocks !
It can head to the beach on it's own, no trouble.... not the rocks though !

termite
NSW, 283 posts
10 Dec 2010 7:13PM
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Hey Piros

It seems to me flat rockered boards tend to stay deck up (PSH10' & 9'2) and boards with more rocker (Laguna Bay, JL Mano & Naish 8'10) seem to go deck down and teabagging and I thought rocker was the issue. I haven't looked at leash plug position closely, but I still think rocker may be a factor.

Of couse if a hell set is coming then no question the board will be bum up

Bill

sepirott
NSW, 336 posts
10 Dec 2010 8:05PM
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Hey Piros,
you can have all the theories in the world but there is only one answer, the theory of Murphy's Law! If you want it back in a hurry it will be fin side up and the harder you try to retrieve it the more set waves that will come until you will be hit with the worlds only 8 wave set. I thought golf was a frustrating game. Oh well, only lucky the joy of catching a squillion waves and riding them to exhaustion overcomes the frustration. Seriously though, I found my larger board seems to end right side up more than not, thankfully, as it is a mission to flip over at 11'6.

Spiro

chrispychru
QLD, 7932 posts
10 Dec 2010 8:48PM
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piros you rule. i thought i had to much time on my side but you eat me. as i try to sleep at night i think of some crazy stuff but mate you just take it to another level. and if your board is upside down it is its very own survival stance......i think before i sleep

SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
10 Dec 2010 10:39PM
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Normally if it comes back, it shoots straight at my scone !!!

If it doesnt come back, I dragg on the rope after if find the rope!!! ,and then it still comes back straight at my scone!!!

Then if its upside down , i dragg on the rope after i find the rope ,and it again comes back straight at my scone!!!

then its a case of flipping it over, not against the wind tho !!!

aint life grand !!!



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