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What is the future of stand up paddle surfing

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Created by sir ROWDY > 9 months ago, 2 Nov 2011
lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
4 Nov 2011 10:57PM
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^^^^^^^gay troll attempt old boy markie.You arent as imaginative on your trolls anymore.
PM KOTP (windsurfing forum legend, knowen and respected world wide)for some tips on trolling.
Good luck on the sh!t stirring.

PS,,isnt a windsurfers rig just an SUP board with a sail mounted on it ??, for when you get too old and unfit to paddle any more.

Mark _australia
WA, 22348 posts
4 Nov 2011 9:19PM
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Awwww

So it is OK to pay out on SUP'ing and windsurfing (all in good fun and jest) but not kiting?

Kleenex is on special at Coles this week I hear

Oh jeez, you just hit your 1000th use of the world "old" when referring to windsurfers.

Mask
WA, 293 posts
4 Nov 2011 10:04PM
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dave...... said...

I just dont get supping. Riding a short board is the best in terms of what you can do on a wave but in Perth sometimes conditions are not ideal, I ride at least a 9 foot mal, anything shorter and youve got a s"£$ hybrid. Sometimes I get a wave hungry tool that wants to sit 10m further out the back and try and claim every wave. Due to paddle rate and and better change of direction you can actually out hassle them. So they drop in and I push them off their board. So the future of SUP is to lose the paddle. SUM (stand up malibu)


Push me off my board and maybe I will lose my paddle. Somewhere you wont like!

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
5 Nov 2011 8:39AM
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Mark _australia said...

Awwww

So it is OK to pay out on SUP'ing and windsurfing (all in good fun and jest) but not kiting?


You finally understand

bjw
QLD, 3615 posts
5 Nov 2011 8:33AM
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Paddle boarding has the sexuality of Pauline Hanson mixed with the colourful style of coloured concrete.

It has the insane macho hard arse image of Justin Beiber whilst withholding the virginity innocence of Pamela Andersons virgina.

When armagedon is complete, there will be only SUP.

It has the political significance of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott having a baby.

It is more exciting than fielding in Cricket. Yet more pieceful than medatation at a bus station.

Like the eternal question "if a tree falls and no one hears it then did it fall?", we could also ask "what has SUPing got to do with the Corona/Mambo kiting/windsurfing comp?"

SUPing is wisdom.

Buzz
NSW, 319 posts
5 Nov 2011 9:43AM
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bjw said...

Paddle boarding has the sexuality of Pauline Hanson mixed with the colourful style of coloured concrete.

It has the insane macho hard arse image of Justin Beiber whilst withholding the virginity innocence of Pamela Andersons virgina.

When armagedon is complete, there will be only SUP.

It has the political significance of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott having a baby.

It is more exciting than fielding in Cricket. Yet more pieceful than medatation at a bus station.

Like the eternal question "if a tree falls and no one hears it then did it fall?", we could also ask "what has SUPing got to do with the Corona/Mambo kiting/windsurfing comp?"

SUPing is wisdom.




I couldn't agree with you more bjw ... one of the best replies to any of the threads, on any of the forums I have read today ... keep up the good work

5 Nov 2011 12:02PM
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Isn't the thread title an oxymoron?

hamburglar
ACT, 2174 posts
5 Nov 2011 12:13PM
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Buzz said...

bjw said...

Paddle boarding has the sexuality of Pauline Hanson mixed with the colourful style of coloured concrete.

It has the insane macho hard arse image of Justin Beiber whilst withholding the virginity innocence of Pamela Andersons virgina.

When armagedon is complete, there will be only SUP.

It has the political significance of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott having a baby.

It is more exciting than fielding in Cricket. Yet more pieceful than medatation at a bus station.

Like the eternal question "if a tree falls and no one hears it then did it fall?", we could also ask "what has SUPing got to do with the Corona/Mambo kiting/windsurfing comp?"

SUPing is wisdom.




I couldn't agree with you more bjw ... one of the best replies to any of the threads, on any of the forums I have read today ... keep up the good work


the day is but young

Brink7
NSW, 225 posts
5 Nov 2011 2:49PM
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SUP has a massive future! It already has more mainstream apeal than kiting.

Guys are getting spat out of monster barrels in Tahiti and Hawaii, etc. Heaps of surfing legends have a stand up board in their quiver.

The racing guys are legitimate atheletes, with mainstream credibility. They are punishing themselves in +5hr races, accross hellish ocean crossings. (They're beating the prone paddlers now)

I wouldn't be surprised if both types of SUP already have more prize money/ sponsorship than kiting. If they don't - they will soon!



worrier
WA, 726 posts
5 Nov 2011 12:19PM
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Interesting points here dudes.

The photo of the dude nosediving on the SUP. I could post a picture of a kiter wrapped around a power pole or pine post etc to show the same thing? "Learnin?
Watched a Newb kiter from my balcony gettin caned in the shorebreak the other day, learning and looked like a kook.
I could also post some local pics of some waves on a SUP when most kiters would be in the carpark ****tin emselves.
Oh yeah and KOTP has been suppin for a coupla years now. sorry to crush your idol boys
W

Mask
WA, 293 posts
5 Nov 2011 12:28PM
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worrier said...

Interesting points here dudes.


I could also post some local pics of some waves on a SUP when most kiters would be in the carpark ****tin emselves.



Like most of the desktop heros making comments on this thread!.

Joe Cron
NSW, 450 posts
5 Nov 2011 9:28PM
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Kitepower Australia said...

Isn't the thread title an oxymoron?


A short time ago I would have answered yes.

I read a story by a bloke, surfed as a young guy, got married, mortgage, kids, testicles in wifes handbag, you know it if you've been there. Didn't surf for years.
Out of surfing nick, went on a holiday and had a go on a sup.

It reinvigorated the guys life, got him back in the water, gave him back a 'stoke' as it used to be called. Now he paddles flat water, hoping to progress to waves. He's reclaimed some time for himself and reconnected with what we all know is a good thing, fooling aroung in the ocean for no other reason than it's fun.

I was quite moved by this guys story, it could be any one of us. It got me thinking. We all give each other a bit of a ribbing, SUP, kites, windsurfers, boogie boards, surfers, mals, clubbies. I like to think that it's all a bit of fun, but, we've all seen it get out of hand, s#!t, I put my hand up, I've trolled heaps.

But are we really that insecure about how we choose, or maybe have chosen for us by circumstance, to play around in the ocean or nearest waterway, that we need to criticise others choices? Cause if we are, that's really more about us than what the other person is doing.

Then Jankie points out that not everyone has access to waves and people just like to sup to get on the water. Seems a bit pedestrian to me, but so what. If they're enjoying it, do they care what a tosser like me thinks. I truely hope not.

I know this thread was stared as a bit of a joke and troll, but I'd see the future of sup as being accessible to those that choose to get on the water that way and have some fun.

I really did write this.
I haven't been drinking.

But I intend to soon.


kitegirl21
NSW, 439 posts
5 Nov 2011 11:18PM
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Joe Cron said...

Kitepower Australia said...

Isn't the thread title an oxymoron?


A short time ago I would have answered yes.

I read a story by a bloke, surfed as a young guy, got married, mortgage, kids, testicles in wifes handbag, you know it if you've been there. Didn't surf for years.
Out of surfing nick, went on a holiday and had a go on a sup.

It reinvigorated the guys life, got him back in the water, gave him back a 'stoke' as it used to be called. Now he paddles flat water, hoping to progress to waves. He's reclaimed some time for himself and reconnected with what we all know is a good thing, fooling aroung in the ocean for no other reason than it's fun.

I was quite moved by this guys story, it could be any one of us. It got me thinking. We all give each other a bit of a ribbing, SUP, kites, windsurfers, boogie boards, surfers, mals, clubbies. I like to think that it's all a bit of fun, but, we've all seen it get out of hand, s#!t, I put my hand up, I've trolled heaps.

But are we really that insecure about how we choose, or maybe have chosen for us by circumstance, to play around in the ocean or nearest waterway, that we need to criticise others choices? Cause if we are, that's really more about us than what the other person is doing.

Then Jankie points out that not everyone has access to waves and people just like to sup to get on the water. Seems a bit pedestrian to me, but so what. If they're enjoying it, do they care what a tosser like me thinks. I truely hope not.

I know this thread was stared as a bit of a joke and troll, but I'd see the future of sup as being accessible to those that choose to get on the water that way and have some fun.

I really did write this.
I haven't been drinking.

But I intend to soon.





well said friend! c ya on the water soooon!!

Weta
WA, 893 posts
5 Nov 2011 8:40PM
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Nice comment Blondie..........keep them coming

Weta
WA, 893 posts
5 Nov 2011 9:05PM
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Good to see you are smart enough to edit your post Kitegirl21

Joe Cron
NSW, 450 posts
6 Nov 2011 6:53AM
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kitegirl21 said...
well said friend! c ya on the water soooon!!


Not soon enough, where's all the wind?????

kitegirl21
NSW, 439 posts
6 Nov 2011 8:31AM
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lol weta... wind yest, where were ya????? hehe

bjw
QLD, 3615 posts
6 Nov 2011 8:07AM
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Joe Cron said...

Kitepower Australia said...

Isn't the thread title an oxymoron?


A short time ago I would have answered yes.

I read a story by a bloke, surfed as a young guy, got married, mortgage, kids, testicles in wifes handbag, you know it if you've been there. Didn't surf for years.
Out of surfing nick, went on a holiday and had a go on a sup.

It reinvigorated the guys life, got him back in the water, gave him back a 'stoke' as it used to be called. Now he paddles flat water, hoping to progress to waves. He's reclaimed some time for himself and reconnected with what we all know is a good thing, fooling aroung in the ocean for no other reason than it's fun.




Such a story makes me sad.

The guy goes from wife, mortgage and balls in his wifes hand bag, to riding a SUP.

I hope he soon get's out of that rut he is in.

I like Kiting in floatation vests.


Joe Cron
NSW, 450 posts
6 Nov 2011 11:45AM
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kitegirl21 said...

lol weta... wind yest, where were ya????? hehe


Cruddy easterly up here yesterday, fingers crossed for today.

If not, that's when I'm gonna do that drinking.



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