I know where your coming from Doggie. They are hard to compete with...I pretty much gave up & developed new skills for their, what I term "reverse snaking". When they come scratching around in front of me into priority I do one of two things & luckily due to the fat wally waves I generally encounter them it works quite well. I just paddle further onto the shoulder so I can take off without them blocking me or & this works great on a short board. You paddle slowly get your board planing, but don't put too much weight forward to go down the wave until they pass you. Then just take off late & stay in the pocket. 99% of the time they'll be gunning down the line way ahead of the pocket & won't even know your there lol
Most local guys probably expect me to do this these days & don't seem to mind...but I also call them onto waves & share them with them as well
I tried to post a comment that legion / doggie hate sups yet legion has em posted all over his profile, but seabreeze stopped working and wouldn't let me!! Maybe legion is both doggie and Laurie ?
legion, go find a shortboard forum or a sup forum to rave on. no ones interested.
not only that its got nothing to do with this topic for goodness sake.
Can we have a place that is for bullying? I only started checking the LB forum for the Goddard thread (because his boards look awesome) and the Beer Garden experiment/movie/fiasco (because I was impressed by the people having a crack at doing something positive). I know the grand sum of my contributions to the site has been winding Mac up over his choice of footwear (why he gave a toss what some random dick on a computer thought I will never know), so I'm sure my opinion doesn't count for **** but this thread has easily been the most interesting/hilarious thing up on SB in ages!
Doggie, I'm trying to work out what your saying with these pics and whether there is a link between Pup's pics and yours. I noticed your post on another thread had a similar theme, I know a picture paints a thousand words but I'm stuffed if I can find those words, very cryptic or I'm just not getting it, would you care to elaborate?
Doggie I dont know you and havent met you and like your passion for surfing and your sense of humour, thing is I know its an online forum but a lot of blokes in here have met each other and have surfed together etc so it gets a bit personal. I just dont understand the Pup bullying thing have you met him. Would you do the same thing if you met someone like him in your local board riders club etc.
Im still here
Lets move it along fellas..Mac you don't have time for this, we want picks and so far you are letting us all down[}:)]