Do we have any bodyboarders here?

[AznMaverick]

I have been trying but i really can't find anything decent...help!

 

[illusion88]

Bodyboarding > *.watersport

As far as desktops go... aint no love for our sport!

Got any shots of yourself in action? my favorite of me

Here for the others

I can never convience anyone to come out when the waves are cracking and I can really pull some good stuff. Only that one day. Kick ass day that one was.

 

[AznMaverick]

i suck too much to have any pics of me in action, but i guess a good wallpaper would be some motivation to get better, it would be embarrassing getting my pic taken riding a 1/2 foot wave...haha. I like this shot http://www.baldassari.org/img/big/RS1.jpg pretty awesome.

 

[illusion88]

ebodyboarding.com has a bunch of shots, not many wallpaper quality. I had another site that had a soem good wallpapers but I forgot it.

What kind of set up do you have? The board you see there is my BZ Hubb and I also have a Grodzen. The hubb is faster (flat bottom) but is less forgiving in the choppy waters. I sport Tech Fins. BTW, if you are new to the sport I would recomend some tech fins, but remember, comfort over preformance. I also have a 4/3 step in wetsuit (my baby).

 

[AznMaverick]

I actually am using a bodyboard that i found at the beach, it's actually a pretty decent one, not the very very cheap ones you may find at some place like kmart. I'm planning on using that until i get at least a bit better. I have a pair of churchill fins, they fit well with some fin socks. For now, this is what i use, hopefully when i get better i can sport some better gear...hehe.

 

[illusion88]

I went through 2 sets of churchills. I really liked them (I was just never smart about wearing some sort of fin saver). When you let your legs get rigid they really hold a nice edge.

Heh, Tip: if you aren't going to make the barrel it may not be the wisest idea to attempt to out run it by heading straight for the flats. Thats how I lost both sets of fins. Its hard for them to stay on when 15 feet of water crash on your legs

 

[AznMaverick]

haha...i know the feeling. I almost lost my fins, which is what drove me to get the soce to fill in the gaps. I wish i could DK and get some air, but i guess that will come with practice...btw, the site that you suggested has some pretty decent pics. takes of lot of looking through, but it's a lot better than some of the hits i've been getting on google.

 

[chrisms]

Bodyboarding is the weak man's surfing. I've been a bodyboarder all my life, but that's only because I don't have own a surfboard.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Bodyboarding is the weak man's surfing. I've been a bodyboarder all my life, but that's only because I don't have own a surfboard.

That's a pretty weak excuse. It's not like it's hard to acquire a surfboard. I had a garage full of surfboards, and so did most of my friends. They're all over the place.

Then I had to move 100 miles from the ocean. This palce sucks, I want to move back.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: chrisms
Bodyboarding is the weak man's surfing. I've been a bodyboarder all my life, but that's only because I don't have own a surfboard.

That's a pretty weak excuse. It's not like it's hard to acquire a surfboard. I had a garage full of surfboards, and so did most of my friends. They're all over the place.

Then I had to move 100 miles from the ocean. This palce sucks, I want to move back.

Well I live in Washington, so I went to the ocean with my family mostly (only time I surfed was in a trip to Jersey where the water was warm). If I go to the ocean with friends or something, I'm drunk as hell and the ocean is frigid cold. I used to be able to go out in it for an hour and just be numb when I was a kid, but these days I avoid it.

But I imagine I'll get a surfboard eventually, as long as I pick up a wetsuit with it.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: chrisms

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: chrisms
Bodyboarding is the weak man's surfing. I've been a bodyboarder all my life, but that's only because I don't have own a surfboard.

That's a pretty weak excuse. It's not like it's hard to acquire a surfboard. I had a garage full of surfboards, and so did most of my friends. They're all over the place.

Then I had to move 100 miles from the ocean. This palce sucks, I want to move back.

Well I live in Washington, so I went to the ocean with my family mostly (only time I surfed was in a trip to Jersey where the water was warm). If I go to the ocean with friends or something, I'm drunk as hell and the ocean is frigid cold. I used to be able to go out in it for an hour and just be numb when I was a kid, but these days I avoid it.

But I imagine I'll get a surfboard eventually, as long as I pick up a wetsuit with it.

I don't know how many surfboards there are in Washington, but there are a ton of them in Santa Cruz, CA.

 

[chrisms]

Damn if I lived in Santa Cruz of course I'd own a surfboard.. but people who live here in Tacoma have no reason for a garage full of surfboards and I rarely see them

 

[Landroval]

beware the glory and gore of Sandy's

 

[AznMaverick]

I live in an apartment in Hawaii, storing a bodyboard, is much easier. Although, i would someday like to be able to shortboard.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: AznMaverick
I live in an apartment in Hawaii, storing a bodyboard, is much easier. Although, i would someday like to be able to shortboard.

storing a surfboard isn't that hard. You lean it up against a wall.

 

[AznMaverick]

if you knew where i lived, you wouldn't want a surfboard either. I could always leave it in the balcony, but being how windy it is these days, it would probably fall off and hurt someone.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Bodyboarding is the weak man's surfing. I've been a bodyboarder all my life, but that's only because I don't have own a surfboard.

If bodyboarding is the weak man's surfing, than surfing is the weak man's paddlesurfing. :evil:

Me in action I wish I could show you a bigger wave, but it is almost a guarantee that if you bring a camera to the beach, there will be no waves. Perhaps when I get a better camera one of these days...

I store my 8-foot boat standing on its end in my parents condo. I'm sure you can fit a board in your apartment somewhere....just pull your bed out from the wall a foot and throw it behind your bed!