myscreenname said..

japie said..

It's great isn't it! 3 posts a week. Saving heaps of time.

If the mods banned you it would be two posts a week and I would only have to bother visiting once a week for updates. So glad seabreeze is 'back on track'

I wont be banning japie anytime soon you on the other hand need to post ya sport progression or get out of my perfectly sculpted created while high a **** on mdma thread

decrepit said..

Froth Goth said.. Hahaha the board progressi?ns funny
Was due to fitness or new location with smaller swell or just was over the performance shut and wanted to cruise ?

And yeah the gps tracking is real thats how all the paragliding stuff works all gps tracked and logged any given day your competeing against rest the world etc like the windsurfng speed runs
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First down size was mainly due to a Californian knee boarder, (George Greenough), that was cutting circles around our best stand up surfers, Nat Young and Bob McTavish amongst them. This inspired the top shapers/surfers of the time to experiment with shorter boards. from 1967 onwards they progressively got shorter, by 1969 we'd gone from 9' to 6'.

I found there were a few waves, that a 6' board was just too small for, so I made a 7' mini mal, and had a 2 board quiver.
When I hit 70, my surfing fitness suffered from mainly wave sailing and not having enough surfing TOW, so I then made a very light 8' mini mal. Used this until approaching 80, this old body refused to jump up quick enough to handle late take offs. So I'm now back were I started on a 9' mal. But I've learnt a lot in the intervening years and this board is just as strong as the tripple 6oz glass jobs back in the day, but probably 3 times lighter.
(there's a blog on it's manufacture on here somewhere)
Still can't handle late take offs very well, I have to prone out and get to my feet if I can make it to the wall.
But I can pick up waves much earlier, so it doesn't happen as often.

So yes, a combination of conditions and fitness, and I'm guessing I'll get more used to just cruising.
Learning to nose ride again is now on the agenda.

watched a wide world of sports (I think) story on george greenough as a kid. How he used to fly first class on his amex with no shoes and tattered boardies and a t shirt. Go Juvenile great white fishing in SoCal on surf mats with handlines. And how he pioneered surf stuff and filming etc I must have had it taped on my made up windsurfing bits VHF. Why I remember so much. Cool guy.

(for the youngsters back in the day I was so starved for windsurfing content I used to sit through 5 hours of wide world of sports with the VHF on pause just to tape a small windsurf segment. they'd keep teasing at the ad breaks and then sometimes the show would run over and they wouldn't even play it! There was that and Freesail and sailboard extra at the newsagents every few months was all the windsurf stuff you could get. Now literally anything you can immerse yourself!

Anyway freesail and sailboard extra was more of a library arrangement. The were a few american and european mags too but they were stupid expensive and shxt.
So id read the freesail, commit to memory the images of jenna de rosnay to the bank. (there was also this ad for a roaster woolen shirt with a bird withoutstanding baps) Maybe a sneaky look at Sam fox in picture or people. techonoglia

myscreenname said..
...... So glad seabreeze is 'back on track'

Meh. Elon & DT are making Heavy Weather look rather amateur.

I think we have a new benchmark and we should all always strive to achieve.

philn said..

Carantoc said..

Meh. Elon & DT are making Heavy Weather look rather amateur.

Meh. I think it's a fake breakup.

Careful there Philn. Don't fall out of the line in The Wall!

philn said..
Elon was toxic for Trump's brand so this is definitely a good thing for Trump. Can't say I see the benefit for Elon though?

How the feck do you think it is okay to put politics in this thread. Feck off

i forgot mtb from 2014
shark attack 1978

Dolphin attack 2020ish

Hey myscreenname

I didn't see your name on the list

www.gg.gov.au/kings-birthday-2025-honours-list

Froth Goth said..



list? what list?

Somebody made that list while high. Could've looked more authentic if they'd been ordered by surname. And they forgot to add Donald Trump.
Will the New York cop that shot an Australian reporter get a kings honour?

I'm hearing you, but since these new forum rules and only a few posts a week from hardened jaded members I'm struggling.

Harrow FN and many other haters have left, they used to always nibble the bait.

I really was hoping there would have been far more David Bowie fans here to offend.

Listen, things are tough! The Aldi sparkling wine often gives me new inspiration, it's cheap. But I don't want to become an alcoholic.

These new seabreeze rules are tough. Way less gullible people browsing and they are harder to trigger, given the limited topics we can discuss.

Maybe it's a seasonal thing.

myscreenname said..
....but since these new forum rules and only a few posts a week from hardened jaded members I'm struggling

See, and there it is.

It is because you, at the fundamental level, are a leaner myscreenname, not a lifter. When the going gets tough only the weak stuggle first.

You don't see the powerhouse Seabreeze.com.au members needing somebody else to spoon feed them in order to post. You don't see FormulaNova only posting lame-ass topics when somebody else fluffs his pillow for him. You don't see the mighty Carantoc needing a double-act partner to prompt the next great punchline. You don't see Frothy needing spell-check to make sense.

No - the true winners of these forums can post no matter what. They can entertain, they can inform, they can inspire. They don't even need an audience. They are the true masters of the art.


Let me tell you a story myscreenname. A story that doesn't rely on the tired old adage of monkey traders and villagers, or three sons of rich money men.

In this story there was a spider. Just a little teeny tiny spider. An incy-wincy spider, And that spider climbed up a spout. It wasn't an easy climb. The spout wasn't lined in cotton-wool. The spout wasn't gilded in bitcoin. The spider climbed. It slipped and stretched and struggled but it kept going up that spout. And then - almost as if from nowhere, down came the rain and washed poor Incy out. So what did incy-wincy spider do ? Did he give up, complaining there was no-one to help him out. Moaning about the rain coming down. Blaming Greta and climate change ? No he didn't myscreenname, no he didn't. That incy-wincy spider just got right up, brushed himself off and climbed right back up that spout. He didn't need anyone to watch. He didn't need to prove anything to the audience. He just climbed.

Be incy-wincy myscreenname. Be that spider.

decrepit said..
Didn't Alfred learn something from incy wincy?
I think that's when he burnt the cakes, or have I got my stories mixed up?

There's no connection between the two - Alfred's burnt cakes are from English folklore, while Incy Wincy is a children's rhyme. Maybe you're thinking of a playful retelling or parody that combined them? If so, I can guarantee, seabreeze.com.au would love to hear more about it!

Carantoc said..

myscreenname said..
....but since these new forum rules and only a few posts a week from hardened jaded members I'm struggling

See, and there it is.

It is because you, at the fundamental level, are a leaner myscreenname, not a lifter. When the going gets tough only the weak stuggle first.

You don't see the powerhouse Seabreeze.com.au members needing somebody else to spoon feed them in order to post. You don't see FormulaNova only posting lame-ass topics when somebody else fluffs his pillow for him. You don't see the mighty Carantoc needing a double-act partner to prompt the next great punchline. You don't see Frothy needing spell-check to make sense.

No - the true winners of these forums can post no matter what. They can entertain, they can inform, they can inspire. They don't even need an audience. They are the true masters of the art.


Let me tell you a story myscreenname. A story that doesn't rely on the tired old adage of monkey traders and villagers, or three sons of rich money men.

In this story there was a spider. Just a little teeny tiny spider. An incy-wincy spider, And that spider climbed up a spout. It wasn't an easy climb. The spout wasn't lined in cotton-wool. The spout wasn't gilded in bitcoin. The spider climbed. It slipped and stretched and struggled but it kept going up that spout. And then - almost as if from nowhere, down came the rain and washed poor Incy out. So what did incy-wincy spider do ? Did he give up, complaining there was no-one to help him out. Moaning about the rain coming down. Blaming Greta and climate change ? No he didn't myscreenname, no he didn't. That incy-wincy spider just got right up, brushed himself off and climbed right back up that spout. He didn't need anyone to watch. He didn't need to prove anything to the audience. He just climbed.

Be incy-wincy myscreenname. Be that spider.

Twice in this marvel of entertainment you're missing the comma before My screen name. This is something you could work on, Carantoc.

Thanks Mate, put me straight.

myscreenname said..
You're thinking of the famous "spider story" often linked to Robert the Bruce

You sure you aren't mixing Robert the Bruce up with Wilbur the Pig ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web

He died a young man (Alfred the Great).

myscreenname said...
There are plenty of 'The Great' people in history and even one ''The Magnificent' I guess that's why M.E.N.S.A. - which I am a member of - is such a select group.

Yeah, righty-oh MSN.

I am not well-read in all those on your list so I googled one at random.

Yury the Great sounded interesting. Is it this one you are referring to ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_of_Moscow

Hmmmmmm. Doesn't sound like a 'great' to me. Not exactly sounding like a great unifier, peace bringer or deliverer of salvations to the many. An illegitimate prince who fought provincal battles for his own benefit and lost. His supporters later claimed he founded Moscow (seemingly his only achievement), which the archeological records shows is not true anyway. Who is calling him 'the Great" ?