should doggie keep pumping p-ss on his shortboards or is it time to man up and start riding with some style and grace

I know a lot of crew like Doggie, I wouldnt say it's an ego thing but definitely personal pride to be getting into older years and still riding shorter boards.

I love riding mine as well at times but as your motivation to surf crap, crowds and dribble wanes it really is a good idea to bring other stuff in to keep you moving and motivated.

Short answer, keep the shortboards Doggie but give up watching bad days go by as they don't suit them.

What are you talkin about Mac if theres no waves its burnouts in the 5.7 litre in the carpark

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boofy said...

What are you talkin about Mac if theres no waves its burnouts in the 5.7 litre in the carpark

Oh yes forgot about his real hobby

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CMC said...

I know a lot of crew like Doggie, I wouldnt say it's an ego thing but definitely personal pride to be getting into older years and still riding shorter boards.

I love riding mine as well at times but as your motivation to surf crap, crowds and dribble wanes it really is a good idea to bring other stuff in to keep you moving and motivated.

Short answer, keep the shortboards Doggie but give up watching bad days go by as they don't suit them.

Funny thing is the bad days are when Im at work and the weekends are smoking, I mean what do you do

This thread is all about growing up really isn't it

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boofy said...

What are you talkin about Mac if theres no waves its burnouts in the 5.7 litre in the carpark

You have been in SBs havnt you

Ican feel a sheep coming on [}:)]

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towball said...

This thread is all about growing up really isn't it

What! Growing up, am Im 40 going on 19

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towball said...

Ican feel a sheep coming on [}:)]

But which one?

Yep man up ride areal board

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doggie said...

towball said...

This thread is all about growing up really isn't it

What! Growing up, am Im 40 going on 19

Boss is looken gotta work

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towball said...

Ican feel a sheep coming on [}:)]

But which one?

Maybe he needs a pointy nosed 9'0.

It's all about The Glide Doggie.

Maybe I'll enlist OG SUP to get some footage of me at Rincon, but it would need to be a smaller day to accommodate Kristi and her long666board.

Long666board!

Do it Simondo.

As for Doggie he lives over west and with a few hours drive he can be riding some insane waves with loads of power and minimum crowds. I say keep the shortboard doggie....just get a shorter wider one if need be

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Ted the Kiwi said...

Do it Simondo.

As for Doggie he lives over west and with a few hours drive he can be riding some insane waves with loads of power and minimum crowds. I say keep the shortboard doggie....just get a shorter wider one if need be

Teddy, you are reading my mind

I will get a mid length one day but its just not that important here. I get my fair share of waves and I really like surfing good quality waves so if anything my next board other than a fish will be a 6,6 or 6,7 for bigger stuff but even those maybe overkill.

I would really like a Mt Woodgee 6,6 channel bottom

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Maybe he needs a pointy nosed 9'0.

It's all about The Glide Doggie.

Maybe I'll enlist OG SUP to get some footage of me at Rincon, but it would need to be a smaller day to accommodate Kristi and her long666board.

Funny thing is Simmo Ive been drooling at the pics of that board, I would love to have a go on that in some decent surf just to see what that would go like!! It must paddle like a demon [}:)]

Yes Doggie, a demon paddler! You would get so many waves!

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Do it Simondo.

As for Doggie he lives over west and with a few hours drive he can be riding some insane waves with loads of power and minimum crowds. I say keep the shortboard doggie....just get a shorter wider one if need be

I hear the silver bullets are alright doggie

I agree with Ted, just volume up if you need to but if you don't then don't

A board like Simondo's weapon would be great if you surf long point breaks with easy access. Sadly for most of us we are not that lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yes Doggie, a demon paddler! You would get so many waves!

You look like a wave hog just standing next to it.. .

Did you run it with the sides in when you surfed it?

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Ted the Kiwi said...

Do it Simondo.

As for Doggie he lives over west and with a few hours drive he can be riding some insane waves with loads of power and minimum crowds. I say keep the shortboard doggie....just get a shorter wider one if need be

I hear the silver bullets are alright doggie

I agree with Ted, just volume up if you need to but if you don't then don't

Ive looked at a few bullets in the shop here, nice looking boards.
I do find it hard to surf boards with more volume that Im used too.

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SP said...

Ted the Kiwi said...

Do it Simondo.

As for Doggie he lives over west and with a few hours drive he can be riding some insane waves with loads of power and minimum crowds. I say keep the shortboard doggie....just get a shorter wider one if need be

I hear the silver bullets are alright doggie

I agree with Ted, just volume up if you need to but if you don't then don't

Ive looked at a few bullets in the shop here, nice looking boards.
I do find it hard to surf .

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doggie said...

SP said...

Ted the Kiwi said...

Do it Simondo.

As for Doggie he lives over west and with a few hours drive he can be riding some insane waves with loads of power and minimum crowds. I say keep the shortboard doggie....just get a shorter wider one if need be

I hear the silver bullets are alright doggie

I agree with Ted, just volume up if you need to but if you don't then don't

Ive looked at a few bullets in the shop here, nice looking boards.
I do find it hard to surf .

im broken and unfit and 39. the best thing i did was buy a new shorty. it is easy to paddle,gets on waves nicely and it turns like no tomorrow. in saying that my really gets me into waves that i know i cant use the shorty on. last sunday was the prime example. perfect left and rights but only waist high...the loves that stuff.

enjoy all down hill once you hit 40

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im broken and unfit and 39. the best thing i did was buy a new shorty. it is easy to paddle,gets on waves nicely and it turns like no tomorrow. in saying that my really gets me into waves that i know i cant use the shorty on. last sunday was the prime example. perfect left and rights but only waist high...the loves that stuff.

Thats great, but Im not interested in surfing dick high waves. If you are thats cool and I know it can be fun at times, give me head high + quality waves and Im happy as a pig in shiz

Like this

^^^^^enjoy surfing 10% only. i like to surf whenever i can. im not lucky like you to surf overhead quality every weekend.

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^^^^^enjoy surfing 10% only. i like to surf whenever i can. im not lucky like you to surf overhead quality every weekend.

lives in metro prff mate home to knee high close outs

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^^^^^enjoy surfing 10% only. i like to surf whenever i can. im not lucky like you to surf overhead quality every weekend.

Mate if I could walk across the street and have a surf I would surf every day before and after work and have a ton of different boards for all conditions but, I cant cos I live 20mins from my local that only works after massive NW storms.
Plus I work mon-fri 7.15am - 4.30 or 5.00pm. Weekday surfs are a pipe dream for me.

Mate I enjoy what I do 100%, but Im not out the 100% of the time.

So, weekends are the only time I get in the water. What is the problem with that?

You guys can travel 10 seconds to great waves consider yourselves lucky.

Looks like Parko has even seen the light - heading for big volume boards Maybe he will be on a 666 before we know it

The punishing Molokai-2-Oahu 32 mile (51km) ocean paddleboard race is something Joel Parkinson has wanted to do for a long time but never had the chance. “It's always been on the bucket list but I never thought it'd come together until I'd finished with the tour,” Parko has said.

But serious consideration to enter the 2012 race came from a preview screening of Ironman Wes Berg's movie “One Touch” in the surfers' area at Bells Beach. Parko and Kelly Slater were inspired after watching Wes, Dean Brady and Jamie Mitchell's journey on the way to Jamie's unprecedented tenth-in-a-row Molokai 2011 win.

But more than just pre-heat bravado and posturing, Parko has been taking his training seriously, paddling from Kingscliff to Snapper Rocks, as well as this 7.5km paddle from the Tweed River to Kirra before the Billabong Rio Pro.

“I'd never paddled boards on my knees like that, and I didn't realise it's actually quite painful. I've got no skin left on my knees and when I came home I had so many bandages on my knees I looked like Petero Civoniceva. I'm learning from scratch, learning to paddle the boards in the open ocean. It's good to do something I'm a full kook at. It's good to be humbled occasionally. There'll be a lot of training between now and the end of July, but I've got a month in Fiji and I'll have my paddleboard with me, so I reckon I'll be doing a few figure-eights around Tavarua and Namotu.

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"Hello Molokai, goodbye knees!" Parko tweeted when he posted this photo.

Parko will be teaming up with his fitness trainer Wes Berg to complete the race on 29 July, but don't get any ideas that he's forgotten that he currently leads the World Tour Championship ratings.

“The tour and the title is my number one thing and it always will be, but it's good right now to think there's something else, another goal I've put in front of myself. For the past 10 years or longer my goal has always been the same thing, and that goal will still be there, but it's good to add another one in the mix and it fits into a pretty good break in the tour. There are probably a few critics who'll say it won't help my surfing on tour, but I already juggle a lot in my life between my surfing and my family. I think sometimes I'm a better competitor when I don't think about it too much. I think a bit of distraction can be a good thing. And there's so much mental and physical discipline required in doing the race, you could argue it's actually going to help my surfing on tour. There's nowhere to hide out there. I want to get out there and do some hard work.

And what about the rumours Kelly Slater's been training with Trevor Hendy for the race?

“Yeah… (laughing) maybe he doesn't want Jamie to get to 11 Molokai wins! Nah, I reckon he'll be doing it for pretty much the same reasons I'm doing it. I'll just be happy to finish. I'm there for the experience, not the win - it's about being in the ocean, that's why I'm doing it.”