May I remind you good sir that this is a longboard forum. It's not appropriate to place question marks in a longboard forum.

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Ctngoodvibes said..
May I remind you good sir that this is a longboard forum. It's not appropriate to place question marks in a longboard forum.

Yes my apologies for that one,was asking too many questions I know and the system would not allow me to delete

In my opinion you are a very QUESTIONABLE character Macaha.

ET.

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DARTH said..

Hi there Mr Darth I hope you are well after your time on the sideline,did you go nuts or something I missed it.

Right on ET

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Macaha said...

DARTH said..

Hi there Mr Darth I hope you are well after your time on the sideline,did you go nuts or something I missed it.

Right on ET

Cat got your tongue doggie

Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

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thePup said..
Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

see you early tomorrow is your keen ex member will be there

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thePup said..
Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

what where,are we there yet

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Macaha said..

thePup said..
Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

what where,are we there yet

Deep south allstar run Prez the little champion you me the Ipswich big V might be on the prowl if we can get him

Good luck getting that mob all together at once,I'm in

or do you want to duck over to Bali and take in the hip comp

Geez Big Marn ..... Bali aint gunna happen that quick allstar run south is the caper

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thePup said..

Macaha said..

thePup said..
Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

what where,are we there yet

Deep south allstar run Prez the little champion you me the Ipswich big V might be on the prowl if we can get him

This week for a mid weeker......

Southern sojourn when I get back end of June.

...its old news

Mid lengths are where its at

Vanders, try to keep a mid week date open at the end of September for north coast trip.

I'm going to try to be up there helping myself to a few at Lance's secret bank.

Not good for you...


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Deep down in the raw part of his soul, the driver of a new Rolls Royce Phantom knows that he’s a wanker. He cruises past the hoi polloi — this vehicle the heavy metal proof of his wealth — aware that behind every flicker of admiration lies resentment, contempt. This is a very heavy and expensive car. It’s not at all nimble.


<div>I know how he feels because it’s how I felt when I trimmed yet another wave that you could have caught on my two-thousand dollar log. You see, I was sick. The worst part was, I stopped feeling shame. It’s a slippery slope. I needed help.

Blew my knee out a while back. When it started healing, I bought a beat-up longboard – the cheapest possible. All I wanted was to go in the water and catch some waves until I got better. I could stand there and enjoy the view. I encouraged people to drop in on me — this was a necessary and temporary evil.When I was a kid, I was lead to believe long boarders were second class citizens, only a few rungs above bodysurfers who try to call people off waves (this actually happened the other day and was quite shocking). Whether this is right or wrong is besides the point. It’s just the way it was — I was a child caught in another of the world’s sticky moral webs, robbed of youthful innocence and an open mind.But I became addicted to the smooth and heavy weight of the board as it moved across the wave.It felt good and I was happy. This is where my problem really began.At first it was all a lark.

I would accept the dirty looks that skinny little twelve-year-old grommets gave me as I paddled out, because they were on the right side of decency. Small children with rich parents are everywhere at my local beach and they are not scared in the way we were scared when we were young. The world has changed and this is neither good nor bad.In the bleakness of ‘tradies’ hour’ — 3.30pm onwards — I accepted the scowls and unkind words from the big-gutted and blue-collared.

I knew what I was doing was ugly and cruel.As the months wore on, the sickness cinched its talons into my heart.I spent a lot of money on a newer, better log. I doubled down a few weeks later, and got a second.I began to call people off waves.I sat at the top of the peak and had my fill because I was the king!I broke the small potato chip boards with my 08 oz Volan rails.

Try to burn me and that’s what you get!Those in the shore break ran and screamed when my board washed in, and when I came to collect it I would laugh because I did not care and I was very ill.It has been said that to be good at long boarding is like being good at roller-blading: No one cares. But I couldn’t hear you scream and moan. You were nothing to me!

I was a degenerate.

Soon enough my knee was fine, and with the first big swell of autumn I was coaxed by concerned friends and family into taking out a shortboard. The first wave — the first bottom-turn that fit into the curve of the wave — was like a cold shower that washed the filth away.The logs have been sold and I am very sorry. My only hope is that this can be taken as a cautionary tale on the addictive properties of 10 foot surf craft.

I will always be an addict. It’s there somewhere deep down in my DNA. Thankfully, I’m now a recovering one, ready to relapse if I make it past 50.

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obct said...
Vanders, try to keep a mid week date open at the end of September for north coast trip.

I'm going to try to be up there helping myself to a few at Lance's secret bank.

Great to see you here with that new noserider

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LanceF said..

obct said...
Vanders, try to keep a mid week date open at the end of September for north coast trip.

I'm going to try to be up there helping myself to a few at Lance's secret bank.

Great to see you here with that new noserider

Take plenty of photo's please.

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LanceF said..

obct said...
Vanders, try to keep a mid week date open at the end of September for north coast trip.

I'm going to try to be up there helping myself to a few at Lance's secret bank.

Great to see you here with that new noserider

If it doesn't work, no one will see it, I went pretty radical on the rails starting from 30 inches all the way to the tail. Each time I look at it I think "will this work". I don't ever recall seeing kniffyish rails on a thick board.

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LanceF said..

obct said...
Vanders, try to keep a mid week date open at the end of September for north coast trip.

I'm going to try to be up there helping myself to a few at Lance's secret bank.

Great to see you here with that new noserider

If it doesn't work, no one will see it, I went pretty radical on the rails starting from 30 inches all the way to the tail. Each time I look at it I think "will this work". I don't ever recall seeing kniffyish rails on a thick board.

It'll work!!!!

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thePup said..

Macaha said..

thePup said..
Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

what where,are we there yet

Deep south allstar run Prez the little champion you me the Ipswich big V might be on the prowl if we can get him

This week for a mid weeker......

Southern sojourn when I get back end of June.

Tomorrow is mid week whats the plan boys

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Macaha said...

vanders1 said..

thePup said..

Macaha said..

thePup said..
Next week ..... you .... me .... roadie ..... champion

what where,are we there yet

Deep south allstar run Prez the little champion you me the Ipswich big V might be on the prowl if we can get him

This week for a mid weeker......

Southern sojourn when I get back end of June.

Tomorrow is mid week whats the plan boys

Any suggestions prez? Are you going?

Chrispy the Prez Asea is on secret calls and texts I think


I won't be anywhere other than work mate,it was clean and log waves today mate but I think a little west wind is due which could screw it up.

I'm not Prez but going over the border

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asea said..
I'm not Prez but going over the border

Who you going with mate?

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Macaha said..

asea said..
I'm not Prez but going over the border

Who you going with mate?

no crowds just me

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Macaha said..

LanceF said..

obct said...
Vanders, try to keep a mid week date open at the end of September for north coast trip.

I'm going to try to be up there helping myself to a few at Lance's secret bank.

Great to see you here with that new noserider

Take plenty of photo's please.

Take them yourself, you'll be there too.

And Chrispy
and Asea
and Pup
and Lacey
and Mr Goddard
and any other legend that wants to join us............

Oh its a serious gathering

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Macaha said..
Oh its a serious gathering

very serious