How about one and how do we start one ask the host?

mac

Howdy!

Great idea, but the surfing traffic here is pretty light as there are so many other surfing forums.

If there's enough longboarding requests we'll start one..

Enjoy .. Lozza

Cheers laurie,hope we get some as Iam new to SUP and it would be great to start up a longboarding forum so people can get together!

BTW stickers

Cheers mac

I second this notion!

Thanks for the support lalalamort,just need more come on you longboarders out there!

long-mac

mac

Good Idea
will rev up my local club members,Mullaloo crew get on board.

FESTER

Sorry laurie,i can see it coming and fast

I wasn't sure if i would get my head ripped off
posting my request on this forum

mac

bring on a longboarding forum

would be great to see a longboard forum not much surf around here currently
so lets all talk about it while we wait for the next wave

Im with you milesy1, you start the ball rolling
Oh welcome aboard!
mac

Hi Laurie,
A longboard forum would be good,
Thanks Oz

Seeing as there have been bugger all topics about longboarding, why on earth would it need its own forum? So it can sit there and be empty?

Maybe if you start posting about longboarding, you will make the case for it needing its own forum.

DL,I didn't think that you guy's would like to see others talking about longboarding under this forum heading mainly because most or all posts are shortboard related

This surfing forum has had bugger all topics for some time now

mac

Longboarding is still surfing. I don't think anyone will mind if you start posting about nose-riding, or whatever.

Boogie-boarding however...

Cheers DL, will do!

mac

Please please please no boogie boarding forum. Thats just asking for 12 year old grommets to start loitering around the current forums pulling Tension pranks
Standing room only

cant you join in with the stick men?

mac I am with you lets get it going any suggestion on forum discussion longboarding.

longboarding IS surfing, like DL says just do a longboard post in the surfing forum..

there really isn't much to forum about is there...? e.g

'today was one foot, i went out, talked too loud and caught all the waves, bottom turned, trimmed sideways and was ripping. tried to 'walk the plank' and 'hang five' but found am too front heavy around the belly.people way too large for the small boards they were riding began to call me names, so i ran them over and pretended to do it on purpose but was acctually just out of control. then i got into an obnoxiously loud conversation with another longboarder whom i don't know and have never seen before but spoke to as if we'd been mates since primary school about how much this place has changed for the worst like i am some helldog local, even though i only ever previously surfed for a couple weeks during school holidays when i was a kid and for a few months when i finished school before i went into full time wage slaving for thirty years before rediscovering my 'surfing roots' in my fifties.

really what else do longboarders have to talk about...?

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theDoctor said...

longboarding IS surfing, like DL says just do a longboard post in the surfing forum..

there really isn't much to forum about is there...? e.g

'today was one foot, i went out, talked too loud and caught all the waves, bottom turned, trimmed sideways and was ripping. tried to 'walk the plank' and 'hang five' but found am too front heavy around the belly.people way too large for the small boards they were riding began to call me names, so i ran them over and pretended to do it on purpose but was acctually just out of control. then i got into an obnoxiously loud conversation with another longboarder whom i don't know and have never seen before but spoke to as if we'd been mates since primary school about how much this place has changed for the worst like i am some helldog local, even though i only ever previously surfed for a couple weeks during school holidays when i was a kid and for a few months when i finished school before i went into full time wage slaving for thirty years before rediscovering my 'surfing roots' in my fifties.

really what else do longboarders have to talk about...?

You did that so well!
LMAO

The IQ of the average shortboarder is so low im surprised they can talk. ALl their brains seem to be in their overly large muscles whic hthey probably gained from failling to get on the wave time after time

this doesnt look like fun to you?

Well LAla I found this on one of ur other posts......

"What board would people recommend for a beginner....Ive surfed before a couple of times, I windsurf and bodyboard so my balance and knowledge of waves is good....im 202cm tall and weigh 80kg...."

If ur keen to have fun and start laying some real turns after ya figure the mal out Im sure a short board would be verry refreshing.

ANyway Im a little confused. WHy would you bother joining a forum that is based on short board surfing If you concider us to have no brains.....HMMMMMMM

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this doesnt look like fun to you?

WAlking in the stinking hot desert, carrying a 20+ kg board HOPEing to find a wave.

UMm no. not fun

IMO, longboarding gives us older unfit surfers a new lease of life,sure i surfed shortboards for years in my youth until i hit 30 and kids / work became the number one,over the years you bang on the kegs and thats when you start thinking Iam to old for this now.Until your sitting on a beach watching the guy's surf and think to yourself gee i really miss that feeling!
Went out on a 8 footer and was hooked again,then you learn how to ride a 9 footer,the way you should!
That was 15 years ago,now at 46 fighting fit travelled OS with the family and paddled out at some world class reef breaks with son and a new bond is formed!

Now,longboarders can mix old with new tricks,surf anywhere at anytime,unlike shortboards.

Thats the rant,mac

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theDoctor said...

longboarding IS surfing, like DL says just do a longboard post in the surfing forum..

there really isn't much to forum about is there...? e.g

'today was one foot, i went out, talked too loud and caught all the waves, bottom turned, trimmed sideways and was ripping. tried to 'walk the plank' and 'hang five' but found am too front heavy around the belly.people way too large for the small boards they were riding began to call me names, so i ran them over and pretended to do it on purpose but was acctually just out of control. then i got into an obnoxiously loud conversation with another longboarder whom i don't know and have never seen before but spoke to as if we'd been mates since primary school about how much this place has changed for the worst like i am some helldog local, even though i only ever previously surfed for a couple weeks during school holidays when i was a kid and for a few months when i finished school before i went into full time wage slaving for thirty years before rediscovering my 'surfing roots' in my fifties.

really what else do longboarders have to talk about...?

LOL

But you forgot the "move" where you stand still and clasp your hands behind your back. I think that one gets you style cred or something.

I wasnt being serious, I was just posting what I thought would get a reaction, kind of funny that you went to the trouble of searching my other posts to see if I had any cred

And im pretty sure they werent actually walking aaround hte desert with their boards.....they ahve no supplies and are wearing board shorts, it was just a set up to add to the story

When you get to a certain age, I'm 53, it doesn't matter how much you think you can keep up, your body has slowed down. To compensate, you have to go bigger, in boards that is. I'm currently riding a 7'6" Tuflite McCoy Nugget because of its bouyancy and looseness. I'm now noticing that even this is limiting. So I'm probably going to go the whole hog, 9'6", but the best and loosest board I can find. The price is no longer a consideration.

I haven't stopped surfing for 37 years and for me to keep going, and if it means going longer then so be it.

When all the short board "world champ wannabees" have been surfing for longer than 10 years, it will be interesting to hear their opinions then.

Any type of surfing is surfing, as long as you can keep doing it life is good.
I will keep surfing for as long as I possibly can.

well said rune ,mals are for the over 50s
mals put them with the stick men

I second spot1 but disagree with the over 50s comment!

rune-go with a Mc Tavish Fireball 9.4 in length!

mac