o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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You know what?
It's all good.
I feel lucky just to be a surfer and a climber.
Whenevers clever. plus one!
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 12, 2012 - 01:53pm PT
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:19am PT
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:48am PT
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Kazuma surfboards Hawaii
I use prone downwind paddling to train for winter surf and this is the only exercise that I have found to directly improve my surfing skills. Surfing Sprecks, Pier 1, Waimea, or Jaws takes a special set of skills that can't be learned any other way than either riding big waves and/or training with prone downwind paddling. Spots like Jaws have wave speeds that far exceed any surfboard made and are uncatchable unless you know how to build momentum by using small chops to build speed. Jaws has this beautiful side chop that is like getting a turbo boost and if you know how to use it, you can catch waves that are normally not possible to catch. Prone paddleboarding is all about linking these small chops together and boosting your speed to get into the rolling swells, 100 yard rides are possible in the open ocean. For me, prone downwind paddleboarding trains my muscles to have much more powerful "bursts" of energy needed to get into huge waves. Prone paddleboarding also builds my endurance and trains my muscles to work at max output for hours at a time but the most important benefit is that it gives me training on a huge board that is equally as difficult to balance on as my big wave guns. Balance, timing and control is essential to be a big wave surfer.
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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Aug 13, 2012 - 12:11pm PT
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Spots like Jaws have wave speeds that far exceed any surfboard made...
Until is gets steep and you are just falling through the air.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 14, 2012 - 12:34am PT
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Some Random Guy
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Aug 14, 2012 - 08:10pm PT
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props to the big wave riders!!!!
insane
prolly the biggest i've been on is about 7-8 foot.....that's plenty enough for me :)
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sempervirens
climber
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:02pm PT
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O-man, hey, I don't understand the downwind prone paddling training as you explained it. Prone is lying on the front, right? But paddleboarding is done standing up, isn't it? Am I getting the terms confused? I'm trying to figure out the training you're talking about.
Thanks for making this a worthy thread.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 15, 2012 - 12:02pm PT
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O-man, hey, I don't understand the downwind prone paddling training as you explained it. sempervirens,downwind prone paddling training is not to be confused with SUP and is a discipline used by traditional big wave lay down paddle in surfers to build the strength and glide techniques necessary to catch big fast moving waves by using bumps and steep open ocean wind swells.
It is also a sport unique to it's self and has boards designed to be extremely fast and have super gliding abilities.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 16, 2012 - 11:49am PT
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miwuksurfer
Social climber
Mi-Wuk
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Aug 16, 2012 - 12:17pm PT
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6' shark buzzed some surfers two days ago across the street. Still going to go for a paddle (prone).
Wish it was all "downwind", O-man. Have to paddle upwind to get to the downwind part, unless you get shuttled.
Earn your turns.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Aug 16, 2012 - 01:00pm PT
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 16, 2012 - 01:43pm PT
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O-man. Have to paddle upwind to get to the downwind part miwuksurfer, I couldn't agree with you more!
"STOP SHARKFINNING!"
guido, I am with you as well!
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 17, 2012 - 10:41am PT
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 19, 2012 - 12:38pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 19, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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o-man- you are a one man photo gallery, fella!
Nice shot of Da Bull! Big waves on a big board---Classic!
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