Whats your goal(s) in bodyboarding

[Wonderbread]

Everyone should print that off and stick it on their fridge / above their computer / toilet door.

I'm thinking it should be printed on all boardbags.

Wonderbread- it's funny you bring that up. I remember when I was just starting to take bodyboarding seriously and I found the idea of surfing a reef to be scary as all hell

It's weird because I actually prefer a heavy point or reef to a close out beachy, even if I get worked harder there's something safe about having things like a channel to paddle into or to be bale to paddle past the reef and sit if I need a breather.

[First Rock]

I was joking as well

Someone put up a scale similar to that on realsurf. It seems to be pretty similar to the way I measure waves. roughly "face height/2"

a paraphrased version of iggy on realsurf's wave measuring guide:

0.5ft- knee high
1ft- Waist high
1.5ft- chest high
2ft- Shoulder High
3ft- Head high
4ft- anywhere from 1.2 heads to, say, 1.8 heads. "Head and a half"
5ft- doesn't exist
6ft- double overhead
7ft- doesn't exist
8ft- double overhead and a half
9ft- doesn't exist
10ft- triple overhead
11ft- doesn't exist
12ft- triple overhead and a half - quadruple overhead
15ft- approx. 5x overhead, extremely big

After that it gets tricky. do 16-19 ft waves exist? And what after that? You get that point. It's all moot for me anyway, based on that scale I haven't surfed anything bigger then 10ft, and I can't really see myself getting past that 15ft description for a long time, if ever.

Don't take this too seriously It is a good way to tell people how big the waves are though, the last thing you want to be doing is claiming that's it's 15ft when really it's only 8ft (or 6ft, for that matter). Perhaps it's because of this, but it always makes me laugh when I hear someone talking about "fun 6-8 ft waves".

Thats it, basically. I think it goes from 15ft to 15ft + and then 20ft, 25ft, 30ft.

[caspian]

The important thing is that if it's big but you don't really know the size, just say 4ft or "yeah a bit overhead" You don't want to say it's over 6ft unless you're absolutely sure.

[Boogs]

Yeah if it's real big and someone asks I just give the "oh... about 4 to 6"

[Ditchy]

Wave: Mentawais Or that crazy wedge in america haha

Move: Reverse/Forward Air

Travel: Indo And Hawaii (going to hawaii in Oct)

Other: Get a massive Boogn crew happening and slowly take over the world until no more surfers/surfboards exist haha

[southern_rewards]

Convert all boogers to stand up...

[captain_awesome]

that would be so good, but we also need variety in the lineup imo

[southern_rewards]

Yeah the variety of an empty line up would be good every once in a while.

[First Rock]

Convert all boogers to stand up...

That would be shit. I rely on stand ups pulling back every now and then. Planet lid would be too hectic.

[meaksy]

Convert all boogers to stand up...

That would be shit. I rely on stand ups pulling back every now and then. Planet lid would be too hectic.

I dont quite think you read southerns quote correctly , i believe he was saying that he wants all boogers to be converted, and become stand ups, so that they leave the booger waves alone so that he (southern rewards) can have them all to himself.

Unless we take it that by the word "all' in his quote he is including himself in that conversion, Whats the matter southern, getting sick of riding a bodyboard ha ha ha ha ha hah yeah right

My latest goal in BB is to actually get wet, havent had the time or opportunity for 2 months now, Starting to go pretty freakin loopy in the head

[marty_n]

watch your words there Meaksy

Don't want southern to FU Up haha

There are just soo many people out in the water now its getting ridiculous!

we went out to a little known place on tuesday night

me and my brother rocked up at 7pm too see 6 guys out

and just before dark another 5 guys rocked up!!!

[caspian]

Going off what Southern was saying, perhaps my goal in the water should be to be so obnoxious and uncool that everyone who sees me goes off bodyboarding, or indeed waveriding in general.

It's probably already happening without my knowledge

[Swoodle]

me and my brother rocked up at 7pm too see 6 guys out

and just before dark another 5 guys rocked up!!!

Wow. I rocked up to empty Poo Ants on the weekend PUMPING and just before dark when we left. .. . . There was still no one I (HEART) POO ANTS

My Goal in bodyboarding, is NEVER to have a goal. I'll go out wanting to try a trick or something but I wouldn't say it's a goal to pull it off cause I really don't care to much. On the boog for me is simply to have fun. Always have fun

[captain_awesome]

best name for a break ever

[southern_rewards]

Yeah i ment so there a major chunk of the surfing population leaving the ledge to the few left who can stand the ridicule of the fiberglass masses...

Yeah i got to a ledge thats about 40 minutes walk into the bush after a drive to a dead end thats about 80K's from home. There was a surfer on the rocks with a snapped board, a surfer in the water, and a bodyboarder off the forums who dosent post.

He was lining, up, a young kid and another guy came out. They lined up along with the everyone else.
It was really slow (about 3 set waves an hour), waited about 1 hour for a set, then 3 guys came out ogf nowhere and proceeded to paddle to the inside of me, a set finally came, one guy snaked, the other dropped in. Then the next wave came through and 3 guys all paddled for it. I called it and they pulled back. The last one to pull back went over the fals in the lip over my head onto VERY dry reef. I got slotted to the channel and got out.

Then people started to rock up 10 minutes before dark! i know its been slow this summer but FK me it was the most people i have ever seen out there, EVER.