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Longboard windsurfing vibe

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Created by lockdownphil > 9 months ago, 6 Aug 2008
lockdownphil
NSW, 15 posts
7 Aug 2008 12:51AM
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Why do longboards/longboarders always get written off by shortboarders, I am sick of getting hassled. What has caused this great divide? Is it ignorance? Why is it? and why can't Seabreeze have a longboards section? or even a some longboard info?

arancini
WA, 373 posts
6 Aug 2008 11:01PM
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longboard what?

nobody
NSW, 437 posts
7 Aug 2008 1:15AM
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There already is a longboard forum based in AUS:
http://www.lbwindsurfing.com/forum/

Or have a look at the journal.
www.lbwindsurfing.com/

pierrec45
NSW, 2005 posts
7 Aug 2008 3:22AM
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lockdownphil said...

Why do longboards/longboarders always get written off by shortboarders, I am sick of getting hassled. What has caused this great divide? Is it ignorance? Why is it? and why can't Seabreeze have a longboards section? or even a some longboard info?

So many existential questions, my friend... In them's part, the snobbishness is directed at anyone sailing in lesser conditions, whether lighter winds than them, longboards, beginners. Worse is: they can't do dick themselves when it picks up and they deign going out. That's inland ****er sailors for ya.

I don't get hassled though - I freestyle on both short and longboards, and rub it in their face whenever I can. All in good jest.

So what's the problem again? Are you really getting hassled??

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
7 Aug 2008 7:48AM
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Who is hassling you? I don't think I have ever seen a windsurfer hassling another windsurfer in Australia about their gear, unless it was in jest.

If I had the space to store a wally I would get one.

lockdownphil
NSW, 15 posts
7 Aug 2008 9:07AM
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A bit dramatic I admit, should have relaxed before posting.

knot board
QLD, 1241 posts
7 Aug 2008 9:56AM
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pierrec45
NSW, 2005 posts
7 Aug 2008 11:07AM
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Perhaps he meant heckled? Hustled?

Were you wearing shorts over wetsuit?

elmo
WA, 8897 posts
7 Aug 2008 9:10AM
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lockdownphil said...

Why do longboards/longboarders always get written off by shortboarders, I am sick of getting hassled. What has caused this great divide? Is it ignorance? Why is it? and why can't Seabreeze have a longboards section? or even a some longboard info?


It's jealousy.

Yours is bigger than theirs.

If you're sick of being hassled don't park your jetty sideways across the beach stopping people getting to the water

Crash Landing
NSW, 1173 posts
7 Aug 2008 11:18AM
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I get pished off by longboarders purely because they catch loads more waves than I do when I'm on my shortboard. They don't share and they paddle out so quickly that I might as well head in.

I think Longboarders will soon get pished off with SUPers because they're catching waves even further out!

As for windsurfing - no idea why there's an isssue!



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