Comments on: Free your ankles! http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/3962 Perspective(s) in Surfing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Howard http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/3962#comment-28407 Howard Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:27:14 +0000 http://www.driftsurfing.eu/?p=3962#comment-28407 Hmmm, maybe don't go to Bali then. It's full of twats. Hmmm, maybe don’t go to Bali then. It’s full of twats.

]]> By: McMatty http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/3962#comment-28347 McMatty Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:29:35 +0000 http://www.driftsurfing.eu/?p=3962#comment-28347 Style, look better? Wow fantastic reasons I mean you want everyone to focus on how great you look after all... Having been hit by a twats board that went leashless recently in Bali I find this excuse weak. Cut me open I wasn't happy as that was my session done & out for a couple of days because someone felt like being free of a leash. Style, look better?
Wow fantastic reasons I mean you want everyone to focus on how great you look after all…

Having been hit by a twats board that went leashless recently in Bali I find this excuse weak.
Cut me open I wasn’t happy as that was my session done & out for a couple of days because someone felt like being free of a leash.

]]> By: Mister Griffster http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/3962#comment-4541 Mister Griffster Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:54:47 +0000 http://www.driftsurfing.eu/?p=3962#comment-4541 I'd completely agree Chris - the freedom and awareness that comes from being un-leashed teaches you so much more about logging with style, and there is a satisfaction in having the board under control... and yes i 've had that feeling of a board slipping out from my finger-tips after losing it, but i always smile because i get to body-surf the next wave, if you're lucky you can catch a wave right up to your board and pop up and carry on riding - mind you mine always seems to be fin up so it's an interesting experience ;) This is great on a perfect 3ft day, but there's a few reasons i wear a leash at other times- firstly i surf a crowded break and on a pushing tide it comes right into a rocky cove... losing an expensive, resin-ated log can be a painful experience if you have to pull it off the rocks... but more than that, when there's 300 - 400 surfers in the water in an area less than 250 meteres in the summer months it can prove quite painful for others! the most worrying thing is some people, especially learners and kids have not been told how to react when in the water and doubly so when the see a loose board - you can get interesting reactions - a lot of guys i know position themselves quite safely, will laugh or smile if they see you swimming, and some will even catch the board for you.... thats the true camaraderie of surfing right there! however the inexperienced just freeze if they see a log bouncing toward them in the whitewater, not realising they can just simply sink under the water, results in some worrying reactions... but by far the worst reactions seem to be from shortboarders or those who believe they are 'performance' and who take themselves too seriously - they just don't get it even tho they kick their boards in all directions when attempting the 100th unsuccessful arial of the day.... I'd defend style all the way but there are some instances when worth wearing a leash on a log I’d completely agree Chris – the freedom and awareness that comes from being un-leashed teaches you so much more about logging with style, and there is a satisfaction in having the board under control… and yes i ‘ve had that feeling of a board slipping out from my finger-tips after losing it, but i always smile because i get to body-surf the next wave, if you’re lucky you can catch a wave right up to your board and pop up and carry on riding – mind you mine always seems to be fin up so it’s an interesting experience ;)

This is great on a perfect 3ft day, but there’s a few reasons i wear a leash at other times- firstly i surf a crowded break and on a pushing tide it comes right into a rocky cove… losing an expensive, resin-ated log can be a painful experience if you have to pull it off the rocks… but more than that, when there’s 300 – 400 surfers in the water in an area less than 250 meteres in the summer months it can prove quite painful for others!

the most worrying thing is some people, especially learners and kids have not been told how to react when in the water and doubly so when the see a loose board – you can get interesting reactions – a lot of guys i know position themselves quite safely, will laugh or smile if they see you swimming, and some will even catch the board for you…. thats the true camaraderie of surfing right there!

however the inexperienced just freeze if they see a log bouncing toward them in the whitewater, not realising they can just simply sink under the water, results in some worrying reactions…

but by far the worst reactions seem to be from shortboarders or those who believe they are ‘performance’ and who take themselves too seriously – they just don’t get it even tho they kick their boards in all directions when attempting the 100th unsuccessful arial of the day….

I’d defend style all the way but there are some instances when worth wearing a leash on a log

]]> By: Blackwood http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/3962#comment-1263 Blackwood Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:09:39 +0000 http://www.driftsurfing.eu/?p=3962#comment-1263 So true, this story. I also surf longboards but when it get's crowded i'am happy with my leash. I know surfing without feels and looks better... maybe give it another try! Thanks for your thoughts Chris! So true, this story. I also surf longboards but when it get’s crowded i’am happy with my leash.
I know surfing without feels and looks better… maybe give it another try!
Thanks for your thoughts Chris!

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