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9-0 Bat Wing Swallow Review in UK |
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Airhead Surf Diary in the UK
"So to sum up this board…….its awesome and I’ve had my best surf
sessions on this board by miles and recommend it to any surfer who
really wants to crank it on the wave and has an aggressive style but
just remember that this board is right at the top there on the
performance side and if you have the skills then you wont want anything
else for surfing."
Pete Shiplee
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Bob Rief in the Associated Press |
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Bob Rief, C4 Waterman's COO in California, was one of the first surfers back in the water after the shark attack last week. The Associated Press caught him on his way into the water (with a C4 board on his shoulder).
"It's like going to see 'Jaws' — getting in the water the next day, all
you could think about was the music," said Bob Rief, 63, who was
teaching a friend how to stand up on a paddleboard. "But if you're
afraid of the ocean, you shouldn't be in it." [Associated Press]
Read the whole article from Google News here.
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 Marco Stefanini and the staff at StandUpPaddling.it make note of the trend towards more specialized boards with an article featuring the C4 Vortice XP.
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Dave Parmenter takes 2nd Place at the 2008 Steinlager Shaka |
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C4 Team Rider Dave Parmenter took 2nd place (after Kamu Auwae) at the Steinlager Shaka Contest at Sunset Beach last weekend. Dave has been riding with C4 since the company was founded, and was proud win the second-place spot, beating out Leleo Kinimaka (3rd) and Noland Martin (4th) in the exciting final. Check out the Honolulu Advertiser's coverage of the event.
The next round of the 2008 Steinlager Shaka will be held at Kaka'ako Park, starting on May 31.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 05 May 2008 )
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Mark Taylor wrote to us about an ancient form of stand-up paddle boarding he discovered in Goa, India. Mark is deep into a round-the-world surf trip, and has made stops in Peru, Brazil, Portugal, Capetown, J-Bay, and Bali; but he says that the most interesting SUPing he saw was on the beach in Goa.
ALL PHOTOS BY MARK TAYLOR
"I was looking at the ankle to knee high dribblers and thinking how fun it would be for a SUP if it was 2 feet bigger. Out on the horizon I see a guy paddling along about 1km offshore," Mark begins. When the old die-hard local comes in, Mark rushed down to help pull his board up on the sand-- all 200 pounds of it.
The local informed him that it's an old practice of fishermen in Goa. Two flattened logs are lashed together with rope, and shaped into a hook at the nose to create rocker. Couple it with a simlarly custom-fabricated paddle, and you have a handmade, all-wood, SUP board.
This has allowed the locals to lay lobster traps, net lines, and take fish out of the Arabian Sea for what the local told him was "generations."
Apparently the Waikiki beachboys weren't the very first people to think of stand-up paddle boarding!
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| An ingenious use of local materials, in use for "generations". |
You use what you've got, when you haven't got much. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 April 2008 )
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