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Start of year surf days 2592 .. |
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| January 2024.. Surf sessions end of month. 20 / 20 | ||||
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| Most days I was using my Paipobards. For prone surfing. I feel very comfortable wuith the boards. They are easy to use, and safe. I am surprised how well the bigger 6 feet x 24 x 4 inch is performing. Even catching waves from just 2 feet | ||||
| February 2024.. Surf sessions end of month. 17 / 37 | ||||
| 03..12..13..15..17..16..18..19..19..20..20..21..23..25..27..28..29.. | ||||
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A month using the 6 feet softboard a lot. Surfing some biggish waves as
well. Mareta SE swell. I remember this was very difficult with a
longboard, because the break is close to the beach. On one occation I
broke a board here. With the 6 feet softboard it is a lot easyer. February had a lot of sunny days. |
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| my_diary_1/2024/240130mareta.mp4 | ||||
| Marts 2024.. Surf sessions end of month. 16/53 | ||||
| 01..03..07..11..14..16..18..17..19..20..22..23..24..28..29..30.. | ||||
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A trip to S Torp again. 2 nd trip this year. Surf mainly with 6 ft soft
top. I now have 2 of them. I am also trying to surf knee surf boarding.
My friends from Germany came for a visit during Easter. Very nice. It is clear that nobody never saw befor a surfer using a 6 ft softboard for prone surfing. And people are notising how it perform well in windy messy conditions. |
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| my_diary_1/2024/240207tonel.mp4 | ||||
| my_diary_1/2024/240202maretashort.mp4 | ||||
| April 2024 .. Surf sessions end of month. 22/75 | ||||
| 01.02.03.04.09.10.11.12.13.15.16.17.18.19.20.22.24.25.26.28.29.30 | ||||
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During the month I was trying to make a 5.6 feet glass bodyboard wider ,
by adding foam to the rails. The result was not working well. The board
was very difficult to paddle. I came across a 9 feet x 24 x 4 longboard. Price was very low, so I thought I would try. Catching waves, but wobble . Too boxy rails and paralell rails I think. my_diary_1/2024/2404209ftcalifornia.mp4 9 feet longboard in Cordoama. |
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| May 2024 .. Surf sessions end of month. 22/97 | ||||
| 3.3.4.5.7.8.9.10.11.12.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.23.24.25.26.27 | ||||
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May was a great month. Nice waves, warm and sunny. I was in S.Torps twice. I was staying at Porto Covo camping in a studio type apartment.. The board building project of the month was to make a 23 inch wide soft board wider.I cut rails from a 6 feet long soft top and glued on with Polyurethane glue. The board was 6.5 long and worked very well in surfing messy foamy waves. We have a lot of that stuff here. However I had concerns if the board was strong enough, because it took some beating. I am getting quite a collection. |
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End of the month I found a 26 inch wide softboard that I cut to 6.5 in
length. Board is 4 inch thick and stringers ( 2 ) 3.5 to almost 4 . So
board seems stronger. Gopro cam waterdamaged.     |
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| my_diary_1/2024/240502cordoamagood.mp4 | ||||
| my_diary_1/2024/240519amadogood.mp4 | ||||
| June 2024.. Surf days end of month. 18 / 109 | ||||
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I was on a trip with surfboards and tent along the coast until Vaqueira.
200 km South from Porto. Surf several beaches from Nazare to Figuer de
Foz, where I have never surfed before. It is not crowded this time a
year Back in Sagres I ordered a Flowt Tanker 8 feet. I should soon be my favorite board. |
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| July 2024.. Surf days end of month. 23/132 | ||||
| 1.2.3.4.5.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16..17.18.19.20.21.25.26.28.29.30. | ||||
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I was surfing with the new 8 foot boardboard most days. I thought first
a b8 feet board was too big for kneesurfing. When I look at youtube the
kneeboards are a lot shorter. But I had got info about other that used 8 feet ,wide, and thick boards. And a surfer up the coast were using a SUP board. 10 feet x 32 Inch wide. An other posted me , how he cut 2 boards along the rails and glued one new board together that was 25 inch wide. I learned using my "kneesurfboard" very quickly. I could make a lot more manoevering. I surfed more "wall" in one session than I normally do in a month. There was no way back, I was hooked. It was a big "reanimation", just what I needed. |
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| my_diary_1/2024/240722amadoslow.mp4 | ||||
| my_diary_1/2024/240726amado1.mp4 | ||||
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| August 2024.. Surf sessions end of month. 10 / 142 | ||||
| 01.09.10.11.12.13..France 4 surf | ||||
| September 2024 Surf sessions end of month. 16 / 158 | ||||
| 5.6.7.8.9.10.11.13.14.16.17.21.22.23.27.30. | ||||
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Arrive San Vicente 5 sept. Stay at Los Laos in apartment. Kneesurf
mainly. Started to have pain in right hip area. I supposed it was a
bursitis. 18 left and drowe South.had to go through Spain as wildfires were heavy in Portugal . Arrived Figueras de Foz 21. Stayed at camping Gale in a nice bungalow. Did a overnight in Porto Covo . Then I was back in Sagres. |
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| October 2024 Surf sessions end of month. 24 / 182 | ||||
| 4.5.7.8.9.10.12.13.14.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.31 | ||||
| A typichal autumn. Start surfing Port de Moss and other South facing beaches. Bodyboarding and kneeboarding. I also purchased a Zeus 7.6 that iw 26 inch wide. I was having some pain in right leg and hip that I thought could be related to the 37 inch wide 8 feet Flowt board . | ||||
| November 2024 Surf sessions end of month. 22 / 204 | ||||
| 1.3.4.5.7.8.9.10.11.13.14.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27. | ||||
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On 2 November I purchased a 8 feet soft top. From that I cut 2 x 2 inch
rail. I then glued these pieces of rail to the 9 feet California suft
board that I purchaced in the spring. i have noticed that I was
"forgetting" to surf standing up. I thought a wider board woud be good
to recover the skill. I didnt take long then the board was finished and ready to test.. The board even looked smart . First test was 18 of November. The board was very easy to handle. Pop up was still there.i found I could knesurf board as well. It was great to paddle also. The board could surf quite big waves, say 1 m +. I surfed messy waves and white water and reform waves. 25 of Nov. I went to S. Torpes for more test. and stayed there for almost 2 weeks. I stayed at Porto Covo Camping in a bungalow. The weather was sunny and 20+ during the day. Moderate waves about 1 m and lots of surf. I often start kneesurfing if the wave looks complicated, meaning in most cases steep. Then standing. However i also did nice snakes turning the board along the wave and then popping up in one jump. After a week I started shuffeling towards the nose. There are other ways to get a wide longboard. Some use SUP boards, but in my opinion the outline of a SUP is too curved, if you want a board that is stable and having high directional stability |
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VIDEO: my_diary_1/2024/241203kactusbeach.mp4 testing board in West coast of Portugal |
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| December 2024.. Surf sessions end of month 20 /24 Total year 2816 | ||||
| The stay in S. Torps continued until 7 of
December. Then I drove back to Sagres. The rest of month was surfing in beaches around Sagres. Around X mas it got very crowded, and it was not without accidents. By end of month I started to use bodyboards more. The 6 feet long ones. 24 inch 26 inch and 28 inch wide. I think I should try to make some even wider. |
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