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March 27, 2006

spring love affair

been thinking alot lately. work has me in a heads driven down mode. starting to burn the candle a bit on both ends & starting to smell the burnt crispness of a person that has been working to much.
last week i was getting twitchy & snappy. decided that i needed to go out & look for the one thing that will bring me out of this comma & into the light.

headed down to the surf garage for a little window shopping. dragged soul sista along for the ride. (part of my master plan was to show her the nicest collection of surf sticks on the island. hands down.) of course it's not the cheapest store either. but hey....this(surfing) is my temple & i learned a long time ago that if you have a hobby that suits you, helps you cope with life & grows your spirit..then the costs involved are nothing more then a hurdle to move around.

i was drooling for about a solid 30 minutes before i wrangled my choices down to 4 boards. the first was a baby blue 9'4" hap jacobs. a beautiful epoxy nose rider. the second was a dino miranda 9'4" orange & blue epoxy performance nose rider. very nice deal for the board & price. the third was a used chris christenson. a stunning 9'1" double ender with a beautiful lush soft green heavy glass. so so sexy & fast looking. a perfect double over head chun's reef board.

then there was this eye catcher. a 9'6" schaper hand shaped hawaiian plowed foam board. an earlier bonga perkins model. hard lined rails into a sweet pintail. moderate to progressive rails with a nice wide nose for some time on the perch. a sexy pant job that just screams how i feel inside when i surf. "everything is bleeding, melding & swirling around. life...it's about the flow"

mind you there is at least a few hundred of some of the best boards/ shapers in this store. unreal the quality of some of those sticks.

so in a cease the moment agreement with the wife we slapped the hold sticka on the schaper/ bonga 9'6". i spent the rest of the day pacing in my head. weighing out all the options, angles dimensions, rails, tails & possibilities of pushing my surfing to the next evolution phase. as a surfer i think it's important to know what reaches your soul & inspires it. this is the access point or the rabbits hole if you will.

later in the day i returned to the shop & walked out with a local shaped & glassed stick that'll be surfed on local breaks.

it means something to me to surf a stick created here. given from the hands of the land to be used with a locals knowledge of the ocean. so we brought the new ride to the ocean for a blessing & intro session for a new life with a new family.

Posted by Single Fin at March 27, 2006 01:34 PM

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Posted by: Kay at March 27, 2006 10:48 PM

Posted by: Kay at March 27, 2006 10:50 PM