Thodd
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| posted on 13-8-2004 at 10:29 |
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Airborne,
I was in body boarding in Croyde on the weekend of the 24th July. ..... Well I say body boarding but it was crap! 1ft waves if
that...utter garbage!
So a friend and me rented 8ft 6 boards and used them instead, it was the only way to ride the waves as they were so small.
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Airborne
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| posted on 13-8-2004 at 18:46 |
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Hi Thodd,
LOL! Great idea! If the surf was crap at croyde, i'd probably have to buy (or rent) a skimboard...my mum would be shitting herself.
I can see it now, a tiny wave comes in, i throw the skimboard, try to jump on it, the board slips under me and i fall on my back,
probably on a large stone. 
I've heard of those skimboards where once you done your stunt of the "ramp" of the wave you can also ride the wave back to the beach,
its a special "soft top" design. More surfboard like shape, and cost loads! The Little Pink Shop sell them. 
Anyway...hopefully the surf was rubbish at croyde from friday the 10th of August for ten days, the reason why you ask? Well, because my
friend who was there (and still is) loves to brag so much...i just hope he can't compare the croyde waves to my waves in the vendee.
Oooo i am cruel! 
Thanks for the ammusing tail thodd.
Airborne.
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petersone
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| posted on 20-8-2004 at 14:55 |
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hey guys...
the weather has been crap here lately. nothing but thunderstorms and humidity. no good rides either. anything over in the uk?
-cheers
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Airborne
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| posted on 21-8-2004 at 09:37 |
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Hi petersone.
The Uk is having very poor weather this summer. Heavy rain (and i mean heavy!) with thunderstorms and cloud...although some days are
sunny but not overley hot. That's the weather forecast and now for the surf! 
Its been reasonble...i wouldn't know because i live inland, i think we might have been getting some swell from the hurricanes over in
America.
But, down in Croyde Bay, North Devon its been good over the last 2 weeks but now has started to go messy and onshore, usually around
2-3 ft.
But, Croyde last week was looking good:
www.extremeboardshots.com
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Airborne
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| posted on 21-8-2004 at 09:39 |
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We've even had flooding down in North Cornwall and other areas, such as, in Scotland...just thought you might want to know that. 
The summer has been rubbish for weather! I wisj i lived somewhere hot and sunny...is Australia good? I might go to Australia, plus it
has great surf.
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petersone
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| posted on 21-8-2004 at 15:34 |
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Sorry to hear about the weather. Yeah Australia is really nice. They have the best weather and the best surf ever. Most of the movies
on Fluidzone.com are filmed in Australia. Although Australia is good surf, I'd like to try New
Zeland.
-cheers
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Airborne
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| posted on 22-8-2004 at 16:08 |
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New Zealand is supposed to be really nice...so are there waves there? There's some really nice, friendly people around that area. Surf,
sun, swell...heaven!
Hey, that website fluidzone looks really good! Some really good photos shown on there.
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Thodd
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| posted on 23-8-2004 at 08:41 |
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Hey there!!
If anyones interested I can explain why the weathers been so crap this summer!!
It does get a bit boring so ignore me if you start loosing interest 
The Jet stream that flows over the atlantic from America to Europe is usually our friend and in the summer helps the Azores high to
"peak over England giving us our hot summer weather. This year however the Jet stream did a banana shape... Moving underneath England
turning back on itself over Europe and coming back at us over the top of Scotalnd.
Basically this left England surrounded by the Jetstream in a bowl causing lots and lots of low pressure, thunderstorms and lightning
storms!
Don't ask me why the Jetstream did what it did, I don't know...
Anyone manage to read all of this without falling asleep then? haaa haa!
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Airborne
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| posted on 23-8-2004 at 10:59 |
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zzzz.....er.....yeah, cheers Thodd, that was really.....er.....interesting.
Now i can tell all my friends about it, won't i be the popular one.
STUPID JET STREAM! 
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petersone
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| posted on 23-8-2004 at 15:19 |
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Back to Australia...heres one of there waves
http://www.ccbodyboarding.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=78&papass=&sort=1&thecat=
-cheers
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Thodd
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| posted on 24-8-2004 at 10:10 |
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While we're on the topic of wave pictures... heres one of my favourites..... all i'm gonna say is ..... this has got to have hurt!
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petersone
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| posted on 24-8-2004 at 23:10 |
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Yeah Thodd...after that one I'd have to pick my legs up off the beach and beat myself with them for falling off that wave...
-cheers
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Thodd
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| posted on 25-8-2004 at 09:48 |
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haa haaa... thats if your arms were still attached to your body ! You
can see exactly whats going through the guys head.......
"oh , bugger!"
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Airborne
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| posted on 25-8-2004 at 12:36 |
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Hi
lol, if you think he had a bad time of it, imagine this guy bailing on what threesixty bodyboard magazine are calling "the heaviest
wave in the world"...it was taken at cyclops, where is that by the way?
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Airborne
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| posted on 25-8-2004 at 12:38 |
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heres a better angle of the lip...look how thick it is, back-breakingly dangerous or wot?
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Airborne
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| posted on 25-8-2004 at 12:39 |
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(its the picture on the left)
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Thodd
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| posted on 26-8-2004 at 08:09 |
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Yeah... I got that issue the day it came out.. i've had an interest in Cylclops for a while now., its got a real mystery surrounding it
as its location is kept a very tight secret. Its somewhere off the coast of Australia, possibly north coast... possibly west...or
south!!!?!?!??!?!! Its basically in the middle of the open ocean near an island that is a huge flat rock submerged by the sea.
It was discovered by the billabong Odyssey crew who are searching the globe for the a 100ft wave http://www.billabongodyssey.com/
Unfortunatly before the 360 guys got there somebody has actually fallen victim to Cyclops power and is lying in hospital in traction
with a broken back.
This really is the sickest wave about at the moment in my opinion... I don't know how true these facts are but I've heard that the lip
of the wave comes out 20ft and is more than 10ft thick..... the whole things scares me haaaa haaaaa
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petersone
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| posted on 26-8-2004 at 19:13 |
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if you ask me, unless a big wave has a seriously nice lip, its not trick worthy...you just fall down the face...
-cheers
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Thodd
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| posted on 27-8-2004 at 07:50 |
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I agree.... but I think the reason for riding cyclops isn't to do with tricks. Its about riding one of the heaviest most dangerous
least ridden waves on the planet.
Personally i'd give it a miss.... not because i'm scared of it.... i'm.....erm...... washing my hair.... or something....
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