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BS Bigflips only make sense if you understand each & every component that the trick is comprised of... Then if you can put it all together, it's like clockwork...
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In the works...
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A few times off the start-up booter behind the seadoo... Nose concave on the Remote is gonna make catching poked kickies siiiiick.
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I don't think I've ever claimed to be born on any day other than June 21, 1989...
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I think that would be sweet... Maybe I'll set one up later this summer.
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I haven't tried any since I got my Remote, so I'm pretty excited to feel them out. I think the different concave is gonna help out a lot, especially having a proper nose & tail...
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I've seen Reed Hansen do a few really good ones, along with some really sick inward heelflips...
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Unfortunately, there was a bit of confusion from the guys in Europe about the dates of the event this year and I had already booked another trip for the first week of June, so I won't be going out to Germany for Wake the Line this year...
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Honestly, it's the difference in "being screwed" meaning having to pull out a wooden rail and getting a stern talking to -OR- "being screwed" meaning having to pay a huge fine for an unpermitted permanent structure and having to dismantle a large-scale concrete water box...
I got a better idea.
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I've thought about it plenty, and even drew up some plans on how to make it work... The problem is permanence. If I had the legal right to build it, I would have done it by now, but the fact stands that I'm a criminal for every flatbar & incline I've ever built around the island.
That's sick you bring it up, I haven't thought about it in about a year... got me dreaming again.
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I was given the chance.
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Hitting the reef at Pipeline, Backdoor, and Honolua Bay. I grew up on sandy beachbreaks on the gulf, so having a Pacific wave bash me against the sharp coral reefs of Hawaii is a gnarly experience every time it happens...
I had a couple of hold-downs during a hurricane swell in Costa Rica that scared me pretty good too, 20 seconds or so, being thrashed around underwater not knowing which way is up or down, the wave never letting you out from the raging vortex, all while you repeatedly bounce off the sand bottom at full force...
All worth it.
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Thanks!
Personally, I really like it because it's a well edited video that portrays the island wakeskating vibe that my roots are firmly grounded in. Even though I didn't do a lot of really technical new maneuvers, or hit any gnarly winch gaps, it's still a video that gets me really stoked to ride when I watch it... It's also the first time anyone's really seen me ride the Remote since those first two quick "welcome to the team" edits, so I think it'll help people get used to the idea of seeing me on a wood concave.
One of the main things I see when I watch it now, is the difference between the 39.5 Leo and the 38.5 prototype I'm riding now. I liked the Leo board a lot, but now I feel 5x more comfortable on my 38.5 and I'm already able to do a lot more with the prototype than I could with the 39.5- it's a world of difference.
Andrew Roehm is a really fun mind to work with. I like the way he does things.
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Hard to say.
I learned them on a flatbar, but having a bit more airtime & the downward angle of a hubba could be called easier to pin the tail on... I'd say they're about equal difficulty for different reasons. -
It's easier to lock in a noseslide with bigger nugs, but more annoying to ride with them...
I'm still trying to find the balance of low-key nugs that still lock in well. -
Yep. Average tide swings out there are 2 feet, but I've seen my pipe rail underwater and I've seen it 4 ft tall with dry sand beneath it...
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