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Freedom at the freezing point

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Created by surfinJ > 9 months ago, 22 Jan 2021
surfinJ
663 posts
22 Jan 2021 5:05PM
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For just a bit, FREE from the stress, tension and all the rest of the crap that seems to continue without end.

Souwester
WA, 1255 posts
22 Jan 2021 6:45PM
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Nice SJ! Dedication in water that cold! The last wave was a cracker!

The definition of mindfulness- a freezing cold solid beach break on a SUP with a crowd - need to be on your A game and have nothing else on your mind!

supthecreek
2583 posts
22 Jan 2021 9:52PM
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Yewwwwww!
Thread through the pack inside

Tardy
4920 posts
23 Jan 2021 6:40AM
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It looks cool there but worth going blue for , nice one surfinJ

100yearsold
19 posts
24 Jan 2021 11:06AM
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Love the board colours

cantSUPenough
VIC, 2122 posts
24 Jan 2021 2:56PM
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Nice! Talk about threading the needle. Great waves though! I can't imagine surfing in such cold water. Do you get an icre-cream headache when you go under?

MangoDingo
NT, 891 posts
24 Jan 2021 5:53PM
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Yes SJ.
Nice waves man - that inside section is sweet!

surfinJ
663 posts
25 Jan 2021 1:47AM
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Yea, and all those guys all wait inside for that section. I was alone at the peak and if I didn't make it I was gone for a while.
The first wave was obviously unmakeble, just wanted the drop. Then I saw a guy down on the inside and straightened out for the grand tour inside through to the channel and back out. As Oki says, priority 1 - stay out of the way Luckily on the average good day it goes about like this. And with all the ones waiting for me to go down, conservative surfing With due respect to the Creek, this was not a truly freezing, ice cream headache stuff that he does on the Cape. Needs water temps also cold below 40F4C in my experience. This is about as cold as we get here, air near freezing and the water just under 50.



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