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oladulce
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Tuesday surf matting on the windy Pacific side
It's amazing, just 75 miles or so and a few mesas across the peninsula from where Susan was water skiing in sheet-glass conditions in Bahia
Concepcion...
It was howling wind here today!
But the water has become invitingly warm over the past couple of days, and it's rare to have sand covering the lava rocks on the beach below, so I
took my mat for a spin.
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bajajudy
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You go girl!
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Halboo
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Mats are cool 
http://surfmatz.com/
http://www.surfmat.com/
http://www.edgespoon.com/4thGear/
http://groups.msn.com/InflateAbleDreamSpeed
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pappy
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is that one of dale solomonson's mats??? i love mine!
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shari
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awesome...could you por favor send some of that warmer water up our way?
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oladulce
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| Quote: | Originally posted by pappy
is that one of dale solomonson's mats??? i love mine! |
It is pappy.
I have to thank Halboo for his recent post about his new mat. It motivated me to take mine out and I had a blast.
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oladulce
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
awesome...could you por favor send some of that warmer water up our way? |
Alas Shari, that balmy water lasted only a day before these winds blew it away. It's back to the low- mid 70's I'd estimate. Not horrible, but not
"Aaahhhh" water. Any idea what your water temp is ?
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woody with a view
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few days ago on the news "they"said it was 77 at mission beach, ca. it's warm alright, but me thinks there musta been a lot of kids peeing at the same
time in the vicinity of the thermometer.
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Halboo
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It's been in the mid 70's here in San Clemente for several weeks. But no waves.
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woody with a view
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patience, grasshopper.......tis the summer of discontent....so far!!!
  
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Halboo
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We're heading to Baja Sur sometime early-mid Sept. for 3 weeks or so....
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Iflyfish
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cool pics, never seen one of those before, what fun, great links
Iflyfish
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shari
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It seems the water temps vary alot depending on the area, Los Chorros surf break was around 68 and it was 64 in town and 62 at San Roque Island and
they vary day to day as well...one interesting place is at our new favorite beach which has an active underwater volcano near it where you can see
bubbles coming up from it and it warms the water up nicely. So we're gonna try to take our surf boards there next time so we don't get too cold when
falling in all the time! What the heck is a mat? Is it like a boogie board? Looks like alot of fun.
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Halboo
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Hi Shari,
Check the links if you can;
Mats preceded Boogie boards by decades; most oldtimers like myself surfed mats before graduating to surfboards.
They've made a pretty good comeback recently and the new mats are light years ahead of the old blue and yellow Hodgeman's; utilizing ultralight super
supple materials.
I went back to mats because injuries prevent me from paddling a surfboard anymore without distress and it's way more soulful then a mass produced
boogie.
Currently there are only two guys in the world with the knowledge and equipment to make a quality mat.
Dale Solomonson/Neumatics and Paul Gross/ 4th Gear Flyers.
They surf completely different then anything else and well ridden, there is nothing faster. They work best in lined up waves and when it's kind of
funky and blown out they work better then anything.
It can't hurt you or anybody else, it's softer then the softest soft board, and it's the most portable surf vehicle by far.
Imagine riding a soft comfy bubble that wants to go to the fastest part of the wave...................
 
If you promise to keep it away from sharp rocks I'll let you try my Flyer when we are down there in a few weeks.
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BajaGeoff
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Man that water sure looks inviting!
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Halboo
Thanks for that discription.
When I first saw the picture, I googled surf mat and they looked like a smaller, sleeker, fancier, lighter weight version of those big heavy yellow
and blue rafts we used to rent at Hunington Beach when I was a kid----just after the stone age.
When my kids had boogie board many years later, I never thought they were as much fun----after all these years, a surf mat might get this old lady
back in the surf.
Thanks
Diane
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the new mats are light years ahead of the old blue and yellow Hodgeman's;
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those super hard rafts are what i spent MANY summers on. i remember picking through the pile inside the trailer at north OB every time trying to find
the hardest mat they had. fun times, but the nipple rash was UNREAL!!!!!!!
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Halboo
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I don't know if you know who George Greenough is but he's generally considered one of the most influential waterman of the last century (and my
boyhood hero)
Watching his YOU Tube discussion of mats will give you a lot of insight into the modern surf mat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igN3FqwC29E
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Halboo
I don't know if you know who George Greenough is but he's generally considered one of the most influential waterman of the last century (and my
boyhood hero)
Watching his YOU Tube discussion of mats will give you a lot of insight into the modern surf mat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igN3FqwC29E |
WHO? the guy who used to strap a camera on his back at the points north of santa barbera and get deep?
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Halboo
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Correcto
http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=821
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