by Tex » Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:50 pm
As a dad, I can tell you now, your 9 yr old nephew will have a blast tomorrow with the power tools. And lets be honest, all us old grown men still laugh at farts, so I think your going to have that all dialed in.
A 9'2 gun....sounds like a blast, never ridden anything that big before....biggest board I ever rode, back in 94 was a 7'8. It was fun board but there were pretty big swells I was able to ride with that thing.
That fall, I had been surfing at SS everyday, I was living in Manzanita and also scored a ton of waves in town that year. Anyway, big fall swell hit, super clean....I am not going to call a size but on some days, paddling out it seemed like the whole horizon was tilting when the sets came through.
Anyway, I was all dialed in, waiting for the biggest sets, at least as big as SS could hold. I took off on a bomb, then one of the longboarders took off on the same wave I did....his board was 10ft. I was literally looking up at him 5 ft above me on the same wave and he was not on the lip. Oh to be 23 again =:)