I love being in water

Wut? Frost, you not only bought a Wave Rebel, but you put a ankle leash on that shizzle? Gross.

Get cheap ebay fins for now. Go up a size at least to fit soft booties and or fin socks. You'll need fin socks too or you'll blister like a mfer.

Kicks are comfortable and float if you want to drop $50. They run small so get a larger size.

If you really want to progress and start busting massive airs:
Buy a Mike Stewart Science EP board around 40"
Buy a gyroll bicep leash
Buy a pair of size L (11-12) kicks fins.
Buy a pair of H2O size M fin socks.
Buy a Ripcurl F-Bomb wetsuite, 3/4, size M or S.
Buy a Gopro waterproof camera/video recorder.

Give all that s--t to me except the Gopro. Swim out and film me while I shred it. You'll be xprt level in no time.

 

^^If you get Kicks, you won't need socks, that's how comfortable they are.

 

My body always reped Viper fins. He's from Maui.

 

So like I mentioned in the other tread I got me a new boog and have been loving it. It did not have a leash plug but from what I read above I can install one safely? Also I'm thinking of getting fins. So far I've only be rocking it in big shore pound so not much need for fins, you know just trun and push off, quick paddle, quick barrel and eat sh!t or spin a 360 (more like 270ish) and end up in ankle deep water. But if I want to venture out to waves where Iw oudl normally surf then fins will help I take it.

 

Wristies are ghey. They interfere with my paddling. Maybe they don't for you. They are cheeper.

When you get into big surf or heavy shorey, you can buy more expensive leashes with a release right at the plug. I take mine off when it's super square and heavy. They break pretty easy because most lidders eat heavy s--t a lot more than standups. It sucks to have to take the time to take the plug out or try to untie and retie salt crusty knots when you bust a leash. There was one killer day last year when I broke 2 in the same afternoon.

Stay Covered makes a quality bicep leash with plug release Velcro at the cheapest price. $17 online. Google it to buy. Anything cheeper won't release at the plug, or is some Chinese knockoff with the Velcro on backwards or the cuff too small for anyone without baby biceps.

Fins will also help you hold a rail, beat a section, stall and stay stable in slow tubes. Peeps say vipers are the most power. I think they're too heavy. It's nice to have fins even if you don't boog, because you can always bodysurf.

When you put in your plug, take a long screwdriver, stick it on your grill or stove until the metal is super hot, then slowly push it through the slick (bottom) until it melts through to the top. Work the screwdriver in a circular motion to melt the hole bigger. Make it about as big as the stem on the leash plug. Don't breathe that toxic smoke sh-- that comes out of the bored and don't do this around babies or preggers.

Use a quarter and a pair of pliers to screw the plug in. That's what fits in that big slot on the bottom. A quarter. New quarters suck. I bent one all to sh-- trying to take out an old plug. Anybody got any 1970's quarters?

 

Plus 1 on the fins..I guess people's don't know what I be saying

Ah man when I first started lurking here boogie boarding was ghey..now err body wanna be a dope boy

Vipers are led weights bruh

 

I agree, I just like being in the water. If there are waves, I surf. If it's shorepound, I boog it. If it's dead flat I'll get out the SUP and just go paddling around. I like going way out on the SUP. The wife doesn't like it and she's had to tell some tourons before that no, I'm not drifting out to sea, no need to call the CG. But there's something liberating about getting way out past the pier and being all by myself. Plus you see some cool stuff sometimes. This was at Topsail in November a few years ago (not me). I'd love to see that up close, and you won't get that in close.

 

I get kinda Steve Irwin goofy\dumb around marine life sometimes. Last year at CB I was paddling back out after catching a wave and saw the tail of a shark disappear into the breaker. Without even thinking about it I started paddling after it as I wanted to see what kind it was. I can remember thinking to myself, "WTF are you doing?". But I kept going. Got out the back but never saw it again. For the record it wasn't a very big one, I don't have ballz like Mark Healey or anything.

If I see one and can ID it usually doesn't bother me. Hammerheads, blacktips, etc. If I can't ID and it's decent size or if it's a bull or tiger I'm gone...

Again, not saying I'm brave. Like the saying goes, "there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity". I'm more of the latter.

Was out one time and had a pod of porpoise with a baby let me cruise with them for about 20 mins. They were so close I had to back paddle a couple times, their flukes were right off the nose of my board. Flat as hell that day but I was super stoked.

 

I saw 4 dolphins charge right under a surfer last Tuesday. A baby humper was 30 yards out from the sand here two weeks back. I saw another one about 50 yards out from me last winter. A bus-sized gray whale (and a couple of dolphins) swam UNDER my buddy in '06, 75 yards out while I watched him panic.

 

Squalus Acanthias. or, common name-- spiny dogfish, perhaps??

 

Awsome stuff speedbump. You're out in the PNW rt?

 

I'm across from the Channel Islands. There's a surprising amount of sea life down here in the northern reaches of SoCal.

 

Right on man. I bet you get a ton of stuff migrating from Alaska to Mexico and back.