Last of the MoKnee-gans

Every day is "overhead" to a kneerider.

 

not really, every day is overhead to a bodyboarder, kneelos need at least waist high to be overhead, err...a.... somethin

 

Well played, sir.

 

I wonder how many of you swellinfo forum dudes I've chatted with in the water and had no idea.

 

There should be a secret handshake or something. Have we tried this?

 

secret password? agent 13 in a vending machine? cone of silence?

 

I kind of want to have someone build me this:

http://surfersjournal.com/sites/default/files/TSJ-Steve-Lis-Fish_ActualSize.pdf

to use as a kneeboard, I think it might really work on lined up hollow days.

 

Here ya go:

 

combo that w/ a greenough flex spoon & you just might be close to the ultimate surfcraft

 

http://www.pendo.com/2011/12/the-lil-dorado-pendoflex-and-other-small-craft/

 

Never gave credit to knee boarders until I had a day in OCNJ where there were pealers coming off the rocks. Looking like something out of INdo. Except it was 34 degrees and the current was so firece you had to drift to the takeoff spot and paddle your a$$ of to try and stay there. dude in his 50s is getting shacked over and over again while I do my best to stay near the takeoff spot. Ever since then , I realized there were certain gains to be had for this type of surfing. just not for me.

 

Yup X 100. Those Pendo boards are magic, there's a few of them floating around SD. The best ones are the Lis and the Rich Pavel Pendo's. If you can find one, hold onto it. It'll probably be worth Skip Frye money in a few more years. The Lis ones already are.

 

Yup, knew him well. There is another guy, shorter white hair on the white board. He is always down on the cliffs when its a decent size out. I was actually going back through old sunset cliffs video footage of me, trying to cut it up for an edit and I saw a session at Luscombs with the guy on the white knee board getting some good ones. It's like they travel at the perfect speed for the cliffs. Not too fast, not too slow, stays right in the pocket.

 

Very good friend of mine. He is an encyclopedia of kneeriding, probably one of the first pioneers after Greenough. He's been riding OB since before they built the Pier....says that spot was once one of the best left sand pointbreaks on the entire West Coast. Great guy, and a wealth of surfing knowledge. Big brass balls.

 

Wakeboarding behind a boat: One of the worst wipeouts in sports. One minute you are styling, the next nanosecond your face hits the water. Numbness in my fingers and toes on the last one made it my last one. And all my "friends" on the boat just want to see me eat it huge, so they will go real fast and crooked to see me wipe out. Great sport for the young.

 

Yeah, I know some of the older guys, that were surfing the cliffs back in the 50s. Lance morton, Mouse... They told me that it used to break all the way from the end of cable street Cable/Orchard at the boat ramp and go all the way through the north side of where the pier is now and stop over by where Avalanche is. They said back in the day, there was a huge stretch of sandy beach where Peskys is now. Peskys even at low tide either breaks on the reef or up against the cliffs now....

I can't imagine having a setup like that. That would be all time. And i assume back then there were no jetties at the san diego river mouth. They were actually supposed to build a canal that cut through point loma and into the SD bay, but funding for the project stopped after they had built the jetties.

 

For a part-timer, you really know your schitt about the area. Most 2nd and 3rd generation locals don't even know that stuff. Props to you brother. (j/k about the "part-timer" line.)

P.S.--I've been wondering how our most ardent "biscuit biter" would fare at an average day at the spot in your avatar, LOL

 

getting things back on track here...

 

Seen some bros in Costa Rica doing some insane stuff drop knee. I know I've ripped on body boarding before, but drop knee is pretty bad ass.