edt wrote:
Which I gather means ATTENTION: This spot is inappropriate for twintips and beginners.
To me this line does not mean that TT riders and banned from this spot. It just means the it is probably dangerous for the average TT rider. You need to review and determine if you have the skill to ride it if you have a TT.
If the answer is yes than Go hard.
Toby wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2019 12:30 am
It doesn't say beginners on twintips, it says twintip AND beginners...which means surfboard riders only.
It's a known wave spot.
But a guy on TT can also ride a wave...
There is a limit to what type of wave a TT can wave ride practically/safely. Small ankle biters... sure go hard. Get into lumpy steep double head and on a TT it starts getting real hard to not bury the nose taking the drop and bottom turn. You need to stomp the back foot hard not to nose dive and cartwheel through the washing machine. Even then you dont have enough length of rail to bite in or enough fin to not slide out on the superfast bottom turn.
So I would suggest that there are some spots that are not conducive to TT wave riding. That's not to say that you cant TT at that location by boosting off the ramps and ripping around the waves. But you will easily get punished if you try to TT wave ride that monster. I have a spot like that. It is hardcore and takes no prisoners. In the beginning days, I rode it on a wave TT and was terrifying on the big days. That location is why i delved into the mutant designs. I still wanted the glory of TT boosting action, forwards/backward and shallows riding. But I wanted to ride the monsters without dying. The end result is a board with quad fins at that back offset foot stance. Both those features combine with some nice rocker allow me to take the drop, not nose dive and get punished and the carve a mean as bottom turn without losing the edge and sliding out into the jaws of the monster.
Most people consider my mutant board a TT. It looks like one, is very similar in size and shape. Over the years I've had many people ask me how hell I can ride the big waves on a TT. I explain that its in the secret sauce that is in my mutant.
Anyway, a sign warning TT riders at my extreme location wouldn't be a bad idea. I rescued a TT the other day from a guy who went out at that location and got into a spot of bother. He had to body drag through the boulders among the breakers in the turbulent rotor of a wind shadow to get back to shore. Touch and go stuff. I then rode in holding his board riding the wave, flying the kite with one hand into the wind shadow and boulder field to get the board back. It was indeed dodgy.