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| Jessica, me and Mike |
Jessica and I both tried Mike's 6'6"
Degree33 Poacher last week at Cardiff, and took advantage of their Black Friday sale to buy our own 7'2" Poachers – so we could #getoutside on other days.
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| Three Poachers: Jessica's 7'2", my 7'2", Mike's 6'6"... and my weird shadow |
I looked at
this website, trying to come up with a clever title for our gathering of three Poachers. Some of these are too clever not to share:
- a pace of donkeys
- a parade of elephants
- a pounce of cats
- a passel of pigs
- a prickle of porcupines
- a paddling of ducks
- a party of jays
- a parliament of owls
- a pandemonium of parrots
Whatever you want to call it, our pack had a fun morning surf at Hennemans, despite picking up a few dings (on Mike's body and board and my body). It was unfortunately crowded, except for a few minutes during shift change, as everyone's surf starved in San Diego.
The waves were overhead on sets but I stayed off the main peak, lacking confidence on the new board, which I think I'll call Carazul. (It's a squashing of "blue face" in Spanish, given her Costa Rican roots and since that's where she wants to be.) Although I caught several on the inside from a late takeoff, a strategy that's worked well on my 6'2" in crowds at that break, I got bogged down in whitewater and was only able to get to the shoulder once.
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| X marks the balance point and defines forward trim and aft carve "buttons" |
The new board won't be muscled through sloppy turns with pressure on what Surf Simply calls the "trim button" – it demands use of the "carve button". Like Mike said, you can't be so sloppy on a longer board. This new 7'2" will be good for my surfing.
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| New board inspection by Kaylee |
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