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Havachatwithhexy... 23-Dec-2004 At 11:39:52 AM IdratherbeclimbingM9

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Ahh the memories, ... Like the (doctored) pic H-T.

6ULDV8?
>Your grading system is f#@ked
(sic) !!
Sexual deviate indeed !!!
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WM
>don't tell me the addax likes dropping in M8?

Usually I am the one caught on the inside; but as far as the pic goes ...
>
It looks like a 'small' but glassy day at Waimea. The place doesn't really break till 18' and at 20' it starts to look like the pic; at 25'+ its awsome ..., after that it closes out depending on swell direction, (I am not an advocate of sitting in closeout conditions waiting for small ones simply to get a decent corner) ...

The bloke skimming the pit is obviously setting up the wall.
The bloke on the yellow board (very reminiscent of my old 9' 8'' with soft V and a diamond tail) is obviously cruising and doesn't look like he is fading the other fellow.

Having surfed it at that size (and larger), it really is a short wall and many (other) people find themselves inadvertantly having dropped in* so they simply get to their feet and trim out the shoulder.
* This is because everyone paddles for it in case the inside guy wimps out. By the time they realise the insider is 'on' they can't back off without being sucked over the falls, so they trim it out.
Real drop-in-merchants there, would fade the inside bloke into the pit !

PS The yanks have a different system. Often they regard whoever gets to their feet 1st as having right of way ...

PPS It looks like H-T has buggered off out the backdoor in the pic. Midget Farelly did exactly this at Waimea once in a contest. Blew the judges away with his audacity, but spent the rest of his heat 'surviving' the hold-downs and whitewater ...

Back to climbing; Would someone trying to overtake me on a slow aid lead get right of way ??