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kage
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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject: Handboards? |
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| Anyone have a recommendation for handboards, like who makes a good one? |
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PaipoJim
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Handboards? |
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| kage wrote: | | Anyone have a recommendation for handboards, like who makes a good one? |
I use to have an older version of this: Wave Blades
The velcro unraveled a bit after some heavy use. It worked pretty well though. Looks like the design has progressed some in the current version.
Also: The Handboard Company
I think this board is described in the forum somewhere or maybe on Nels site. |
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Jon Davey
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| The 'pod' handboard from Australia is pretty good. Loads of concave and a central skeg. Gives you real lift on a decent wave. |
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Poobah
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Joined: 09 Jan 2004
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Location: California, San Diego
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Ther'es a Pod on ebay right now. |
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Nels
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Location: Ventura County, California
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:03 am Post subject: |
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They have several good ones Down Under, including the venerable Hand Surfa, one available here in the U.S. in the 1960's. By handboards I'm assuming you are interested in something that straps to a hand. For my own pissy semantics I tend to call boards "mini paipos" if they operate like the Handboard Company products, which after looking at them look pretty nice...
One company right here in the U.S.A. that makes handboards is Victoria Skimboards. I've had one for about the last 5 years I guess and it never leaves the beach gear box. The thing is absolutely bombproof, much like their skimboards. It is made from the manufacturing drops (or rail cuts, I suppose) off their foam skimboard blanks and vacum bagged and glassed using those respective material cuts. Beautiful look, top craftsmanship. The only hitch might be having any in stock. Check their website, send an email, tell Tex I said hello.
http://www.victoriaskimboards.com/MainPage/index.htm
Added: Wrote all that and I forgot to write this - handboards are the easiest things in surfing to make yourself. Materials are available at any halfway first world hardware store. My departing website, vagabondsurf.com, has enough mindbending examples and instruction to get anybody going...but you need to check it fairly soon before it disappears. Looks under "alternative sufcraft" or "paipos" or the name Roger Wayland. No search feature though so you ahve to hunt around a bit. |
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kage
Dolphin Glider
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Location: Santa Cruz
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone know an actual source for the Pod in the US? Had one ordered throughElwin Jenkins on Ebay, he got busted for something- selling pods in th US? I don't know. Anyway that deal was scotched. Do they only sell them in Australia? The pod website ( hard to find to begin with) has no contact information.
http://www.podfins.com.au
Victoria has an OK looking board but they don't seem to have any. Dang! I have enough broken boards to make one but I don't have the time right now. |
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