Bodysurfing the Surf Ranch- 12/1/20
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- I've posted a few clips on my Instagram page (@superbiscuitsc), this is a full version of my visit to Lemoore. Thanks to Kelly Slater Wave Co. for some of the clips, as well as my buddy Chris Walker. Soundtrack: "Floyd's Theme" by Manchild, "Propellor" by Silent Partner, "Controlled Distress" by Biz Baz Studio, "Delicate Steve" by Rooster and "Road Tripzzz" by OfShane.
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Cool🌊 looks like wave is fast.. I think Mike Stuwart tried launching off the waveski
It's very fast... except for the end sections, most of this wave is unmakeable for a bodysurfer. I saw the ski stepoff clip that Stewart posted as well, even with that extra speed and his skills it still outran him. To make a barrel at the Ranch you have to be sitting at either Pole 20 or 80, honestly I think 80 is the way to go because the right is hollower. I didn't have enough time in the water there to dial it in like I wanted to though.
Great taste in music 👌 and shredding the waves
Thanks! Because of the length of the edit, I had to use public domain music, which is kind of slim pickings hahaha
Looks like you were having the time of your life ☮️👌
For sure, that place is so insane
Apesar de rápida para o surf de peito..... É surreal
Kind of too fast hahaha
It looks like the wave is a little fast to make it out of the barrel bodysurfing, even with a hand plane. Looks fun, though!
It is, yes... I go over that in ,more detail in my most recent video on here. The end section is makeable for bodysurfing though.
@@SuperbiscuitSC - thanks! It is good to know because it is a little difficult to tell from a video!
Looks like you gotta ride more on your side or back to get speed, cant do it prone.
Got to ask you about the cost per Wave,
& it's a DamnShame U didn't have a chance to use One of my Handfoils,U woulda been making it all the way across from deep on those Beauties. 👽✌️🖖👍🎆
Aloha from
FreeFlite Handfoils
Hey Mark! I go over it in detail in another video I posted, it was basically like $190 a wave. Luckily I was able to sell enough handplanes that year to cover it, so it didn't come out of my own pocket. Honestly I don't think it would matter what kind of bodysurfing device a person uses, most of the wave is too fast to bodysurf from what I experienced. I could be wrong though!
SICKNUT what a made wave....love the vison from inside the tubes
Yeah man, that was something special for sure
Braddah, so epic
It sure was man!
It doesn't look like the bodysurfer gets much of a ride. There's a good take off. You get into the barrel, but the body doesn't really angle across the wave. It's going straight ahead, even though the body is moving sideways. Then the barrel closes on him and the ride is over. Body surfers get much better rides in natural surf.
It's cool being able to have a man-made wave generating pool, but for body surfers, I think this needs some more work.
One thing that's deceiving about the angle shot by the Ranch cams is it appears to throw you really deep, before you start the day here you're instructed to paddle (or swim in my case) at a 45 degree angle to the fence to catch it, if you swim parallel to the fence the wave will pass you by. Honestly, I didn't notice any difference between this and a natural wave in any discernable sense. The takeaway here is that most of this wave is too fast to bodysurf.
Did they make you wear a leashe?
They didn’t, no. Waco does.
Nice rides
Thanks!
Sad U couldn't get some DowntheLine speed there. Was the freshwater Wave really different?
Not noticeably... felt pretty much like the regular ocean. I was getting all the down the line speed I could, most of this wave is just way too fast to bodysurf. The end sections (around Pole 80 and 20) would be the only exception.
I wish handplaning was called handplaning and not bodysurfing. It's another kind of board riding, just a very small board.
Bodysurfing with a handplane is still bodysurfing, I guarantee that most bodysurfers you ask about that will agree.
@@SuperbiscuitSC There should be a distinction made between the two because they each have their particular drawbacks and advantages.
There is a distinction… bodysurfing using a handplane, and bodysurfing without. With 95 percent of your body surfing steering, pivoting, angling, kicking, on the surface, a handplane is an afterthought, even if it is an enhancement. Wearing fins and a wetsuit are also enhancements, and we don’t make a distinction for those who bodysurf without a wetsuit, or if someone were to bodysurf without fins. Food for thought.
@@bryanniven. Well, you could make that distinction: bodysurfer, finsurfer, handplaner. Of course, they're all lumped together as bodysurfers. Bodysurfers without fins who are of any note are pretty rare and use the shaping of their body only for propulsion. Finsurfers use the shape of their body and their fins for propulsion and do things handplaners don't do, and handplaners rely on the handplane for their primary means of propulsion through the wave. A handplane is like a little motor attached to your hand. A handplaner does not hang a wave face the way a finsurfer can because of the obstruction of the handplane. The difference between a finsurfer and a handplaner is more of a difference than a tow-in surfer and a paddle-in surfer, or a wing-foiler and a motorized wingfoiler. A handplane is not just an enhancement. It's a different approach to the sport. When I click on a video about bodysurfing, I'm not looking for a handplaner video. just like I'm not looking for a bodyboarder video. I want to see what a person does with his body alone to ride the wave, enhanced only by the fins which makes him or her an aquatic creature with an aquatic body, thus, a bodysurfer. Handplanes are a crutch, and kind of wimpy, in my opinion, and only justified for weak waves or for getting in front of very large, VERY fast close-out waves. I live in Hawaii. No one here bodysurfs in wetsuits..
@@callmeishmael3031 have you used a handplane? Honestly? Again, I do both, and I assure you a handplane isn’t a crutch, and they certainly don’t tow me into a wave like a jetski🤣 You are a bit conflicted with your choice of words. A crutch is something you use when you are injured, and CAN’T walk. They don’t let you run faster, or enhance your experience of walking. You even said yourself that a hand plane allows you to ride larger waves and stay away from, or get out of sections. That’s not a crutch by definition. You have also chosen a generalized perspective, with disregard for what it is or isn’t for others. For ME, (and many others), hand-planes ARE as fins, or a wetsuit… enhancements. They allow me to - as you said- get around sections, or create a different experience on the wave. Sadly, your reply confirmed my suspicion though, that you feel bodysurfing without a hand-plane is superior, rather than like it is for me, simply different. It’s sad that even in a sport as beautiful as bodysurfing, there is a superiority complex with some, noting you view it as “wimpy”. Your view reminds me of my childhood growing up between long borders and short borders, both are referred to as “surfers”, (again trying to clarify that there is a distinction between the types, just like bodysurfing with and without a handplane), but a long board can allow you to ride softer smaller waves, and the style of riding is completely different. And of course you can use a long board as well to ride larger waves differently than one could or would want to with a short board. Personally, when I body surf without a hand plane, as is common with non hand-plane bodysurfers, they are very close, or even caught up in the white water, whereas with a handplane, I can stay out in front using my handplane to lift my chest up out of the water, and hydroplane. I guess I’m grateful, even when I was little, and now at over 40 years old, I have never felt the need to put others down or make myself feel better because someone has a different preference on how they enjoy the ocean. The bottom line is you justify the use of 12 inch rubber prosthetic flippers that enhance/increase the human foot’s surface area, (and volume of water displacement), which only “mimics” an “aquatic creature”. Then based on personal preference/judgement you somehow do not justify the use of a hand-plane, which is roughly the same size, or smaller, and arguably “mimics” an “aquatic creature’s” pectoral flipper. At the end of the day it’s about having fun! I was a sponsored skateboarder growing up, and did so mostly on street terrain, vs. bowls, parks, or ramps. If I was looking on RUclips and a video said “Skateboarder catches air on a ramp”, and when I click on the video I find that it’s a “longboard” skateboarder, I wouldn’t get mad, and comment that I wish they had specifically stated in the description that the skateboarder was actually using a longboard skateboard, not a short street style board. Bottom line, it’s a skateboarder. Everyone has personal preferences, but we don’t need to put each other down because we prefer one above the other. If you like bodysurfing without a handplane fantastic! So do I🤙 If you like bodysurfing using a handplane, like I do as well, go for it! One isn’t better than the other, they are simply different experiences. One type of bodysurfing might also require more or less work than the other… should I get bent out of shape, no? If I guy comes to the beach with a SUP, and is catching wave after wave because he is basically riding a small thin canoe with a paddle, and I chose to swim into the wave with my body, and catch a fraction of the waves, that’s his choice and my choice, one isn’t “cheating”, a “crutch”, or “wimpy”. I would never go out on a day when I’m just using fins to bodysurf, and think less of someone who is having fun bodysurfing with a hand-plane, on the contrary, I would cheer him on. I hope, if you haven’t already TRULY experienced bodysurfing with a hand-plane, (keep in mind there are a lot of different types, small, large, some with channels, winged tails, concave, soft rails and hard rails), that you would give yourself the opportunity sometime, it really is an amazing experience, and truly enhances my bodysurfing experience! I have lots of friends who are Hawaiian, some born and raised, some not, and they are some of the best examples of respect for ALL forms of wave-riding, and are super fun to be around. That is similar to how I would see myself. So I hope you will make peace with all forms of wave-riding, not just the one you prefer.🤙
Please. Please let me out there. I`d use a handboard. Never stop kicking. I`d make at least one.
It's tough to get in there, for sure... I hope you're able to someday!
Rad. First one to try?
Other people have bodysurfed it, I’m not sure if I’m the first one to have gone there expressly for the purpose of bodysurfing it though.
Handboarding at the surf ranch, NOT bodysurfing...
Most people consider them to be the same thing, myself included… thanks for your input though.
Surf Ranch is not a body surfing wave, too fast and not steep enough.
It wasn’t designed for bodysurfing, no. The end sections are makeable, but I agree with you in that most of the wave is too fast for bodysurfing. I sure had a blast trying, though!
A boogie board would of got them through those barrels. Ha
I’m a bodysurfer though, so…
@@SuperbiscuitSC me too, sometimes I boogie sometimes I stand up. Level up the arsenal
It's a pity that with the board in hand you can't gain speed, without her projecting her chest upwards, you gain speed and you could get in and out of the tube.
Most of this wave is too fast to bodysurf, handplane or not... the end sections are makeable though.
@@SuperbiscuitSC Yes!
I Sure Am Hoping I get a Invite/Turn to show everyone what my Freeflitehandfoils can do on a wave like That. Before This B.S. prostrate c takes me Out I will keep working on The Manifestation of That Moment. AnyKine Help from anywhere/Anyone Sure Would B A Blessing.
Aloha4&2All Worldwide
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis man... wishing all the best for you. You can buy your way in there, but it's a little pricey. Hit me up if you'd like more details, info@superbiscuit.com
Hand boarding isn't Bodysurfing.
Most people consider them to be the same thing, myself included… thanks for your input though.
@@SuperbiscuitSC 🤣 Most "hand boarders"
When I say “people” I mean most people in the bodysurfing community consider them to be the same thing, not just “handboarders”. Thanks
@@SuperbiscuitSC Maybe in your little world. I’ve been Bodysurfing for over 50 years. 🌊
That’s great! I’m glad to hear it. I travel around to various competitions and have talked to people about this, and have also had conversations via social media with bodysurfers around the world on this topic, and the majority of the people I’ve spoken to would disagree with you. I do appreciate your input though, thanks.
Good effort!
Unfortunately that wave is just too fast for a bodysurfer.
How many times did you get sucked up over the falls?
Either that or the bodysurfers are not
up to par
SO SICO
That place is so insane hahaha
All the bodysurfers are surfing it prone. It looks like you need more speed and should be riding on your side. Let me at the wave!!!
Most of this wave is too fast to bodysurf, I don't think it would matter what style you're employing. The end sections are makeable though. See my other video "A Rundown Of Bodysurfing The Surf Ranch" for tips on how you can get in there yourself.
@@SuperbiscuitSC i dont know it looks like maybe if you kick real hard before the wave starts peeling and catch it early you can rollo into the bottom turn and try to shoot the barrel on your side with your back up against the wave you might be able to make it. It definitely looks fast with a sort of a backwards lean on the barrel section. If only i had the dough. I guess keikis, panics, and sandys is all i got.