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Topic Title: Chris Burch Longboard
Topic Summary: Wave catching glider
Created On: 09/19/2024 01:33 PM
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 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/19/2024 01:33 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/20/2024 09:23 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - johnnyboy - 09/23/2024 07:22 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/23/2024 09:30 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - tom - 09/23/2024 01:40 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/23/2024 01:49 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - tom - 09/23/2024 02:10 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/23/2024 05:24 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/23/2024 05:27 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - tom - 09/23/2024 06:32 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/24/2024 05:34 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - Retread - 09/24/2024 07:19 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/24/2024 10:16 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/24/2024 10:20 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - tom - 09/24/2024 12:49 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - IHBPatrick - 09/24/2024 01:58 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 09/24/2024 05:39 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - tom - 09/25/2024 03:17 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - Bamboo - 10/01/2024 09:17 AM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - garcia - 10/01/2024 03:01 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard   - johnnyboy - 10/07/2024 01:00 PM  
 Chris Burch Longboard - Price dropped   - garcia - 11/11/2024 06:52 AM  
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 09/19/2024 01:33 PM
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garcia

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Triple stringer longboard
Almost new condition (minor thumb-sized pressure wells)
Ridden three times and finally (finally) admitting the inevitable - the legs just don't work anymore
9'-6" x 18" x 23-7/8" x 16-1/8,
9" Rainbow Azul fin included
(New) FCS board sock included
$900
PM me for details and photos
 09/20/2024 09:23 AM
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garcia

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Birch, not Burch

Sorry, Chris, misspelled your name.

also, the board is poly with a polished gloss
 09/23/2024 07:22 AM
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johnnyboy

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Birch has incredible skills for sure.

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 09/23/2024 09:30 AM
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garcia

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Yep, he sure does. I have been having problems getting to my feet for the past two years and this was one of the efforts - a bit wider in the hips so I could catch it earlier. Unfortunately, while it worked, it didn't solve the problem. I will be the guy out on a soft top bellying across the wave. Humbling, for sure. Probably closer to humiliating.
 09/23/2024 01:40 PM
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tom

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One of the Playalinda crew, Dennis, went kneelo on his longboard forever. Ain't over till it's over.

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 09/23/2024 01:49 PM
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garcia

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Thanks for the kind thought. I always thought I'd be the guy still surfing well at 80. Humbling if not humiliating. "Who is that kook??" I guess the circle is now rounded - 60 years of surfing and I'm right back where I was at age 9 - a kook.
 09/23/2024 02:10 PM
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I was reading Barbarian Years and the author said something like ageing for a surfer is the slow process of becoming a kook again. Someone had written in the margin "so true". I'm one of the old guys kooking it up and intend to continue doing so for as long as it's still fun. See you out there i hope.

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 09/23/2024 05:24 PM
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garcia

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Now that you mention it, I remember reading it. Too damned true.
 09/23/2024 05:27 PM
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garcia

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Funny thing though. I had been frustrated and pretty angry each time I went out for the past year or two. One factor was the bottom just sucks and the other was I was just freaking slow and stiff (despite yoga, swimming, etc). But, this last swell, I gave up trying and just bellied a bunch on my longboard and got the stoke back. And, the bottom was really good. Long lefts like we used to have before beach "renourishment". So, the stoke still lives. Just have to keeping blowing on the embers.
 09/23/2024 06:32 PM
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tom

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^This!^

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 09/24/2024 05:34 AM
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garcia

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Was looking for the exact Finnegan quote regarding becoming a kook again and found this - "There is nothing sadder than a former surfer". Couldn't find the Finnegan quote, but he has a bunch of others listed in the five or six lists of best quotes about surfing that I found.
 09/24/2024 07:19 AM
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The Finnegan quote - I keep it tacked over my desk: "Unfortunately, my surfing was in decline. I was getting old. I missed waves I should have caught, lumbered to my feet when I should have sprung. Getting old as a surfer, I'd heard it said, was just a long, slow, humiliating process of becoming a kook again."
 09/24/2024 10:16 AM
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garcia

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I'm not sure if Tom and I had the same copy, but if not, someone wrote something like "too true" in mine too. I think I got the copy I read out of the library, but maybe from a friend. Wherever I got it, it surely rang as the truth.
 09/24/2024 10:20 AM
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garcia

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And, now, it is just above mine. I also have a couple of nice photos of Central America to remind me of how it was. Not sure if that is good or not.
 09/24/2024 12:49 PM
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Ya, melbeach library copy. Truth indeed!

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 09/24/2024 01:58 PM
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IHBPatrick

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In a Peter Cole interview, he was responding to a remark, so great you're still surfing at 70. His response was, " Oh, yeah, you can still surf at 70, if you want to surf like a kook." I've since read where Peter does not surf his beloved Sunset any longer. He stated he had to quit because he had become a danger to others in the water.
 09/24/2024 05:39 PM
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garcia

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Yes, MB library!
 09/25/2024 03:17 AM
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tom

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Sorry for the hijack garcia but best surf related thread in quite a while.

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 10/01/2024 09:17 AM
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Bamboo

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It is a GREAT Surfing Thread!

Yep, nothing like being a surfer and getting old.
My pop ups now are not so poppin'...I think I need an ADA compliant surfboard.


Bakc to the for sell -
Chris Birch makes awesome boards and really love his long boards...they are top tier shapes.
If you are looking for a long board this might be the one.

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 10/01/2024 03:01 PM
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garcia

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Thanks for the plug, Bamboo. It is a quality board, I am just not a quality surfer anymore and not able to take advantage of it.
 10/07/2024 01:00 PM
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johnnyboy

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I can see me fighting it tooth and nail and losing a bit every day. I will still fight it. Maybe I go the knees before the belly but I will keep going. As for being a Kook, none of us are ever really too far from being a kook again, even one wave sometimes can do it.

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 11/11/2024 06:52 AM
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garcia

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bump - priced dropped to $750
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