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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:24 AM
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Obama is getting the numbers due to body surf pic!
The surfer blogs and sites are on fire with the image of Obama body surfing. If its one thing we surfer types can do, its spot a poser...Obama isn't posing!
Now, if we can get all of the saltwater brained dummies to vote...

GO Obama!
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:25 AM
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1. Got any Surfer Blog links? I'd like to investigate this phenomenon......
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:30 AM
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4. Me too!
Obama looked so cool. You know what those pictures of Obama in Hawaii reminded me of?:
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:46 PM
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15. One my all time favorite people!
And notice that he's skinnier than Obama. Of course, it was because of his Addison's disease, but he was still thinner than Obama.

:loveya: JFK
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:34 AM
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7. Hi Ya Frenchie!
Here is one...
http://www.70percent.org/blog/
And there are threads at surfermag.com, surfingmag.com and swaylocks (a board design forum)

Passing through your way in a week enroute Santa Cruz for some surfing of my own soon!
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:47 AM
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12. Nice photos at this link too!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/14/obama-bodysurfs-in-hawaii_n_119070.html


Santa Cruz is about 1 hour from me. The weather has been great.......you should have a nice time! :)
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:25 AM
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2. Let's hear it for the surfers then! nt
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:29 AM
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3. Uhm.....how can you be a poser body surfing?
Posers on boards, I get....but body surfing?
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:36 AM
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8. Head first into the sand, a posers fav technique!
But note O's form, hand carving the way, his slippery side presented to the wave face...its obvious the man has had some water time!
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:36 AM
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9. Many things show he is not a poser
He is choosing to take a left or right on the wave vs riding it straight in.
His arm is helping direct his angle of attack on the wave. His chest is
arched and his head is out of the water while riding the wave.
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:30 AM
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5. Here are some pics
http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-hawaii-bodysurfing-picrtures.html
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:37 AM
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10. Show us that 3rd picture from the top, anyone? It ROCKS !!!
Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 11:39 AM by DinahMoeHum
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

That last picture of him throwing the lei into the surf is real cool too - and very reverential.

:thumbsup:
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:32 AM
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6. LOL! Well, that is a really great pic, and I'm glad it's getting attention.
Okay, we'll need Dems to register surfers and get them to the polls...
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:41 AM
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11. How in the world did he learn how to do that
growing up in Hawaii?
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 11:48 AM
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13. LINKS! I used to spend my life bodysurfing. where's the links
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:24 PM
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14. i grew up bodysurfing as well but
i never did it like that! we would jump to catch the wave and put both hands in front . . . like diving. that form must be peculiar to hawaii.

ellen fl
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:50 PM
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16. That's how you break your neck or could get injured (like diving)
That's not body surfing but playing in the surf. What you see is not
a Hawaiian thing or West coast style, you are seeing real body surfing.

I've seen a lot of neck and back injuries from novices.




"The Wedge" at Newport, California is perhaps the most famous body surfing
spot in the USA.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:54 PM
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17. waves peel off to the right or left. You use your one hand out to go with the break and the other
usually tight to your side.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:58 PM
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18. well, our waves were usually swells and did not often get as big
as hawaii's waves. i think our reef and sandbar kept our waves from getting too big and from breaking to the left or right. that said, i never knew anyone to have injured him or herself body surfing in this manner. otoh, i DO know of surfers on boards that did . . . including one broken neck.

ellen fl
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 01:05 PM
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19. Is it wrong to objectify the nominee?
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