A Hobie teamrider for both skateboarding and surfing, Jim Fitzpatrick tells a parallel story about switching from a 10'4", 40 lbs., three-stringer Phil Edwards model to an 8'4" 18 lbs., vee-bottom Corky Carroll model. "I'm riding, like, head-high waves on this 10'4". I put it down and take out the Corky Carroll board. And the first thing I do is go down to the bottom and crank a bottom turn. I go directly up the face of the wave, the board hits the lip and hits me in the chin, knocks me unconscious. I nearly drown, I'm vomiting, there's blood everywhere. And I realize when I come around -- I get 24 stitches - it's like, 'Holy shit! I've left one realm behind!' It was like the transition from steel to clay wheels."
everyones got em.
taken from the web
7/1/11
Moments of Transition
A Hobie teamrider for both skateboarding and surfing, Jim Fitzpatrick tells a parallel story about switching from a 10'4", 40 lbs., three-stringer Phil Edwards model to an 8'4" 18 lbs., vee-bottom Corky Carroll model. "I'm riding, like, head-high waves on this 10'4". I put it down and take out the Corky Carroll board. And the first thing I do is go down to the bottom and crank a bottom turn. I go directly up the face of the wave, the board hits the lip and hits me in the chin, knocks me unconscious. I nearly drown, I'm vomiting, there's blood everywhere. And I realize when I come around -- I get 24 stitches - it's like, 'Holy shit! I've left one realm behind!' It was like the transition from steel to clay wheels."
everyones got em.
taken from the web
