King Waka's Korner

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Different Strokes

For Different Folks

Eric Bridges embracing one of my custom timber paipo's for prone and knee riding

Brendan Dunn

Pure Wooden Paipo

Inner SCUMMTON

Sharing a few waves with Eric, with us both riding timber paipos. The board pictured above and below is 4'6" in length and around 20'' width , hand crafted from Paulownia timber with plenty of concave running up from the tail towards the center of the board , the rails are finely foiled all the way round and plenty on nose lift planed into the first 12'' , strictly a board for riding prone but I have tried kneeling as well with some fun rides.

Paipo Fun from adam williams on Vimeo.

Drifting

Pictured above, this was the first paipo I made Eric , with it being around 5 ' in length by 20'' in width, I left plenty of thickness and squarer rails, added a rubber pad for extra flotation. This one is for kneeling but also fun riding prone , such a buzz drifting & sliding when on your knees, very similar feeling to riding my softech but without the fins to control the ride.

SLIP N SLIDE from adam williams on Vimeo.

Surf Mats

Close Cousin to the Paipo

BUT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT RIDE AND FEEL

Mats are more suited for that fuller or 3/4 face type wave face, where as paipos really excel in fast , steep and hollow down the line wave. Riding mats requires the rider to adjust & manipulate the mat, by keeping his hands back from the nose, your basically keeping the bulk of your air forward to plane on, then with the aid of your legs and flippers to control the direction or drift that you want, its all body torque in technique and air manipulation with mat riding, where as riding paipos with little to no flex, is more about hanging on tight and pulling in.

Mat riding below with Paul Newman on a Sunny Sunday afternoon

EMBRYONIC JOURNEY from adam williams on Vimeo.

Knee Boarding

I love riding this little Pete Berry board, super fast and loose.
Reverse Curve at its best.

100% Moonshine Kneeboards from adam williams on Vimeo.

Chicko Roll

Hand Planing the other day with Paul riding his timber paipo

chicko roll from adam williams on Vimeo.

Cuddy slides from Bulkheads Stuff on Vimeo.

The Whole Platter

from a couple of years ago.

Monday, 30 May 2016

Moon Beams

Under Moon Light

Well, this was a first for me, walking out to Wrecky at 5 am in the morning, getting changed into our wet-suits under moonlight, and then walking out into the dark waters with just my trusty duck feet flippers and Ecto handplane as my only weapons. At 54 years , my eye site is not exactly the greatest but I could still make out the peak coming towards me , taking off blind and pulling into moon lit barrels is quite a different experience ! Lucky for me, Chris from Ecto Handplanes joined me in the water first up, so at least I was not alone in the water, while Justin, who's eye site must be worst than mine, waited till the sun had finally risen and pushed some daylight onto the line up before entering the water, so good surfing with these younger frothers !

Ecto Handplanes

5 am and Chris and Justin are not here, quick phone call to confirm that they were not too far away. I packed a board as well, hoping the swell had held from the previous day.

On the beach by 5.15, another good 45 minutes before the Sun would rise

Moon Rise

Well my forecast of bugger all crowds was soon proved false, as soon as the sun rose so did a handful of surfers arrived to join us, so I jumped out to grab the camera and shot a few pics of Justin and Chris doing there spins, rolls and tube riding