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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/4/2024 (self.newzealand)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dave to c/newzealand
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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

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[–] Dave 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sucks about the car but it looks like you had a good trip!

When you say "rock gardening", you're talking about riding waves over rocks like this?

And for "surf practice and comp", is this a competition? And you're not meaning surf as in surf board, but still in kayaks?

Edit: Oh and one last question, what's the photo at 0:31 in this one? https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq

[–] thevoyagekayaking 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's the more extreme end of the spectrum, we were paddling in much calmer conditions. Mostly just noseying around the rocks. And yes, we were surfing in sea kayaks, it's a slightly different game to board surfing as we're catching waves much further out than the other surfers, and ideally peeling off before they actually curl over and break. We had a competition, which I actually came third in.

I think that's the inside of my pocket, I didn't notice that photo was in there.

[–] Dave 3 points 6 months ago

Congrats on third place! That's so cool, sounds like a lot of fun!

I think that’s the inside of my pocket, I didn’t notice that photo was in there.

Haha, it looks a lot like a photo taken pointing down into the water!