Re: [Paddlewise] PFD questions

From: Harvey Golden <harveydgolden_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:13:52 -0700 (PDT)
--- RICHARD CULPEPER <culpeper_at_tbaytel.net> wrote:
> If you are surfing a kayak in shallows (such as
> toward the end of a surf), and you tip over, your
> head goes bunka-bunka-bunka on 
> the bottom until you either roll up or wet-exit.  If
> you are on a surfboard, you are not held upside down
> with your head whacking 
> the bottom as you are in a kayak.

That's true. In surfing your head rarely needs to go
below water, which of course allows it to get solidly
whacked with the board you just fell from.  I'd rather
drag my face along a sandy surface (a wonderful
exfoliant, by the way) than have a surfboard fall out
of the sky and conk me on the noggin'--specially if I
wasn't wearing a PFD.
Harvey 
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