Salt or Fresh

haggard7 · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 254

can any of you guys tell a huge difference between riding in saltwater and riding in freshwater, like as in pop and landings?

nick · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

I've only really ever rode salt Neutral

haggard7 · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 254

everytime i go with my friend behind our friends 17 in the intercoastal he never lands anything he says he can land behind his 13 in his canal, supposedly fresh water gets better pop...i dunno

parky · Kickflip Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 3193

Jacob, I ride on both and all I can tell the difference is that there are seals in one and not in the other

haggard7 · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 254

so u think its a bunch of bulljive

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

Jacob how would fresh water get better pop if salt water is more bouyant, but I guess fresh just cause salt water can get annoying and rusts that shizzle out of the bolts on your board or skate.

G-squadriderz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject:

U dont sink as much into the water in salt there u cant pop as much. The sinking action is what helps u get that height, how far the tail goes into the water.

satori* · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

i agree with that jew.==== jacob

and gsquad has it right.
in salt water the water is denser and feels harder. you may experience falls hurt more in salt. so freshwater is softer, and you can pop more- i mean to say, you can get your tail deeper in the water. if you can pop as well in fresh as in salt than youll get sprung back up better and get better pop. but most people can push down a lot further in fresh, thus getting better pop.
i know i dont ollie as well in salt water as i do when im in brackish.
but its also about speed, its harder to get more pop when youre going faster, because its harder to push the tail down deep. but again if you can manage to get the tail down at higher speeds you will get more pop.

parky- go easy on jacob, hes new, computer illiterate, dumb in general, and really sketchy. hahaha (and before you say it, i know you were being sarcastic)

and jacob, i think ive explained this to you before. and shut up before you confuse people more with your idiocy.

parky · Kickflip Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 3193

satori*, you just summed up the charactoristics of a newbie Laughing

sk8thewake69 · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

all i ride is salt and i no likey...dolphins...sharks....MANATEES....other critters maybe even whales... and boats olatta boats and there is no diffrece between them

colorless · Frontside 180 Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 332

there was something about this on wb.com awhile back. look it up. all i remember is that one of them made you pop like a 1/4 inch higher. so no, it really makes no difference.
(thats as far as i remember, someone can find it)

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject:

To me the board seems to stick to the water in salt. Fresh is way better in my opinion... Cool

G-squadriderz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

Chris41, has lived and skated in both places so he can have the best opinion.

satori* · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

i live on a pretty fresh brackish water canal, and also in the keys. an i ride in the intercoastal all the time. i know both pretty well.
but it would be best to find out from someone who knows hydrodynamics.
and its probably subjective anyway.

G-squadriderz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

Your definately right i was just sayin that people who have riden on both really should make comments about it

haggard7 · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 254

i think speed makes much more of a difference then the water type

G-squadriderz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject:

Your probably right

satori* · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject:

speed is easy to change so it doesnt matter that much.

G-squadriderz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject:

Well it deals with how stiff the water feels. The slower you go the more you sink, the faster you go the more you hydro plane and cant hold an edge

ollieshuvitz · Posted: Oct 12, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject:

Has anyone ever wondered if theres something in the water that makes hampson so good? Laughing

Look at Che Blank, he's getting pretty sick now too...

Maybe we should all pour salt in our fresh water Shocked