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@siclines

Surfer. Student of the Stoics. Sharing the wisdom of the ages and the beauty of the sea, one wave at a time. 🌊 https://xitter.gq/t.co/tSwwVUA3Ff

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Joined May 2009
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A common mistake is grabbing for the leash mid-tumble—you get yanked and lose breath control. Cover up first, then find the board. What's your wipeout rule? #surftips #surfing
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🎫 CHAFED app.nobodysurf.com/movie/200… 🎬 Cameron Staunton 🎥 Isaac Liebetanz 🏄‍♂️ Cameron Staunton & Archy Bemrose 📐 Surfboards "The Sweet Tooth" by Jimmy Surfboards "Battler" by McTavish Surfboards 🇦🇺 East Coast of Australia ⏱️ 12min 🗓️ 2026
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The sea keeps something untamed in us—and that is how we stay alive out here. What wildness still preserves you? #surf #Thoreau
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1971, Malibu Invitational. Pat O'Neill paddled out with surgical tubing stuck to his board by a suction cup. Judges dubbed it a "kook cord" and disqualified him. Ever been mocked for a good idea? #surfhistory
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3/ His father, Jack O'Neill, lost his left eye when an early elastic leash snapped the board back into his face—the famous eyepatch. Safer cords followed. Within a year, the so-called kook cord was everywhere in the lineup.
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4/ Today's essential gear was yesterday's joke. Keep solving the problem that matters to you, even when the lineup laughs. The ocean rewards the ones who stay with the board.
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Friday riddle from the lineup 🌊 I lie under shallow water and make waves stand tall. Without me the sea stays soft; with me, peaks form and barrels break. What am I? Answer drops tonight. Guess below 👇 #surf #riddle
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Answer: a sandbar 🌊 It lies under shallow water and makes waves stand tall—without it the sea stays soft. Who got it?
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The water takes its hue from the sky—and from whatever you bring past the break. What thoughts color your session? #surf #stoicism
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After the Morning Set The board was cold against my palm When I walked back the dune-path home. The sun had barely warmed the calm; The tide still wrote its quiet poem
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And counted neither sets nor falls, Nor how the drop had felt, nor why— Only the hush that still recalls A body learning to comply
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With something older than my will: The sea that takes, the sea that gives. I carried home that quiet still— The only score a session lives. What quiet did you carry home? #surf #poetry
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A common mistake is waiting until the face stands up, then scrambling. Match speed early from deeper water. Early paddle or late sprint? #surftips #surfing
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2/ Drill: pick a peak, sit one board-length deeper than usual, and start three full strokes as the swell lifts under you. If you're still sprinting when it breaks, you started too late—move farther out next set.
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“The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair” — Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach A minute from the siclines archive, set to Bach’s Air. Which set feels like home? #surf #ocean
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Take a moment to appreciate the incredible detail on this lathe-turned pillar in India. I’d give almost anything to go back in time and see how this was made.
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Beautiful surfing!
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One last free surf session. Competition starts Saturday, November 7. 2026 ISA World Surfing Games Punta Rocas. 🇵🇪
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