I hate chop.

I can withstand some chop to get to good waves. but chop without waves is crap.

i hate it. its boring and theres plenty of better things to do in life than slapping through endless chop.

I want flat water or waves. or ideally flat water with waves and no chop!!!...

So much hate topics today

You hate chop........and in other topic windsurfers hate us ....

It reminds me that as i kid i use to ask my mom for "more" (pork) chop

Wait there is more do not today then i previously saw in today's topics

1-you do not chop
2- windsurfers do not us
3-people do not cabrinha

it's really annoying trying to drill tricks in our chop, you have to find a flat enough spot to throw it and you get snaked by a wave a lot of the time and waste your tack :/

the board definitely helps a lot though, LF influence + boots makes a huge difference compared to my old strap board that felt like i was trying to skateboard on a bed of coral while riding...

aw come on, plenty of fun things to do. Usually if it is choppy you have quite a bit of wind, so practice your strapless jumps...or practice new trick on your TT...practice popping..get a foil board ride above the chop.

If you can stick your tricks in chop you can stick them anywhere...

haha i wish, our spot is all chop but the wind never gets above 15 :p

To me 15 is perfect if I want to practice new stuff..the pentaly of failing in lower winds is so much lower. Big kite moves slower, so no suddenly get pull up when you loop to early.....or if not enough wind you need a bigger kite. ...or you could get a foil board and take out your 9 and ride or ride a raceboard.

I was just out in probably way less today, and practiced strapless jumps. Sure much easier in more wind, but still fun as hell.

Nope chop is crappola. i will ride chop only to get to a place i want to be. or because i'm desperate to ride.

I would much prefer to go for a landboard on the hard smooth beach than smash through chop.

How is this for chop...we were doing mini treks on raceboards in head high to double overhead ocean swell..with wind chop on top. Super good training, and it makes riding in regular chop a breeze

I love chop because:

1/ It gives me millions of small ramps to take off from
2/ It is good leg muscle training
3/ It is perfectly suitable for my beloved-never-have-or-ever-will-change 2009 Best Spark board
4/ It is good excuse for difficulties in nailing tricks (see my recent darkslide post)
5/ It keeps chop-haters like Plummet away from my spot, keeping it less crowded
6/ I can't do otherwise