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According to Stikup….
Easy to use surfboard display system
Place your stick against the wall in a vertical or horizontal position
wrap the strap around to fit snugly to your stick
Place the wall protector to the fin that has contact with the wall
If there’s not enough space on your walls you can hang it from the
ceiling position. Also suitable for snow, sail, kite, wake and skateboards.
 
Every element is cared for in the same way you care about your stick
Each bean is solid cast alloy and is tumbled for hours and hours to give
the desired finish, not a dissimilar process to going through a heavy shore break
Clear straps with D-rings for those most prized possessions or our
Neoprene lined straps, so your precious stick has something soft to slip into.

 How the stikup system came about.
Background
I started surfing back in the early seventies and my passion for surfing as a way of life
to this day hasn’t diminished.
Travelling to most corners of the globe over the years I collected boards on the way.
In the early years when you just had enough dosh to buy a new stick there was never enough
for a full suit! wearing a 3mm shortie, boots held on with insulation tape, marigolds for gloves,
a thick coating of deep heat all over and a half bottle of the cheapest whisky between two surf
mates was the order most winter days when it was going off at Crantock.
 
Since then every board I’ve brought I’ve kept, because it holds memories of certain days or trips
and the way that the design of surfboards have evolved over the years.
Being a designer and not happy with my boards hidden away so they don’t get dinged, I regard boards
as works of art and needed them around when I wasn’t by the coast.
 
Trying to find a display system for my boards so I could display them around my house was impossible,
anything aesthetically pleasing just didn’t exist.
 
I set about designing one for myself, with functionality and the aesthetics of equal importance.
A display system that could accommodate all board sizes and styles as well as horizontal, vertical
or even on the ceiling, it should be a piece of art just like all prized sticks.
Jon Taylor

The Moonbag is a patent pending bag designed for easy changing from wet and dry clothes. When unzipped, the bag becomes a mat and is laid down on the ground while you change, once changed; you leave your wet clothes on the mat and zip it up to create the bag.
Tired of changing in mud, gravel, oil of water? The Moonbag allows you to change on a dry surface. Once changed you can keep your wet clothes in the bag.

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WHAT IS THE MOONBAG? 

WHY USE THE MOONBAG? 

WHO USES THE MOONBAG? 
Anyone who changes from wet clothes to dry clothes benefits from the Moonbag. Due to the Moonbag’s durable and waterproof materials it is particularly popular with surfers, windsurfers, divers, water skiers, jet skiers and campers.

Tide Clock

The tide at a glance

Here’s something novel for the person who thought they had everything!

ashortwalk , a new British product design and manufacturing company have recently launched their latest offering, the tide clock.

Synchronised to the moons daily cycle, the tide clock gives you an innovative and convenient guide to tides. Simply set the hand to the full tide position at exactly high tide for your chosen location, then throw away your tide table!

The quartz driven hand will rotate every 12 hours and 25 minutes around the stainless steel fascia, giving you the state of the tide at a glance.

The wall mounted tide clock costs £24.95 +P&P, 195mm in diameter.

Available from all good watersport and home style gift outlets. www.ashortwalk.com or 01872 540420

This surfboard lock is probably the best on the market in terms of cost, flexibility and quality of construction*. It provides security and more importantly peace of mind for both longboards and shortboards alike and works with all surfboards fitted with standard fin boxes and fin plugs.

The lock construction is anodised aluminium, supplied with a PVC plastic coated 6mm width, 2m length, stainless steel marine cable lanyard, so it isn’t going to rust. The steel marine cable is used in shipping and has a massive breaking strain, so its going to hold your surfboard! A determined thief can and will steal almost anything, but this product is a major deterrent and will stop the opportunist from making off with your prized possession. 

Well, to be honest when we first encountered real wiiings I was keen on the concept. Paddling might be seen as the laborious part of surfing, a necessary evil, but the better you can paddle the better you can put yourselves into the waves – and the quicker you can get yourself out to the line up.
Paddle power requires fitness, the more you paddle, and the faster you want to paddle, the fitter you need to be. Paddle power is also tricky to build up by doing anything other than paddling – swimming helps but nothing is quite as effective as paddling.
With all that in mind then, the idea of an add-on that assists your paddling power seems like a good thing, so how do they work in the water?
Getting them on can be quite tricky for the first time! ( I would definitely recommend getting them set up ready to go before you reach the break ) However once they are on, they are comfortable and you don’t really notice them, until you hit the water that is!
Once in the water, you can immediately feel the pressure on your forearms from the resistance the real wiiings are creating, the harder you paddle the more resistance you can feel – because the real wiiings grip your wetsuit well, it’s almost like the feeling you get from a Chinese burn – but not in a painful way!
Its actually really hard to tell whether they enhance your paddling power or not because you don’t have a speedo on your surfboard, getting some kind of bench mark proves nearly impossible for you and I – obviously the guys at real wiiings have done their research and the figures that they come up with should be accurate – although I’m not sure how they came up with 70% increase in paddle power.
That said, logic dictates that they must be making a difference – if you can feel the resistance on your forearms, then they must be doing the job.
I noticed that you can really feel your shoulder and arm muscles working when you paddle with the real wiiings on, and I would certainly wear them whilst surf training because they are only going to build your muscles up and increase your overall fitness.
Bottom line – great idea, if you are like me and have quite a slow but rhythmic paddling pace then they should help you get into more waves and get out to the line up quicker. For improving your fitness they would also work well, conditioning your muscles when worn either paddling in flat conditions or even when surf training in the swimming pool.
I personally think they make a difference – I have no facts or figures to back that up other than my own experience with them, and with a list of well known professional surfers putting their names to the product that also adds credibility.
So give them a try! At £22.99 even if you decide they aren’t for you when you are surfing, they are a great surf training aid, so you can’t loose!
 
What Real wiiings say about them…..
More waves is what every surfer dreams of!
Faster paddle out!
Get into the barrel faster!
No more standing on the shore not being able to get out!
Get out of the churn quicker!
Beginners get onto the face!
Longboarders reach incredible speed!
Easier paddling in the Rip or against the current!
Groms if you don’t have Wiiings its game over!
Time to Fly!
With RealWiiings surfers get a faster paddle out using less effort to get into the surf quicker and make Rips and currents more manageable. Longboarders can reach incredible speeds and beginners will get onto the face with less paddle.
Approved for use in competition, a number of pro surfers worldwide admit that with RealWiiings they become a much better machine in the water.
Word class surfer, Kevin Todd, comments, ‘they work sooooo well. My first session was on a longboard; I caught every wave I paddled for. Then I challenged one of the surfers ten years younger than me to a paddle race and smoked him so bad that he asked me if he could borrow them when he got out of the water. Today I surfed my 5’8’’ twin finfish and they worked unreal again. Espo, you’re a bloody genius!’
Attach RealWiiings micro wings to your wrist. Use the adjustable neoprene strap, designed for ultimate comfort and stability, and pack a punch in the waves whilst paddling. RealWiiings are made of super lightweight floatable Polyurethane to increase paddle power by up to 70% and improve balance in the water. Available in a wide range of colours, including the most popular, original black, each pair comes in its own drawstring net bag, little more that the size of a sunglasses case.
RealWiings are available in the UK from www.realwiiings.co.uk at £22.99 plus p&p and will shortly be available from surf shops around the country.