Official Surfing Thread

^^Never ridden a firewire. How are you finding it compared to normal PE boards?

Wanted to find out what the Fuss was about...

Has anyone had a chance to try any of libtech's surf boards? I was looking into getting one but I was hoping someone had some insight.

don't think I've ever seen waves worse than that in a WCT event...yeah, I've seen smaller, but today was pure onshore wind chop.  Was interesting to see how the top pros handle stuff like that and a few of them actually got a couple long rides (hobgood)...some caught absolutely nothing their whole heat (wilkinson)

Dang lay day... Let's get the Brazil comp going. 

water's starting to get warm enough here in jersey. time to go wipe the dust off the old board.

Southshore was close to overhead and really clean today _ summer is coming

Originally posted by CO_champagne Wow, did anyone see Kelly's barrel in the final?  That shoulda been a 10.  Congrats to Kelly.  Here's to another Slater year 2013......Ke12y

2013 here we go. Quicky pro is on as of today.

Joel won! I was kinda hoping Shane was going to take out Kelly. It kinda showed me that not only kelly at his age can compete. I think only Kelly could of taken out Shane so soon.  

Originally posted by Timmay_650 I have the gopro mount on my board. I would rather have the fcs one but that is a lot more work b/c you have to get on put in your board, not many people have an FCS plug on there nose. I haven't had any major problems with M3 mount. What i don't like about it is the camera angle isn't high enough for me. Maybe I put it too high on the nose but i don't think so.

I would imagine the FCS plug is more secure. What do you mean the angle isn't high enough...wouldn't that be solved by mounting the camera closer to the nose?

Looking forward to the pipe contest next week  ,Love kelly but would love to see Parko win the title. r

I went home to CA for thanksgiving and went to Santa Cruz. It felt so nice to get out in the water but my arms lost so much for paddling. I went to the lane and took a small one right along the rocks but decide that was a bad idea bc it has been over a year. I went to the middle peak and got a few good lefts which was nice bc I am goof and my backside is really hurting. So much fun.

It was weird, the theater was full of older adults (+50) which is really odd for a surfing movie. I think doesn't appeal to the younger generation (not enough sexy and drug) but it was all about surfing so that doesn't appeal too much to the older generation. 

Looking to see that movie this weekend as well,broke plans last weekend to see it to go chase Sandys snowfall

Watched him win at the ECSC in VA Beach last year .Lots of wisdom passed down  from his pops + Snips

I wanted to see Grom John win it . I'm sure his time is coming and he and Medina will be battling for many years to come

WHo you pulling for Timmay?

If Wilko would of landed that last turn on his  final wave he would of got the score, 

The Lane looks like a sweet place to hold a contest

is the SURFER magazine any good?

Well it's going to Pipe. That's probably what everyone wanted. Except Parko I guess....

Originally posted by Migoo Originally posted by Timmay_650 I am really excited for SC. It is my home break (although I live in Utah now) and it is still anyone race. I think this year will be a nail bitter which is really exciting. I will be kinda weird if Joel wins at the rate he is going. Will be the turtle in the race, Not winning an event but taking it.    On the adjusted rankings (with 2 throw aways) Kelly is actually in front... Parko needs to finish in front of Kelly at least in both remaining events to win it. They always say you have to actually win events to win the title, this really highlights that. Parko has been way more consistent but just can't win one, three 2nds, 3rds etc.   Really coming down to the wire.

the shark question has already been asked in this thread...and answered...but I'll elaborate this time:

I first started surfing in Gulf Shores, Alabama (yes, they do get surfable waves...especially when you're 10 years old), then my parents ended up buying a condo in pensacola.  People don't realize the water can be very clear there and how sharky the gulf really is.  While your surfing a wave, you can see the bottom clearly and you frequently see different sized sharks...and manta rays, sting rays and everything else you run over.

I later moved to south carolina.  The water is kinda murky there so you really aren't as aware of the of the sea life.  However, once I was surfing with my friend in a junky windswell and the water was so churned up with mud it was like chocolate milk (we were the only ones out).  Just sitting there waiting for a wave and, to my horror, I see a fin coming toward me about 20 feet away.  I kinda froze in fear but, somehow, lifted my legs onto the surfboard as the 5 foot hammerhead just mozied right under my board.  I then hauled ass to the beach and was yelling out to my friend when the shark made a B-line right for him and did the exact same thing.  My friend freaked out like a little bitch - it was so shtooking funny watching him scream and flailing to paddle in.

Later, I moved to Ft Lauderdale, but occasionally drove up to areas less shadowed by the bahamas to get better waves.  West Palm beach is grazed by the gulf stream, a current of water that's ultra warm and clear.  One day, a Singer Island local invited us to surf the jetty with him.  We get there and I'm shocked to see every single wave has a school of at least 10 big spinner sharks riding through it.  The guy said it was normal and safe...so we surfed...with schools of sharks in every wave.  Freak show.

Has anyone here seen a shark while surfing?