Official Surfing Thread

Almost the weekend...gonna surf Saturday and Sunday 

I fell in front of my board and I got hit on my left temple by my board.  It hurts to chew now 

I hurt myself on the day when the waves are tiny.

THis weekend is looking good, kids! I'll be at the shore this weekend!
http://www.heritagesurf.com/wavecast.php

if your fish is as good as it looks and you have the paddle power, you could surf all that...but don't burn yourself out before the good stuff finally gets up there 

I don't feel so bad for missing out now...yeah, I do

told ya so

yea I saw that too.

You guys going to hit up the swell that is hitting CA or is just up here in Nor Cal

yeah, finally a name change

I hated that shop_ name, but was just too lazy to bother asking if I could change  - thanks to jenn who reminded me I could 

legs?...I never use my legs when I paddle

I sometimes use my legs, At first I thought it was really weird and wouldn't help but then i did it and like it. Now I start to kick when i feel that i am missing the wave it just makes me feel better.
So i went surfing today and it was an ok but too high of tide but when it was lower tide everyone was out.
I went to a spot where it get choppy at high tide and was the only one out. I was total to far in the first wave, i thought it was going to hold longer b/c there was backwash. Then I got a good for the wave it was just a short corner. It starts to die and hits rocks. My next one I launch deep in the wave. I realized if i didn't make it I there was a really good chance that my board would hit the rocks, if not me too. And it was a choppy wave that made it kinda scary.
After I made that wave I decide to go surf somewhere else. Wasn't worth the risk. I knew i prob would make it 8-10 times but that still leave me with a damaged board at the end of the day.

Dropped travis off at the airport and celebrated new site launch with a quick session...fall has arrived in the bay... Sloat st. Ocean Beach, San Francisco

looks fun airik - not huge or bowling, but nice and clean

That is a nice picture of Ocean. The problem I have seen with Ocean beach is when there is ok waves everyone comes out of the woodwork. 

That would be nice. The same is true in Santa Cruz good waves, it is packed 90% of the times. I surf a lot of high tide b/c the crowd thins about a bunch. When I went a few days ago, I counted 15-20 surfer on my point break when it was good. I goofed around in crappy spot for about an hour and it was getting pretty High tide when I made it out there was like 5 guys. For awhile there was 2 of us. So in 1 to 2 hour it went from 15 surfer to 2. But the waves weren't as good. But I didn't feel like fighting for waves and a there were a lot of good surfer out the I saw some nice air and 360.

Haha I surf..... In Utah! wakesurf baby hell yeah! Its way fun -I would move to cali for real surfing, but i gotta stay close to park city for snowboarding...

wakesurfing can really get tricks like 360s and airs dialed in...but it's not going to do anything for your paddling, knowledge of different types of breaks/spots and all the other stuff involved with ocean surfing

fall is definitely here!!! and it's when my spot is best - the fog lifts, wind drops, water is warmest (62ish), north swells start to crank, and tourist/school kid crowds are gone

I hate late spring and summer - no snow and summer surfing here basically sucks.

However, fall and winter are fantastic seasons here and totally make up for the other two with tons of good waves in fall and dumping powder in winter. 

Speaking of which, I 'll be surfing for a week starting next wednesday, and on my new 6'2" EPS Piranha (sold the tuflite while I still could...got 5 years out of it)

Cape Hatteras, NC?

^oh man, I'm so jealous...sounds so fun.  I've been to Abaco/Eleuthera in the Bahamas a long time ago but I didn't get to surf.

Santa cruz was firing this weekend.  Not the best pic, but that wave started way out where the sun is shining bright on the water...well overhead, probably double even.  We started at ob in sf, drove to lindamar, continued down the 1 and ended up finally paddling out at capitola...which surprisingly was REALLY good given it's normally a begginner spot.  but since the swell was so big, it was breaking shoulder/head high and clean.  how'd this swell treat others?

That is a good size wave, that is pleasure point, that is probably one of my favorite spots but I like the point most of the time.
My question is where are all the people, I have never seen that spot empty and have waves.

OH+ sets on tap from this last hurricane if the winds don't mess it up (which they will) this weekend.

I have always wanted to surf Fort Point but never have drove all that way there but it is probably only like 1 1/2 to get there.
If you get your face out there, you won't get localism as bad (at least that is how it was for me in santa cruz) and follow the rules.

i'm diggen our media section...just found these sweet hawaii thanksgiving swell shots off the espn feed   http://espn.go.com/action/surfing/blog/_/post/4693676?campaign=rss&source=ACTIONHeadlines

Originally posted by VermontRider Just got back from a solid week of surfing in the Caribbean.

Hi,

Which Island did you go exactly in the Caribbean?