bardissono
Member
13453296:bland5 said:
Washington has some fun surf and great skiing, it's more balanced towards the skiing side of things but I've just started surfing around here and I know a bunch of people who love it.
Surfing thread? Surfing thread.
- Thread starter 1337
- Start date
Washington has some fun surf and great skiing, it's more balanced towards the skiing side of things but I've just started surfing around here and I know a bunch of people who love it.
DrZoidberg
Active member
13453296:bland5 said:
I don't think there are many locations like that. California or oregon maybe? I personally would hate surfing california cause there's eleven million people in the water. Chile? There's waves and mountains there. I don't know the situation in AUS when it comes to skiing but obviously there's waves there.
Where do you surf in NJ?
DrZoidberg
Active member
13453311:bland5 said:
Bradley. I do the inlet in the winter sometimes but I imagine it's a zoo in the summer. Never tried it mid summer actually. That, and I feel like parking is impossible there.
gapersarefriends
Active member
I think it's funny when guys roll out to the lineup in 3/2 full suits when mostly everyone out is trunking. Glad I can comfortably trunk it now
gapersarefriends
Active member
13453552:dodge said:
maybe on the east coast it's less common, but the softies here in southern california always have fullsuits. a steamer is definitely accetpable, but a fullsuit? come on
NPF
Active member
i knew coming into this thread was gonna get me way to hyped up on surfing.
grew doing a tofino trip once a year with my family. my dad grew up in NZ so he got me onto it pretty early. last year i spent 3 months in aus and 2 weeks in bali. first time i really got to surf more then just like a weekend or a week once a year. fucking hooked now. Hopefully going to tofino in the next month or so. its all i have wanted to go do since skiing was over.
post this in a thread a while back, but ill share it again. i think its so cool they way they did it
[video]https://vimeo.com/95867186[/video]
favourite surf movies are riding giants and step into liquid because they were the only ones the movie store had.
grew doing a tofino trip once a year with my family. my dad grew up in NZ so he got me onto it pretty early. last year i spent 3 months in aus and 2 weeks in bali. first time i really got to surf more then just like a weekend or a week once a year. fucking hooked now. Hopefully going to tofino in the next month or so. its all i have wanted to go do since skiing was over.
post this in a thread a while back, but ill share it again. i think its so cool they way they did it
[video]https://vimeo.com/95867186[/video]
favourite surf movies are riding giants and step into liquid because they were the only ones the movie store had.
DrZoidberg
Active member
13453385:bland5 said:
Monday was good, and forecast to be good, so there was a decent amount of people. But it was mostly good people so it wasn't an issue. Sometime last week I went and it was crowded, but mostly noobs so people were dropping in on you all over the place. I had people go in front of me that I dodged by taking a high line over them, cause noobs just drop straight and don't bottom turn. One guy that's good and is often there was borrowing a friends board. Some girl dropped in on him and put a huge fin gash in it. So it depends who's in the water.
I guess I have a low tolerance for cold, probably cause I'm skinny, but last summer I wore a suit pretty much every time. It was cold last summer though. It's already pretty warm now, and it's weird because winter was frigid. I tried my 1.5mm top and got away with that for a bit last week. But once I get cold I stop surfing well and start missing waves so I'd rather be in a 3/2 fullsuit. The wind gets me every time.
DrZoidberg
Active member
13453980:1337 said:
Maine is cold as shit though. I'm just always cold so I have no shame on wearing a full 3/2 when others aren't.
I went to South Carolina one summer. People there were saying the water was still a little cold and I'm like looooool it's bathtub status right now And people from Maine probably come to jersey and say that.
S.J.W
Active member
Favourite event the year baby is coming up. JBAY!!!
Anyways here are my first round picks for who will win.
Heat 1: Taj Burrow
Heat 2: Julian Wilson
Heat 3: Owen Wright
Heat 4: C.J Hobgood
Heat 5: Mick Fanning (calling best opening heat with reynolds and otten)
Heat 6: Adriano De Souza
Heat 7: Josh Kerr
Heat 8: Kelly Slater
Heat 9: Jordy Smith
Heat 10: Nat Young
Heat 11: Joel Parkinson
Heat 12: Gabriel Medina
Overall my picks on who will win Jbay, comes down to Fanning, Parko, Wilkonson, Medina or Jordy. Depends on how big the waves are. The bigger the waves the more chance either Fanning or Parko have to take it out. Along with Jordy. Smaller the waves, Medina, John John,Italio
Anyways here are my first round picks for who will win.
Heat 1: Taj Burrow
Heat 2: Julian Wilson
Heat 3: Owen Wright
Heat 4: C.J Hobgood
Heat 5: Mick Fanning (calling best opening heat with reynolds and otten)
Heat 6: Adriano De Souza
Heat 7: Josh Kerr
Heat 8: Kelly Slater
Heat 9: Jordy Smith
Heat 10: Nat Young
Heat 11: Joel Parkinson
Heat 12: Gabriel Medina
Overall my picks on who will win Jbay, comes down to Fanning, Parko, Wilkonson, Medina or Jordy. Depends on how big the waves are. The bigger the waves the more chance either Fanning or Parko have to take it out. Along with Jordy. Smaller the waves, Medina, John John,Italio
jackdonovan
Active member
Thinking of getting one of those potato shortboards for some of the smaller surf, is it worth it?
DrZoidberg
Active member
If you mean the firewire potatoes then i've only heard good things about them. The baked potato looks fun.
jackdonovan
Active member
13455073:DrZoidberg said:
That or the Lost Couch Potato, when i bought my first shortboard i was a kook and bought a used one for bigger waves and its hard to surf the smaller surf, 3-4ft with it, so this seems like a fun board
DrZoidberg
Active member
13455173:jackdonovan said:
The puddle jumper looks cool too. Stubby small wave boards are fun in general.
I have a pretty good wetsuit tan going on. Easily visible line on my neck. Hands too.
DrZoidberg
Active member
Just did a pre breakfast surf for about two hours. Much fun very surf.
Also im on lbi. Saw what i think was an old black hatch civic with saga stickers among other things. Definitely a skier or snowboarder. Who is it?
Also im on lbi. Saw what i think was an old black hatch civic with saga stickers among other things. Definitely a skier or snowboarder. Who is it?
DrZoidberg
Active member
A: This artificial wave in the uk somewhere is supposed to open august 1. They claim to have a 2 meter barreling wave, among other things. Link http://www.surfsnowdonia.co.uk/
B: The J-Bay contest is on sooooo early here on the east coast. Starts at like 2am or something. Hopefully the finals end up being when I'm not asleep. Or really, hopefully they get waves.
B: The J-Bay contest is on sooooo early here on the east coast. Starts at like 2am or something. Hopefully the finals end up being when I'm not asleep. Or really, hopefully they get waves.
gapersarefriends
Active member
Goin out fer a rip on the log with my old man in the morning, stoked
DrZoidberg
Active member
13459313:1337 said:
I caught like the last three early in the morning. Felt bad for jordy smith. He kinda just never got a chance.
DrZoidberg
Active member
http://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/129835/highlights-j-bay-open-round-2-3?offset=19&serializedFilterBy=e1244
Parko afterbangs his last turn pretty hard at 57 seconds.
Also I had one of the coolest sessions ever today. First of all, I get there early and there's five guys, all out of the water. They said they think they saw a shark and were waiting for him to gfto. Secondly, it rained the entire time. I knew there'd be thunderstorms at some point. As I'm paddling for a really nice one, like right about to pop up, there's a pretty big flash of lightening and then a lot of thunder right away, so it was close. I went as fast as I could on that wave and went to my car. As I was walking there was a shit ton of thunder like right above me.
Great waves though. I actually got to do a bottom turn backside top turn hack sort of thing combo three times in a row on several waves. That never happens. I actually felt good. Great session, just not worth getting vaporized by lightening over.
Parko afterbangs his last turn pretty hard at 57 seconds.
Also I had one of the coolest sessions ever today. First of all, I get there early and there's five guys, all out of the water. They said they think they saw a shark and were waiting for him to gfto. Secondly, it rained the entire time. I knew there'd be thunderstorms at some point. As I'm paddling for a really nice one, like right about to pop up, there's a pretty big flash of lightening and then a lot of thunder right away, so it was close. I went as fast as I could on that wave and went to my car. As I was walking there was a shit ton of thunder like right above me.
Great waves though. I actually got to do a bottom turn backside top turn hack sort of thing combo three times in a row on several waves. That never happens. I actually felt good. Great session, just not worth getting vaporized by lightening over.
S.J.W
Active member
Holy shit dream heat.
Fanning v Slater V Medina.
But hopefully the waves are BIG! So fanning can rip his edge in the water the whole wave. Serioiusly fuck this ariials bullshit. You're one probably the best power surfing wave in the world and you're awarding an air reverse higher than amaaing rail to rail power surfing? Fucking bullshit. Save airials to please the shitty little crowd in Brasil and keep power surfing alive.
Fanning v Slater V Medina.
But hopefully the waves are BIG! So fanning can rip his edge in the water the whole wave. Serioiusly fuck this ariials bullshit. You're one probably the best power surfing wave in the world and you're awarding an air reverse higher than amaaing rail to rail power surfing? Fucking bullshit. Save airials to please the shitty little crowd in Brasil and keep power surfing alive.
DrZoidberg
Active member
13461636:S.J.W said:
Ha shit I had no idea that was the draw. Hopefully waves show up so they can just surf
I don't mind aerials. But I was kinda disappointed to see Medina do the same air twice in a row. I was hoping he'd at least mix it up. Fanning killed it. In these highlights at like 26 seconds or so they do slow mo of him. His board is like 270 degrees the other way, almost pointing straight out over the lip. He's surfing better than ever, and he even did an air too. Didn't expect that from him.
S.J.W
Active member
13461806:DrZoidberg said:
From the forecast it looks like it's going to be around 5 foot an variable winds when Fanning, Medina and Slater verse each other. It's such bullshit to watch Jbay go into an aerial bullshit. I want to see rail to rail power surfing not a luck fest and huck fest. And Medina will be over scored as well, because BRAZILIAN STORM!!!!
Rant over
jackdonovan
Active member
Best surfing spot in Block Island? Will be there Sunday Monday Tuesday. Then will be surfing either Ruggles, First, or Second beach in Newport till Friday
DrZoidberg
Active member
Luckily woke up minutes before the supposed super heat. Kinda chunky bad waves unfortunately.
DrZoidberg
Active member
13462999:S.J.W said:
Yeah that was a bas heat. Hopefully they actually get waves tomorrow or whenever theyre saying they will.
S.J.W
Active member
13463010:DrZoidberg said:
I think Sunday arvo the waves are meant to be 10 foot or whatever. Can't remember the exact numbers. It'll get better though. My money is still on Mick though. No one can beat that rail to rail surfing and once the waves get bigger and better and proper Jbay comes into its own Mick will be fire.
Look at the current surfers, Mick and Slater are the only surfers who I feel have an advantage on bigger Jbay. The rest are more airialists and have gotten this far because of the smaller waves.
But just watch Medina and De Souza get over scored. The WSL knows that Brazil is the next economy to flourish and there's big money to be made out of it in a few years. So they need surfing to be on the same level as soccer there. And what bettter way to do that than have Brazialians "dominiate" the sport.
Final day is live. Not super nice during the early heats but i guess the wind is gonna change
http://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2015/mct/1244/j-bay-open/live?cid=sm-jbayopen2015
http://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2015/mct/1244/j-bay-open/live?cid=sm-jbayopen2015
DrZoidberg
Active member
13463404:1337 said:
Kelly vs mick sbout to ho off. Should be good.
DrZoidberg
Active member
Holy shit, Mick Fanning just got attacked by a shark I think. Looks like it bit his leash and got his board a tiny bit but he's fine.
YEah, south africa doesn't fuck around with sharks.
13463520:1337 said:
Yeah, I linked it this morning when it came up from one person on my feed, then everyone and their mom flipped out and linked it.
...guess Jaws Hysteria is going to be on everyone's mind this summer.