Who surfs on NS

this year i went surfing for the first time on a school trip in tofino, best thing ever i had soo much fun. i wish i could do it more. the best part is lack of equipment needed and just chilling at the beach all day.
 
i grew up in ventura county. grew up surfing/boogie boarding zuma, point dume, and leo carrillo. moved to washington dc a few years back... miss it so much. zuma was our favorite, pier 11 all day
 
i have surfed lawrencetown, NS and long beach, BC, but can't really consider myself a 'surfer'. it's an awful lot of fun though. wish i had an opportunity to do it more often..
 
I have recently started surfing quite a bit, I only started surfing a couple of years ago. Before I moved to victoria I had only been a handful of times. I still consider myself a beginner but once I actually caught my first good wave I was so hooked.

I haven't even paid off my seasons pass yet this year because I keep surfing instead.

Probably going again tommorow
 
Ive been surfing about once a week while at uni and 3 or 4 times a week when home... god winter in the U.K is cold!!!! Cant wait to get to portugal in may for some warm weather even if the waves are shitty. 2 weeks solid surfing so stoked!!!
 
I live a couple minutes west of UVic. Closest surfing is about an hour away on the juan de fuca coastline, and then of course there is open pacific up island.
 
Not true at all. Up where I live in new england there is a bunch of awesome surfing spots. I lived in the bed of my truck for a couple of weeks over the summer just going from provincetown on the cape down to watch hill road island hitting up the best surf spots. It's definitly not as great as the west coast, but there are some really good places to surf in the east
 
I get what youre saying, its probably a better place to learn because the waves are a lot smaller. Im just saying the water is A LOT colder, the waves are smaller, and, from what I've seen, the ride is a lot shorter. I guess i shouldn't call it worthless but to me it just doesnt seem as fun as surfing in australia, hawaii, or the west coast.
 
Anywhere north of LA is going to be the same as the water out east, if not colder, obviously it will be colder in the northeast in the winter, but in the summer it will be warmer due to the ocean currents thatrun off the east coast that come from the tropics. Look up the wedge in Newport beach ca, I skimboard that area when i go visit my grandpa who lives out there, it's epic but really sketchy
 
oh word My dad used to surf the wedge growing up. said the waves were super nice, but really sketch getting up close to that rock thing (break water?, not really sure the name of it)
 
Rhody surfer here. Had an epic adventure last wednesday, driving 5 hours to cape cod, just to be in the water for 1.5 hours. absolutely worth it. I got quite thrashed though, because it was 5-7 ft pounding beachbreak and I haven't duckdived in a while. I'm sure its still possible with a 6'0'' ...Lost fish, but I struggle. took some crazy bails too, including a lip that catapaulted me into a swan dive
 
i wish i could surf, unfortunately i never have. went to maui and saw pro surfers hitting 30 foot waves, that was pretty sick though
 
not true
the outer banks. nicest east coast water i've ever been in. parts of florida have epic swell, super warm water too, and new england in storm season is just gnarly
 
I started to surf my last two years of college. I did it just about everyday during the summer. I moved to Mammoth the fall after i graduated and how not surfed since. I need to make time to surf this summer.
 
There are also a few in costa rica which I think would be awesome. Costa rica is such a sick place, if only they had snow..
 
I met a really nice guy in Costa Rica, Will Skudin, who is a big wave surfer for Red Bull and he has a camp in Long Island NY. I think it's called Skudin Surf or something. Definitely check it out, him and his friends ripped.
 
I've never been surfing before but I really want to get into it sometime. Can anyone recommend how? I'm mediocre at longboarding which is basically the action of surfing, but it seems a lot harder. I get to go to Puerto Rico very other summer, but I haven't seen much surfing there. Would anyone recommend any particular class or camp I could get into for a summer?
 
Just rent a longboard or a funboard (don't worry about those foam ones). Play in the whitewash until you can pop up, then paddle out to a nice uncrowded beachbreak and start learning to catch waves.

Once you catch your first clean wave you will be so unbelievably addicted. For me, It's the only thing more pure and refreshing than skiing.
 
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