Here it is. Mounds of frustration crammed into one pic. This isn't a longboard v. shortboard debate. I do both. It's about what's wrong with surfing in urban areas, and what we can do to fix it.
Pic courtesy of www.dalybread.com
I can't attach the image. Here's a link. Could someone attach for me?
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Thanks Huck! My Windows Vista isn't playing nice with the forum software, I think.
Yeah, that looks about like what 3rd point Malizu was like Sunday at around 7:30 AM. Dodging loose longboards determined to decapitate me. The fix is going out early, before sunrise. Pretty fun until later that morning. Of course, those Humboldt squid they’re finding in OC right now have me thinking twice about surfing in the dark right now:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-giant-squid2-2010feb02,0,5841943.story
I dont see any longboards in the pic
just a couple of snakes
hey kensurf if they were snakes they would be on the inside
it looks like a clear cut drop in
snakeing is when you are in position and someone padlles in front and inside blocking you
its highly possible that guy in the tube paddles up the other guys inside and is being repaid in kind
who knows
And where are the SUP’s, clubbie surfboats and German backpackers on mini-mals?
the germans on minimals are all in hawkes bays
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und are zey heving fan?
Except that’s Orange County. Those are the radar towers atop Palos Verdes in the background, so what you’re looking at is probably Huntington Beach or Newport, not LA.
Gotta get away once in a while!
I’m so grateful… Even if I paddle around for a couple hours for a few good ones, at least I’m at peace out there alone, most the time, and I don’t have to worry about that kind of action… Good loyd…
I’m not sure I’d remember how to “call someone off.” It didn’t take me too long, after moving to O.C., back in the mid '80’s, to yell out “Hey, hey,!!!” as needed, as I was taking off… I did that a year or so ago up here, on a nice day: over head, nice sand bar working, one main peak… Some guy, I’d never seen before, starts paddling, about 40 yards down the line from me, for the wave I’m getting ready to take off on… The old “Hey, hey!!!” came out, and he finally backed out - I had to go around him… - and on the way back out, I hear him complaining to his buddy, whom I’d never seen before either, “I was going for that wave…” Ha!
Mr. O…you should shush lest every one thinks the NW is some sort of wide open playground…
Ok, compared to SoCal it is.
If we have 7 guys out at the beach break, we call it crowded…LMAO.
On a Sunday, I might see 10 guys looking, three guys in the water and two guys on the hill talking about how crowded it is.
I grew up surfing Topanga, 27 years on that point and others in the area. Most of us there developed the down the line whistle, kept us safe mostly. Trouble was you had 40 locals there after 1985…
Don’t miss it a bit.
I surf Santa Cruz often (an Oregonian’s tropical vacation) and find the crowds easy to manage.
But south of Ventura, yikes!
Heres LA County-
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Looking pretty damn good!
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Zooming in...
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Ah, reality...
Looks like Andy L. on that one…the pac got caught inside…
When it gets that crowded…this dog gets his skateboard!
Here is a video of a wave in LA on a decent swell. Crowd looks pretty light. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d3dph_f2Gs
I have heard of LA but never been there. I think its somewhere in florida. I really don't care much for those kooks that drop in behind me and yell HEY HEY ! As for surfing in Oregon thats where I grew up and learned to surf. Left in1969. Guys that surf there are real surfers but their brain are bout as big as their nuts. And after 15 minutes in that water you cant find the nuts anymore !! Poor things !!! HeHeHe!!!
A couple of years ago they closed the stairway to a usually crowded spot in La Jolla for repairs to the sewer system. In order to get to the spot you had to instead paddle up there from another spot about a 1/2 mile away. That was a great summer for the spot crowdwise, since most surfers are lazy when it comes to paddling. The stairs have since been reopened, and the crowds are back.
I personally am able to find good uncrowded waves whenever there is a swell, but I'm not going into the details here.
No wonder it’s not crowded… that wave’s F=n unmakeable. LIke I say to my buds, “all the size in the world doesn’t matter if it aint ridable.” But most people have this mentality that it’s about saying you went out instead of getting good rides. Ahhh…
Anyway… New Jersey has the highest population density in the country. We even surpassed INDIA for God’s sake! Now imagine that for a second… Now imagine on top of that, the Army Corps of Engineers coming in with their sand pumping pipelines and burying MILES of breaks in one fell swoop, to create towel space for tourists, concentrating the entire surfing population along several miles of coastline into one or two surviving peaks. No wonder there’s as much hostility in the water as there is around here.
It’s survival of the fittest, and we’re the cockroaches of the surfing world. Not even a nuclear holocaust can wipe us out! Snakes, kooks, dog turds, dioxin and PCBs from three generations ago… we got it all… And you’re all invited!
Aloha!