Nice stream of last weekend’s surf. 12/10-11/05 at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Home to Mr. J and (formerly) Mr. Blakestah…
http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=3E964000D7709E6C
Unfortunately, a lot of these guys seem undergunned & they’re so focused on staying in control that they can’t pull in the beefy barrels. Can’t say I’d do any better… 
Others, well, they’ve just got the big ugly place flat-out wired. 49* water. 12 minutes +. Enjoy.
That’s a tough part of the beach to surf at that sizing.
I was at outside SecondparkingLot, mostly like the smaller sizing, with my 8’ Plumeria semi gun, about the right size.
Good call, Lee. I looked and then went north
Pacheco was my street a month ago…
Only the bigger sets were DOH by local standards though…the bars still have a way to go too. Every year, they don’t quite break full-on top to bottom until between Christmas and New Years…then there’s a solid two months of relatively uncrowded top-to-bottom DOH niceness. Capped by the late arvo Feb low tides…breaking more hollow than it does any other time…every local surfer goes to his family Christmas and can’t wait to bug out to surf…usually clean glassy DOH empty surf…
It takes a lot of skill and time to get that surf wired. One bad mistake costs you 40+ minutes of paddling. Overgunned and you can’t get tubed, undergunned and the drops get sketchy and just making the wave is tough…and some guys are killing it on shortboards.
I miss it…
BTW, that Saturday video has at least 4 waves by Danny Hess
http://www.blakestah.com/surf/hess.html
the tall lanky screwfoot on the wood quad fins killing it. He’s one of the best bigger wave surfers on the beach, and he mostly rides his own twin and quad wood boards.
Edit: also, I’ve done some OBSF DOH videos in the past…
So how’s life in no surf land?
I figure you must be in NorthDakota or somewhere close to that.
Now you can go travel to surf once every 4 months, then get your butt kicked like I do when I go out.
The waves still know how to find my head when I’m almost outside, so some things just don’t change…
Is this the first part of Swaylocks video?
Chip we may have a chance
OBSF fascinates me for some reason. it’s just looks so raw and powerful, and you can have it all to yourself. i hope to make it out there someday.
You guys are stoked to have that place. I lucked into some clean overhead waves there a few weeks back and couldn’t stop thinking about what it must have been doing on this last swell.
"Now you can go travel to surf once every 4 months, then get your butt kicked like I do when I go out. "
when was that … 1973 ??
I didn’t see you on your ‘Bic’ in this MODERN video , LeeDD ???
I thought you’d be “charging it” , mate …you know , being the big wave hellman you always talk yourself up to be ??
maybe it was too far to drive from your home in Nebraska …
keep up the gardening
That’s some nice footage Benny.
Had some of my best surfs ever on that stretch of coast in spite of the tit freezing water. I just kept looking at the inside white water. Anybody whose surfed there knows that’s a big part of the equation. On a short interval swell just put yourself down for a good workout.