I know this isn’t exactly the perfect place to post this, but I have just started a New Surf Report Website for North LA Beaches entitled Surfwise.org. We are offering daily photo surf reports updated every morning and soon, every afternoon. We are currently covering spots from County Line to Venice Beach and everything in between. Check it out at http://www.surfwise.org
We are also looking to do stories on local shapers to the Los Angeles region. This could be a good resource of getting the word out about your boards to your local surfing community. If you are from the area, drop us a line at .
Hope you are all doing well and we hope this posting does not offend anyone out there. Keep up the good work. We need local shapers to keep the industry thriving.
It’s my opinion that we need less hyped surf forecasting sites that sell advertising. The look is like a magazine. The information, including how many people are in the water at any given time just agitates the spin cycle and has people driving around in their cars looking for “little corners. That’s insane.
My advice, if you really want to be helpful, is to go away and find another job.
More science and less hype please.
Bay St has a little more swell pushing through. It’s about 1–3ft, slightly crossed up. There are a few corners coming in and could be a little better around 9:30 when the tide starts filling in a little more. 15 surfers in the water right now.
This is similar to surfshot.com, which covers the San Diego area. I like the concept of using pictures taken by live people much better than webcams. Webcams are often out of focus or looking at the wrong spot. I have a surfshot subscription, and use it all the time. It is the first place I go to when tying to figure what the surf is doing today.
I was surfing the same breaks in San Diego long before the interent swell forecasting boom began. The crowds have always been there, and they always will be. I think that there is stonger relationship to the strength of the local job market, and the number of surfers out in the water. Back in the 90’s, when the economy sucked the crowds were a little smaller. As things improved economically more young people moved the Southern California for work, and many of them learned to surf.
While it’s tough to not smile when one of my favorite “Big Wednesday” quotes flashes by, I think I need to weigh in as being not offended by this new surf report.
For one thing, they are pretty much just photos, not drooling, gibbering “forecasts” that have so frequently fizzled out in the last couple of years. With photos the current wisdom “It is what it is” applies…not really overhyped. Many of these particular spots are already covered by at least 2 more or less live surfcams.
While I suppose nobody really “needs” another surf report, what the hell. For evey guy looking at a surf cam at work and waiting until it gets better another day or conversly planning a quick after work session, there are 2 or 3 douchebags driving the coastlines at any given time giving running cellphone commentary about conditions to all their bros. There are no more secrets; it’s all going to be blind luck and magic from here on out.
Of course now with your photo this whole thread should probably move to the design area. At first I thought that was a Spammed Up Paddleboard until I saw the oarlocks …
This spam should be moved to errors and bugs.