E's Surf Report: more onshores.. junk..

Even though it's only been a few days of relentless, session-killing onshore wind it feels like months! My window-panes weren't totally, utterly rattling this morning so i decided to give it a look.. Sloppy. Ugly. Upchucky. Dismal. Nauseous. The wind blew cold and raw over the small, hopeful windswell meandering into the beach. All night the onshores blew, disturbing what would otherwise be zesty little peeling pockets. I saw two takers suiting up at Pacheco and one lone warrior at Sloat. I got out of my car for a few moments at Sliz but was slapped immediately back into the warming comfy warmth of my car by the mischievous, sinister onshore. geez.. I'm feeling a bit despondent. Yesterday i voiced excitement about the start of the fall season, groomed waves reaching in, yadda yadda.. but it was actually a bit of a mask for the dark, sneering despondency i've been feeling about the surf around here over the last two or three months. We've had a few intervals of energized brilliance.. a morning here.. a wave or two there. a quick cover-up over here.. but.. all in all we've been skunked. let's just admit it.. That one good south didn't even reach up to us. Soo.. I'm feeling the pangs.. as i'm sure many of you are too.. Two years ago i spent the entire summer in Hawaii and Indo.. I came back at the end of september ready to fucking charge whatever SF had to offer, wavewise. My skills had been chiseled and refined over nearly 3 months of southern hemi reef-break experimentation. I had the good fortune to enjoy hundreds of carvable, undulating lines and was forced to consistently deal with reef-sucking, consequence-bearing takeoffs.. There was no break or lapse in my personal surfing development that year.. solid wintertime OB.. to indian ocean niceness.. right back to autumn/winter SF. THis year, however!! i feel like we haven't had waves (other than a day here or there) to consistently challenge or build our surfing vocabulary. I mean.. you're always learning.. that's a given.. but if you're at a stage in your surfing development where you're working on your roundhouses, or fading your takeoffs to get more barrels, or whatever.. Bay area waves over the last few months just haven't cut the mustard. Maybe i'm just surly and jonesing my face off.. but.. when was the last time you looked out over the great highway are were so psyched that you tripped over yourself running back to the car to get into your wetty? When was the last time people posted sick, mouth-watering pics of OB? exactly..

WE'RE FRICKIN DUE!!

bring it!

thanks for all the historical banter yesterday! so fun to read..

i'm really, someday, going to collect subject-oriented posts from all y'all and organize them into permanent sections (ding-repair, history, shapers, etc.). that would be cool.

kelly's