Small but friendly
I took the necessary steps of suiting up at my house and then jogging down to the beach without checking the conditions first. I didn’t look out my window to see what the wind was doing, I didn’t talk to anyone on the phone and I didn’t scamper down to the corner in my boxer shorts for a quick peak at the sea surface. In this time of lackluster swell the blind go-out is often the way to go. Up and over the dunes and I’m pleasantly surprised by a not-so-tousled lineup. Punchy, waist/shoulder-high peaks peel, mush or throw up and down the beach. One or two surfers within the 10 block radius. Rad! I was stoked. Paddled out and immediately spun around and took off on a right that meandered and walled, allowing for a few pumps and a little click off the closeout. My hair still dry and I’m thinkin’, “damn, it’s kind-of working out here.” Back out and again another tasty right rears up. Paddle into it, make the quick drop, pump and find my line, quick check-turn off the bottom, then power through a full-bodied cutback that actually felt good as it stretched my back out. Putting my board on rail for the first time since last weekend reawakened the shreddy outlook and suddenly I was hunting for ramps and sections. A mode of surfing I had almost forgotten about in all these days of lackluster Lindy and point-break predictability. Out at OB it pays to be the wave predator, kind-of stalking around quietly, always adjusting and repositioning so as best to pounce on your prey when it appears.
As the session continued the peaky windswell kept offering character-rich mini-nugs. I caught a fun left that demanded I take an unusual high-line to make it past the racy section. Then I came down off the high-line with a head of steam and was able to pull off a quick bottom turn then a backside snappy something that felt good. A few rides later, as if to karmically balance the nice rides I’d enjoyed, I took a hein wipeout when a bowling left chucked me over the falls with the lip and I landed in about 2 feet of water. Yeah! I even noticed a few makeable barrels out there, albeit small and disorganized.
Looking down OB from atop the dunes on my way home it seemed that the wind had come up, disheveling the surface some. It looked as it sandbar after sandbar set up nicely on the inside, with typical OB rips and weirdness between each well-shaped bar.
Soo.. that’s that. Felt good to get some surf.
Tahoe for me this weekend..
Shout out to Binkstatic Aromatic, the Lord Binklestein, Abraham Brinkowski, Deacon Von Binklesworth (the Arch Duke Baron Binkhausen)… aka seymore sassafrass..
also a shoutout to Jocular, who i guess has finished the Phish tour and might be out on the West siiiide soon?
Have a fun weekend all y’all
cory lopez
joel fitzgerald
hopefully the wind will hold off for an arvo sesh. i have a half day today! didn't even try to get up this morning. i was out at the grand late last night with mwsf seeing skinny puppy rip and terrorize they're audience to shreds. excellent show.
Posted by: lerm at July 2, 2004 10:13 AMoh, and have a niceness 4th everyone!
Posted by: lerm at July 2, 2004 10:14 AMThis worked last time, so I’m trying again:
A room will be available in our house starting August 1. You'd live with two surfers, in a pretty killer surf house. You’d like it.
The room is nice and big, hardwood floors, closet, lots of light. The house has tons of space --garage, driveway, backyard. Original woodwork, fireplace, DSL, washer and dryer, dishwasher, surfboard racks downstairs, and a sick pool table.
$600, not including utilities.
Ocean beach is six blocks away. We’re at 42nd and Balboa. Here’s the view from the front rooms:
Email me if you're into it. Thanks.
Posted by: Lewis at July 2, 2004 10:22 AMat lewis at discoversurfing.com
Posted by: lewis at July 2, 2004 10:23 AMlewis bro I'll take it ...won't even be there most of the time... but desperately need a surf house to hang out in everytime the old lady gives me the boot. sleepin in the van is getting a little hard on the bones. rather save the bone abuse for missed drops and board whacks. i'm into hendrix and have a consistent herb conection.
whaddya need three months in advance?
Posted by: old man at July 2, 2004 10:35 AMlewis...can I bring my wife, 2 kids, dog and 2 cats???? damn, where were you 10 years ago when I actually could have taken you up on the offer! Sounds like a sweet set up!
happy 4th everyone...try to remember that even with all the f'd up shiet that we do as a country and a society that America is still a pretty damn nice place to be and try to focus on the good that we have done and still do as a country and a society. There's my run on sentence of patriotism...enjoy.
Posted by: jdz at July 2, 2004 10:37 AMLewis. I am a transvestite kneeboarder who loves Christina Aguilera and naked yoga. Any room for me?
Posted by: Suneil at July 2, 2004 10:45 AMAnother shameless plug: Doug Hillsinger & Caroleen Beatty play Eno's record "Taking Tiger Mountain" tonight at the Bottom of the Hill. Check out the review of last week's show at the Eagle in this week's Guardian (not on their web site tho.) Wish I had made it to Skinny Puppy last night. Have family visiting & drove up North yesterday. From as far north as Tomales Bay to our own trusty Poopy Mar there was no reason to get in the water. I saw over one hundred miles of coastline yesterday and no real waves. What evil thing did I do to make it so? Why?!
Posted by: goodmorning at July 2, 2004 11:07 AMcali beachbreak (from optionmag.com)
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 11:15 AMJust got the word- today work ends at 3! alright, time to go Bobo-ing on the LB and git me some of dat southie.
Posted by: luke at July 2, 2004 11:18 AMDamn that's a great description of your session, E. Your skill of stalking OB waves completely eludes me; I end up pitch-poling at the bottom of a close-out every time.
For the second day in a row I headed south and had a semi-popular long beach not far down the coast all to myself for most of the morning. Not a lot of size, but plenty of shapely waist-to-chest type things. FUN!
I got enough rides to verify that I have a peristent issue I need to work on: very often, I get up, gather some speed, make a turn at the bottom (or even on the face), and instantly lose all speed (often stalling out). If I try to maintain speed by making a less dramatic turn, the wave overtakes me and I'm in soup. I've tried standing further forward, but that doesn't seem to help. I do better this way on bigger waves, but I'm pretty sure I'm not milking what I could get out of these littler ones. Any thoughts? I'm riding an 8' egg with a tri-fin setup.
Posted by: Klooless Kook at July 2, 2004 11:19 AMsydney coast.. from sargesdailysurf.com
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 11:20 AMall photos from optionmag.com
two words.. FUCK YEAH!
wedge
boogie for life
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 11:32 AMi'm pulling for suneil the transvestite sponger.
Posted by: bird at July 2, 2004 11:36 AMSponger? I thought s/he was a kneeboarder.
I'm not a prejudiced individual, so I won't rule someone out of the housing search for being a transvestite. But there's absolutely no way in hell I'll allow a sponger in the house.
Posted by: lewis at July 2, 2004 11:41 AMhow about a transgender kite boarding vegan?
finaly surfed last night at sloats and it was great.
Posted by: bagel at July 2, 2004 11:56 AMZeppelin - In the Light
niiice.
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 11:58 AMOB: confirming exactly what e said, but the tide and onshores [ alas! ] are mucking up the mini quality. Parts definitely logable, some parts were even short boardable.
I hopped in on my heavy longboard and went beach touring. Decided to go with the speeding current. Not at all unlike cruising down a river in a canoe. Got a litte ride, drift north, another peak, little ride..drift..aw crappy section...drift into another peak...oh 2 foot closeout shooting over my head... I river rafted this way for almost a mile and got a really good idea about the current state of inner sand bars, rips, and shapes of waves at each street. Quite fun. Next time I'm hopping in at south sloat and bringing a sack lunch for the entire trip ;)
Still doable, just not as nice. Will shout out if it cleans up. Cheers,
Posted by: s.s.sharkbait at July 2, 2004 12:00 PMI had about 4 Led Zeppelin cassette tapes in high school. Every one of them got tape whine from over-playing. I couldn't, though, pick one song. They were in a class of their own.
Posted by: blakestah at July 2, 2004 12:29 PMvery cool con. nice Gerry Lopez connection.
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 12:32 PMI did a full on Zeppelin expose for a project in my highschool humanities class in '87 or '88. Went through the whole blues connection/influence. Used the book Hammer of the Gods, for most of my info. Got completely baked at lunch, played a bunch of Zep songs for the class and I think I actually converted a few people who would never have listened to Zep. Got a A.
Posted by: jdz at July 2, 2004 12:54 PMI can't think of a worthy onomatopoeia for this turn.
Posted by: ryan at July 2, 2004 01:05 PMhow about "thwoooosh!"
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 01:07 PMkk, sounds as if you need to take off deeper in the pit on your waves. less shoulder more veRTICAL Face = more speed. oh yeah and sing "The Ocean" by L.Z. paddling out after each ride.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at July 2, 2004 01:09 PMwarning: there's a real nasty bugger out there in internet land, i got hit yesterday and it took my tech support guy 2hrs + to clean my machine of it. no clear guidance yet on preventing/remedying it, other than not using internet explorer at all, or if you have to use ie, jacking up the security settings to high. more info here:
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kloo: i'm still figuring out the subtleties of turns myself, but i think i know of the problem you describe. try moving further back on your board just prior to initiating the turns and leaning into a well-bent back knee -- but also be ready to move forward as you complete the turn. the movement back & forth is tricky, but it's especially important when riding longer boards in slow/small surf, where you often need to be forward on the board to keep trim speed and keep your weight ahead of the wave. if you still have your longer board, you might want to try it on that one first - your movement will need to be more exagerrated, but that will help make the dynamics more apparent, and the extra board length should in most cases give you a slightly wider margin for error in case you step too far forward/backward. i bet someone can find a good longboarding video clip that shows the movement i'm referring to?
Posted by: loon at July 2, 2004 01:11 PMCon, i think we are getting conned. i just don't see GL surfing some funky canal wave in the middle of the Oregon high plains. Nope not buying it.....
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at July 2, 2004 01:42 PMgerry LIVES in oregon now 3to5...
bend to be precise....i have seen
him a few times at bachelor snowboards
like he surfs...gracefully.
that wave is HUGE for eastern oregon.
Posted by: korewin at July 2, 2004 01:47 PMyep i've carved turns with him in bend. and surfed with him as well. and the guy is stoked to ride. but i just don't see him canal surfing. nor does that guy look much like him in the shot.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at July 2, 2004 01:56 PMCon, I am actually gonna roll with you on the GL sighting. I spent many days as a young inland norcal grom up in those parts. It looks like the place that GL lives now. However, I am curious as to where exactly it is located. Seems to be on the outskirts near a Sunny River. Possibly near a town north that is named similar to Tom Curren's Black Beauty.
Oh, and Happy 4th of July everyone! Sorry ladies, don't hate me.....
Posted by: Kaiser at July 2, 2004 01:56 PMIf that is not a show of pride, I don't know what is....
Posted by: Kaiser at July 2, 2004 01:58 PMgreat set of boots on that one girl.
Posted by: jdz at July 2, 2004 02:00 PMLike korewin said, that's now Gerry's home break. You make do with what you have.
Word I have is Gerry pioneered it. He just jumps straight into it onto his feet from the bank.
The wave doen't look like much, but the water is moving fast. Ideal board is like a 5'6" fish.
Nice job Kaiser!
Posted by: con at July 2, 2004 02:01 PM
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 02:06 PM"these boots are made for walkin'"
... and stylin'!!
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 02:08 PMdamn those nssa kids are killing it in that surfline video..trestles looks so fun too
Posted by: bagel at July 2, 2004 03:17 PMokay 3to5...i am not trying to
be picky (slow day at work)
BUT HOW can you SEE anything
other than a salt and pepper
haired dude with a blue board in
that photo?
just curious....
i ain't that old.....or blind
i hope.....besides he looks about the
same age as all the other geezers in that
photo.....did anyone else notice that?
that is the funniest part. just think
if that were your ranch/ land/ whatever
and you show up and 5 35+ year olds
are "playing" in the slough....
Posted by: korewin at July 2, 2004 03:47 PMi love that word..slough
Posted by: bagel at July 2, 2004 04:04 PMmetal-heads love these amps..
Posted by: e at July 2, 2004 04:17 PMThanks, 3to5 and loon! I'll play with your advice over the weekend and see what I can come up with.
Have a great weekend, and if you hit the waves, careful, I'm out there!
Posted by: Klooless Kook at July 2, 2004 04:42 PMsaw this bumpersticker on way to checking waves the other day:
Posted by: cadaver at July 2, 2004 06:03 PMI saw Zeppelin in concert a zillion years ago. Very weird. Very cool.
Posted by: Bruce at July 3, 2004 10:51 PMskateboarding is not a crime it just hurts when your 40.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at July 4, 2004 01:10 PMfrom http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996110
Cassini probes Titan's mysteries
The latest images from Cassini are completely reversing scientists' ideas about Saturn's giant moon Titan.
The space probe flew within 340,000 kilometres of Titan on Friday. It has revealed methane clouds and a strangely smeary surface that may include tectonic features and huge impact craters.
Giant waves
The pictures are sharp enough to show strong linear features, such as a giant letter H, which probably have a tectonic origin. That means they are created by some process internal to Titan. "But we can't say what it is yet," says Turtle.
There are also round patches, more likely to be impact craters. If so, there is at least one enormous crater more than a thousand kilometres across.
But these images are just a taster. On 26 October, Cassini will make the first of 45 close passes of Titan, flying to within about 1200 kilometres. It will get much finer images, and use its radar to map the surface in 3D. Among other things, scientists are hoping to see lakes or seas of methane, which should be whipped into giant waves by Titan's windy atmosphere.
Posted by: gvibe at July 5, 2004 09:59 AMskateboarding is not a crime. i'm 35 years old and bruce, is making me feel like I need to find a new sport pert' near. low gravity skate parks.
Posted by: christopher at July 5, 2004 04:20 PMScored today with DP, glassy waist to head-high waves. Blew out by 9:30 am. Longboarders didn't show up until 9, that's what they get for sleeping in.
Posted by: Nate at July 5, 2004 08:31 PMI was lost but now I am found
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