E's Surf Report

My wife and I got in a huge fight last night which resulted in me sleeping on the couch. As a result, I am getting her nothing for Valentine's Day (I know, I SHOULD have already gotten something!). But now I can use the fight as an excuse!

On a brighter note, got it yesterday before it blew out.

anybody see the long-haired guy kinda killing it at sloat on saturday morning? i had to report his mustache to the FCC as pornographic material. nice meeting ya bruce. it started off junky but the shorey got a little better as the tide rose.

occy set to retire

Ah, really sorry to hear that someone lost their life at the beach this weekend. I recall talking to Elias saying just the fact that sometime, someone was going get hurt out there. In was in reference to something else but strange timing. Really sad.

This weekend proved to offer up some waves out there. CK picked up my new stick for me in Santa Crowded. I really wanted to surf it to see how it compared to my last board. It was the first time I had a new board shaped off of the same template as a previous one. Just some modifications here and there. Got some really fun waves Sunday morning before I cranked my knee. Tried the new board at our favorite south wind spot, it sucked....Typical.

All in all, fun stretch of surf over the last 5 days or so!

that's a sad story. people often underestimate ob.

got some fun ones this morning at a totally uncrowded northern parking lot.

surfed with robme out in the middle on saturday and had a blast. didn't get to it sunday 'til it was already blown out.

flower shops are such a rip off on V day. $80 for a dozen flowers. that's just criminal.

Legand of Moby Dick continues. As I was paddling out on Sunday am, I got hammered by a large number of waves about 100 yards offshore. My leash wrapped around my board, then a around my legs. I was litterally tied to my 9' white whale-board and rolling through the surf. Really a wierd feeling.

Great waves this weekend though. Saturday am, I paddled out to an empty sandbar near the south end. I sat outside waiting for the bigger sets. Fianlly, after about 15 minutes, a set popped up. I turned to paddle for it and ther were no less than 10 surfer directly behind me, and all staring at me. The rest of the beach was virtually empty. I paddled north to another lone spot and caught a bunch of solid waves by myself... Go figure.

Try a new Valentine's tradition: look for someone who seems unhappy or lonely and do something nice for them! Buy a homeless guy a sandwich, chat with him over lunch, and so on.

And a big mass-produced, minor cartoon character valentine to Continental, with some nasty Pepto Bismol heart candy thrown in... Thanks for breaking my fins!

OBL wishes America a 'Crappy Valentines Day'

Dennis, you don't coil the leash around the board to store it, I hope? Also, E I love the sunrise pics at the top of this page. That's the OB I love.

wow your the man JB...some of those inside waves lately are nuts and shallow

ya nice to meet you saturday Bruce wish i could have chilled a bit more sounds like i missed bbr tom is chilling..

the team america sountrack rules..

and happy birthday Jake!

Received a savage, life-affirming beating in the middle of the beach Sunday morning. OB: victor by TKO and still champion.

And was that a seal or a sea lion on the sand, tattered and mostly headless, with the crows on it?

Very sad to hear about the drowning. JB - that is heavy. In NZ the Maori place a tapu on the drowning spot for a while, barring all fishing/swimming/surfing there for a while.

Glad you had fun, E. Good seeing you BBR, Bagel, Tom, et. al. Couple of local rippers. The caption for the first photo: "Gee, I wonder how bad this is going to hurt?"

The story from Saturday is a grim and tragic reminder that OB is a humbling, unforgiving place.

This is the 2nd death on or coast from beginners recentley. Sometime on this site and others, the seriousness of the ocean enviornment is underestimated. While a positive vibe and stoke is good, it is also important not to overlook the potential hazards and consequences of the ocean.

So beginners whom read this site please take warning. Beginners pose a hazard to more experienced riders aswell. Board ditchings, etc. which appear to be more commonplace can be just as dangerous. Don't forget when you ditch your board you are more likely to break your leash, and have a long, cold, difficult swim. Please know you limits and judge accordingley.

More experienced riders know just how brutal this strech of beach can be from head high inner bars to triple overhead bombs.

Right on to JB and the others whom quickly responded. For all of you experienced surfers out there (and beginners too) remember to keep an eye out for people around you.

As surfing becomes more popular and more crowded new hazards present itself- so take the time to learn the ocean, proper etiqutte, repect for the ocean and fellow surfers. Look out for others before you venture out, especially in an enviornment as challenging as OB.

Rest in Peace Nusa!

solo sesh this morning. traded watch with two who just got out.
waves, quite and punchy and glassy. 45min-1hr of floating around. 5 waves. 1 memorable and fun. i guess that's about a 20% on the shralp factor and 80% on the burger factor. hopefully i can increase the shralp while decreasing the burger next time.

too bad about the drowning. remember to always be on good terms with the Mother and dont fight her grasp.

kaiser, thanks for the vids. blue horizon has some sick waves, but, damn! if that movie didn't have rastovich, it would be a documentry on a incredibly motivated, talented and whiny spoiled brat/dick. its like the yin and yang. thankfully, i watched Morning of the Earth to follow it up and things were all good on this little star. phew.

haha yep that's me... so wait does Lizard = Bruce or am I just really confused?

SICK RED BOARD! BA-GELE!

Elias, not problem on the vids! As for Blue Horizon, I had similar thoughts. But as much as I like the story of Rasta, I can't help but think that he too is a bit spoiled. Just a little different light...Still better then the yin of his yang in that flick. Good work following it up with Morning!

OB, great post! Sometimes I find myself wandering between the beginner/experience level of surfer myself. I guess it just depends upon who else is out in the water with me and where I am on that experience level. Independent of this, it is always good to follow these simple rules and watch out for your fellow surfer. You never know when something can go down and I am sure we would all welcome some help when we are 300 yards offshore...

Oh, forgot something...

team red board (BBR and Bagel!)

Elias shaped Bagel's red board in that pic.

Lot Lizard = Bruce

BBR - what happened on that wave? Just a mellow punch-through?

At the low tide, mid-beach was weird---scrambled nugs on the inner bars, nothing worth waiting for outside. I had OB all to myself.

Nate - I don't wrap my leash. This is a shit leash. It does not have swivels built into it. I thought it did and that they were just covered by a plastic sheath until I gave it the twist test. It failed.

bagel -- I was a little disappointed in the movie but the Team America soundtrack is great.

Seen the South Park version of the Aristocrats joke? One of the funniest and most gut-bustingly offensive things I've seen:

South Park - The Aristocrats

In light of Saturday's tragedy..I'm forced to reflect on my foolish behavior Friday and regret my sick sense of humor.

Finished a fun Friday afternoon board meeting in the pacific conference room and was watching the sunset and towling off and changing in the lot across from the suds palace. Guy pulls up in a mini suv with Illinois plates and hops out to walk his dog with this "I'm so glad I just moved to Cali" look on his face.

So he proceeds to ask me if this (OB) is a good beach to learn to surf. I couldn't resist the tempatation to be a smart ass and tell him today is sort of mellow and that if he really wants to learn to surf he should go up the street and ask bob wise to fix him up with a 9'6" gun and then wait until the surf was really big, at least twice as big as today, before he paddles out.

MWers.. that south park video is brutal! so funny.

OTF- Only good people have regrets about what they have said. Don't be too hard on yourself. Fortunately the beach is smart enough to pound most kooks and old farts like me back to the lot.

bbr- I got quite a few more shots of you. I'll send with a disk with the other stuff. Lizard is short for Lethargic Lane Lot Lizard. . . a place I've been known to spend quality time with other local reptiles and the motorhomeless crew.

e- As I recall that lip parted bbr's hair. He just paddled out and caught a dozen more waves.

Is it weird that i knew that was probably Bagel just from his comics? Nice board!

Also, i remembered why I hate Sunday morning sessions. I get enough traffic everyday to work and it is not fun to get it in the water too. Kooks, rippers, me's, boogieboarders, boards everywhere. You turn around to scrape for a wave and see 10 scared looks on peoples faces floating/sitting/whatevering on the inside. Damn. I love weekday DP's!

sweet bruce! ya that red board rules elias hooks it up! id say bbrs more stoked. can you say scoliosis? those shots of FP are cool too bruce..

ya mw, i actually was into that movie..first of those guys movies ive seen..epic songs..hit and miss humor sometimes though..

lots to chew on as i eat lunch at my desk....

saturday was not an easy day at OB. is it really ever
easy out there? sorry to hear that dude passed this
weekend.

thought i had and shared with kaiser...

to all you folks who bitched on thursday and
basically flamed e with respect to pimping the beach...
SAVE IT!!!

direct all your scorn to AI and dorian's tour guide
and the photographer that documented it. NOTHING.
NOT A GOD DAMN THING will give OB the press none
of us really wants like a big shot of the world champ
ripping it up west of san francisco.

back to the regular programming.....

oh man that video is a hit though..

redworm, I think I was about 2 blocks south of you Sunday morn. It started out simply enough. Not really so bad paddle out, grab a few waves, quite fun actually. Then the lump and wind came up a little. Then the rippy swirly nature of OB picked up a litte. Spent over an hour looking for the last wave in, and another half hour, AT LEAST, paddling in. TKO indeed.

Saw porn mustache guy a few times last week. Pretty good surfer. Awesome mustache.

There will never be a published surf mag shot of late arvo OB.

Uh, I guess I was the first to post anything about the AI/Dorian go down. So what, they surfed our spot? Curren surfed here a few years ago and I can't say that that is what caused all the crowds we experience. I was just interested if the rumours were true and based on the picture posted a couple days ago I say yes, it did happen.

As for the recent drownings. First off, I say if you don't surf, don't start. But if I move beyond the knee jerk, I have to ask, who tells people to get used to the water by going out in just a wetsuit? I think the guy in Montara died the same way. WTF? A surfboard is a floatation device. Also a Boogie. And what the fuck is wrong with fins?

Number one: Don't encourage anyone to surf. If it is your progeny, I can overlook that one.

Number two: If some beginner wants to give it a go, push them towards a safer beach than OB, Like the Mar, or the Jetty or Bo-Bo.

Number three: Don't let them go out in just a wetsuit. In some respects a wetsuit is a floatation device of sorts, but come-on. Fins and a boogie, or a surfboard also should be included.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/02/13/roundup.DTL

A 28-year-old man was pronounced dead Saturday at a San Francisco hospital after surfers reportedly pulled his body from the water at Ocean Beach, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.
The Fire Department received a call at 11:44 a.m. that a person was floating in the water at Ocean Beach near Judah Street. When paramedics arrived around 11:45 a.m., surfers had pulled the man onto the shore and were administering CPR to the man, said a fire department dispatcher.

The man was transported to University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The victim was reportedly wearing a wetsuit, although it is unclear whether he was surfing or body surfing before he drowned.

Oh nnnnoooooooo !!!!! - You poor
sexist bastards - hairy balled mysoginist clods.
My wife asked if she could give me a special Valentines treat this morning... 'Aahhhhhhhhhhhhh. 'Fa-fa-fu-snizzleeshizzelled!!!!!!!
HAPPY V-DAY!!!
I happend to be the only locally hugely hung stud invited to surf with both AI and SD out at "Fuckerz" north of "Splatz" between "Bungholes, -" 2 degrees north a midgen to left channel near "Armpits." SD froze his little schwizzel off and SD opted to sit outside and wait for the bombs that he rode through the flat sections like I do when I tow-in at Avalancher's with my partner Tommy Hilfiger.
Star sighting-in fighting-blog writing-crowd clamouring, claimers and blamers.

yeah i don't really remember that wave, but it's a sure thing i didn't make it out. no punch-thru's though... one good thing about the boogie is you can pull in without worrying about breaking your board. the shorebreak definitely got a little more hectic and fun a little later on, i ended up surfing for over two hours. thanks again for your help on the mag, looking forward to the pics... no rush.

i shaved that hairy upper lip a while ago..but thanks if it was me..for the record i surf way better usually..ha

i think its safe to say that i would never swim at ob with out fins..unless it was super small and shallow..

B-stah. My entry - exit was just the opposite of yours. Another 3 or 4 blocks south.

bad news about the death.
good news about decent surf lately.
blake are you taking up aussie?
what is arvo?

btw - i just put up new video from 1/21/05 on the url link in the sig. matt, marty and others. let me know.

lp

i posted this b4 but thought one more time, anyone watch the state?

http://www.blogtelevision.net/p/Watch-Video-240-worth-of-puddin___1,2,,8756.html

people die.

people not possessed of adequate amounts of emotional intelligence -- as measued by the ability to adapt to changing situations -- die easier than others.

we can all die as a result of crisis or accident but we don't have to go down easy.

WRT the surfing take on it: don't let the fact that scott tompkin and nusa were beginners lull you into any sort of false sense of superiority (over them, or over mother nature) or security (in your own experience), because either of those things WILL KILL YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT... there is ample support for this; check the journals published by search-and-rescue specialists who deal with this shit 24x365 for the proof...

it ain't just the clueless who succumb.

jay moriarty. mark foo. there's a long list.

fyi, great book on the subject: deep survival.

just a shot in the dark...

have any of you been to a island that has these characteristics...

warm water.
tropical.
surf. reef or beach or combo.

here's the kicker.
there is accomidations for my lady and i, and things to do besides surf.

if such a utopia exists and you are willing to share your knowlege... email me at elias at themainframe dot net.

Who is the shaper of that Fish pic at the top? I'm thinking about getting one for small summer fun.

This is even better/worse than Kenny:

Lady, when you’re with me I’m smiling
Give me all your love
Your hands build me up when I’m sinking
Just touch me and my troubles all fade
Lady, from the moment I saw you
Standing all alone
You gave all the love that I needed
So shy, like a child who has grown

You’re my lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You’re my lady

Lady, turns me on when I’m lonely
Show me all your charm
Evenings when she lays down beside me
Just take me gently into your arms

Your my lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You’re my lady

Lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You’re my ... lady

The guy looking at the blue fish IS Rich Pavel, I bet he shaped it.

Hey, lp, you mistyped the year as '04 on the actual vid, I think:

http://www.surfvid.com/video/012104.wmv

Nice work!

sick vid lp. perhaps that is BVB on the huge red board in a couple of those clips??

Friend #1, what would you sing to your lady of the evening? Do you change the "lady of the morning" part?

friend #1 hit it head to nail - Saturday's death just shows us that Ocean Beach is NOT for beginners. My kid had been surfing at Pedro and Cowells for two years before I took him out for his first surf at Ocean Beach (on a SMALL day in summer). Even so, as he walked across the beach towards the water his face was equal parts stoke and terror. He KNEW going in the water here can be serious business and had been taught a deep respect for that fact.
Letting someone get used to swimming in the ocean at Ocean Beach is like letting someone get used to driving a stick-shift at the Daytona 500.
My deep sympathy to Nusa’s family and friends – but Jeezus, somebody should’ve been watching out for him!

Sweet Sally is a freind of mine
Sweet Sally likes it double time
Sweet Sally is a freind of mine
Sweet Sweet Sally likes it all the time

BOWHUNTERS UNITE!

Uh, I would call my lady of the evening a WHORE.

And I would never refer to my wife, honey, girlfriend, mistress, or drunken mistake as my Lady, ever.

I guess it is ok, if you are of that short window generation that refers to other males as "guy".

Although, I have never liked to associate with any of those people.

E---check this out!!

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/msg/59724715.html

Rich Pavel interview on surfermag -
http://surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/pavelintrvu/

I've *got* to shoutout about the "Deep Survival" book. Laurence Gonzales. Bought it a couple of months back and almost posted here. Fascinating read. Plus makes me dissect the fear of plummeting over a waist high Bo-Bo burger.

Great to be back by the water! Now just have to get in it. Almost two weeks...agh. Happy Surfing,

Nice Vid LP! That brief shot of an uncoordinated sponger at about 1.25 appears to be me!

Christ that was a week of surf I won't forget in a long while...

Wish I had a time machine to go back to that week and revisit it.

LP, cool and i know you were going for the "effect" But it would be great to see some riders and waves from the paddle into the wave all the way thru to the kick-out or the pounding instead of so many chop cuts. I know i am probably in the minority with this request but dats how i like to see 'em. Cool vid nonetheless.

ankors - how did it go up north?

I agree about weird crowds on Saturday - some places jammed, then large stretches of empty peaks. the current made it easy to drift to empty spaces! Some fun rides for sure, not high quantity it was a little tricky out there.

I walked by the drowning victim on my way back to my car, very sad. They were still doing CPR I was really hoping he was gonna make it. My condolences to all friends and family.

Hey J - I've taken the job and am heading up there (Seattle) full time in two weeks. Crying about loosing the surf, not to mention they are having their worst ski season in 35 yrs (all the resorts are shut).

Oh well I've been on one hell of an extended sabbatical and now it's time to get back to work...it's a great opportunity so cannot complain too much.

Guess the beach is not going anywhere so I may make it back here again...

Thanks again for your info...I'll drop you an update the first time I surf Westport!

Cheers

ahh, congrats on starting a new job. the ski season this year up there....well...it's sad. the good news is next year start of season you'll be able to get some screaming deals on gear.

here's a little pic to get you motivated to surf up there...it's snow on the drive to pacific city from last weekend

that book has a site:
deep survival

Holy cow! That kind of trip is going to be different from the usual 15 min drive to the beach with flip flops on!

So I can see myself making a few quick trips back to Baja... ah... I've still found memories of my last trip indulging in the usual sophisticated cultural activities...

twas VERY loud

Blue Horizon- check out the alternitive soundtracks...the 3rd option is running commentary from Rasta or AI,cool behind the scenes insight.

Bagel, was that you at Sloat friday morning? If it was, I was sitting right next to you for the longest time. There was also a guy ripping on a blue fish. I also saw the mustachio guy. He was goofy right? He was pig-dogging into all kinds of rights. I think I remember seeing him at the fish fest. He looked like a dark haired gavin beschen.

I think the guy on the blue fish was Curren. I saw him too from the parking lot.

thanks kloo for the heads up.
bvb ?
ankors on sponge. check.
Hb - thanks for the pov.
btw - sometimes i do show complete rides and will have some included in the new dvd.

lp

that aint bad vibe in the vid....

when's the d v dizzle coming out....

i'd like to get a copy.....

definitely NOT BVB -- red board is the only similarity.

Hey guys how do I post pictures,PLS anybody?
thanks...

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