E's Surf Report

i was wondering if i was the only one that saw that.

fun waves this morning! kinda lost my mojo after taking a serious wipeout and injuring myself.

speaking of mojo, e got his back and was cutting it up.

surfing!!!

any fellow fools out there? turned 37 today but conditions this morning had me feeling like a spring chicken. sweet...

nice! i thought that was the cyclops from 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

Great spring time conditions! I was tired in the water, kept getting caught in the drift. Caught a fin cut to my new wetsuit and broke the nose on my board. Good times! Still though, I'm not complaining :)

Loon, happy b-day man!

I might be a craps roll younger but I felt like a spring chicken out there as well. Fun times.

Lot Lizard, check your email....

Yeah, I got my ass out for the DP too. How sweet! I learned something about my Flyer, don't step back on the tail to crank a turn. I think I did a 720 before failing on my butt. Nice peeps in the water today too. I think we were all so glad to see such great weather and waves.

e, i see you got a hold of some of that left over Timothy Leary 4 way window pane blotter A too.

sloppy junky avro yesterday but with luck and patience rides were possible, with great luck good rides. nobody in the water, nice sunset. couldnt make the dp unfortunately.

public service announcement for the weekend:
To you OB bonfire people: last sunday after a junky session i was cleaning up as many of your cans and bottles as i could carry when i found a small bag of weed. i tried it and it was great shit so i imagine you want it back, if so please email me at vons@pickupyourtrashyoufuckingdickbags.com. thanks!

Vons, great fucking post. We need a coalition, STAT! One which beats the hell out of the assholes that litter the beach with broken bottles, cans, etc. Tis soon to be bonfire season and I don't need anymore stitches this year.

I think we could enlist The Charging Charger, The Brigade, KCLB's, and maybe even the EG Pimp to participate.

Who's in?

Those old Sinbad movies were the best. happy bday loon. Speaking of spring chickens - Frank Purdue died today at 83 yo

Funny, all I've ever found in a campfire is glass for my foot. And not the cinderalla-marry-the prince type of glass either.

E - nice shot of the non-board surfers. Non-board surfing marries nicely with not having a car.

I find myself in possesion of a loaner car this weekend, so I shall be finding a descent pair of fins. Any snorklers, body surfers or water photographers wanna recommend a favorite pair of fins that work on the surface?

Timothy Leary 4 way window pane blotter A

thats funny

everyones out of the office so guess ill make like annette funichello and head back to the beach

super sad note mitch hedgberg died...seriously funny ass original comic..

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/features/3112640

got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow shit.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load shit into a truck.

I got my hair highlighted, because I felt some strands were more important than others.

I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. "Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Boy, you really like Tide."

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry. And that's extra scary to me, because there's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run. He's fuzzy. Get outta here.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She made it half way. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall.

Pickles are cucumbers that sold out.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said "I hear music." As if there's any other way to take it in.

2-in-1 is a bullshit term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.

I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means...it's dirty.

As of 10:00 a.m. PT, the wind is onshore, er, not OFFSHORE. Could someone please reposition the blowers so more people can enjoy the surf today?

What a waste of a low tide!

The Management

Sounds like a Vaudaville act bagel. funny.

haven't done LSD in a while. Would be nice to have some of that Leary stuff. Might be nice to try it again on a sunny saturday with good waves. Surf and jam all day. run around. cackle. Exaltate!

fins:

head and a half plus outside take offs- UDT's

eveything below that- long blade vipers

small sandy beach- old blue and green churchill's

I second the Churchill reccomendation and raise it to Duck Feet if you can find them.

OB looked like nothing but a close-out shore break from my window this morning. Went back to bed. Glad someone got some waves though.

E - IMHO acid and water do not mix... I always made sure I had my day well planned. No driving or diving. Nothing that requires any kind of mental or physical coordination. I had a bad situation the first time I tripped. The hundred or so since then were all fine though. Last time for me was 1997. I got married in 1998 - I think there is a connection with the end of the trip.

Judith swears by Duck Feet. The San Diego Life Gaurds all use Duck Feet. I'm gonna get a pair myself this year.

Kaiser - I'm def willing to help regulate - although I'll have to catch a flight out there. Those dirty, dirty hippies.

e - nice playin. Keep it up and keep workin' on the improv - keep stretchin' yourself harmonically and break free -

smoke herb, coltrane, monk...

I'll check the photo vault this evening, Mr. Kaiser. I recall seeing the board but I didn't take many pics. If you and your neo-hippie colleagues do the dp down south give me a shout. I've got the digital camera loaded with extra film and my assistant photographer (Rocky) is ready to go.

s.s. and i had our first meeting of the cwdp club this morning. it was a great success and it appears that all you boys knew better than to try to crowd our peak because we'll cry all over you. (that might have had something to do with the fact that we didn't really have much success finding the elusive peak).
anyway, here's a copy of the minutes:
paddle. paddle. white water in face. take pounding. become one with the pounding. love the pounding. paddle. paddle. wonder why we're going backwards. see pretty waves breaking outside. wish we were there. paddle, paddle. see other people who have made it outside easily and are sitting peacefully. hate them. paddle, paddle. take pounding. think about how strong we will be and how our muscles will impress everyone when we wear our bikinis on sunny ob this summer (ya know how it's really sunny and nice in the summer time, right?) walk up beach laughing at the beautifully horrendous poundings the middle dishes out. digging it.

Based on Dennis' same source, I too got a pair of Duck Feet fins. Hardly any use yet, but I've already learned they're perfect for stumbling flat onto your arse in the shallows. Ever see a duck bumbling around like that? No! Clearly these fins have a design flaw, not authentic.

Shoutout to Steamwand for the fun sharing the, hm, joys of my street and how many duckdives was that?!!! Great right, btw.

thanks pimp.. next time your out you'll have to jam on my buddies Rhodes. how's your Twin Reverb working out? I think that my Concert is AGAIN down and out!! Arggghgh!! The last few sessions it's output volume has faded until it doesn't amplify anymore.. then I'll switch the amp on and off and it will work.. but not always.. It's hit or miss and difficult to isolate. and i'm farking bumming because i just spent $120 getting that thing fixed. I hate gear meltdown!!!

brutal, ornery waves today.

with you lerm and ian...

elias cheered me into the beating of the day
as a nice right became a big, mean RIGHT with
"nasty pointy teeth" (think john cleese here)
swallowed me and then attempted
to insert me into the sandbar that up to then had
been my friend. damn. sometimes the ocean is like
an abusive spouse—ya love it but damn if it doesn't
hurt.

farkin BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

and it's friday..niceness to ya's.

e & dennis, imho acid and water do mix. at the hieght of my surfing expreince i had the chance to surf on A, in absolutley perfect 6-8' hawaiian reef magic.

tapping into years of subcouncious surfing expereince was lieterally mind blowing. not only where the visuals insane, espicially, getting barrelled, but my body and mind where so integrated. i believe that session opened up some neural muscle memory pathways that made me a better surfer, even today 19yrs later. that was the second and last time i did A.

just thinking about gets me all tripindicular man.

kids be mindful when considering altering your mind.

Kool-Aid Acid Test was a great book! Highly recommended.

Drugs and surfing, tough for me. Beers after surf, easy for me.

Cheerios - never have eaten them. I like sugar in my cereal. Cookie Crisp, Fruity Pebbles, Lucky Charms, now those are good fun.

3to5, you get the ding repair shack set up?

I knew I'd miss a great Beach day. Regulated at beautiful Ram Adnil instead. A little surfing--waves big enough up north, but not so hot (tide, I guess), and then some imparting tidbits of my voluminous and profound surfing wisdom to a newbie (make that "even-newerbie"), while I used my kid's body board. It's so ridiculously easy to catch waves on them things . . . or maybe I'm doing something wrong with the surfboards. Oh, I was using my swim-training fins ("Zoomers", red) ; my guess, having nothing to compare them to for bb'ing: they suck.

let me clarify on the fins:

churchils will not help you get into many outside swells before they jack. if you are body surfing bigger waves this is can be a problem.

duck feet are being made again but aren't as comfortable as they were. they are fast but viper (long blades) are faster and more comfortable. used to have to trim the rails down with a razor blade to get them where you liked the stiffness. not sure if this is still the case.

duck feet udt's are the penultimate get into it early bodysurfing fins but are no longer available. hard on you legs but i wouldn't trust anything else once it gets really big.

regardless, get some parachute cord and make some leashes. the ready-made ones cost too much and fail in my experience.

radical 3to5!

I did A one time at this huge festival and ended up playing footbag for about 4 hours strait. There was a big crowd surrounding us baggers (the world champ was in the circle) and i remember all my vision was stretched-out vertically. I felt like i was moving in slow-motion but i played some of my most fluid, smooth footbag ever. The music from the stage felt like it swam in huge waves through the whole area. My whole approach changed from trying to go as big and cutting-edge as possible with every move to just trying to flow and smooth-it-out through the moves with no dropping. It was crazy to have the crowd cheering and watching every juggle. Tripppy man!

Having said that.. the L is not to be taken lightly!!

Had to drive back from Montara mountain through devil's slide one time at night. It's a long story but it involved a police officer, my girlfriend-at-the-time tearing her clothes off in my car and wrything around (but not necessarily in a good way) and some powerful blasts of psychedelia!!

I watched a guy walk backwards into the surf yesterday morning for what looked like 50 yards. Wouldn't it be easier to put them on after you get past the inside? Novice here when it comes to swim fins obviously.

3to5setsof7 that's wild! I figured I would not know which way was up... or even care.

Doh! I hadn't considered altering with a razor blade. I had a pair of shitty scuba split-fins that were too stiff that I probably coulda fixed that way. But they were kinda long and lacking in the accleration department.

Question 2: anyone use them socks with the fins? My previos fins were hard, and I sized them up for dive booties.

right point break when everything lines up???

I was thinking about expressions I used when I was a younger man like groovy and trippy, oh wow... I think the expression I miss using is 'far out'. Maybe I'll reinstate it into my vocab.

Dennis,
The backward walk isn't too bad. Putting them on before getting in the water reduces the chance that you lose them in the process.
Also, if you use fin tethers, it's a lot easier to secure them on land.
BTW, fins are a big topic amongst the kneelos. I've always used Churchill's because of the reduced profile on the board. Duck feet definitely produce more thrust. Never tried Vipers. I think there's threads on it at the KSUSA site.
Fun stuff last couple daze!

Oh yeah... O'Neill fin booties are nice. Or, go a size fin larger and use a traditional bootie (hard sole.) I go with the booties... nice and soft and prevent rashes that turn into ulcer-type painful sores. The only downside is they only last a couple of months, and don't protect you much from the hypo needles on the beach.

My hearing is shot. Some guy was shouting "going right" and I heard "go right!". I thought "I wasn't going too, but why not?". Luckily, I figured it out in time.

e-amp malfunctions suck. You're welcome to use my Fender Super 60 if you're desperate. Craig at Craig's amp repair (864-1952) got my Musicman up and running again in just a couple of days. Maybe he can sort it out for you. Email me if you want to borrow the amp. kdalleatsbcglobal.net

e - The '73 Twin is working out great. Rhodes pianos were actually tested in the Fender factory with Twin amps - so the two are made for each other. For what it's worth I run the piano through a preamp (rhodes electronics are passive) to a Crybaby to a Tube screamer to a Small Stone Phaser and the Twin has reverb and tremolo. I can get those crazy Herbie Hancock effects or just play it clean. Both sound amazing.

Sorry to hear about your amp troubles. With the age of mine I'm sure it'll happen soon enough.

We finally got our demo finished. I can shoot you an MP3 if you want to ck it out.

music, surf, life, love...

http://www.surfcitylive.com/

Thanks for the tip and offer Kdalle. I might actually take you up on it. I'm so bummed that i just got my amp serviced but it's down again. FUck! Should i take it to the same strange guy who fixed it last time and maybe hope for a discount or free repair?? I don't really like the guy and don't really want to support him. or just take it to Craig's and pay another $100 or so?? grrr. gear meltdown!!! grr..

pimp.. that sounds like a killer setup.. damn! tube screamer and phaser are rad effects.

i wore vipers for years, they're solid fins with tons of power but aren't the best for comfort. many people buy them and hate them due to the horrible cuts you can get on your feet the first few months. once you get calices (sp?) built up they are the best. plus they're symmetrical, which i prefer.

lately i've been wearing redley's, distributed in the US by a guy in santa cruz who hooked me up in exchange for a little ad on my site. they're a lot softer than vipers and they don't jack your feet.

churchills are solid, i wish they'd bring back the green ones again. duckfeet are good for swimming but are pretty long so it's hard to make quick turnarounds.

Happy mag has a great article on the niceness crew..."Surf Bros"...check it out in April's iisue

awesome!

http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/01/

this is just a test

just back from the beach...unreal! I don't know who said something about onshores...Bullocks! At least not where I was. A frames all over the place and like 2 other guys out. Shackage for the taking. Best session I've had in a looooong time. Get on it people.

what day is it again?

jdz forgot to add that he was trunking it, water temps are low 70s!!

and a busload of Reef girls showed up and held an impropmtu contest right there a Kirkham street....weird

We have pictures to prove it....

JDZ was judging. The Finalists are below.....Nice chooses if you ask me.

chooses = choices

busload = buttload

Great story Eeee!

Never tripped. I would if there would be a button i can push to get out of the trip. I'll take my weed and live in my imagination.

Got some glassy yesterday afternoon (rarely happens in hermosa). Small, but sucking out at this bar. Fun, fun, fun with one other cool head out with me.

but FUCK the trash on the beach was incredible after a nice day with all the assholes on spring break.

pack yo trash!

Hey, Ethan. Hate to nag but I need the keys early next week. One of my girlfriends is coming over. Love, Rocky.

cool footbag session e.

kaiser, ding shack is under serious consideration. trying to figure out if it's viable, worth my time and energy.

how many dinged sticks do you all have?

i always seem to have at least one dinged stick and i usually do a crappy job fixing them myself because it takes too long to get them fixed elsewhere. the demand is out there.

Do it 3to5. I made racks in my garage and it was the best thing ever.

While looking for a surf shed pic, i found this insaneness!!!

No. 4

Is that the same Rocky that had the medical problems awhile back? I think I may have told you that my big lug of a Golden lived 5 years longer than projected after his treatments. Don't want to mess with any good karma going on, but I hope the pooch is doing well.

I've got a date with my wife tonight but thought I'd pass this on. emailed to me by a co-worker. go get some!

TONIGHT! Looking to meet a sexy surfer type for Hawaii advice - 31 (cole valley / ashbury hts)

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Reply to: anon-66500911@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-04-01, 2:08PM PST

Title says it all:
For tonight only...
I am a cute blonde/blue 5'6" active and professional woman who's about to take off on a Kauai adventure.
Let's meet for a drink and so I can be enthralled by your surfing/windsurfing/kayaking stories and captivated by your rugged good looks
Send a photo if interested and do it soon--its all about spontaneity
Of course--I will reply with a photo too

april fool

from woostercollective.com

Damn, whom ever hooks that date up, let me know. I will be rolling around the hood to see what the status is.

3to5, no dings here! CK hooked me up with his orbital sander and I have been blazing my fiberglass of late. Ding repair never got so easy. Get the sander and it gets kinda fun. Been almost labor free since late 2004.

Space is the issue. If it rains, I am screwed.

tim bluhm on the california report on kqed. cool.

Just a test post. For some reason I was on some blacklist the other day and it wouldn't let me post (probably for good reason!).

Orbital sander....try a rotary variable speed sander/polisher...tool of the pros, as cheap as an orbital and 100 times more efficient.

That pic of Looks alot like the devils slide area, yes I'm naming it and theres not a chance of any locals getting aggro about it ...I think Doc surfed it a while back, it's very scarrrry!
Sinbad movies ranking
1) seventh voyage- hands down the best
2) golden voyage- chic is so hot
3) Eye of the tiger- decent but the first 2 are very good!

Missed the surf today but the noon drive by revealed windy spring conditions, shouldda dp'ed it but worked all night and had to sleep! I find sometimes I get the worst beatings in spring as I expect it to be more mellow and its not as clean and once in a while a spring wave has winter juice and it thumps ya mate! anyone else notice this pattern?

korewin. were you and elias out North end around Pacheco? I might've been next to you guys. Who were the 2 kneeboarders out? Acid and surfing?.?. I read an interview on Flea in an old issue of Happy.. He said when he first started surfing Mav's hewould go out there trippin on acid. FUCK THAT. Dano, I was blacklisted the other day too.. hmm..

A brazzo surfer friend once told me Neco Padaratz used to surf contest heats at grinding Pipeline while on acid. Neco is supposedly already pretty intense without any chemical help but sometimes finds it "fun" to up the ante a bit.

GL, Pipeline circa 1973, Photo by Lerner

full victory at sea conditions today...if the wind were to die or turn...there would be some nice swell tho....

If you get blacklisted, it's probably because your dynamically assigned IP address was used by a spammer or something. Just disconnect/reconnect your modem to get a new IP address.

And remember it's dawn patrol killing time . . . er, daylight savings time this weekend.

Lack of surf doesn't rule.

Deep in his trip.

>Orbital sander....try a rotary variable speed >sander/polisher...tool of the pros, as cheap as an >orbital and 100 times more efficient.

random orbit, I use a Porter Cable 7335. Variable speed sander/polisher, http://www.porter-cable.com/index.asp?e=547&p=2776

Works for my ding repair jobs. The pros typically use a Milwaukee grinder/sander.

Bored... killing time.
About ready to have some fun

4 kneelos out on Friday at Mid-beach.
Jeff Martinez was down from PA,
Scott up from SC,
Mr. KSUSA and me.

Shroomed once out there... nice sunny day, with thumpers. Friend quotes me as saying 'Ya ever check out the beach from out here?!?!'
I was completely turned around enjoying the scenery. We always check it for positioning, etc. But that was something different.
I'm glad I still have all my teeth!

I use my fin grinding sander - actually a 4.5 inch grinder with the safety guide removed, using a soft pad and 80 grit sandpaper. But after a few dozen fins you get pretty good.

Pros use a milwaukee, but you can buy a variable rate Harbor Freight sander (7.5 inch) for pretty cheap - like $30-40 or so. You can get a polishing pad for it too if you have gloss work to do.

After some time using a rotary, I would never go back to an orbital - just too slow. I actually own both, but the orbital never comes out of storage anymore. YMMV, I'm sure 3to5 has a pretty good idea on these things...

on saturday april 2, 2005, between 11:15 and 1:30 i parked in the lot on highway 1 a half-mile south of the entrance to ano nuevo. while i surfed two windows on my car were smashed and my car was looted. items missing: pair of black cargo shorts, orange shirt, blue zip-up sweatshirt, grey boxers, keys, grey motorola cell phone, black leather wallet which contained cash, credit cards and my silver wedding band/ring (2 interlocking pieces), and a 6'11" rounded pintail custom shaped Saurtitch surfboard in mint condition, greenish-blue with an S on the top, 3 white future fins, black traction pad, with a black leash and inside a black & white julie designs daybag.

there was some high performance surfing out in the water, and a small crowd, including a couple guys that seemed vaguely familiar/possibly pros (bobby? ron?), but i stayed out of the way and took leftovers and the vibe in the water seemed mellow to me. there was a suspicious guy in the lot as i was getting ready to go out, and i did note the make & model of his car and included that in my report to the police.

i will be parking in the state park lot in the future.

please contact me at 415-722-6097 if you know anything about this or or have seen any of the items above, especially the wedding band or the surfboard.

i just had such a good fucking session omg, like overhead with nice waves auhguh got a bullet drop in and a bunch of good shoulder rides

The darkest feelings in the heart are reserved for those who just ripped you off. Don't get too negative about it, Loon, maybe you'll get lucky.

loon.. that's bullshit.. sorry to hear man, good luck with that. What goes around comes around.

I meant they'll get something in return. I wasn't trying to imply you deserved it.

Hello all. i just wanted to drop a line to let you know that i have made some additions to my site..the Teeny Tiki Bikinis are now available. as well as some new bags etc for 2005 spring/summer. ok, hope everyones having a great day. crazy storm lastnight! maholo and happy shopping, haha!

www.nitroagogo.com
thot it would show my url, haha. ok so there it is..c ya!

I wish. . . :]

little sketch that might turn in to a full painting