E's Surf Report

Alright, I think that moveable feature is contributing to crowding on the new cam. Everybody relax, wait your turn. If you are new, let some of the regulars pan the cam first. Plently of bandwith for everybody. No need to get all crazy saying how you were the first one on the site and everyone gotta leave. Also, please don't show up with six of your buddies trying to wiggle the cam. Please, share the cam people. And clean up your browser cache when you leave the cam.

Rain.
Solo DP.
Juicy left, with bottom turn and lip smack.
Drift.
Another peep paddles out.
Rain.
Another left, hard to get in, then steep pitch, then hungry chomping section opens, and I cruise right on through.
Stoke.
Paddle back out.
Fast pitching right. Make the drop. Section pitching hard in front, I think I can, I think I can.
I can't. Whomped on the bar.
Wave behind it.
Whomped again.
Weird tide/rip/swell combo ensues.
Lull.
Two more peeps out. Funny, its a five mile beach, why is everyone joining me.
Few more rides.
See Wooden Danny and Kneeling Don and its time for work.
Freight train in.
Work.

Those Teahupoo pics are ridiculous and Judith charges.

Quick Question: Anyone know any good campgrounds heading south w/ good beginner surf in area. GF wants to try surfing and I'd like to get out of town for a few days. Good running/MT bike trails near by a huge plus.

Thanks.

tucker: check out manresa/sunset on the south side of scruz. but is that far enough south for ya?

how far south are you looking to go, tucker? i have a suggestion for you, but more importantly, does she have a good wetsuit?
as we girls have posted in the past, this often makes the biggest difference in creating stoke for your girl. post your e-mail and i'll e-mail you, so as not to break rule number 1.

Andrew on 57th : how do I clean my browser cache? Thanks.

sorry for the o/t post.

Thanks for the help. Not too concerned about how far south we go. Just enough to not be in the city for a few days. I'm at mttamrnr@hotmail.com.

Shouldn't have any problem with the wetsuit I have access to a good suit and booties, etc that should work well. Thanks again.

thank god for music!!

makes this cube-lackey smile and peck away at the keyboard for hours and hours (and hours) with a bit more pluck.

hey steamwand i'd also like to hear about that spot please, i too have a beginner surfer gf and we like to camp. her wetsuit is better than mine, a bday present from me, very key since she moved her from hawaii and almost quit surfing because of the water.

hammer2003 at gmail.com

thanks!

tucker,
if you go the Sunset/Manresa camping route, the forest of Nisene Marks in Aptos has some descent mountain biking or there's always Wilder Ranch north of SC.

one the best surfing photos of all time (imho)

another good curren shot

what about Refugio in SB county? I think you can camp there. Great learning spot, not too far, and fairly warm water.

some fun looking waves [ at least for me] this dp, but the dumpiness/ tide/ current/kookiness made it very difficult to be in the right position to catch one of those suckers. Got completely surrounded and blinded by whitewater/spray after running for an outsider, instantly assumed I was going over the falls... in self-preservation mode I didn't try to hop to my feet until too late when I realized the board had caught and I was actually dropping down the center of a hugely sloppy mushburger ...hahaha.

oh my god a bird just flew into my apartment.

why would the star island next to molokini have waves breaking in the sheltered side?

Hey...did anybody see the shot of Jamie O'Brien in the current issue of Surfing wearing the GoPro HeroCam? Its a shot of him slotted at Pipe - a two page spread...pretty cool to see the litte camera getting some reach.

Cute Photoshop work, lousy spelling - Carrabian Sea?

Awesome Gerry Lopez Interview

http://surfermag.com/magazine/archivedissues/intrvu_gerrlopez/index.html

Mid-morning tour of almost-working sandbars. A few fun rides, but all short, nothing great.

Probably my best session was one of the ones where it was smallish and clean and I got a lot of waves where I could actually work on surfing. None of those really stands out, though. The session I remember most was mid-December, mid-morning, mid-beach, when I'd paddled out into the first pulses of a new swell and lucked into a couple big ones at the end of the session that somehow I didn't goof up.

hey, that island is me

anybody go to that tribal surf art and fashion show? reviews? i've heard that new club space is pretty sweet.

just got out at South end....fun but a little closed and looks like the wind is kicking. Was having a great time as it was so beautiful out there what with the clouds and the colors, just a few guys out....then I see the bad-vibe ripper stink-eyeing me from 60 yards away...I mean on a completely different peak. Whatever I think to myself, yet the next thing I know he's paddling inside of me as I'm paddling for an outside peak and he just starts going off on me...I mean shidz, this guy was paddling INSIDE of me and starts yelling at me because I'm paddling on top of him.....question is, how do you transmute that kind of bad energy? It totally ruined my stoke and sent me in on the next wave shaking my head in disgust. I never fuck with people, just keep my head down and surf as hard as I can......shit!
E, great site, I read it everyday!
All the best
A compassionate surfer full of aloha.........

Paging Bob Carrillo...

A Mr.Bob Carrillo was spotted at a remote location in the jungles of Guyana preaching to a large group of young "surfer types". They were sporting shaved heads and wore tatoos that said "The Brigade". It was noted that as Carrillos voice rose to a fevered pitch, hands waving amd spittle flying from his lips, the young followers rose in unison,shouting "long live the brigade" and went racing off in multiple direction shouting about "restablishing the soul of surfing" and other such epithets.....

(Ooh White Lines) Vision dreams of passion
(Blowin’ through my mind) and all the while I think of you
(High fry) a very strange reaction
(For us to unwind) the more I see, the more I do
(Something like a phenomenon) Baby!
(Tellin your body to come along, but white lines blow away)
(Blow! Rock it! Blow!)

Anyone see The Album Leaf last week? That was a sick show! I'm listening to Passage right, The Forcefield Kids. Good stuff..

longboarder sean owns bob. and bob's little friend with the shaved head is even worse.

Aloha, that sucks. It made my heart pump faster thinking about it--anger flashbacks. I would try moving to a different peak if it's possible. If not, you have to decide to talk to the person if he continues or just let it happen and hope to grab one when he's not looking.

A couple years ago, I was getting snaked by a few guys repeatedly. I mean it was like 6 waves in a row. They kept paddling over from a prime peak to a weaker one I was sitting at. I was at the weaker peak to avoid them in the first place. Finally I got pissed off and dropped in on one of them in a very obvious manner. We had some loud words in the water and I basically told the guy what I stated above in so many words. Well, I had the rest of the day to myself at that peak. No more snaking. I caught about 8 or 9 waves with no pressure and it sure felt good.

As for the offender, we have since become friends and by the way, he could have definetly whooped my butt at that time. So I was lucky. Actually, I don't think he remembers the incident :)

i tried paging Bob Carrillo yesterday with no answer.

last night's south park episode was interesting. The plot was aliens set earth up as a reality TV show for other aliens by planting it with different animals and people from other planets to see how they get along. There are hidden cameras watching deer get along with buffalos, asians interacting with russians, etc.

I'm begining to think this is what really happened.

Bob is in Guyana. This has been authenticated. He is solictiting donations to facilitate a "Global Correction of Surfing Attitude" to:
The Bob Carrillo Bad Vibe Fund
c/o The Brigade
PO Box 3233
Mabaruma
Cooperative Republic of Guyana

longboarder sean (lifeguard) i used to think was a chill guy. A few months ago i got out of the water and went to my car and there was someone parked about 1 foot away from the drivers side. I had to squeeze to get the door open a little. I barely ticked the car that had pulled up next to me. about the same pressure as if you'd flicked a bug with your pinky. All of a sudden Sean rushes out of the drivers seat, slams his door and runs around to confront me. He yells, "What the fuck! you hit my car!! what the fuck!" I told him sorry but he didn't leave me any room and if he looked he'd see there was no damage. He continued yelling at me for a bit. Then got back in his car and burned rubber, peeling out in reverse, even though i was standing right there. he packed up and then peeled out again and parked a few spots away. He got out and made a point of painstakingly examining his minivan (with Kelly's Cove Local Boys sticker on the back) where my door had hit his car. Not a speck of anything there. Total utter hateful vibes from that guy who definitely rules it at all area breaks. Bummer. In his defense it DOES suck when someone opens the door and it hits your car but he left me about a foot of room and also i seriously barely grazed his car.

surfing sucks sometimes.

You should try dropping in on sean sometime...

thnx Dennis, I did paddle away, it just ruined the sesh for me. I've been surfing here since I was 16 (just turned 39), and I grew up with the rule of NEVER EVER paddling behind or in front of someone. I just don't do it. It's friggin' impolite you know?
To chime in on the ultimate session; I lived in Mundaka for 2 years in the mid 90's. It's usually pretty crowded but one day it went from flat to 8 ft. in about an hour and lasted all of 3 hours right on the low tide. This day was most memorable for the fact that I got completely barreled from the peak all the way to the inside close out. I imagine it must have been a 45 second (or longer?) barrel. Afterwards I had locals coming up to me and saying it was the longest tube ride they'd ever seen! Man that was sweet....I'll never forget having soooooo much time to look around and breath in the barrel....ahhh well, back to OB and 60 yard stinkeye. Yet, it is home afterall and the good days always always come....

off-topic post: my wife and i have been looking to buy a place in sf. we found a 3-unit building for sale in the mission, and the smallest unit is in our price range. the building will be vacant at sale, which is important to us - we want no part in evicting people. so we are now looking for TIC partners. (we had already ssembled an investor group but this property is not appropriate for our other partners.) offers due Thu 5/5 noon - gotta move quickly. open house tonight. more info about the building, including lots of photos & how to reach me - here:

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/rfs/70664614.html

Everyone should drop in on Sean. He drops in on everyone else so treat him the same way he treats others. If you dork out and fall, just make sure you take him out as well.

Never seen somebody drop in on more people then him. He kills it but whatever, he is still an asshole in the water.

e, that same thing just happened to me at the beach last week - except it was my car that got dinged. I was a little pissed at the lady because she knew I was sitting in the car, and her door hit harder than it should, AND she did it on purpose....but whatever...what could I say....I did park close to her for lack of spots. I was close to 'conversing' with her but kept my mouth shut to avoid a fuss and risk ruining an otherwise great afternoon at the beach.

that place looks stylie Loon!! nice! wish had a few extra nickels at the ready.

I didn't mean to start a sean flameathon. It seems like he knows alot of people and i'll probably get heckled out of the water now. I respect the dude for being a lifeguard and for dropping into humungous set waves.. but.. I thought he was going to slug me and then run over some innocent joggers after i barely nicked his ride.

SUuurrrrfff!

correction - no nick at all.. just incidental contact.

thanks for the perspective rza. maybe i was the dickhead in the encounter.. should've asked him to move or entered my vehicle from the passenger side.

i suck!

sean seems to be a cool cat-- perhaps you caught him on a bad day? I agree that he has drop in fever, but he rarely surfs the beach, so it doesn't really affect me. He can have his left points on his LB with his cute white helmet. I think he has been here forever and thus has that sense of entitlement that most of the SF born and bred guys have.

Someone I would be interested in reading about is Pee Wee (possible interview subject). Older SF local, big wave charger. Perhaps B-stah or other SF surf historians could drop a little knowledge on the man...

E- an accident is an accident, believing in aloha and getting walked on are two different things. Sometimes you just have to tell people to go fuck themselves if they are walking on you

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have any of you guys seen the new google feature in their maps? check this out...

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=800+Great+Hwy,+San+Francisco,+CA+94121

copy and paste that into your url

when it gives you a map, hit the link that says "SATELITE" in the upper right.

Killer tool to check little features of the coast you never knew were there. And you can see what the roof of your house looks like.

That is all... enjoy...

Tait

i doubt you were in the wrong, e. parking lots seem to be a breeding ground for anger - perhaps not so surprising since they provide a means of connecting road rage with surf rage. your story reminded me of an experience i had last fall in the basque country in spain. dude pulls up next to my car, which has the passenger door open as i am getting ready for my first session in spain, smiling ear to ear. instead of tooting the horn or saying something, he reaches out & slams the door shut, then proceeds to get ready without making any eye contact. wound up surfing near him and his talents did not even justify the attitude - so pathetic. pretty wimpy beach break too.

Good luck on that Loon, TIC's are very interesting to say the least. Make sure you have a great contract with your partners and that you enjoy their company/credit report. 2 Unit TIC's are the way to shred right now but the laws are in complete flux so it doesn't really matter. Get your lottery stuff together asap. All in all, get in while you can and stay in. That back yard area is dope.

Sean has given me stink eye once but I respected him and then he showed a little respect back. Maybe it was cause there were much worse surfers around than I. He has been really nice when lifeguarding though.

thanks kookdom. a 2-unit building would be our ideal, but word is out on why they are best so most are out of our range. any & all tips much appreciated. we're mostly looking in mission/bernal/glen park but we'd consider the outer aves too. we're also willing to do a deal without an agent under the right circumstances.

I think the way it'll shake down with the Sups is that whoever is in the lottery at whatever point they make a solid decision, is stoked. Going forward from that it's anybody's guess, kinda like the Giants right now. It's crazy how a city that is only 7x7 has such issues keeping normal levels of rentals and owner occupieds. Either way you are so fired up to own something in this incredible city.

After I went to NYC for the first time, SF looks like Hoboken. NYC dwarves SF.

time to go home and play music!

peace out y'all.

Loon.. Robme has a TNC.. he might be able to shed some light. Let me know if you'd like his email address.

so...i have been pondering this all day...

when did being the giant's closer become just
like the keyboard spot for the dead? i mean jeez
they cannot keep a dude in there. first nenn and now
armando. having your hamstring rip off your pelvis
is a much longer stint on the ol' DL than my issue
with the ribs.

FARK! i cannot stomach another baseball season with no closer.
well, that and the damn dodgers.

loon, that place looks sweet!! for the past couple months my girl and I have been looking to rent a place and WISH that we could find something like that. those kitchens are awesome! and the price as listed is reasonable (for sf).

the place i'm in now is being turned into TICs (6 units) so we all have to vacate. the owners acted like tenants had first dibs but the price is so outrageous that it's not really possible. so instead we get to accept a buyout. we're hoping to get a nice chunk of change but the whole negotiation process seems like a big game. the owners bought the place in january and will probably double their money by the end of the year!!

e, right and wrong is always a matter of perspective. and in some situations no one is at fault....
in thai, people say 'mai pen rai' meaning 'it doesn't matter' or 'no worries', 'take it easy', etc.
and the japanese have a similar phrase 'sho ga nai'. when angry i've trained myself to repeat these phrases. it works for me!

rza- I think that response is better than mine...

word rza and web.. thanks for the comments

all i knowz is that Buckethead is rocking so hard in my headphones right now.. Holdy Krimminy!! Farking Rawk!!

The Japanese have another word for idiots.
Baka yaro. I probably spelled it wrong but I misspell half the English words I writ.

dennis, i'm all too familiar with the word baka....my girlfriend enjoys directing it at me.

recommended show of the day: M83, tonight at Bimbo's

E, interesting that you use the bug analogy in your anecdote. it seems to me that people of that sort tend to view the rest of us as bugs to
be "flicked" at their whim. as I grow older I seem to be becoming a lot more tolerant of...well most things. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, what does it really matter whether someone accidentally cuts you off, or dings your car or in some way trespasses against you? There are limits to everything and some times one must act. But in my opinion most
of the times that we perceive someone to have wronged us...we are apt to over react. Seems to be this happens in our cars a lot(and in the
water). How many glares have you gotten when someone thinks you are not driving up to snuff, or if you missed a wave that someone else wanted? how many glares have you given? It's all b.s. anyway. Isn't it? I surfed a place this morning where most the guys/girls in the water were smiling simply because they rolled up expecting little and lo and behold there were fun waves and sunny skies. No bad vibes, waves, smiles, sun, relatively warm water (thankfully). Fun.

Rza sorry to hear about your situation, but whatever the owner offers to buy you out, double or triple it, ask for moving expenses in addition, and take it. Avoiding ellis act is worth something and TICs are selling for shit loads of money these days. If you start to make a fuss or mention you need to talk things over with your old college roommate the tenants rights lawyer, a smart owner will do what good business people do in these situations and throw cash at the problem (within reason). It could be tougher if all 6 renters try to take a hard line, at some point you diminish the owner's return too much.

Yo Pez,
I remember that point in El Salvador, we had it to ourselves for most of the morning until Craig paddled out. Got some fun rides there. I'd have to say my favorite waves of the trip were at that right point in southern Mexico. If you want to come over and help me weed through the footage of the trip maybe we can put together a short movie.
Most memorable waves of the season were 3 days in February - weekdays, mid-morning, clean swell, outgoing tide with the middle of the beach firing and just a couple of other surfers within view. Basically had it to myself. On the fourth day everyone else caught on and it was packed. Funny thing, the fourth day was the smallest of the four days. Also caught Rincon on that big west January 19th , well overhead perfection.

best sesh - the few where I got the 'raj' as the ruskies call it - an intense almost out of control feeling of euphoria. Got it big time at a premier point break a ways down south - lucked it after a storm, less than 12 guys out and INSANE. Kept a rock from the beach, know I shouldn't have but I look at that rock and remember that day for the rest of em. OB funny there were so many good days, a few with raj pockets, but none of them blew my mind start to finish. I'd say the closer to alltime days other winters. That being said, DOH offshore high speed internet happened more than I probably deserved.

Compared to anywhere else I've surfed with semi-consistent quality the dickhead factor was miniscule, which was/is huge. When I hear some fool blowing his top, as long as I'm out of range it's funny because it's like watching an adult baby having a temper tantrum. Some guy that needs a time out, or get put down for a nap or something. Of course, when it's coming at you, the neanderthal act is as old and violent as...neanderthals. The same streak that will probably be the end of us eventually.

"it's like watching an adult baby having a temper tantrum."

hahaha.. that's awesome.
Next time someone is screaming see if you can spot veins on their neck/forehead. It makes it even funnier. And on really cold days their faces turn purple instead of red.

E,

Ive been introduced to Shawn and he was super cool and I thought he was a quality guy. One day however, at his favorite Left hand break he didn't recognize me ( hood) and gave me the biggest stinke eye ever! So that's how he treats strangers! I see him snake even his freinds and have never seen him share a wave. All those young local punks and old Jurrasaurs who give the stinkeye shit should all fuck themselves! In the end aloha will prevail

bro dont drop in on sean or shane definately dont fuck with alex i saw him totally punch mike simmons in the face totally split his lip brah. kklb4l sucka (translation: kellies cove local boyz 4 life)