E's Surf Report

thanks for the recap kaiser..webcasts frustrate me..im telling you, slater. and why does parko keep on letting that fred guy beat him?

bonus surf movie review: Sprout by Thomas Campbell
stylish and nice for one of those new school artsy hippy surf movies but about 45 mins to long. liked the wacky narration. soundtrack overly mellow. watched broke down melody directly after and that one did 100 times more for me. 7 out of 10.

extra Bonus movie review: Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott. hard to believe Orlando Bloom as a bad ass but he did a pretty good job. just like sprout it was about 45 mins or an hour too long. liked the costumes and the look. one good shot of a sloppy beach break saw a good right. 6 out of 10.

anybody know where to find footage of kelly's eternal barrel? 17 seconds! i find that hard to believe.

nice re-cap. did you see the snap luke did? siick. 12 second narrell, 5 seconds barrell for slater, still really sick. the level is so farking high on the tour.

how good would you be if you surfed good to perfect surf all the time?

Hey Kaiser - I thought it was just me that had the small wave problem. What I find the most challenging is not the size but the fact that they stand up, dump, and closeout so quickly in like two feet of water. Fact is, almost every time I've been hurt surfing was in small dumpy crap waves. I've only had a few bruises in larger waves. They just scare the bejesus outta me :)

Actually, I did have a pure fun session with Blakestah on Sat in small surf before heading out to NJ. And I had some fun mixed with frustration yesterday afternoon near the monkey house when I returned. This morning looked doable but I was jetlagging so no surfing for me.

Hope everyone had a good holiday.

E,

Bro's. Not Pro's.

I liked Sprout, I thought is was well done, but hard to take in one sesh.
I watched Litmus this weekend, OK with some funky camera work, but the surfing was average at best.

Fucked up my knee doing nothing, it just started hurting, sucks. Longboarded yesterday, but I couldn't turn because of the knee. Lately I can't get the board thing right either, take out the longboard, wished I had the fish, take out the fish wished I had the shortboard, blah blah. Too many boards too little time.

Bagel, I thought Sprout was waaaaayyyy to long. Good footage but just long. Broke Down was a lot better.

On the surf vid tip, I watched Somewhere, Anywhere, Everwhere last night. The flick itself is pretty good but the extras are really good on the DVD. There is a 25 minute "discussion" between Occy and Brad Gerlach. Super cool. Another 20-25 minute segment of Gerr and Snips in Mexico and thereabouts seeking out some big wave action. Classic Gerr. The guy is funny as hell.

Dennis, anytime I have been busted up at OB, it has been at VFWs on dumpy days. Just like yesterday. The big stuff scares me but not in a way that I think I am going to be paralized like at VFWs. Merely that there is a lot of water about to unload on my head.

I saw some guy out on sunday without a wetsuit, standing on a board, paddling into waves with an oar. He must have been freezing his ass off.

Sunday and Monday were fun. Spring was pretty painless this year.

This morning looked CRAPPY everywhere I checked, but yesterday's Fiji action definitely was great, even at postage-stamp size on a laptop.

Being pounded into the bottom in shallow-breaking waves is a good way to get injured. But also there are lots more small-crap days than big-wave days, and it's more crowded, including with kooks like me, and you and the kooks catch lots more waves each small-crap day than any big-wave day . . . So you'd expect to get more injuries on small-crap days even if a big wave is more dangerous than a small one.

One of the thing that makes small, short-period beach-break waves harder to surf, maybe, is that because they're breaking so shallow, the effect on the wave of the reflected waves and the wash from shore is bigger (i.e., that stuff causes a higher-percentage variation in depth at the break, which makes the wave suck out or back off or double up or whatever). I dunno, I just made that up. As long as I keep typing, I don't have to work.

"As long as I keep typing, I don't have to work."

LOL Kloo...

guy was trunking it on a 12' triple stringer yesterday at K cove. stayed out a bout an hour

That was Christian, strongest guy I've ever seen.

Another bareback sighting at the Steamer Lame Longboard Contest Sunday. A 20 min. heat in trunks would be more than enough for me in 54 degree water. But the tandem contest was pretty cool.

Bruce, you have the raddest wipe out shots ever!

That pic is sweet! kaiser, i'm with you on getting completely sucked in to the contests. yesterdays surfing blew me away. the level of surfing is incredible. wouldn't it be nice to have a ski shuttle you back out into the lineup after each wave...i can hear a collective gasp from all the purists...

i have to say i had a very fun session amongst the VFW flotilla yesterday around 11. got some zippy little waves. I think that was the first time I surfed in about 9 or 10 days and i was farking feeling it! sucks how fast the body starts to breakdown when you're 35!

backt to the grind!

You can increase the size of the globefiji.com live feed window by clicking on 'medium' or 'high' near the top right of that section of the page. You can also open the feed in your media player by clicking on 'open current.' The quarter finals will start in about 15 minutes.

Globe starts in 2:08 @ 2:00 p.m. our time.

Slater vs. Morrison - Slater is gonna crush him.

cool fot taken in Virginia by non surfer

SURF ANYTHING ANYWHERE WHEN YOU WANT TO!

If you want a wave and think you can get one, GO FOR IT!!!

Funny how many of the big wave guys cant (yes cant not dont want to) surf the waist to head surf. In MHO its easier to surf larger waves as they give you more time to set everything up but it takes more balls, stamina and strength. I saw that 10ft board toutin, no leash wearing dude gettin some waves at Noriega. Love that dude. Same board in DOH or head high surf and I dont think he cares about the size. He has it down. RIDE TO LIVE! LIVE TO RIDE! RIDE FOREVER!!!!

Its just ironic that some think others "dont belong out there" when its 2x3xOH but yet they really cant surf in the smaller stuff. Same could be said for the knee high rippers who disappear when the waves get overhead. Its all good with me as kooks like myself will just keep riddin and riddin regardless of the conditions..hehe...fuck the peanut gallery and nay sayers...get a board and get on it!!!

It looks like they ran a couple of the quarter final heats yesterday, with C.J. Hobgood and B. Irons moving up. I'm rooting for slates and Freddy P.

The website is saying the finals start today at 10 am, but I hope they will show slates and Freddy P. in the remaining Quarter-finals at 9am.

well said Pez!

How about just surf and dont flap yer gums.

Owl Chapman: one surfer, one board. 2 ft. to 20ft. same board. Me too.

Funny occurance at PP last good size swell. Sitting way outside on a big board, I caught a set wave behind the peak. Dropped in early, set up for the turn but...there was a solid line of maybe 6 to 8 shortboarders paddling in my path inside of me trying to get throught the set, one right behind the other. Not one of them tried to paddle behind me so I couldn't turn. I straighted out, got blasted and laughed paddling back out.

China is coming, PRAY HARD!!

Heat vs. Pistons tonight. This is a great series. anybody else watching?

btw, surf was super fun sunday and monday. mid beach was en fuego yesterday. a lot of guys out there these days, damnitall.

check out the air quality in those china pics. if you are in beijing, they call it "fog". truth is, that smog in beijing is 10x worse than LA air. gnarly!!!!! what a joke!

Have you ever heard anyone actually say "nay"?

Good on ya KDALLE.....Would of loved to have seen that one and heard all the cryin afterward..whoohoo....

Yo anonymous..part of this site is to talk shit..in the real world its a lot more dangerous and has different consequences...I aint afraid of either you yuppie piece of shit!!!! KOOKS RULE!!!

Not afraid say you? You will be. You will be...

Dennis-

Not until NOV.. But damn have we had a good spring/summer or what? It may not be the cleanest surf but it's tough to beat sun and waves when you live in DA CITY.

Pez, you are fired up today! Good perspective on riding waves.

When is this contest gonna start?

contest is on

Small waves are better than no waves at all

some parts of the US coast go flat for weeks or months at a time. we are the lucky ones in northern california. there is always a wave to ride some where if you can get to it.

oh yeah it does not have to be perfect and suuny. cold, windy and foggy is better for me. no sun seeking crowds. great karma in the water this weekend up at northern beaches.Hello to All

cabo surf report: two feet, glassy, inconsistent. dozens of people out at dawn. erum. thassit.

slates beat dingo, but no crushing. slates last wave was a bbbbomb.

2 things:

funny, that nathan webser interviewing slater..seems like they dont have much in common

and jdz, can you imagine swimming pools right now?

mama mia

pez-we gotta hook up for a surf...

did slater win yet?

c.j. over bruce in the first semi. slater/pattachia just starting.

flap, what happened. did tom dump you?

COME ON SLATER!!

ANYTIME FLAP...ANYTIME

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who the hell tries a carving 360 off the lip on a 15ft. wave!?!?!

slates will take fiji!!

slates combo'd pattachia ...a 10 and a 9.57 vs. to 8 and changes..

I do rza...I do. and I'll do it again

That's fucked. I hope you guys get it all back. Good luck.

Ya little pansy, you want to come surf too?

flap----you can't get a break from the anon haters. eekkk!

kelly's looking unstoppable!

granted i may have a few beers in me....but i swear the weatherman just said onshores up to 50 til friday??

Only guy out this morning. It was like what you say aout a good used car - looks like crap, but goes (went) just fine. Later!

3to5setsof7- I'm just going to have to sick my dog on them...he eats spineless anon posters for a snack,lol.

guess slaters gonna take it..seems like bruce has more of a chance than andy at this juncture..

lotso events still coming. plus a 1st on the 'CT only pays out 1200 pts.

A quarterfinal loss (equal 5th) gives you 732.

Basically that's all that separates them after 4 events.

Pts 3500+ vs. 2900+

word

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