E's Surf Report

Yeah, I almost passed surfing yesterday cuz of a whole bunch of stuff to do and the waves mixed with wind and fog in the am just didn't look inviting. Around 2:00 I couldn't take it so I went out for a what I thought was just a "utility session". I was surprised to see those OH waves. Ended up getting some of the longest fastest waves in quite a while and had a blast. No crowds either. Just a couple of my neighbors. So why drive? Sometimes I just feel a need I guess.

Saturday morning I took a drive south of slide. No wind or fog and from the cliffs, the set waves looked at least head high and had some shoulders. From the water it was a different story. The waves were jacking up from backwash offering up mostly suicide drops onto a shallow sand bar. I got skunked and headed up to Lindy where the sun was shining and the waves looked ok even through the crowd. So I got a half a dozen funnish rides and headed home.

Got some ho-hum waves over the weekend. Nothing exciting, but better than going to the dentist.
e - Good luck with your vermin eradication campaign.

Love Barry. Thanks.

Greetings from San Miguel de Allende. What I'm doing so far inland is, well, it's all part of Mrs. Spiderman's grand scheme. And, if you've ever met her you know it's best not to ask too many questions. One thing's for sure, I'm a whole lot closer to Pueto Escondido than the rest of you sitting in the usual line-up.

SURFER SUSPENDED DUE TO POSITIVE DRUG TEST

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Rules and Discipline Judge, Robert Gerard announced today that Brazilian surfer, Neco Padaratz (currently ranked 27 on the World Championship Tour) has been suspended from professional surfing, effective immediately, until 1 January 2006.

Padaratz will also be stripped of all ASP rating points (on both the WCT and the second tier World Qualifying Series) earned thus far during the 2005 season.

The decision to suspend Padaratz resulted after a drug test, administered by French Drug Testing authorities during the 2004 World Championship Tour event in Hossegor, France showed the athlete had taken performance enhancing anabolic steroids.

Padaratz, who fully cooperated with the testing and the ensuing investigation, claimed that he had taken the prohibited steroids as part of a course of self-treatment for a lingering back injury.

Regardless of his plea, the steroids were in fact performance enhancing and thus it has triggered the ASP’s mandatory drug policy for the first time.

The 12-month suspension was made retroactive to 1 January 2005 due to a delay by French Drug Testing Authorities in confirming the test results to the ASP.

The ASP has a “zero tolerance” policy for performance enhancing drugs.

Gerard emphasised that the ASP and its athletes have a strong responsibility toward event sponsors, other athletes, and the sporting public to help ensure responsible athlete behaviour.

The ASP is the world governing body for professional surfing since 1976.

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ASP INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONTACT

Wayne Dart
darty@aspworldtour.com
+61 407 189 289

I guess I should come clean and confess to self-administered antihistimine use. If you suspected I was maybe breathing a little too freely out there, well you were right.

Picked the wrong area yesterday and didn't get much except plenty of paddling. Dennis, I had exactly that experience with suicide drops at the same spot a few days back.

"and Market on one of the empty store fronts"
that's the Luggage Store", an art gallery/ music venue.

great artwork, thanks for posting that. Also, can't believe that I'm the first to heckle about the mouse, but did you really run out of your room? A rat, now that is another story, but a mouse...

i heard neco was just using the cream and linseed oil....

dude e, you should set up a super elaborate mouse trap ill bring some beers over and we'll check it out. fun surfing yesterday. wow neco the barry bonds of surfing, only not as big time. i wonder if it really was for his back. do they test for weed in pro sports? i heard ricky williams is coming back. i bet the luggage store knows how to purchase some barry mcgees he's in the perm collection at moma now too. hes the best. elias good shit this saturday night, musta just missed you.

we saw a rat exodus when an (indusrtial) tennat moved out next door that was spectacular- big rats wandering about in broad day light for a week. one got into a wall at my place, ate an electrical cable (MC!) and fried itself and the branch circuit. my cats were killing a rat a day.

i'm currently fighting rats. old school traps are best. the glue ones are so-so the critters can run out of the poison goo.

the irresistable bait to date is peanut butter and walnuts...........vegan rats?

Neco is doing the "clear"! Perfect, I was wondering how long it would take for some pro surfer to starting using roids.

i surfed while stoned yesterday. yee haw.

loved it.

couple a knice photos

surfed, monterrey county niceness sat and sun ...white sandy beach, glassy south swell waves, only a few aggressive locals to deal with .... worth the petrol consumption to get there

Mickey Mouse: way ahead of his time. Notice leash on left leg, right foot forward, left toes hanging over rail, two (of three) fingers brushing wall, advanced surf trunks allowing tail to assist in balanced position, not to mention the cam mounted on the back of his board. Dude, we have much to learn from this character. Oh, and can you name the spot??

Mickey is surfing Pipe! That is Gas Chambers up ahead.

Knice, are those from this weekend?

knice those are nice

e, was it mickey or this guy in your drawer?

In the 1937 Disney cartoon "Hawaiian Holiday", Goofy surfs right foot forward. That's how you got yer Goofyfoot.

You could look it up.

Shane Desmond won the Half Moon Bay Surf Contest this weekend in both Men's and Masters. Check out this shot of Desmond in a previous HMB contest.

http://www.surfpulse.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=8&size=big&cat=524&page=1

I picked up a pair of viper fins...$54 at our local surf superstore. Anyone DIYers have any idea where I can find strips of velcro to make the tethers? And where to get the string? Marine store?

just use shoelaces

This southy was very sloppy and messy everyday, at least where i surfed it. Got sick presumably from the red tide/dirty water. Man it sucks to play in your playground and get sick from it. See so much trash on my way along the coast to work on Monday mornings mostly at the spots where the bbq pits are and where most of the ghetto goes to the beach. Not saying the ghetto litters more than others but it sure seems like it. Disgusting down there. And then we surf in it.

Get 'im tonight E!

Dennis, is this the one? Shane Desmond on a Stretch quad gun?

http://www.surfpulse.com/photopost/data/524/5shane_des.jpg

Trying this right now to catch a roof rat that occasionally comes into my basement. Don't use poison... they'll die in a crack somewhere and then u'll be battling the stench.

Sorry, but it was great down south. A few shots from Friday on the site.

santana interview about Jimi:

UV: Have you got a favourite Hendrix song or album?
CS: I think all the first three are still my favourites like anybody else. The first three albums by Jimi - it was like being captured and put into a space ship and they take you on a trip and they bring you back instead of like jumping in a Mercedes or a Rolls Royce. I especially always like it when Jimi Hendrix would play the song and then he go on to, uh, Chainsaw Massacre Tazmanian Devil Aurora Borealis Galaxy - I like it when he start with the feedback. And I saw Stevie Ray do it one time too. I'm sure he did it many times but I only saw him do it one time were he where the guitar became like an Aurora Borealis and all this colours of sound were screaming out of it even though he wasn't putting his fingers on it. That's kinda like invoking ghosts or something and that's my favourite part that I miss about Jimi is when he would open up certain channels and let certain demons and angels dance together, you know what I mean - that it was beyond 'B' flat or 'C' flat. That's when it's music to me. Anybody can play music just like anybody can think. Very few people are conscious and very few people can do something beyond the note. So thank God that Jimi had that kind of spirit that...the foundation was the blues but he also was a very cosmic person [laughs].
You know to this day I haven't heard anybody... I mean, I heard a lot of people pick up what Jimi completed or he was doing but I haven't heard anybody complete it or really pick it up. Not only from the volume or the approach to the sound or the tone but the philosophy behind it... Jimi didn't just play like that because he could strangle a Stratocaster or a Marshall, he played like that because he saw it a certain way and he took certain things that made his spirit be stronger upon his playing. Otherwise, anyone could do it - you just pick it up, lift it off from the CDs, you know, or the records. No, you had to have some kind of thing like the Blues Brothers' mission from God or something, you know. But you have to have some kind of inner fueling, inner anger or inner passion, some kind of really, really emotional spill-over on your playing otherwise it won't sound like that even if he had the same amplifier and the same guitar and everything - it still won't sound that way. I crave to try to create an album that basically goes that way, more like Sun Ra and Sonny Sharrock and Jimi Hendrix, you know, with a little bit of lyrics and very little vocals but mainly the electric guitar and the Hammond organ and the congas. Tell stories of interplanetary or galactical or celestial time rather than just earth time. I think that's what Jimi Hendrix used to call 'Sky Church Music'.

My bad. Good to have somebody watching my back b-stah!

hot damn.. sonny sharrock (sweet butterfingers) can lay it down!

Yo e, cool interview. Reminds me of a brief conversation with Bagel and girlfriend at the SS party. A person can study an art and understand an art and can apply the techniques of an art. But some people just have something special that gives the art a life of it's own. It comes from inside that person and can't be learned or taught. It draws you in and inspires feelings you couldn't feel before. Carlos has it too though I haven't heard anything new from him that truely inspires me. But when he plays, I feel like I've reached nirvana.

I didn't get that from Bagel but me and the dog did have an interesting conversation...

"Sky Church" is the tag given to the SRO concert hall at the EMP in Seattle thanks to e and carlos it's all coming together now

I saw Sonny Sharrock at the Knitting Factory in NY back in '90. He brings Santana's distorted, long sustain, electric tone to a jazz setting. Pretty cool cosmic jazz fusion stuff, if you're into Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Hendrix etc. Check out the tune "Who does she hope to be?" for a melodic ballad, or "Promises Kept" for a more uptempo tune, both off the "Ask the Ages" album (Elvin Jones on drums!).

Saturday morning was pretty fun at the spot Bruce took shots at on Friday. Relatively light crowd, no aggro rippers, just the usual older crew. Felt good to get in a few turns on the rail...it's been a while.

What did the dog say, b-stah? Speaking of dog, e, you're welcome to borrow mine for mouse scaring. In Oregon we had a lone mouse who lived deep underneath the refrigerator amongst hijacked fridge magnets, the bugger. My dog had a blast regulating that rodent. Then we left for a week and returned to an apartment that had been subject to extreme revenge poop attack. He even ran over the hangers in my closet.

No surf this weekend AND dentist appt, so played hookey for mental health. Happiness is cancelling appts from a surf lot, then looking over and seeing the person in the car next to you doing the same thing. Couple dozen 1-2 foot glassy log rollers. Fun. The fishing trawler could have moved a bit farther away though...

oops, i meant Sunday morning!

Yesterday I shared a fun headhigh peak with several groms, fun lefts off a rockpile. It dawned on me that if you added their ages together, I still had more years surfing than all of them combined.

How should this be viewed?

Through your progressive bifocals

On Sat. July 16 at the great highway/ortega my red toyota 4x4 and my buddy's 68 white vw bug were broken into and our wallets were stolen. It was around noon time when we paddled out. If anyone has any info. please contact me at toddsf95@hotmail.com
THEY TOOK MY FUCKIN POT CARD!!!!!! SHITBAG!!!

i bet they use your card at macy's first... that's what they did with mine when it was stolen and with some other people i've heard about on this board

i just read on surfpulse that there was another break in on sunday at the same street!!! hey bbr is macy's at serramonte mall? they also went to the mission to buy electonics. be on the lookout! it's up to us to catch this shitbag because the cops can't.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002387370_biodiesel18.html

dennis -> it's a tidal thing, you had the right idea. the backwash, it is not friendly at times.

just got back from shuttling my grom to ucsc for camp. i'll say that a few sm beachbreaks have got south nugs on offer and are still glassy.

south of that, fog crumble.

fareed can lay it down

Sucks that your car got broken into. No sympathy on the stolen pot card though...just a hunch but I'm guessing that the prescription was written by a questionable "doctor". Seems to me that about 85% of medical marijuana users are under 30, are pretty damn active and wouldn't be taking this medicine if it weren't for the unfortunate side effect of getting baked.

I've got no problem with people smoking pot (for the sake of disclosure, I stopped about 10 years ago), but don't pretend that it's for medical reasons...it just makes it harder for the few people who really do reap some medical benefits for true ailments. Is there any question why the establishment finds the medical marijuana legislation dubious?

Sorry about that...soapbox dismounted.

PS: If you really do have a legitimate ailment, I apologize and none of these comments (except for the break-in sympathy) are aimed at you...just to the population at large.

bbr, you can buy pot at macy's? Cool.

That Barney McGee art is really uplifting. Does he do unicorns and rainbows too? He must live in a foggy city.

oh deeeeeam!

Saturday morning, at 9 AM, there was a little late 80's red compact sedan (honda?) that had the rear passenger's side little window broken at the end of Ortega. It didn't look recent though. The car hadn't been there at 6 AM.

Yep. High tide at that beach is not good. I figured a 3.5' high tide would be ok but noooo.

Damned thieves.

It is up to us to catch and report the thieves. Watch each others backs.

Sepultura!

hey cgl, lighten up frances! and fuck you with your b.S. stats about YOUR views about pot. i do have a ailment and it's you and your narrow minded ideas about what's right and what's wrong for other people.fuck off you quitta!! you republican!!!

so i figured id better join the army before i got drafted

um son? there is no draft

uh, there was one?

Hey anyone knos where to get rickland surfboards or does anybody have their number?
I saw this guys in santa cruz with this sick ass boards, the designs were so tide....
I lost the number this guys gave me.
Thanks

For those of you unlucky to be still at work like meeee....

http://surfermag.com/av/hawaii/southshorepanic/

rickland surf boards telephone # is

650-270-1786

rickland is based out of daly city and i believe has boards in Aqua surf shop.....

Todd, what is your aliment?

By the sounds of Todd's last post - tourette syndrome

calm here in sf, but HURRICANES in pacifica!

And kodie, unless you haven't heard of Google, I suspect you of being a Rickland stealth marketer. But I wish your board business every success.