E's Surf Report

Icer Air 2005 was awesome!

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Icer

testing one, two

'B' double 'E' double 'R U N'

Good day for this!

what's that mean?

bee run run?

What's 'arvo' mean?

What's 'arvo' mean?

What's 'arvo' mean?

those waves in france are nuts..

shit i dont know if i want slater or AI to win..slater is so dorky but he rips and AI is cool but he'll be around longer..wo is me.

last night was perfect

those waves in france are nuts..

shit i dont know if i want slater or AI to win..slater is so dorky but he rips and AI is cool but he'll be around longer..wo is me.

last night was perfect

getting oomphy out there in the fog, but messy, crossed-up and random. props to sharkbait for relating some paddle channel savvy on the great highway. a couple fun pockets and some interesting what-the-hell-will-this-wave-do-next rides. anyways, the swell is here.

Surfed this AM before work.

Lumpy, but smooth. Waves would double-up sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad. Short rides were the norm. Best waves would be the mushier ones that fed you into the inside with enough speed to escape the rapid curl/near closeout...well, that is how it was for me.

Short period makes it tricky to get out...not hard, just tricky. Saw one guy get denied. Friend #1 reported he got trapped inside for a good set.

Board #1 ( my first homemade board) is feeling more fun to ride all the time. Still suffers from not enough nose rocker, too thick overall, and too narrow of a tail, but it catches waves, and on steep sections there is a healthy feeling of bite and drive, while in the flat spots, there is nice glide.

All in all, I give it a 5 out of 10. I think that if the sun was up and the fog was away, I'd give it a 5.5. Perhaps if the wind stays down and the tidal clean-up flux kicks in, now might be a good time to go.

wow those france waves...

go slater i guess...pretty rad showdown again..wouldnt mind if andy took it

getting oomphy out there in the fog, but messy, crossed-up and random. props to sharkbait for relating some paddle channel savvy on the great highway. a couple fun pockets and some interesting what-the-hell-will-this-wave-do-next rides. anyways, the swell is here.

getting oomphy out there in the fog, but messy, crossed-up and random. props to sharkbait for relating some paddle channel savvy on the great highway. a couple fun pockets and some interesting what-the-hell-will-this-wave-do-next rides. anyways, the swell is here.

Oops. meant:
'B' double 'E' double 'R' 'U N'

jeez anon, you've left the board speechless with your cluelessness.

Beer run!

Oops. meant:
'B' double 'E' double 'R' 'U N'

Oops. meant:
'B' double 'E' double 'R' 'U N'

test

getting oomphy out there in the fog, but messy, crossed-up and random. props to sharkbait for relating some paddle channel savvy on the great highway. a couple fun pockets and some interesting what-the-hell-will-this-wave-do-next rides. anyways, the swell is here.

http://www.surfrider.org/auction2005/

sorry everyone, something is strange with the comments today. seems to lag and not always work.. not sure why?

Yup couldn't pass up on yesterday- Pretty sick event & and a raging fiesta

Travis Parker

Moseley

hey kaiser....

rode one those last night. yeee-haaw.

mine has a "dope deck". seriously.
i have an ocean pulse (newport, oregon)
6'0" with a help cloth deck patch.

very kind.
now i hear it is time to wax the new board!
suh-weeet.

NICE ART!!

First paddle: medium difficult...one crappy "ride" inwards, then..Second paddle: complete denial. 3rd paddle: ZIP! But utter chaos out there. Props to those skilled ones who found rides, I couldn't figure it out!

Happy weekend folks,

pink blue hues swirling into cream-white silvery glass, rivulets spraying backward, manes of watery needles puncturing with liquid dimples and dissolving painlessly.

solid northwest swell lines running over the bars, walling up and dumping soft, gradual splashes of white here and there.. a V-frame?

work my way out through the zone, grab a left and it shoots me, but dumps all around and knocks my legs out from under me. zone again, drifting south and getting over a shallower bar one block south of Dead Center, cooking my arms and diving under heaving dumptrucks. out again. hear hoots a block south, see two in the water. one more paddling out where i am. outside set breaks, feel like no time to make it out there now, gotta get a good one and go.

another pair paddling just south of me, inside walls up, i turn and go, don't have a lot of faith in the wave, looks like the wall stretches way down the line, it's gonna close for sure, but when i drop in i dig into the wall right away and the next thing i know i'm locked in, looking at the pair paddling out and i'm moving toward them. i look out to the beach and eagle my arms, bend my soul and my body goes with it, cutting back and again down the line.

stoked. fucking stoked. time to exit on a high note, so i run out, thinking at first i'd spotted C. and that she saw that wave, maybe my best at OB. it's not her, so i head straight for Dead Center, run north and realize after i pass one block north of Dead Center that i had actually drifted north, run back and up, soaking in the last of the dawn before the cottony fog takes the last of it.

one wave is all it takes sometimes.

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props to e for blog style, sorry for the imitation here!

Dennis: not naming bars. truce?

nice one outearly!! stylish wordsmithing.

Artifact that is...

awesome pics artifact. yesterday was definitely a beautiful day.

here are a couple ghetto digi pics:

i agree

still foggy. still glassy. can't see beyond the whitewash from the great highway. a mess of current out there as the new swell is definitely here. disorganized power. france got me all psyched to go out on my smallest board but the truth is a little more board was the call today. round two with more ammo.

Outearly - no issues on my end bro.

I surfed last night in the cleanest waves we've had in a while. Only surfed for an hour though cuz I had some upleasant business to attend to.

Preparation for a colonoscopy. I spent last night gulping down one gallon of a nasty tasting liquid (8 oz every ten minutes) that had cleared out everything that was hiding in my stomach for the last 5 years. I'm leaving out the deatils, but needless to say I had a very busy evening. I hadn't eaten since 7 am yesterday. Only had some apple and cranberry juice, and water until 10 am this morning. I'm sorry. Was that too much information?

Commitment is going surfing within an hour and a half after getting a colonoscopy. I just got out of the water. The waves some juice today but the current is kinda jumbling things up a bit right now. I got a long screaming meaty sectiony overhead left on my first wave. Rode it out to the end but paid the paddle-back-out-through-the inside price. No problem. The paddle out was not as bad as I thought - relative to OB. Second wave was a big right but not so fast a ride. Fun to make those three second drops to the bottom though. I found that I had drifted to a location on the beach that was not in favor of the swells. Everthing was closing out so I took my winnings and headed back in.

And just for the record: I can honestly say that I am not full of sh*t :^O

Last night RULED. glassy little mini nugs. steep sections. small can be fun. Whole different beach today.

Takes a long time to load, but worth it.

http://waitinggamethemovie.com/

Warning: watching it could cause you to to quit your job in order to get ready for winter.

Any fog/wind report for a late afternoon session?

Tomorrow morn?

I want this one

Pettibon ones cool too

Love the Kevin Short one. Describes so much.

Great board art. Hb - one of the best ever.

Yeah.

Anyone know what they used to paint on 'em? And would that paint come right off if you surfed it? Maybe light resin over it would keep it. I know nothing.

Just a little drop on my 6'1" here...

speaking of sharing too much information, i think i might have picked something up in the water this morning. surfseeker7 would probably tell me it's just a bug or some bad sushi, but somethin's fishy with my innards. maybe it was just one too many saltwater enemas.
i rode my 5'6" fish and it actually worked fine as long as i got in early and up on my feet. the only time it seems like it doesn't work is if the swell is really long period/fast moving so i can't match the speed or if the wind is hard offshore. then the wide nose catches the wind. i'm gonna try to surf it as big as i can and see what happens.

linda mar

the jetty

sharp park

kronkite

Daly Shitty

yeah, look at all that water around his feet. that would knock me off my board so fast.
slater all the way, but cool that he hasn't won it yet. they rigged that one well.
why do you think he's a dork, bagel? i mean, i don't know the guy from adam, but he seems alright. i kinda like his announcing. ai seems like the epitomy of the cocksure aggro surfer male. just like a fratboy or high school jock boy on waves. not the kind of role model i want for my future son. but i don't actually know him at all either. fun to judge people you know nothing about, huh?

Looks effing foggy as hell out there. Waves are looking okay, but starting to get pretty windy and on shore. I'm going to pass on the late arvo session and hope it cleans up by tomorrow.

Fuck Cronkite. That wave sucks the big one. I think I've gotten skunked out there 6 times outta 7, even on the last big south. Ah, rubbish.

berkeley

That dude on the Daly Shitty wave better get to gettin' it!!

yeah bagel why be a hater?

kidding. slater seems like a good dude.
for growing up with that much spotlight
and pressure he turned out pretty well.

now his brother is an ass.

i say this because they all all the slaters
made appearences on the outer banks while
i was there. kelly was quiet and just seemed to
want to get in the water, away from people.
sean would just be a dick, those guys who insure
that everyone knows who they are and that they
are THERE. the other one was a little pipsqueak
way back when, total gremmie. sort of a
"stoked to be here" vibe.

Muir Beach

Wildwood New Nersey

I dont know he just seems too perfect you know? yet has a kid no one knows about? too hollywood, Giselle's coming to trestles to see him, he dated Pam, acted on baywatch. Seems like he's trying to be so famous. Call me a jerk but i think his 'sharing waves' contest idea is dumb and not fun to watch. I guess I just wish he would let his surfing do his talking more? AI on the other hand seems more real to me, worried about the things that matter, family and friends and all that shit. He seems like a more mature, focused, hard worker maybe hes not though, i know slater is hardcore..i personally dont know why everyone thinks Andy such a jerk? i could see why people might think bruce is a jerk but..and all i know is what i see on the interweb and on movies and to soo...

almost happy hour..im staying where the sun is shining..

speaking of shining
http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/shining_redux.mov

i could be wrong but you sound a little jealous bagel.....

bagel, have you seen "blue horizon?" unfortunately validates a lot of the AI bashing.

yeah, i guess that's partially where my opinion comes from and from interviews i've read where he just seems so into the champagne and the girls and his truck. and also just his smile. ick. where is the soul? i know, it's pro surfing there's not supposed to be any soul, but still...

Bagel -

a friend of mine lived w/ AI a few seasons ago in Hawaii - said he was actually a pretty nice guy when he was alone, but his crew sucks. They follow him around, and generally act like assholes. Apparently when they are around AI starts getting similar attitude.

don't really know personally, but that's the word.

g.

Every time a pro surfer speaks it sounds like they are brain dead, particularly when they wax soulful. Some say Slater has a daughter that he did not even bother to call for 3 years. Lame. And I think his white wet suit is dorky.

word..im sure they both would snake me..

i almost snaked slater at windansea once. i had just eaten a burrito called "el gigante" and was nearly comatose... not sure why i was in the water. sluggishly paddling for a nice inside right i notice this guy coming down the line at like 1000 miles an hour and pull back... "oh okay kelly...why don't you go on this one..."

oh sorry i meant w------a

the jetty was pretty damned amazing a couple fridays ago. got a hole in my board first ride there that day, way unfortunately. but it was a memorable four minute session!

Lake Michigan

and today a surfer out with me in the mid-beach fog asked me if i'd seen jimbo. is jimbo an ob celeb, or did the guy mistake me for someone else?

i'll shut up now.

Fred Flinstoned are you out there? I need you right about now.

i want to get HIIIIGGGGHHHH SOOO HIIIIGHHH!

safely closing things out. OB this morning - yeah a challenge but a decent one. Definitely picking up a few things out there. Nice to see the difference it makes in the lineup. Tomorrow is gonna be a lot more serious - buya.

Jimbo sounds like a scary dude....went out this am south end, weird spooky and completely disorienting surroundings. some power. sorta big sorta small and mellow but at times powerful. total whiteout conditions.crossed up indeed.

ar•vo

Pronunciation: (är'vō), [key]
—n. Australian Slang.
afternoon.

what surf conglomerate marketed this word into your trendy little heads?

surf looks sorta fun. Kinda small, but still fun lookin

small? this was not my experience at high tide. relentless shoulder-head stuff but bigger sets, breaking a little soft where i was, and still all bolloxed up. the buoy is down, but the sets seemed bigger than yesterday to me. each of the (very few) surfers i saw out there was ditching and diving under the sets; i didn't, but they got out faster.

ALWAYS DITCH!
Fools! You will never learn. Follow Spider and ditch, ditch, ditch.
It is the only way!
Winter is nigh and the ditching is fine.

I couldn't get out. I needed my red board!

Bali bombed again!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051002/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_bali_bombings

More.....

BALI, Indonesia - Suicide bombers carried out attacks on three crowded restaurants on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than a 100, a top anti-terror official said Sunday. He said two Malaysian fugitives were suspected of masterminding the strikes.

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Maj. Gen. Ansyaad Mbai said the three attackers went into the packed restaurants on Saturday wearing explosive vests. The remains of their bodies were found at the scenes, he said.

"I have seen them. All that is left is their head and feet," he told The Associated Press. "By the evidence we can conclude the bombers were carrying the explosives around their waists."

Man, the surf sucked ASS today. Too much fog, onshore mush, disorganized, pure crap. COLD too. I hope it gets sunny tomorrow.

Fuck you MSG. Open your eyes a little to life and be grateful that you got to paddle out in the "cold" ocean.

Hope your "sun" comes out for you sometime.

Yup, it sure did! Looks like i'm going out today! YEE HEE!

Surf sucked with the sun out too...

go figure!?!

Today I caught four funky waves in one hour but still had a good time. The sun was a welcome sight. Does the water seem a bit cooler today?

i've gotten cold the last couple of days too; dunno if it's the water temp or sitting around waiting for a rideable wave or what. today was disappointing where i was; enough size for me but mainly junky waves. plus i sucked. pretty out there, though.

i need to get some racks for the camper shell on my truck. any recomendations for places to go in SF? maybe marin if nothing in sf...

if you don't mind.
All of the major sports stores have racks. Lombardi's, Sports Basement, etc. You'll have to do it yourself (which is pretty easy) and you'll need to know what you want. This place below is right off the 101 in Marin and is full service and expensive. I used them a long time ago at a different location but they were good.

http://www.sportsrack.com/stores/sanrafael.html

Lombardi's put the sports rack on my car, which was a good thing - it was a rare case of damned difficult warbly roof syndrome. Dunno if L's still offers that.

First ice cream headache today in a long time. Fun anyway.

Man, that sucked. Surf blew chunks out there today. Atleast the day was super beautiful. Yer right, anon, i'm glad to be alive to enjoy days like this: sunny, warm, beautiful, but locked my keys in the car. What a bummer. Damn, though, looking out of my office, it's just gorgeous out there.

For you buoy junkies. The seaboard site has been down, so I have my script running again:

buoy

There, that oughtta cause the seaboard site to start working again lickety split.

Septembers and Octobers were much better in the 80's and 90's

what's wrong with this picture?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?m=/c/pictures/2005/10/02/cm_hardingpark41955.jpg&f=/c/a/2005/10/02/CMGB3EFJLM1.DTL

OMFG!
That is an aerial of Baton Rouge LA!
Danmned Proud to be a Southern Boy!

That pic is reversed....flip it upside down or right-left to see the real orientation.