E's Surf Report

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looooong board day for sure....it's sick out there!

The Pipe Masters commentators are surprised that the swell this morning has dropped so much from last night.

mush city out there but it was fun to finally get out in the water after a week of too much coffee, greasy food, and general fat-assery

30 degrees of water change for me today. Not fun. Muy frio, no bueno.

Sweet pictures!

Oh, and Senor Foam sent out his Christmas card:

It was fun until some paranoid lunatic started screaming at me because he thought I was following him around. Freaky. Haven't had someone trash-talking me since Bob Truelove left town.

Still, some fun pockets out there.

House is cold as hell and it smells like ass because no windows have been opened for a couple months.

January is the time of year OB starts getting out of control.

I'm thinking of transplanting elsewhere. San Diego?

Last night was amazing. Sorry for the claim.

Got freaked out a bit when my arm hit something underwater while paddling prior to a duckdive. Assuming it was a seal.

I thought you wanted some of my m&m's I had stuck into my deck wax.

For a moment, Kdalle, I thought I may have to paddle over to you three if things were going to escalate and lend a fist.

My room is starting to smell like ass for the same reason. God damn this cold!

Yeah, the Ten Years After Alvin Lee (response to other blogger). Got any good recommendations? I heard this song by Alvin that was a ripping blues solo. I can't seem to find where it came from.

Shane is out in the first round.

check the url. crowds or the real locals. take your pick.

Took the morning off to bring in the Kid to preschool.

Sounds like I missed some fireworks, from Doof/Duncan's description.

Oddly enough it makes passing on ridable waves more palatable knowing I missed harsh words in the water.

The Fickle Finger of Fate fell on you this morning, Kdalle.

I hope the rest of your day goes better.

Ahhhhhhh yes, Friday. The day to be fried!

there is some 13 year old kid in the Pipe Contest. It's supposedly macking on the first reef, with some 2nd reef sets coming through. Anyone know who this kid is?

And for you Football Heads out there, and I mean what is called Football by everyone else in the world but America:

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/fd/index.html#

World Cup Draw

Only got wet for :40 this a.m.--wish I'd had more time to enjoy good ol' mother nature; nice mellow waves tho'. A real treat. Birds dive bombing. There's food out there, folks.

Oh, I like this part of that fishing article, "As if that wasn't enough, one angler inadvertently hooked an 11-foot great white shark that quickly snapped his line. Before the boat began its return trip to the harbor, passengers and crew were lucky enough to witness a great white shark feeding, in which four or five sharks devoured an elephant seal. The sharks ranged from approximately 11 feet to 20 feet in length. Great whites congregate in the Ano Nuevo area this time of year to feed on the sea lions and elephant seals that are mating in this area."

houses tend to smell like whatever is inside of them

Anyone know how to get the full Pacific view version of this?

http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/images/pacanimne.gif

I'm curious to see the other side of the Pacific and the south Pacific.

The band is Ten Years After
The album name is undead (a live album)
Alvin Lee - Great blues guitar, my fav was a song called goin' home

Shoutout to Loon [ hey nice board ] and his friends this morning. Lovely day but AGH! Never in the right takeoff spot. I went in maybe 1 block south of your position but you guys caught up w/me eventually. Because I hit the rip to farking China. It's not surfing...it's paddling.

Sorry about your lovely encounter, kdalle. I think I saw his cousin yesterday. If I could paddle 50mph then maybe...just *maybe*...I would have gotten within 30 feet of almost getting in his way. Crazy mean people. These attitudes are...extremely stupid looking.

Surfing is fun and enjoyable. Cheers,

go machado!
does he have relatives in the hollywood scene? on six feet under?
ahh they need to quit talking over each other or figure out the audio or something.

kdalle, wanna rent me one of your old boards for a surf tomorrow and sunday? looks like it might be mackin. or we could trade my protection from tough surfers for one of your guns. nobody will mess with you when i'm around!!

It's true, steamwand has even managed to kick my sumo arse when I've gotten out of line. ;)

Global wave animation, which the region you want:
http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/gblpac.html

The 13-year old riding is Jon Jon Florence - he's been in all the 3 triple crown events (youngest ever participant).

Swell is too north for pipe to really be working well, too many closeouts.

going to Bali

Shout out to g-money.

water was exra cold or so it seemed...
the current was ripping. great looking waves
were all around but hard to paddle one of those
buggers down. a few waves this a.m. were just
gorgeous, like an old rick griffin cartoon.
watched a seal stroke into one and make the drop...
nice.

Well, I'm not sure that anything could be as scintillating as comparing area codes but, check out the "God Warrior" at http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Trading-Spouses1.mov and then the "God Warrior" merchandise at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6225867209

i had a everybodys gettting waves but me morning also ice cream headaches. at least we have webcasts when the waves are great and i have to work all stupid day.

Friend #1: Here's a live audio feed of the WC draw--

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/index.shtml

four or five sharks going to town on a sea lion? I thought those things were solitary hunters. And I didnt believe there were that many in the area. damn, imagine four or five sharks plowing into a line-up. I hope they show up at steamers.

lotta birds, seals and dolphins (and persubably fish) out today. top of the food chain?

The Pipe Masters feed is awesome. It's like watching TV over the Internet. Commentators are saying there are over 2 million viewers watching. They must be using Akamai to host this shit.

Waves got bad swell direction too, and dropping size. I only saw one set come through that was a solid first reef set. Most of the sets look DOH+ at most.

GROUP E
Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic

Yikes!

nice one morrocan(sp) guy..

e: Nice Simba photos, beautiful sense of movement there; good camera equipment and a real eye for the essence. I wish I had he time/$$ to do that stuff.

OB has surfing seals, and we make way for the sea lions when they do that undulation and wriggle into the approaching swell before it breaks. They really don't want any shoulder hoppers; I give them all the waves they want. Pura vida.

Temporal Tidal Art happening below Cliff House this weekend, early afternoons. If you are so aligned and inclined, you'll see many art-y denizens from the Mission and SoHo talent pool out there making ephemeral etchings and sculpts along the tide line.

Carpe diem, carpe noctem....

Man, I was just discussing the WC Draw with the Wifey (she played state sellect and semi-pro level) that there always will be a group of Death, and whaddayaknow, the US gets drawn into it. Not only that, the Euro squad that I root for is also in it.

Mutha Fucka.

Here's hoping the Azzzuri get derailed.

It would be perfect if Italy goes undefeated but lose out over goal difference to the US and Czech Republic.

Meant to say "SoMa" in my post, above.

Well, it's possible to make it through with just a win and a draw, so all is not completely lost for the US. Not only that, but you can guarantee that everybody will be taking points off each other.

Italy are usually really boring (remember the 1994 final), so I'm with you in hoping they go out fast.......

Italy is the most Physical version of Football, read "dirty", "boring", "defensive", etc.

Of course, teams that have strong defence always do well in tournaments, no matter what the spot, but I love the free flowing game of say the Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, or even Argentina or Sweden, over the boring Italians, English, or any of the African squads.

And what the Fuck?

Just because FIFA was started in France, they have to get a virtual bye in every Tournament they enter? Jesus Crist! Switzerland, Togo, and South Korea????

I think the hosts (Germany) have a tougher group.

I've always had a soft spot for the Dutch.......

Thank God the Czechs for once did not get drawn into the same group as the Dutch.

Spain is the team that should do it but won't, and Holland are the team that should do it but don't.

I have to root for their style, but they don't have Brazil's clinical finishing to pull it off.

nice to see ya out there s.s.! seems chilly for december - maybe i just need some new rubber?

snow sharks?

fore!

how's that bonzer treatin ya, kaiser?

longboard day? wha???

Precisely because nobody cares, here's my prediction:

Group stage:

Germany
Ecuador

England
Sweden

Argentina
Netherlands

Portugal
Mexico

Czech Republic
US

Brazil
Croatia

France
South Korea

Spain
Tunisia

Sweden beat Germany

Argentina beat Mexico

England beat Ecuador

Netherlands beat Portugal

Czech Republic beat Croatia

France beat Tunisia

Brazil beat US

Spain beat South Korea

Quarterfinals

Argentina beat Spain

Czechs beat France

Holland beat England

Brazil beat Spain

Semis

Czechs beat Argentina

Holland beat Brazil

Czechs beat Holland 4-3 in the most free-flowing final in recent memory

Loon, bonzer is pretty sweet. Took a few sessions to get used to it but I really like it. Different feel with 5 fins.

U.S. wins its first of two consecutive world cups and puts domestic soccer on the map for 8 years only to be non existent for the next 20.

Well, England out in the quarters is about right. And Holland could make it to the final, but they'll never win the whole thing. Check out this predictor:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/spl/hi/predictor/html/football/world_cup_06/default.stm

Only 181 days, 17 hours and 26 mins to go........

isnt small enough for a longboard today, maybe tomorrow.

guys,
make sure to keep those kittys happy:

http://www.kittymassager.com/

i like that snow shark thing

1-3 feet at my local beach, im going longboarding. Hopefully get some shoulders but thats all I can hope for

i'd rather get this:

www.fleshlight.com

What's with the Italy bashing? My prediction is there will be an all European final. The Brazils and Argentinas will not excel in this WC. It will be Germany vs some other Euro nation. You heard it here first.

Go USA (despite our current political shortcomings)!

Italy play a very unattractive and defensive game. There's a term they use for their style of play called something like "calchino" (I know that's not right) but it translates to meaning "handcuffs."

So they lock up their defense and hope to get a single goal. It's effective but very, very boring. Hopefully they'll be more ambitious this time........

I'm not counting Brazil out, but I'd guess there'll be at least one European team in the final (hopefully not the hosts, tho') ....

Small but fun tonight. Caught a few chest-high peelers. And the sunset was great. I love surfing.

i love surfing too

What the ... ?

Dave Brubeck 85, Accomplished and Beyond.

depending on wave and reef set up, that fin set up can allow a smaller, wider board to carve big deep pits. free your mind.

Dear MrxRRRXHHXRxwFcaxXXHMMM, loooks like a guy stalling to me... (meanwhile, thinking ever so deeply, about pulling a scintillating top turn job at Pt. Arena)... because of the clusterfuck flow between the adverse leading edge of the fore fin against the midlength of the trailing fins. God bless the retro movement! Aste bac into the past where guys took off, and faded into the pit of pain. Bye Bye...

there are probably slightly better tools than a pocket knife, bread dough and tablespoon for installing fins

I'll bet she's ass end heavy. Versitile

If you set that mountain of damp socks and bacon-stripped underwear on fire, it will smoke-freshen your room and eliminate most of the source of ass smell, all at once.

Holy bejeezus was it cranking tonight.

Umm whatever Haas, here's a pic from the middle today

yeah, who surfed today? Looked cranking out there, but fucking cold.

I didn't surf because I spent too much time gawking at boards in the Wise Surfshop. Bob said they are getting a new shipment in from CI on Monday, but CI raised the wholesale price by $100!

Gotta admit, surfed Taraval today with the same 15 guys I've surfed the bigger stuff since college at USF AND ALL YOU MIDDLE OF THE BEACH FAGGOTS WERE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. Come this size its always the same 15-20 guys. Glad it started early.
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how big did it get today? how big is it gonna be manana?

I caught a couple nice long well overhead waves yesterday. Offshores made for some steep drops. It was beautiful out there. Crazy thing, I got denied in two attempts to paddle out. Frustrated, walked a couple blocks, paddled right out without even a duckdive! Location and timing. Just like real estate.

well, then, mr. taraval, it seems that you and your 15 or perhaps 20 buddies are the true heterosexuals here.

down with a nasty flu since weds, and pissed to miss all the good surf, along with a bunch of other stuff. at least i can read your reports---claim, please!

surfed yesterday but won't today. it was not crowded yesterday but the rip/sideshore were annoying. bumbled a couple drops, outran a couple lips but failed to line-up a defining ride. what size boards were those sucessful few riding. i didn't see any huge boards out there but i also didnt see a whole lot of ridden waves

I was riding a 7'6 semi.

was it real cold? the water, that is

goddamn that was fun

I surfed Ocean Beach Saturday - no drama paddle / some good waves and I only got caught inside once. I was on the single-fin log. The waves were well overhead, fast and powerful; definitely at the limit of that board's capacity. I will not be able to ride that board in those conditions again. The hull is fully stressed. That baby is ready to snap. I stopped by SF Surfshop on the way home and ordered a new one just like it. I'm lucky, John has a blank for me.
I will not surf today. At this point surfing two days in a row usually means 4-5 days racked with back pain - at least that's my story and I'm stickin' to it ;)

Where were ya'll?

g

next frame please

z

Damn, that looks like a lot of fun, yesterday. Too bad I missed it.

Holy OB dudes!!! Is that what theY call TRIPLE OVERFALLS!!?? I'm gonna get to FRISCO yet!!!!!!

Uh, Mr T.

Maybe the Middle of the Beach Faggots were surfing the Middle of the Beach, not wimpy old Taraval.

[IMG]http://feebleminds-gifs.com/peeing-man.gif[/IMG]Taraval Tranny Crew

Walker, was this past weekend??? That looks awesome.

hell of a wave and that guy doesn't look small, imagine being in that frothy barrel instead of out in the flats

yeah nice shots walker texas ranger! hurrah for november and december if this shit keeps up ill have no problem forgeting about june july august september and october.

post a god damn update, e! You slacker!

Here's one for you guys!

News from Mavericks this weekend. Seems Mark Sponsler needed to be rescued after a bad wipeout. He dislocated his shoulder. Left in lots of pain. That's what he gets for dropping in on me ;^)

Racist Aussies attack. This just goes to show how raspy those people are down under. Sure there are peace loving Australians, but there are too many of these types at the beaches and in the bars. And to think, just last week we were debating the pack mentality of Brazilians in the surf zone! Think these guys would give you a wave at Cronulla?

Anyone going tonight to tokyo go-go. I don't think I will get out of work in time.... Oh well. $30 all you can eat sushi sounds really good.

wow those ozzie shots are nuts

dang gina..ive never been so freaked out by a dude in an umbrella hat..

yeah, The pic was this Sunday just after noonish.

Surfed OB Saturday and caught only 3 waves in 2+ hours. The current was draining me after a while or I could have stayed out longer. But you need that burst strength for set waves, and after a while my arms turned noodly + weren't digging in as deep as they needed to scrape over the ledges in a stiff headwind. You know how that goes.

Saw some truly hideous wipeouts because most people heard the Wise 9am report and came out on shortboards as the swell started stacking. Saw one guy get sucked over the falls backwards as he scratched for all his life to get out the back on heaving set peak, only to be blasted to smithereens, cartoon-like almost -- and then the humbling paddle-in with no final wave to savor. Brutal.

With every clean-up set, the line-up would lose about 6-10 guys. By 1pm, the crowded peak I'd paddled out to was almost deserted.

Feeling those drops was exhilirating, so long to reach the bottom. And then...the "no choice but barrel" barrel sometimes showed up, bringing one of those moments where you are scared/stoked and definitely going to pull in anyway.

not to beat a dead horse, but does anyone know the name/description of the fabled Great Highway car break-in thief? I remember reading a full profile here a couple months ago. Let me know -- I have someone who may know him.

The first wave I caught, well almost, on Sat left me hanging in the lip as it was about to pitch me. I jumped off my board and over the back of the wave missing a beating by inches. The other two I caught were big and steep but completely managable with long walled shoulders.

Then I came in to shoot some pics. I'll post them later this week - without titles thank you :^)

Australia is a pretty easy place to stay out of trouble. Way easier than here, in my opinion.

i will agree with crowd factor. i started at around 11am on a mini-gun with about 10 guys out all on big boards, they told me tons of people split over the last hour as the sets came in. when i left at 2pm it was me and one other guy at M****A.

Crazy Aussies. Can't blame em' though. We went through the same shit after 9/11. Everyone was feeling a bit racist.

OB looked TOH on Sun. That's too nuts for me.

Cruised around Saturday checking out the spots. Took a couple pics. Suited up around 1245 at a southern location. I only had my 7'2" with me wish I had taken out the 8 footer.

Paddle out took about 20 minutes. Was almost outside and took one of the set waves like this one on my head.

Got worked, managed to hold on to the board, popped up and was almost outside, stoked a 1 wave rouge! Spent an hour trying to catch a bigger one and not get caught inside. Settled for a sweet smaller hollow left. A couple more in the next hour and I was cold and done. Pretty damn empty outside- almost sketchy empty where there isn't anyone to line up with to gauge where the sets are breaking, just a couple heads here an there. Saw one dude on like a 10 foot longboard knee paddling? the thing in to sets.

Some guys were ripping it on smaller boards than mine and others just poised for a sick pit and jumping off. Oh well. Came in around 3pm or so and took a couple more pics.

It think Sat afternoon was bigger than Sunday

Sure, after 911 i wanted to beat up all non-white people too..

When the waves get big, don't sit inside! Paddle your fat, out of shape ass away from where the waves are breaking so people can drop it without trying to go around your fat ass.

That is all I have.

Artifact/Walker, sweet pics.

yo. e's out for today and tomorrow. kaiser, i thought you were taking the reigns.

yeah. nice pics guys! robme and i paddled out at around noon on saturday and holy bejesus! i too went home with my tail between my legs on sunday.

keep the stories coming.

A couple more..

I was out from 9:00 to 11:00 Saturday at sloat. I caught one fun right wall, then got overconfident and went too late into a wave that exploded over my head without really pushing me under water for long. I got a short closeout left and came in.

I was way too chicken to go out on Sunday though. I checked OB at about 9:00 and at about 2:30. Even if I could have made it out I am sure I wouldn't have gone for any.

anyone have any experience about the mandala 6'2" quad fish? I've been a log rider for the past year and I am looking at getting one of these.

thoughts?

Hey dmc nice shots- you too Walker- looks like you scored some VN pow!

dmc, what time did you take that one on top, that board looks familiar

Tropical jams... on 103.7 FM, KKSF, smooth jazz.

artifact
Those two last shots were taken mid-beach between 12pm-1:30pm

Even small die** had waves today.

I have a Mandala quad fish..its a great fast squirily ride!! Not a great winter Ob board but seems to combine the wave catching ability of the log with the speed of the shortboard. Plus , Manny is a great guy.

no more blanks, you must ride chinese pop outs forever more

Drunk guys beating up arabs is like 9/11
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bwaaaahhhhh!! I gotta ride a bamboo faggot board! WAAAHHH!!!

No more blanks means less surfboards, means more tension in my balls, means more fucking. I like to fuck. White women. All kindsa women.

dmc

Nice photos! The first shot of the backsider is a good friend of mine. Any chance I could get your contact info? e-mail kit7873@sfsu.edu. Peace.

Personally I can't wait for the race war. We out number you and this is our ancestral home, not yours. Like you we did not come from Europe and end up in Oklahoma. We are vast in number and organized and we are not white.
The Aussies are a barbaric offshoot of the mongrel white race - like their berzerker ancestors. No surprise that they are they way they are. It's called 'inbreeding.

those morons in australia ganging up on solitary people are the lowest of low cowards.

Youz guys all got some nice pics this weekend. Any of you using doublers?

Nice fotos guys. I can't believe I missed that swell for a freaking wedding in Guadelajara!!

I hate to generalize, but Australian men are fucking idiots. The women can be hot though.

Dennis - I used a x3 Hi-Def add-on but it really degrades the quality for some reason.

It may be dirty or crappy quality but you sacrifice quality for closeness.