get on it today if you can

You wish you knew what exactly in your first year of surfing? Doug, let's speak in full English sentences, not the vernacular of your avatar dude. I know you're at a loss for words due to your excitement with the NFL Playoffs?! starting later today.

So Doug and PB&J, are you insinuating that Zippy is right and there's no such thing as a closeout? That every wave is truly peeling and rideable and it's up to the surfer to get his schitt together and make the sections? Maybe we can have grom brah put a poll up for this once he puts down his next 6 cases of Jolt Cola and his blood glucose normalizes.

 

I went surfing this morning. In New Jersey. Southern New Jersey. The air was cold. The water was cold. How cold? Don't know. Waves were good. Bout waist chest high. Slack winds but an occasional gust. I caught waves. I got cold so I got out after an hour or so. I had FUN. I drove the 10 minutes home in my suit. If you are a surfer and you have fun surfing then go and ****ing surf for ****'s sake. Don't turn it into a 9 page debate. There is nothing "core" about what I did. I just went surfing. You guys think too much

 

Jolt Cola.... wow. When I was a kid, the neighborhood boys and I would drink Jolt Cola by the liter. As the times changed, the boys became men, and the Jolt wasn't enough.

Now when all the guys get together, we get a big bowl, fill it with Jolt Cola, and pour in a bottle of Jack Daniels. You get so worked up!! We call it "Jackin' Off."

 

emass- don't be silly.. he's saying that there's variation in wave ridability.... and variation in surfer ability... the better the surfer, the more likely he/she can do more on a a given wave. The rare talented surfer (as opposed to real good surfers or old lame hacks like me)will take the "ugly" closeout and surf the s*** out it. Watch decent level competitions and you see this time and again.

Being a real good surfer is the target most everybody aims for... only a few have talent - its genetic (i.e WCT pros). So emass, if you're over 18 and currently can't make every wave, than YES, there probably will be waves you will never be able to surf (and live).

 

It wasn't really that good yesterday. Size and some sick ones if you were lined up, but way to much current and wind to make it much more than anything outside of luck. Today was pretty fun though. Strange and lumpy here, I bet the NC boys are scoring hard.

 

There are closeouts that can't be ridden. And then there are waves that are good if you could make it. They use to consider Pipeline a closeout... A lot of the "perfect" waves that Kelly travels to would be no fun to most and considered a closeout. Kelly calls them barrels.

 

How much does one of dem run ya?

 

2k with 5inch kit and 3k with the turbo charged.

 

No Eastern Mass, I believe in close-outs. I see them frequently.

Pros will even say that a wave is "too fast" to make. And that's not even a real close-out.....it's just too fast.

But I've seen block-long walls rise and shut down uniformly the whole dang block.....

The close out has many varieties to it.......and my brain can't get into that right now.

But they exist........I've seen 'em.

Sorry Eastern Mass if you thought I was snarking you. I wasn't. I had other things on my mind, and was mildly shocked that this topic exists. So, if I sounded snarky, I didn't mean to. I can see why you took offense though.

You know you think you have seen it all on here........

And now there's a debate aboot whether close-outs exist...........

And so much for trying to be positive in 2014. I think I have been snarky on numerous occasions already. Every thread starts into a whipping post. I might have to make a decision: Yoga, vegetables and positivity or Swellinfo.com.

And I hate yoga.....

 

i think some of these guys only rode whitewash waves in their time,which in fact is a closeout,meaning they truly never witnessed the significance of an actual closeout.spend enough time in the sea,youll catch your fair share of closeouts.

 

Not sure why you keep implying that I have ever lived in Havre De Grace... Not sure why you are repeating my locations. Did I ever say: "Man, if you didn't go out today, you are a chump". There is a very good reason why I don't live in OC MD year round, where my family is, year round. I don't like the cold. I chose a place with much better waves and weather for many years. Now I am down here, with warm weather and lack luster waves. Ohh well....

I simply reminded a lot of the veteran users here of what is mentioned all summer from Delmarva to New Hampshire. Every summer its, Man, I cant wait for January, with my 6 mil, so I can paddle out alone to these empty bombing peaks.... etc. etc.

I don't live in Jersey, and I also don't complain about how I can't wait for the winter time.... If you are not "that guy" and you have not entertained all of the previous posts about loving the cold winter and the rubber, then this was not directed at you....

But if you are implying that I don't ever go up to OC MD to my family's house in the winter and put on the 6 mil and go out, you are wrong... What I was saying is that I wish I had the time to be up there over the past few days... Because like I said, the shots that mitchell posted of Delmarva were in fact "money shots".... I never said I want to go up a search for these so-called "closeouts" in Jersey. I was saying, man that photos from back home (Delmarva) looked sick. And if I was able to be up there, I would be covered in rubber and surfing those very "makable" looking waves... No SE cold weather Machismo. I am in fact "not that tough" I suppose since I chose not to relocate back there because I hate frozen pipes, and winter and snow and all that goes with it.... I gave up cold water, cold weather and better waves to live in a place with Palm trees and an ocean that I can trunk it in for 8 months out of the year.... So with that being said, since it was a calculated effort, I suppose I don't have the right to complain about the lack of surf here.

Didn't mean to strike a nerve. Sounds like you wish you went out yesterday, but due to many variables, you were unable to do so. Sorry about the pipes and the missed session. There will always be more swells. You don't have to convince me of that. I ain't mad at you for not going.

 

PJB stalks everyone on this site, he knows all of our stories.

 

Somebody got it. Sharp you are Bill.

 

Doug, what do you think about the Chiefs' early lead over the Colts? Is it because a chief is a man and man has ruled over horses (excluding mustangs) for centuries? It's barely into the second quarter. Do you think the Colts need more than Luck on their side?

In the night game, are you gonna be repeating a mantra of "ka caw" like the 2013 SI MOY?

So many questions, Doug.

 

Smell this.

I wouldn't have that pic in my phone if I didn't appreciate athleticism of all forms. Couch athletes? I'm not nearly as impressed. Ya feel me? Sorry again for my pos post on that thread your referring to ok kahuna?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZfDUIDnak

zippy told me he could make all of these.

 

Douglas, you have a way with words. Especially when you use enough of them and they're spelled correctly.

Couldn't agree more with it not being the critic that counts but the man in the arena. Right on braddah. We still have to permit the spectator/fanatic to follow sport.

I'm harping on this because playoffs?! started tonight and really, it was awesome when you attacked the institution of American football. Was just damn funny because that's such a losing battle.

You ever get hit on by a nasty wahine at the bar and continue to give her the Heisman as you walk by? Comes in useful.

 

Bro, how many times does Zippy have to tell you? There are no such thing as closeouts, only skilled and unskilled surfers.

 

Doug, can you believe the Colts came back? What's the over/under on PB&J's ka-cawing in game 2?

Who else got it wet today? I'm exhausted from lots of paddling. What's the big deal about cold the last two days? No big deal guys. Do what you gotta do to surf. Wasn't that cold. Highlight of the day was charging with two good long lost surf buds.

 

PJB is good at making people write back lengthy defensive points of view. I was a victim too.