This goes out to people from new jersey....

Zach, you never seen any photos off Jersey going hard? Dude, Jersey is the most published friggin place on the east coast these days. They get more shots in surf mags and online than even sunny comfortable Florida.

15 foot? No, maybe not, but all of these Florida pictures, some that are 25 years old, are a collection of RARE FRIGGIN SWELLS. Yep, every dog has it's day.

New Jersey has to have the right conditions for certain places to hold. I've got surf mags of 1980's Jersey just as big as any of these Florida pictures.

But who cares aboot once a decade swells. The fact is that only the Outer Banks competes with Jersey for consistent hard hitting beach break barrels. Dude, just look at the track of most fall, winter and spring swells. Most push off the coast between the OBX and NE and track NE. We get the full impact, brah.

Zach, I think South Carolina has had an effect of your image and self-worth. You be like a mixture of Ken Bradshaw and Derek Hynde these days. For someone who knows everything aboot surfing you sure put a lot of stock into surf predictin internet forecasts. Right, right we know you relocated to California in the past........California !!!

Forget the photos of whomping New Jersey, let's see some photos of that "20-25'" Sunset Cliffs. We can't handle that here in New Jersey.

 

I am saying it wasn't a "50 year storm" and the meeting of the two had nothing to do with what the pumphouse looked like when it was passing next to Florida. That is what Florida looks like every time ANY hurricane with decent size passes by it. Granted, pump house and a few places, admittedly were probably all time during Sandy. But no where else was like that.

 

I agree. There is always going to be bias to your home.

Sorry. I missed the pump house pics.

Not saying anything negative about Sebastian. Just saying that Reef Road is the only wave mentioned that can't be rivaled.
The others get good, but I don't think any better than spots up north.

 

Says yet another dude from Jersey....

 

Bhodi, a west coast guru, part-time bank robber, and always a thrill seeker, spoke of the 50 year storm.

Now let's transfer over to the east side.

The last MAJOR storm of widespread disaster was the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962.......made more special because it affected New Jersey and we don't like that stuff. Florida is supposed to get dumped on.

Ok, then the next HUGE damaging storm of widespread misfortune, especially in NJ, was the Sandy Superstorm of 2012

2012 - 1962 = 50 !!!!!

HOLY MACKREL

 

None of that is opinion, bru.

You going to say that Florida gets more 4-6' days than OBX and Jersey? You going to say that NSB breaks with the ferocity of Ocean City?

The Pump House is an anomaly, just like Manasquan Inlet. Oops, am I allowed to say those names on here? Neither really exist except for in the magazines.

 

Dude, why do you guys all think good waves and good surfing is based on "hard hitting beach break barrels". I mean, of course you think that is the case, because no a great day, that is all you can do. You aint getting in 15 turns. You are going to find a heaping, giant shorebreak barrel to hopefully not get destroyed in... If you think spending a whole day in DOH beach break, shoulder hopping into closeouts to eventually snag a clean one, compared to sitting in a lineup at a huge reef break, where you can get barreled, do 10 turns and nope be sh**ing sand for 3 days, then whatever....

Jersey guys may take the cake for the amount of effort and the testicular fortitude they may possess up there on a big day...

But this conversation isn't about: Who has the coolest shorebreak death barrels....

I guess your idea of a "good wave" and my idea of a "good wave" are too completely different things. Maybe you should get out Jersey for a while. There is a whole other world out there my dude.

 

And I agree, Jersey has gotten a lot more coverage in the media in recent years, but let's be clear. When your supposed "50 year storm" came through, Delmarva held it down with the biggest balls and the best waves north of Florida. So don't lay claim to all that owning stuff when your little brother to the south stole the front page. Google Surf Sandy in any combination and I guarantee you see all those pictures of Raven....

Whatever homies, "REP YOUR CITY" and all that. I ain't bringing up no west coast sh**, so calm all that noise. Can't go running that game every time you want to talk surf with me.

 

And this all BS anyway, because when it comes to quality and size, no where can touch New England.

Have you ever heard of this spot called Ruggles? Oh shoot, am I allowed to say that name?

So, Zachary, you should already know that you need to be packing your woody when a significant hurricane off the east coast or a major Nor'eater is brewing, because you need to head into the land of chowder and beaaah. That's where the friggin quality is.

They have heroin waves - long and satisfying

The rest of the coast has crack waves - short, intense and leaving you wanting more.

WOW, what a metaphor or analogy or comparison that was. Bravo !! Bravo !!

 

Let me clarify a few things. This entire conversation was based on photos of Florida. Many of which were taken during Sandy. When Sandy was down in Florida, when those pictures were all taken, it had not collided with "Frankenstorm" yet. It was just another big hurricane, slamming the Florida coast with swell, like it always does. Because of surf media, the internet and a million other factors, Sandy was more DOCUMENTED than any previous hurricane, such is life. Pump house looked EPIC during sandy. Pump house looks EPIC any time a huge hurricane comes by, as does every spot previously mentioned.

Just because one spot in Florida looked better than ever during Sandy does NOT mean that the place never breaks otherwise. I mean, are you trying to say that unless Pumphouse is 3-4 times overhead and dumping, its no good? Unless it's so freaking big, at the max of the swell that you have to tow in, that it's not epic?

I mean, if you think those spots only break when "Frankenstorm" comes to town. You. Are. Wrong.

Thats all.

 

I can't argue with that. While not covered very often in the surf media, I have been BLOWN away by what happens up in the NE... But again, I am just a guy looking at photos and videos of it, so my opinion is null and void.... But I can't disagree there. I have seen points, reefs and just overall beauty up there that could rival anywhere in the world on a good day.....

But again, Ruggles aint in Jersey. Ya know what I be sayin?

And that crack wave thing was exactly what I speak of. Same sh** we got down here. I am not going to sit here telling yall that on a 10 foot day at my beach break, its more EPIC than any other beach break on earth!!!! Cause all that sh** is the same. A great day in Maryland is the same as a great day in Jersey is the same as a great day anywhere. I mean, if overall consistency is not a factor, I could put my break up against jersey. I bet a dredging 10 foot barrel down here is just as fun as one in Jersey.... And if it doesn't matter how often it happens, I guess I may as well put ol' cackilack in the running for best waves on the east coast...

 

Exactly. I am not trying to ruffle your feathers. I mentioned that many times in this thread. I understand that Sandy to you guys meant something COMPLETELY different than it did to anyone else. To everyone in Florida and the SE, it was just a few fun days of surf. Everything changes when it makes landfall on you. That sucks. My family lives in Bethany and for a whole day or so, we thought they were going to lose everything. They all got lucky.

Fact of the matter is, the way raven and those guys did things were not only dangerous and stupid, they were illegal. They posted up in the parking decks while everything was already evacuated and they charged it, in dangerous conditions, which I think was not the right call... But at the end of the day, they got epic footage and at that point, the entire Delmarva area was thinking they might get wiped off the map... That whole crew was from VB anyway....

I know you guys would have been out charging it, had things been different. Maybe next time.

 

zach should change his screen name to SouthCackZach

you need to update your technology bro

 

Honey Boo Boo, How do you know what the waves were like in New Jersey? Yeah, Skippy and his camera most likely wasn't out snapping photos when impending doom was looming on the horizon.

Ummm, considering the storm was on top of us the waves would have been actually bigger in Jersey at the time them Ravenites skied out in OCMD. Yeah, unrideable, but bigger. You're all aboot the size, right?

Umm, just Google "Sandy" (no surf) and we most certainly stole all the headlines. Plus, I'm not as overwhelmed by that OCMD session as you seem to be. Nobody from New Jersey is angry at them guys for "stealing the thunder." Good for them. They towed into a few big ones all for publicity sake. More power to them. Those dudes and The Pump House are the last thing I think of when I think of Sandy.

And they weren't necessarily the best waves north of Florida. They were the most documented waves north of Florida. Heck, an hour or two before Laundromats in Kitty Hawk may have been the balls......or some lonely pointbreak/cove in New England. Who knows. Some do, but it wasn't on the internet.

And yeah, ummm most of New Jersey had other things on their minds when Sandy was approaching other than surfing. Chris Christie wasn't going to let anyone near a beach anyways for God's sake.

Well, at least we have a home to rep instead of claiming places we merely relocated to.

HA HA SHAZAAM !! Hap Hap scharap you are.

The Jersey Gang - schooling naggers and crackers since 1698

Oh, how do I bring up west coast sh!t to you "all of the time?" I do?

Heck, I've never even Jacked it in San Diego....not even once.

 

I don't get the shorebreak barrel reference. None of the barrel shots that you are referring to are shorebreaks.
Beach breaks yes, shore breaks no.

 

I was talking to SJB. That was an exact quote from him a minute ago. "hard hitting beach break barrels"... I was just commenting on what I thought he meant by that.

 

Well, with that being said, I guess I will have to rep the real OC. OC MD. And like I said, those boys, on that day did something that no one has ever done in waves in New Jersey. So, I guess that makes me better than you. And I guess we need to re-direct this entire thread and have it be "MARYLAND/DE vs. FLORIDA", cause you are right, you guys can't even out rep my real home town, much less attempt to stand up to Florida.

With the sneak attack, out of no where. A haymaker from Maryland lays New Jersey to Rest....

Maryland Vs. New York? That may be more fair of an argument.

And I didn't know they had waves in that quaint little town you live in. What was it called again?

 

Checked it at lunch. Waiting patiently for another hour to be "free". Took the whole morning off tomorrow. Had to pick my battles with this one.

 

Thank Hey Zeus for this thread, fo reals...I'm having a really hard time concentrating, need some waves, and this really got me through the afternoon, so thank you fellers...yeah, the programs not working and this gave me my fix...I'm Ben and I'm a...

Mr. Ghost I must say I like the crack/heron analogy(hey how come they call it heron in the hood, it makes me think that real Herons[the bird kind] might get upset)...a couple more from the Belmar artificial reef...

 

Are you on crack or something? See highlighted and underlined comment above. Ever seen the antics of Mike Gleeson, Sam Hammer and Zach Humphries? What's more, don't know how old you are but guys like Scott Duerr were surfing monster NJ surf back in the 80s with no jet ski assist.