HH - DOH Waves

We get ride-able double overhead waves once every few years. If you drink coffee every day, you should probably go ahead and drink it when the waves are big. Sit inside of most people, they're probably afraid of getting cleaned up.

 

[video=youtube;1NAdhVWwfxQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NAdhVWwfxQ[/video]

slater at the 2.50 mark,thats double overhead,maybe even triple overhead.double overhead means 2 of u standing on top of each other can fit in the barrel.being able to stand up in the barrel and stick ur arm up isn't double overhead.few feet overhead is what its called.either way its a barrel so aslong as ur getting covered is all that matters

 

Yet another way to measure waves... one I've never heard before.

 

Haha really? That's exactly how I have always conceived of it in my head - anything taller than a 6' person is OH and anything taller than two 6' people would be DOH. cep puts it simply sometimes lol

 

Show me a head high wave in that video... Every wave is overhead. That's not 6' in my book. I'm about 6'2.

 

yea that vid id say 6-9 ft,6 on the smaller sets,9 on the bigger ones,waves always look biggest at the peak.u can take off on a 5 footer and if ur in the right spot when ur bottom turning wave could look a few feet overhead but down the line is where size comes into play

 

[video=vimeo;92883296]https://vimeo.com/92883296[/video]

very first wave is a 10 footer,when u see dood straighten out and u look down the line,thats a 10 footer.at the peak im sure some would call it 15 ft but we don't get 15footers in lbi

 

^^yea theres plenty of rippers in nj that are not sponsored and u never hear of

 

That's 2' Hawaiian

 

Flea and Skindogg and some of their crew preferred crystal meth. I can't figure out how none of their hearts didn't just explode like a burst tomato. I like royal jelly, or bee pollen, a banana, some peanuts. Sustained energy, no jitters or yips. A jet ski assist is always welcome in 23 foot 23 second period gnar. Padron chilled after session with the buoys.

 

That would be considered a 4'-6' Blacks wave. Seems like everybody has a different idea of what "big" is.

 

Yup.

 

You measure waves by the size of the barrel??? What about a big wave that doesn't have a big barrel.
Watch video of big Sunset. Guys are tucking in to tight barrels on big waves. Does that make DOH Sunset 3'?

 

Learn to get - "Dude you go!" - waves.
Find that one guy that's Always paddling for Every big set wave and then pulling back at the last second. Don't get mad at him but smile, make small talk- he's Dying to - and just wait. On the next one he's in position for start to paddle with him and ask- "You want this one?"
and Everytime- "Dude you go!"
You get a killer wave, he gets to pull back and look at the lineup like- "You see that wave I just gave that dude?"
Paddle back out, and thank him. Huge.
Rinse and Repeat. There's always more than one of these guys out there, Especially while the waters still warm.
I've gotten a Ton of really sick- "Dude you go!" waves.
Try it.

 

No bro, my concept of wave height is peak to trough. I see barrells about as often as I see emotionally consistent women - next to never. So I'm measuring the face and drop. I said nothing of barrells in my response to cep.

The fact of different heights on different parts of the wave is interesting and hadn't really given too much attention to that until dis tread. Lots of factors involved in the differentiation of height at varying points within the same wave. Would think that point break peelers are the only waves that stay relatively constant all the way down the line.

 

But Cep's comment was based strictly on barrels.

 

Ok let's argue about it lol

His was, mine was not. The concept of one person's height stacked on another's is what I was talking about and that I had always had a concept of this when looking at bigger waves.

How bout we set it up so we respond to each other's millennial posts at the same time bro?

 

That point Cep made. An a-framing wave could be 6+ foot face at the peak where you could drop in, but down to a 3-4 foot face as soon as you could get back up on the face and do a turn. Calling that 6 foot to me is using the absolute peak of the wave instead the part of the wave where most of the action is.

What part of this wave gets the most use? The part that just had a 5-6 foot face as it broke, or the part that's a couple feet smaller where most of us would be coming back up on the face to to a turn. More importantly..whats up dude??!!

 

There will always be an argument about wave height. ALWAYS.

It doesn't really matter. Just go surf! Tell a story about it later if you want, who cares, the listener wasn't there, and odds are they don't know d!ck anyways.

 

Wear a real leash, not your usual crap 5' comp leash.
Ride a bigger board than you think you need. You're not Kelly.
Look for a rip and paddle out there.
Don't be too cool to bail. Go deep. Relax when you're down there.
Don't take the first wave of the set.
Don't ride the wave to the inside.