Move to CA... Reasons not to?

Man that Sandblaster picture is awesome.

Rebel flag? Check

Cool, casual surfy-type plaid shirt? Check

Hat? Check. All southern males between 16 and 40 wear hats.

Board in the background? Check

Shirt actually matches with the background wall, which gets added points.

I swear I might move to South Carolina some day.

Looking at this picture I get the whole southern feel and experience. I almost feel like I'm living in the banks again.

 

The "obsession" with sharks in the red triangle is not exactly paranoia. I'd rather be in the ocean where I won't get chomped in half. Especially on a bodyboard which is probably 100 times more likely to get chomped on than a surfboard. Call me Crazy.

Well your name is speed bump...enough said

Dude if you're paddling out or maneuvering for waves on the inside you can get nailed by a surfer easy especially at a beach break where peaks are all over the place and no paddling channel. It's the biggest risk of injury at your average crowded break that has normal sized waves. Those fins are like knives. You can have an idiot letting his board go. You can have the surfer drop in on you and nail you. Sure you can avoid sometimes, but sometimes you can't. The boards are hard and dangerous.

OF COURSE the areas that do NOT get blackballed are the BEST. No one is arguing that mission beach or some of the breaks in laguna beach or huntington away from the pier that get flagged in summer are better. My point was you'll have more better days at those flagged areas than in Maryland considering MD is flat 90% of the time.

Remember those are sandbars and if you get a combo swell or the sand has a good shift and you get lucky enough to have glass at 9 or 10 am when flags come up than you can have waves to yourself as a sponger. They're fickle and not high quality, but if you're willing to repeatedly checked the blackballed areas as a sponger you WILL SCORE a solo session. Or you can go fight 1000 guys at trestles for a little higher quality waves. It's up to you. I've never even seen a sponger at trestles and I've watched that cam a ton. It's too long of a walk for me anyway when I was there and I know it's mega crowded so I never bothered.

When I was at the bodyboarding area at newport beach there was only a few recreational guys out just having a good time. It was not like the wedge where it's super competitive with guys "back paddling" you. I would never ride the wedge anyway. I like my body intact. And honestly try to outpaddle a longboarder sometime where they catch the wave 50 feet behind you. That's tough to compete with.

 

whats next sunday another contest??? here in Chuck?

 

Speed bump....the EC is BAD when it comes to amount of good days in the waves. This may is a prime example. We've had ONE day with waves above waist high and good barrels with good winds the ENTIRE MONTH. Nothing for the whole next week at least. And May is one of the best months around here usually. I can assure you even if you were stuck riding the black ball areas you'd have way more good sessions than being here. And I'm not saying ONLY ride the black ball areas. I'm saying SPOT CHECK them first and if they're descent hit that up instead of going to a more consistent crowded break.

 

Spongin in the black balled areas is a no brainer on the EC.

Seldom happens to ride at the ONE break that isn't flagged off that's superior to the rest of the beach. There's really bad sandbars usually on that stretch of beach with 1 block close outs on a 3 foot at 8 second swell. There's one spot where he rides that 1/2 a block long that is usually a step up from the rest of beach which is flagged off. The area that is blackballed is really a subpar beach break that rarely doesn't close out. Even the area that's a step up tends to close out a lot, but can get good at times.

Here on the ec, in a place like jersey, you'd have rocks in your head to not sponge the flagged off areas. Why on god's green earth would you go into a crowded flagged off "surfing area" when you could have waves all to yourself and miles of high quality beach break.Same with RI. Why would you ride the gansett section of the beach that is the surfing area? Makes no sense. Just go the area that's not flagged off. Same quality of wave.

2nd beach is basically unrideable due to crowds when the weather is descent. Probably the most crowded break in all of rhode island during summer. Gansett can get crowded at times, but NOTHING compared to the mess at 2nd beach. Probably because it doesn't close out as often as gansett. It's not really a barreling wave at 2nd most of the time. Just a fun fast wave. 1st beach is WAY less crowded, but the waves dont' compare to 2nd. It's a slow wave.

Brutal crowds at 2nd, but totally avoidable by just going to the middle of the beach in the black balled area. You lose some protection from west winds from the rock cliff and it's slightly less wave quality, but it's a million times better than that crowded mess. I'd only ever go to 2nd beach during the summer when the flags are up due to the crowds. I went there a few times in spring when the water was still 50 degrees and there must have been over 100 guys out for a chest high swell in this small beach break. RI lacks a lot of beach breaks so you end up with crowd conditions like this.

 

No, Frost, sandblasters said he'd meet me anytime to show me how good he surfs and how tough he is in general. I offered this Sunday but he has a ditch to dig at the ditch digging company and can't make it.

Look how tough he is.



He may bring yankee with him but not rcarter. rcarter is not allowed to go on vacay with the other boys.

 

we should have a local swell info wave catching contest...ill be da judge

 

I'll come out to IOP for that.

 

Hey somebody thinly or finly referenced this:

Getting in people's way...

Anybody who ever says to you, "Hey you got in my way" is incompetent. Shreddahs just go around them. Adjust your line for a second and go around them.

Of course there are really special happenings predicated on such rare circumstances where some one might "get in your way." But really it is so rare.

Just go around 'em.

Of course this is assuming that some one isn't purposely trying to get in your way or is just soooooo haouli as to flounder in your way.

I think I did not spell "haouli" correctly. But that's ok, I'm not Hawaiian.

 

maybe we could get brew also,,but ive heard he doesnt come to south part of iop,,dunno if hes banned or just scared..

Sandblaster
Clemson
me
brew?

 

Bingo...I've seen surfers basically run someone over who was caught inside paddling out with PLENTY OF TIME to avoid(no paddling channel, peaks are everywhere). The person they hit was nowhere near where the surfer took the drop. He was down the line. It was like watching a train hit a stopped car on the tracks. A surfer with even a descent skill level could simply turn to avoid the person. This happens frequently unfortunately.

 

sandblasters won't come.

Garbanzobean
LazyE
World B. Fr something or other
Zach619 (would probably win if he still surfs)

 

Stay off my break.

 

Just kidding, you are welcome to come.

 

I don't surf overcrowded spots when there are better and emptier options.
You sound like my buddy. He hates going north of 25th, mainly because he doesn't like to drive far on the island.

 

i dont mind ive ridden my beachbike up to north point,..coming back against wind wasnt fun though..,just the homeowners up there conveniently block the parking access with everything they can think of...im glad they finally spray painted a line... i made two circles just to park on a middle of the day weekday to scope out ur spot....i saw a few spots to park near ur break..

 

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Well, this thread's been 'jacked.

Yes, we look like sea turtles from below, but that's the way it is. Whitey goes where he pleases. Try not to splash around too much. But maybe 1 or 2 people get chomped a year on the entire coast. Way more surfers die driving to the break than gettin bit. Why worry?

Duckdive, dude. Bail your board if they're aiming for you. No biggy. I sure wouldn't go surf inferior waves for fear of having some barney lose his 10' board on a 12' kook cord in front of me. You can see snakes coming, just tip 'em off their boards. I dunno, maybe it's different in small waves.

The onus is on the flailer to get out of the way. Paddle for the whitewash and duckdive if you're in somebody's line. I won't run over somebody who's just scattered--at least not usually--but I will drive right over some dude who's got his act together and is duckdiving, especially on a critical section where I'm trying to line up a barrel shot.

Sure, but even mo bettah at Salt Creek, or right off the jetty somewhere, than down grovelling in some crummy beachy.

Go next time. It's super fun even on a middling day with a crowd, and worth it just to see what a great wave it is. I don't regularly paddle out at big [world-renown] name spots because--like you say--most of them don't throw hard enough to make it that much fun on a boog, but I go to a lot of local classics that draw a crowd. But if you want good beachbreak without a crowd, you should hunt around north of the bu. No blackballs up here.

I don't know what to tell you, dude. I think it's sad to drive on as a boog just because there's some logs out. I say paddle out and insert yourself in the lineup like you belong there. Try it, and you'll find that lidders can drop in deeper when we're up top, and turn and go when somebody farms their wave, when we're lower in the lineup. On the rare occasion I join the zoo at Cst, I'm ready to go on every wave. Inevietably somebody blows their takeoff--usually about every 5th or 6th person--and I end up getting twice as many waves as anybody out there who's not hungry for it, and is sitting around having a board meeting. Only sux when you get a bunch of really talented sb'ers or a few more boogs with the same idea.

But I will admit that I am pretty spoiled, I know the breaks I surf like the back of my hand, and nobody much dares to drop in on me these days. It might be different if I was a grommet or something.