Defining "landlocked"

Yanker, Rcart,

 

I'm an hour and fifteen minutes from the closest waves. I don't consider myself landlocked but I'm sure that's largely based on perspective. Someone who lives 5 minutes from the beach would likely consider my situation "landlocked." If I had to define "landlocked" I'd probably say that if you cannot wake up, drive, surf, and drive home in less than a day you are landlocked.

 

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synchronizaaahhh

 

I only refer landlocked when the state you're in is not touching the water. Georgia for instance is one that i wouldn't consider landlocked. Surfers that live in landlocked states year round are called sellouts

 

tidal body of watre is key ere

 

u2b, you're talking about being surf locked! Merge this post with the other 15 about the same stupid $hit and then repost this question under surf locked! you're welcome.

 

My current situation is 45 mins. The longest I haven't gone surfing for almost a full year now was a little over two weeks. Not bad considering I get at least one but aim for 2-3 sessions a week if I can manage it. Couldn't call myself land locked, but I'm no Scobey with waves right outside my door. Aiming to make that all change within the next 9 months.

 

I'm literally 5 minutes from the bay, but I am 30 minutes to surf. Sometimes I feel landlocked, especially when I talk to my friends who can get in the car and 5 minutes later they are checking the surf. Actually, it may just be jealousy. Ha

 

its a mindset. with the unprecedented logistical tools at our collective disposal getting a surf session in is only a matter of the correct balance of willpower, time, health, and finance. A good session however also requires a degree of luck.

 

How on earth would CT be considered landlocked? I can ride my bike down to the beach, hop in the water and float out to Cuba. Can't do that in Missouri.

 

Landlocked -adj-

Definition: the state at which one begins to spend too much time on the swellinfo forums

 

IMO if you cant bike or walk to the surf in under 1/2 hour you're land locked. Gettin in the car, dealing with traffic, then forgetting your booties and a trip home to retrieve will blow your sesh your land locked.
I used to work 40 minutes North and commuted by train. Sometimes the train was delayed and my stomach would turn itself into knots at the thought of losing precious surf time.
If it ain't easy breezy to the surf, youz a land lubber.
But if you wanna get tech wit it. Kansas or broken leg is considered land locked.

 

i live on the beach now with constant surf, yet sometimes driving for the right conditions or hoping on a plane from a "landlocked" state has yielded my best sessions. its all in the perspective and your motivation during a specific time period. Landlocked to me means you stop caring about surfing and no longer identify as a surfer. You can be a 90 year old dude in kansas with a broke leg, but if your still frothing about getting out there one more time and think about it everyday your less landlocked then some kook on wrightsville beach punting no-landzy's on a close out and not caring about a single wave.

 

Hello and whalecum to the new swellinfo...we don't know wtf your talking aboot

 

I guess from zen buddhist visualization practice perspective, but being a surfer and actually surfing are two different things.
Yeah I leave me oceanfront abode for greener pastures periodically but I don't have to. I can surf onshore close outs or drive and hour or two to surf clean peelers. Riding a wave is surfing.
But I like your PMA.

 

i totally agree man, surfing is surfing, no if ands or buts about it. There is no substitution for water time. However, I believe the idea of being "landlocked" is a mental thing (whether because of social, work, family etc constraints) due to the fact that at any given point with enough willpower cash and time one can jump on a plane from anywhere and be in a firing lineup on any given day for a nominal fee. Not the case even 50 years ago