Big wave bodyboarding

John, you must be checking the wrong spots because there are plenty of us who rarely ever miss a solid swell. Locally a few spots can handle Overhead + swell with 6'-9' FACES, but not a 6'-9' swell unfortunately. That requires travel elsewhere such as HI, MEX, P.R., etc for me. Contact me next time yhere is swell and we can share a few waves.

CW

 

Yeah thats what ... KNee high shorey!lmao

 

Dumps was fun last October. I'm usually out every chance I get, especially on days bigger than 5ft. Don't hesitate to paddle over and say "Hi". Now that i'm shedding my full suit, I usually wear a red oneal rashguard, blue tech fins, and ride a black No. 6.

 

Man, I'd love a good swell right about now. Those pictures are getting to me.

 

I hear you Joel. I hope this year in the Atlantic provides a strong summer season of swell.

Old John

As for people not charging big waves, I would agree with Chuck that you are looking in the wrong spots. There is no need to paddle to the outside when we can score bombs in knee deep water. Bring your A-game or a back brace. Hope to see you in the lineup.

Cheers

 

Hope none of yall mind a surfer out there I ride glass youll see me out there.

 

yea come to the southside with us.... I bet you will have toons of fun surfing your glass into the beach. haha.

here comes summer!!!

 

130th is the place to be when waves pick up

 

man screw outside.. inside is where we stay at unless your at specific spots with illmatic outside waves. being a jersey native that just moved out to oahu i must say that you apprciate the inside soo much more then the outside when you visit spots like sandys and diamondhead over here. im currently in jersey right now visitn my family and its sooo depressing how there is no swell ihope that tropical storm turns into a hurricane and flies up the east coast

 

ocsponger,

north oc was a lot of fun on the Beryl swell. Its really good north oc sand bars are holding, because they can be iffy, and when north oc is lame, then everyone piles into the usual spots.

 

I'm 16 and I've lived on the EC my whole life and I wouldn't even consider cl***ifying someone who rides 6-9 foot waves as being a "big wave rider." That's just like a normal good swell as far as I'm concerned. Granted, it is the East Coast but still, 6-9 footers are nothing special honestly.

 

True that. 6-9ft surf is not Big in the scope of worldwide waves.

But lets face it, if your surfing 6-9ft surf on the east coast, your stoked, and its rarely getting much bigger.

 

i hear ya on north OC bein about the best but the sandbars at a certain spot have dissapered cause of the currents. who else has noticed alot of the bars bein rearranged and gone missing?

 

I guess size depends on where you are in the world, 6 - 9 foot on the east coast means head high to a few feet over head but elsewhere a 6 - 9 foot wave could be 12 - 18 foot faces. I like swells on the east coast where pier owners have to remove slats from the pier to keep it from being destroyed by perfect long range ground swell that comes from a hurricane in the perfect swell window.

Ah those were the days, bring on the hurricane swells of 06!

 

I like riding the 6-9' foot stuff, too. But, I prefer the outside ones to the inside ones - here is "southside" spitting out some of its lefts magic... you can see the guy riding the right on the inside.

 

Your saying that pic is southside, delaware? I can't recall southside looking remotely like that. Must have been a long time ago?

 

Looks like Southside NC to me....

 

Southside Rincon. No, Southside Delaware has NEVER looked like that

 

I havent' seen North OC good in a while, and I've been keeping my eye on it. Whenever I make the trip up to check it, I always end up heading back downtown where it looked better. What happened to 130th st???