We all know that one guy... (Rant)

I am that guy who wakes up early and gets stoked. Ain't nothing wrong with that... Maybe you should change you're mentality, and learn to get stoked off the little things in lyfe

 

I know what you mean. I hate surfing too.

 

I dunno, maybe you should feel lucky to have a friend to surf with. Most of the time I surf alone. It's not really by choice. Just works out that way.

 

Uh oh, I am that guy

 

Other than the wake up early part.

 

Yep. I am that guy as well. I am waiting for day light right now. It could be an epic waist high day here on the Gulf.

 

crowd me please

two days ago (sat) i watched 3ft rifling barrels peeling down multiple empty jetties
near my moco house. far and wide i looked for company…but there was none….alone i went.

 

exaggerators suck

 

im that guy too. you're welcome for half the surf sessions you've ever had because they were prob thanks to me

 

I would be all over thigh to waist...sounds like a fun session to me...heck, had some of the best sessions even @ thigh high...I'd be pumped up!

 

I'd also be pumped to wake up to a call like that. Never happens though because I'm the guy calling. No one ever answers so I paddle out alone. Thigh/waist high day is totally worth it even in the dead of winter

 

Guys like that suck. I mean c'mon! Why waste your time when you are getting overhead waves 4-6 times a week on the east coast. It sounds like your go to spot is belmar.

Question: do you go out when it's big chunk honkin onshore? If so, I need a surfing buddy very soon like right now. The tide is high so it'll work. You know it's bigger than waist high. I went out yesterday and it was fun especially late afternoon. So c'mon. What's up?

I live in vb. Where are the shredders?

 

Why can't people just be happy they have a wave at all. I was out yesterday in Anna Maria, knee - thigh, 20 knots plus wind, major sideshore with south swell. Hell, i was happier than pig in s**t. If someone would call me in the morning and say get on the water, hell i'd be there in a minute

 

its one thing to say "hey man, it looks fun. Clean and knee to thigh". It's something else entirely when the same conditions are describes as 'epic, chest to head plus'.

 

S@lt lyfe for lyfe broahz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

^^^^^^This.

 

I would love to have someone who called me and wanted me to go surf with them all the time. I'd probably spend a lot more time in the water and be a happier person. It is always a question weather to get up and dawn patrol a day where its "only" thigh high, but when you know you gonna at least get a smile and a hoot from a bud and catch a wave or two that what lifes about. Even if the person is exaggerating about the swell, its better than what I was doing anyway.

 

This is F'n hilarious!!!

As soon as I read the OP... I thought to myself..."this is me, I must be a real goon!" then I started reading down through the posts and I'm happy to not feel alone.

Funny how everybody came right out with it... If there were only that one guy the parking lot at NSB jetty park wouldn't be full at 6am everyday you can't get on the beach and there's no swell!

In Florida there's a strip of beach from North Daytona through South New Smyrna that you are allowed to drive on. Its roughly 30 miles and is broken up by the Inlet at Ponce/NSB. When the tide is to high or its too sandy they close the beach. Also you aren't allowed to drive on the beach till 8am. This really puts a damper on dawn patrol! The parking lot at Jetty park opens at sunrise though so you can park there and then make the two mile hike through the nature preserve boardwalk out to the beach. Dumps you right off in front of the break.

 

The problem is, it's sometimes just plain hard to read what your seeing. One day could be knee to waist breaking lose to shore, the next waist to chest breaking 200 feet further out. Both can look very similar relative to your distance from the breaking wave. I have called people excited by what I was seeing and they will pull up the cam and say it looks small and weak. I'll say well I'm here already I'm going out, I'm at this street etc. if you change your mind. Then I paddle out into perfect knee to waist high waves with bigger sets as the tide fills in. Its perfectly understandable not to drop firm plans for the chance that I'm right, but if your just sitting around on a beautiful day? I guess you gotta love small waves to think its worth the risk that my assessment is off, either way surfing is always better than not surfing.