RI vs NJ for SPONGERS

These are my types of waves that I like to ride.


LI yesterday


Hey, my name might be longboarder, but I've converted to sponging. Anyway, one weakness I notice about RI is the lack of good beach breaks. People think we have a lot of breaks, but the vast majority are rock bottom crappy mushy/slow waves. Seriously, point judith is basically almost complete mush with scattered boulders everywhere where you can crack your head open if you fall. Matunuck might be hollow, but it's a low speed wave with a very shallow drop wave that is meant for longboarding. Not a good wave for sponging. The beach breaks around here are super fickle without any real pattern. Sure they can get good. But they can also go extended periods of time sucking even with good winds/solid swell on them. And on top of it there's only a few in the whole state. You could spend all day checking each beach break in the entire state driving in circles and never find a high quality non closeout A-frame breaking NOT shorepounding like in those pics during a normal 4 feet at 9 seconds swell event. Trust me I've done it in search of good sponging waves. Lots of gas wasted without scoring on multiple occations

I'm wondering if any of the spongers or short boarders find NJ to be a lot better as long as you're willing to drive and check breaks? I'm thinking since you have MILES of beach break that sand bars form in different spots?

What's the verdict? NJ or RI for sponging?

 

Also, most of our beach breaks NEVER get as good as in those pics. Many of them close out too much, some shorepound, some lack speed(first beach) and lack steepness.

 

unprovoked attack. On top of it. I never claimed they were MY pictures. The guy wawa something uploaded them today on THIS site!

 

No hayduke(emass). Every sponger you see in the water is not me. lol

 

What are you complaining about. You have one of the best longboards wave on the ec at matunuck.

 

Hayduke you were at town beach yesterday? Was it not close out city? Exactly what I'm complaining about on here.

 

Anyway, I'm done posting here. This is my final goodbye. The last thing I need is my IP blocked so I can't get the forecast. I will not be posting here anymore. My "friend" Shark-hunter's ban is a "timeout". Not permanent He will not be forming new names and will not be posting anymore. I've had it with the people on this forum. It's impossible to have a civil conversation. Quite sad.

 

You can ride knee high stuff better on a longboard. Yes you can ride closeouts on a bodyboard and a surfboard. Just ride straight in.

Just want to repond to this.
1)Ruggles hardly ever truly turns on.(into the wave you're thinking of) It's not your weekly wave. Needs a macking hurricane swell. You know...the type you guys wish against because your summer homes in nj might get flooded once every 30 years. That's why we need need to build a breakwater covering the entire nj coast

2)When it does turn on it's very dangerous because there are scattered boulders that are barely a foot underneath the water. You can sit on them be out of the water. I'm not riding double overhead(when rugs really comes alive) when the lip is breaking on rocks.

3)Ruggles is mushy. It's not a barrel like the pictures I posted. Don't get me wrong. A mushy point break is a ton of fun to ride. Fast mush is more fun that a barreling slow wave like matunuck when you're sponging. But still doesn't compare to those a-frames I posted.

Again when you start getting big long period stuff is when that wave comes alive. And then it becomes freight train that can do some real damage to you. I'm just looking to have fun. Not get nailed into rocks and break limbs.

I wish RI had a flat cobblestone rock bottom break with no scattered boulders like trestles out in California. A really fast fun wave. I wouldn't mind ruggles if it wasn't for the scattered boulders and the fact that it needs a big swell so it's not your average everyday wave. .

 

Here's a video of average ruggles(forget that hurricane bill stuff. Once in a decade)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWKu-uLpPQA
Waist high

Hurricane igor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6AVU8c1Q3I
Again fun wave and I'm SO HAPPY THEY SAVED IT! But just telling it like it is. You going to compare that to this:
Epic nj surf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8rgrd8z8-o
I just wish there was a paddling channel at that beach break. lol

 

or this long island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4DStAoPmX8

 

I assume everyone is being aggro with me. Sorry.

 

To be honest, I don't think I could handle the epic nj swell video. I've never been in anything that big and hollow. That was double overhead beach break bombs. But the point remains the same