Hello Everyone, I'm new here

Wind direction. Wind speed. Swell direction. Swell period. Wind and swell direction in relation to the direction your beach faces. Obviously swell height.
Have you done any sand reconnoitering?

 

Not to mention if there are Orios on the beach that may or may not cause your sand reconneasance be squuuud.

 

Here's a grand idea genius..... if your going to come on here asking for the goods we all spent years and years to learn, why don't you tell us where you surf.

Crazy concept i know. Somthing tells me your app won't work. If your not smart enough to tell us where you surf (are you sure you've been surfing since 92?) I can't imagine your smart enough to create an app.


Don't get too upset. Im half joking. But seriously, you do realize the east coast isn't all the same, right?

 

Dude. Forgive me for saying so, but your syntax sounds a lot like Alexa. Next thing you know, your getting spammed to your eyeballs with Hindu Hooker ads. The boys here were just administering the sniff test. You gotta admit, most bodyboarders are usually a little saltier, dude.

Anyways, we usually get this conversation from a newb once or twice a year. And, as such, we give them a huge ration of shit because, as a newb kook or grom, they all seem to believe that there is a magic formula that makes good waves.

While this is somewhat true in a broad sense, the truth is that forecasting is not an exact science. Magic Seaweed (MSW) and that stupid star system they use is basically convoluted crap and does more to clog my break with kooks than Surfline's shitty fucast. I see more kooks rock up on the shittiest days just because they saw 5 stars on MSW, I'm so over it.

Your local is probably completely different than the sandbar 2 blocks south of you. The way you learn what makes your local break go off is to...wait for it...actually surf your break. If you use the NOAA buoys and take note of the angle of your particular beach, you will notice in short order which winds, swells and tides work best four your local.

That's how we all do it. That's how knowledgeable surfers do it, they studied and learned and surf their spots on days when guys leaning on the forecasts seem to get perpetually skunked.

So forget the apps and formulas, that's sabremetric nerd stuff. Go out and surf and study and learn your break.

Ya gotta learn it to earn it

EDIT: You're still required to post photos of your (hopefully female) significant other

 

Dear Peppa... oh sorry I meant Eppe

To help answer your question, I understand your frustration. Spend enough time on magic seaweed and you’ll go crazy...

Swellinfo . Com is the premiere surf prediction website...

Thankfully you said you live on the east coast. The best Advice I can give is forget the forecast and just drive to and surf BELMAR!!! Seriously the best wave around, and THERE IS ALWAYS a wave in Belmar, the place literally never goes flat.

Don’t worry about all the other guys, they are really trying to help too in each of their own ways...

Your pal
Mr Belmar

Btw, Swellinfo.com does offer great medical advice. I recently received my PhD from USI and try to help where I can... poor Kanman really went thru the wringer, he’s not the same man he used to be

 

I can’t remember missing waves b/c I was unaware there was a swell. I’m sure I have but it would be very rare.

Like roque, I just pay attention to weather, and buoy data. Yesterday was a good example. I watched these little pulses 15 seconds for 24 hours along with local steep angled wind swell. It wasn’t enough to get me in the water but it had my attention.

A go surfing alarm clock seems like your taking the fun out of it IMO.

 

Did y’all see some images, cuz I didn’t.
Scrub it, KOOK!

 

everyone here is telling you what you need to do, but it appears that you're not listening.

If you think checking an app every couple of days or weeks during the summer, the flattest time of the year, and actually think you're going to score, then maybe you should try another activity. Like Competitive Clock Watching. Because your idea won't work. You're better off just looking at the MSW fucast every day. It's an app too, right? At least they get it right once in awhile...a blind squirrel even finds a nut once in awhile

better yet, just quit surfing. It really is overrated

P.S.---still waiting for those chick pics

 

My wife saw some sign at OB Jetty that said, "kooks split". I had to explain to her what it meant lol

 

I once wrote a quick and dirty .py script that condensed a couple of years data from a single buoy into an .xlsx and then pulled it into Tableau to prove that someone on here was exaggerating how big the waves were and was totally full of Bullpoopy. It's not incredibly difficult data to analyse in isolation, however one buoy's data cannot be easily adapted to a great many breaks, even those that are local to an area mostly due to specific breaks' bathymetry and exposure to swell direction. For instance, Swellinfo uses buoy 46224 Torrey Pines and applies that info to all of NoCo San Diego, which results in a forecast for that area that is slightly more accurate than me repeatedly banging me pepis randomly against the keybort. So it's complicated.



Welkommen and now show us der tatas

 

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Precisely!

 

Holy crapp
I can’t recall ever having such problems with surfing in an ocean.
Who cuts your meat?

 

...eats Beanie Weenies

 

I'm glad I caused you all that work. I stand by my statement that that day was f'ing amazing surf and you are total dbag for putting in so much effort to spoil my fun.

Honestly who gives a flying F exactly how big it was that day? I guess you do b/c you're still bringing it up.

It was September 12ish 2015 and it was big fun surf (by east coast standards, god forbid). Go spend a few more hours trying to prove me wrong.

 

lol

 

Oh goode lorde...

 

Odd, that's exactly where i surf. See you out there