2014 bel mar pro-who's going?

LOL. Lowers is a skatepark of a wave. If you can't surf a head high wave at Lowers, even if you're a noob, you need to sell your s h i t on Craigslist. Shifty, dumpy, fickle Belmar is 1000% more challenging to surf than any wave at Lowers. The only tough part about Lowers are those cobblestones.

 

General Ski!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!! And yeah why do all the YAnkees think we wear cutoff jean shorts? The chicks do with thier tight little A$$ hangin out but other than that Jeans Shorts are for queers!

 

I rented a flat bed truck to bring down about 20 bench presses and over 5000lbs in weights. The competitors will def want to relax with some bench press reps inbetween the contest rounds...

 

hey does anyone know if Belmar pro is doing a webcast

 

Swell looks meager at best. Leftover NE wind slop.
Like that most years. Always seem to have NE blow before this contest.

 

names?

 

il be setting up a stand on the beach with my newest product,super real spray on tans that look like the real thing.also im developing a laundry machine that fits in a backpack.make sure u show up in tanktops with the aviator shades,and enough hair gel to drown mary lee

 

I can get a bench and about 1000 lbs of free weights into my Escalade. I bet I can bench more than any of those kooks at Lowers.

 

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Dudes- this just In- heard the swell is going to top the charts
This year at the Belmar- 24ft barrels.

The sand is just right for the artificial reef to start throwing too- something you will not want to miss!

#SIreunioninBelmar!

 

So true...

 

Ill be selling gold chain polish and rash guards at my stand.

 

when are heats announced?

want to start the mind games

 

heat draws up @ belmarpro.com

 

I wouldn't call anyone really washed up. As long as they are having fun that's all that matters.
Being pro in NJ is really like being semi-pro though.
Good bunch of surfers no doubt but pretty much dime a dozen in most good wave locations around the world.
Anyone who really wants to take their surfing seriously as a professional need to get the f out of NJ, the sooner the better in their surfing "career".

 

if you can surf really well here you can surf really well anywhere in the world. But the guy above me is right, NJ isn't the place to start your surf career.

 

Well-said bro. I've had so much fun there as well as the other handful of breaks at the compound. Definitely helped me develop because you're able to get in a bigger wave with less consequence. Have seen it on some pretty big days too, once with 23s swell. Right on about the cobblestones, kind of like a jetty dance!

This time last year I caught the last wave of the 7am free surf on Day 1 of the Hurley. It was a 6-8' day before it mushed out to a third of that size later in the week. Anywayz, I was next to a handful of the big dogs when I caught that one and it was about 7' that sent me OTF onto the cobblestones. My shins matches my red baggies that morning as they were covered in blood, yet I didn't know til I got up to the beach. Was too stoked that I even caught a wave there in that crowd. A solid 1500 peeps see me walking up on shore covered in blood and grins and I'd forgot to bring a leash that morning because I ran out of my buddy's crib so fast with stoke after waking up. Good times bro.

 

Really bro? You think that? I know there's all the talk of 7-8s wind swell making EC and some Aus surfers who they are, but as much as it prepares us for being able to make something out of nothing, I don't feel it's automatic in preparing us for everything. Yeah, we get some trop swell and Nor'easters too, but law of specificity says you need time on pristine waves to be good in them.

I've surfed a lot of different waves in a lot of different places these first couple years of my surfing, many of them the hell away from the EC. Gotta say that my surfing would not have advanced as it has without getting in waves in those lots of other places. Peaky, mushy, temperamental waves even when they are bigger and cleaner are still subpar to the world's better waves. If we really had anything to write home about in the end, you'd see top surfers at least finding some reason at some times to come surf our waves. I know the pros fly to FL and OBX once in a while, but would they do that if Marie et al were cranking on the WC at the same time?

Props to anyone who can make a dollar outta fifteen cents on EC waves and get good at them and surfing altogether, but in the net net of things, don't most of you feel like EC waves are completely expendable?