Defining "landlocked"

Hilarious JayDeeeek, the only iron-y is what miss piggy is slamming up thine shvincter. Oh, haha you're the passive aggro dood who needs his shiiiite thrown in the water a few times to get it straight.

 

Why am I passive aggressive dude? Your post is ironic in a landlocked thread that's all. Also, i hashed the term localism is relative b/c it is and so is being land locked.

I will let the wifey comment slide from other thread since one, you know nothing about me and two I know matrimony is a sore subject with you. Oh, I'm pretty sure you would not be touching my **** on the beach. Have a good day Yankee

 

Mine certainly has. In Hurricane Sandy the insurance adjuster told me my house had had the deepest water inside of any they'd seen.

 

You just described why I hate surf cams and internet forecasting sites. Surfing was so much better before the internet ruined it. I built my whole life around being able to live at the beach so I could always be on it. Back then the surf community was much tighter......we all knew each other. So many empty dawn patrols because only people who checked it in person every morning AT DAWN would know it was good. Everyone else had to wait for the local surfshop to update their often purposely misleading recorded surf report. 10 years later the internet came along and its been all downhill ever since. Even on the coldest days its usually crowded now.

 

Last year I had the option to buy one of two homes,1) right by the ocean,or, 2) 9/10th of a mile inland. I took door #2, simply because of the adage I posted above, and privacy (on the water, one has people looking in all day and all night).
Hope you have resolved your situation to your satisfaction.

 

100% correct!!
My feelings exactly. Internet and marketers fvcked it all up.

 

Technology is such a double-edged sword. Remember the days of driving to the beach to do a surf check, and doing the thumbs up/thumbs down to passing surfers out your car window? Then when they gave the thumbs down you didn't trust em, and checked it anyways.

Now I'm a 3 minute walk to the beach, but sometimes I'll check the cam to see if I should even walk to the beach to do a surf check, it's sad.

 

This is so TRUE.

 

Surf cams can sometimes , rarely, but sometimes, result in no crowds.

Last week or two, the cam showed zero waves breaking because of where it was aimed. But about 40-50 yards north, same inlet, there are wonderful clean knee to waist highs. A handful of us who go before we know, or know and still go, had memorable morning . As did the very locals who show up every morning for the past 40 years and call their buddies while watching the waves.

 

I don't remember what site it was but I remember finding one of the first surf cams while I was still in HS so we're probably talking 2000 or 2001. Never really helped me though since it could be firing when I checked the cam and it would be around 2 hours before I could get to the water. Conditions change too quick.

Used to rely on a site/forecaster named Duke storm, anyone remember his reports?

 

Landlocked-

The state of being too far from a/any wave that produces at any time that you can get to on whatever your lowest limit of stoke need level. There may also be a correlation to personal circumstances that could cause one to be landlocked.

....so if you're not surfing a lot regardless of geographic location, but in part due to geographic location, you may be landlocked

Ie, I live on east coast and only 20 min to any of my spots, but generally I'm landlocked may-August

 

It took four years almost to the day to get the matter dealt with.

 

I'm 20 minutes away from the beach although I'm right inside the harbor. We've got a couple of cams but neither of them stream nor are pointing at the actual surf spots. Once in awhile, the Harbor can will give a glimpse if that particular area is going off.

Not that it matters, because the spots around here are so tide dependent that by the time I break land speed records towards the coast, the window usually shuts down hard. About a month ago, I rocked up ahead of the tide and the surf was fair sh!t. I decide to burn a bowl, take a walk and wait out the tide. Caught a buzz and was getting ready for my walk when the surf changed on a dime and started firing. 15 minutes from crap to firing, no sh!t. This happens a lot.

Point is, fvck cams. If you know your spot and its intricacies, more than likely you will score.

 

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. That would turn me into a terrorist.

 

O Sama Barry Cuda Laden

 

I always hated that thumbs down signal. Such a bummer when you were excited. Once I picked up on what the signal was for I would purposely look away when a car with boards passed.

 

Its all good. Small price to pay to be able to walk or ride your bike to go surf. The first two months after Sandy were like camping.....except inside a house.....with a funky mildew smell.

 

This can't be argued. The internet has made it possible to be a casual surfer. I grew up in Middletown NJ in the 60s and 70s, I lived about 5 miles from the beach. Back then virtually no one from Middletown even knew surfing was possible outside of Hawaii or California. Most people would go to the beach 2 or 3 times a year if at all. Today it's basically considered a beach town. I bet a full third if not more of my old high school considers themselves a surfer today. Back when I was in Middletown North there were no more than 3 or 4 kids that surfed and we were all considered freaks for doing it.

 

I just assume they're all morons and don't know anything and do my own reconne. I always see people checking it and leaving as I'm checking it and getting my board to paddle out. I know that it's probably not any better wherever they are going. I end up having a fun session all by my self or with a just a few.

Most times, if someone (a friend or acquaintance) convinces me to surf a certain spot with them and it's not the spot I would personally choose, I end up wishing I had just stayed with what I know works. Moral of the story, do your sand reconne and trust your gut.

 

How true this is. It is why I go alone. I then have exactly the quality session I looked for....my choice.