Does anyone sometimes think New Jersey is overrated?

Indeed...glad someone caught it.

 

I'm not saying it can't be fun. I just couldn't do it everyday, sorry whatever floats your boat!

 

Short period swells can loose a lot of height over 50 miles of open ocean.

 

Exactly. You should still know wave size at your local beach based on your nearest buoy just by experience. The other option is to use forecasting sites like most people who don't understand buoy date, tides, swell direction, period, fetch, etc.

 

Everywhere has it's good / bad qualities. Just depends what you are into. Who cares who's spot is "better", cause it's all subjective anyways. All that matters to me when i'm surfing is that i'm surfing. I don't care where it's at as long as the wave is rideable, i'm having fun regarless of geographic location, wave size, quality, etc.

 

Hate all you want. Jersey holds some big surf and when the water is 38 degrees and double overhead there's no lack of guys in the water. Anywhere you travel in the world you will always find Jersey guys in the line up killing it!

 

Funny how threads take off like this one did, was DEAD yesterday.

 

whatever it comes down to, every area of the coast has its own advantages and disadvantages. The south east isn't all "mushy long board waves" New england is all "beginners quality point breaks" and jersey isn't all "beach break second hand barrels". To each his own, and every state has its fair share of different kinds of breaks that merit different conditions.

Stereotyping can be a fun hobby, because there is truth in stereotypes, but to stereotype an entire state or area of the country, or group of people is ignorant. Obviously much sarcasm has been used in this thread, and honestly im pretty confident that if any of us went to one of the "days of the year" at any of each others home breaks, we would have almost the same amount of fun, and surf the nearly same quality waves as the breaks we are advertising as the "best on the east coast"

 

ohhhh snap we gonna have another civil war! Most of the yankees don't know it never ended we were just taking a rest for a spell. Or like I have said before, bench off!

 

Obviously you don't understand that, as you were using our buoy data as an example.

 

don't really get what your trying to infer here bud

 

+1 i wouldn't suggest basing all of your knowledge of south east surf on buoy data you access behind your computer screen.

 

states riiiiights

 

I'd like to see some video of you "hidden behind the heaviest lip on the EC" along with a video or pic of you with friends... I don't think you get barreled or have any friends.

 

yea your right man. way to call me out

 

You are looking too deep. Look at the buoy data. The buoy data is used to forecast your break. If your buoy is far offshore, obviously if it's reading 8 ft, it won't be 8 feet at your break. That's common sense. Since that buoy is used to forecast your break, you should know how the data from the buoy affects the wave size at your break. That isn't my local break but if I lived there I would know everything about that break. That comes with local knowledge.

You can also easily look at the forecast and see how the buoy data converts into wave height at your break right on this site. Using this, you can view the buoy history and compare it. That's all I was saying. I shouldn't need to spell out every little thing in a post that is common knowledge.

 

Oh yeah. He's got friends at pipe, OBX, blacks. You name it. He also has professor friends in college teaching him about the evils of America.

 

Since you were pushing stereotypes about other states, I was just putting a stereotype out there too. You said they are true right?

 

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