i do. my body says go in im forzen then my brain says a few more waves you can do it. so i always stay out until the perfect wave comes.
i usually do, unless i get too frustrated because everyone knows it takes like what? 30 minutes to catch your last wave and then your pissed and you catch a terrible wave on the inside...i sometimes end my session early after a really good wave. Or when my body tells me too...like hannah, my arms just stopped moving at around 4 so i had to kick my way to the shore.
i feel the same way i cant wait to get out yet i just sit there looking lost waiting for one last ride
that's what i do. if i get a really good one, and it's a reasonable time to leave, i'll hack off the last 30 minutes or so in exchange for a big smile all the way home
When it is a warm summer swell i find myself out there for about eight hours but i am often dissapointed recently because i can not get a lot
yea dawn patrol on thursday i was in for like 2 1/2 hrs. and I didn't strap up my boots tight enough so water was gettin in all session but I really wanted a last wave. I ended up taking in a not so amazing wave but i told myself to go in because i didnt want to get frostbite or some crazy **** like that. When I got on the beach I actually fell a couple times because i couldnt get my footing since my feet were frozen solid (couldnt feel em). I hate ending sessions like that. in fact, i hate ending sessions period!
yeah I think we all suffer from that. I get caught sometimes in pitch black water sown at south garbage like 1/4 out to see. I just wait and wait and wait for that last good set wave, next thing u know im slippin off reefs and hoping I angle to the shore properly. the post sundown wait is the worst. droppin in when u can't even see the flats, u just feel the wave and hope u can surf blind. its fu. tho when it works out. **** gets creepy when u r out in the dark.
or if your out waiting for that last perfect session ending wave, and while your waiting, the tides change and the conditions start to completely SUCK, and that last perfect wave never comes
its worse when you have a good one and you think about getting out but you decide to go back out and end up getting a few bad ones.
yeah, I do a fullmoon sess about once per summer at the ob pier. what I was reffering to is staying out after the sunsets. in cali when the sun goes down in the winter;it goes down over th ocean, usually leaving about 35 minutes of minor lighting to surf in. sometimes me and the boys will stay out after the sun hasalready set, tryin to milk the last light, next thing u know, u look a 1/4 mile back at the beach/:liffs and u can't see ****. no point of reference. no lights whatsoever on the cliffs. and climbing out over the reef without booties when its pitch black is quite challenging. fallin in little pools of water. cuttin ur feet. it seems like in diego, when the sun goes down, the waves change immediately. 6 foot sets turn to 3 foot mush balls all of the sudden. its reallly strange.
the worst is when you have to take a closeout or unrideable mushout and straighten out after the drop. the best is when you say 'one more',get like your best wave,go back out and do it like 5 more times,get your last one with the lights shining on the face after you can't even see on the drop,rip the heck out of it all the way to the beach,and that was by far your best 6 waves all day.
i agree ... i always say "ok one more" and then that last one is so good that you wanna go back and get another ... and then u get another and its not good enough... so u wanna get another ... its like the cylce never ends... until it gets dark or something
