Jonas, Boom or Bust?

Wow, best swell in 40 months? I'm stoked for you guys.

With all the travel I did last winter and staying the hell out of snowpocalypse, really the last winter surf I hit was mid-December 2014 when it was head and a half and surging on a Wednesday morning at a place near the crib in EMass that only goes off twice a year if that. I

t was creepy as fock that morning and tons of water moving in and out and in 90 minutes I only paddled into two waves the whole time. For the first hour I was just studying the break from out back being very selective and definitely shy on nutz. One front side barrel (my best ever and probably one of 4 ever legit ones) that I had to stick an 8ft air drop to get in then dove through the face with a huge smile. The other was another backside air drop that I pulled a bottom turn in the flats hard back up the face but was looking up 10ft+ face with a heavy lip and I just said O Barry then dove into the spin cycle. The wash brought me to the shallow but that's where the gnarly spinning undertow was happening.

It's been a while, but my first real surf experience was in the Nemo storm in Feb 2013, then again in the March 8-10 storm in 2013. I didn't know anything but cold azz winter surf for a long time when I started. Some of the best sessions ever though still were winter waves.

I think what is so different in winter waves in NE is where you go - E/NE/SE facing points rather than S facing in Rhodey and Maine. Not that those two places aren't going off in big storms because they all are, but I've never hit Rhodey in the winter though it's my favorite summer spot.

How can anyone say Jonas was a bust aside from those who didn't have the ballz to charge?

 

Anyone check out Judith in rodey over the weekend I wonder how that place was.

 

That's the truth! I will say though that this past late summer/fall/winter has been A LOT better than the past few years have been. I know I've paddled out on more good days in VB the past few months than I have in the past few years here combined

 

I love how the media gives these winter storms all these fake gay azz names. NOAA names storms not Fox News.

 

Actually, this started with the "Weather Channel". In other words, NBC, who owns them. Marketing of storms; based on the thread title, there are a lot of...of...of...well, morons that buy into it.

 

My crew was shredding the powder up in appalachia country. Looks like it was a pretty day though. Also when it's good in VA beach, well you know...

 

I know I'm kicking myself for not going to buxton but I just couldn't make it down there this time. No money for gas and all my friends pussed out. It's all good though. I'm just glad it was pretty good in Vb for once and I could surf all day and not miss it. Thankful for Jonas. Now we just need some juice here on the EC

 

i just didn't get how I was the only person out at the pier at 8am when it was well over headd and offshore....

 

There has been some serious sandbar reshuffle.
I noticed this morning as I did my "sand reconn", taught to me by the Master Recon Seldom Seen.

 

Well the weather channel and all the other moron new agency's that follow it.

 

The storm was a bust for me. Flooded my house and left me with a big mess to clean up on Sunday. Fell on ice Sunday morning and tweaked by back. Never even saw the surf. Too busy mopping up and pounding ibuprofen.

 

o barry, while Shelldonne is indeed skilled in sand reconne, the true master is frost. He spent countless years flailing in the waist deep shorebreak developing the techniques that we all know and abide by today. I mean nobody had ever even considered the concept of sand trajectories until he came along. Needless I say more?

 

Frost was/is so evolved, he CAN'T learn to swimme. It's genetically impossible...

 

I am but a mere observer. I will consent to your edification!!

 

It's strange how frost just left no goodbye thread .... Abandonerr

 

Aww shux Barry thank you, I'm glad to see you practise the techniques.

o seldom

 

Man, I kinda miss him. What frost lacked in swimming skillz he made up for with his stoke. I hope he didn't drown.

 

For reals, he did have a nice demeanor, all the time.

 

People do drown there every year. Maybe frost was someone else on the forum idk.