So I just started surfing on the east coast...

There are a few spots to surf up and down CB. Pelican watch is one, also, if you are just relearning, check out the cove down at Ft Fisher. There is usually small rideable shore break down there and it isn't too crowded.

 

welcome to the east coast..not too much difference in waves here except for swells in my opinion. but my biggest advice to you is to ignore the people who r assholes.theres always someone out there who, and in a lot of cases a lot of people out there; who think that they own you. then again i suppose its natural to become a bit of an ass when u get good at anything to someone who is worse. as long as ur not riding a Bic or NSP with a rental number on the nose and you dont snake/get in anyones way then you should be alrite. also i'm surprised u had no trouble in cali...i always figured those guys are more hardcore than here. anyways, best of luck

 

Agreed. Be respectful and they should be respectful back. There are several assholes at my favorite spot, but we just follow surfing etiquette. If it is your wave, its your wave. Don't back out and show them that you mean business. They usually get the pictures.

 

Welcome to the East Coast. Hope you find a spot where you can just enjoy the ride and not worry about a-holes. Please don't think that all us Right Coasters are like that...and, yes some of those guys need a trip to the dentist.

I traveled out there and surfed some decent spots and what I noticed about the attitudes out there surprised me. I always thought that all the breaks were jacked up with jerks like War Child from Point Break. But, what I found was those guys just wanted everyone to respect the rules of the line-up. If you did, the atmosphere was actually more relaxing than surfing with a crowd around here.

 

Learn to be patient, cause the east coast is very weak compared to cali. When swell does arrive it can be fun, just have to figure what peak you will be on to do so. Except for hatteras, florida in late fall, winter and early spring, and north of hatty like jersey northward, it is a small window for sizeable chunks to come steaming through. Much like any break, where you have rippers that have been surfing there for a while, when others come in, you will def. get an eat **** look. The east coast could be a little aggro due to the lack of swell and the demand for surf. Hope you find a comfortable spot and we all score something soon, this is depressing.

 

You'll have to excuse my colleagues. When the surf has been bad for a while and then it is good again, surfers around here get aggressive especially if they haven't seen you at that spot before. The same thing happened to me when I started surfing my local spot. Now, all of us regulars recognize each other and are respectful of the line up. Sometimes, you have to keep paddling and go after a wave that you know is yours before others get out of your way. Otherwise, they assume you are conceding the wave and will take it. Have fun. Welcome to the Right Coast.

 

We should shut down I-95 above VA

I longboard too. There are a lot of tourists around here and they don't seem to think it is rude to hang out directly between a surfer and the beach forcing you to go around them anytime you want a wave. They were probably from NY or NJ. Kind of like roaches, you can't get rid of them. Our economy needs them.

 

this is what i do when tourists come down and swim in the surf zones just hit them but make surfer you apologize and tell them to go boogyboard in the swim zone. That happened this past week hit some guy but he pissed me off and i told him to go screw himself and go to the swim zone and he told the lifegaurd and they about kicked me off the beach for the day.

 

good. don't be such a ****.

 

hah

That's funny. I almost ran over a guy out swimming with his wife once, but he dove in time and I went right over top of him. He apologized to me (he surfs kayaks) for being in my way and got his kayak and paddled out with me. I have never seen a lifeguard at 64th.

P.S. For hatetoregister, you can check out the waves before you go using live webcams. There is one for MB at grandeshores.com and one for SB at surfoff.com.

 

The tourists have been bad for the past week. Like, worse than usual. I usually just surf right by them and they get the picture. I understand that we have to share the beach, but where there are 10 surfers sitting in the same spot, and 50 feet down there is empty water, they just need to move down a little.

 

That's why I love to longboard, however when I'm riding my shortboard longboarders really piss me off. I guess that makes me a hypocrite.

 

Kinda. It works great if the long boarders and short borders understand eachother. The LB can catch a wave in, and then the SB can catch the ones behind it and while he is paddling back out. Sometimes at my spot the LB guys will ride a wave in, and be back out in time to catch the next one. It can definitely get annoying.

 

Yeah, I was just jokin around, but I deffinately let the guys on the inside have some. If I catch a wave all the way to the inside, normally by the time I get back out I don't have the motivation, and arm endurance, to catch a wave that comes immediatlly, well maybe if it's one of the bigger sets. I mean if there's so many longboarders that the sets aren't gettin through, then most likely it'll have to be at a popular spot or smallish where you wouldn't want to be out there on a shortboard anyway.

 

defiently cause today in the morning down at crystal all the lb's would get alot of the waves and the shortboarders had to watch out for them which is what i hate since i mostly ride a shortboard.

 

For the east coast you really only need a shortboard like < 50 days a year. I'm deffinately gettin ready for a few more of them, wanna try out the new shortboard.

 

I know I may upset some of you, but the beach is for all to enjoy. I surf both cb and wb on a very regular basis and really know how annoying the tourist can be. But, we have made great strides the past 2 years concerning the surf zones at wb and attitudes like some of those posted will do nothing but revert us back to the old methods of surf zones...and you think it is crowded now in the line-up. The waves here are not that great that we should hit a swimmer with our boards.. what did you accomplish? Maybe one last mediocre maneuver at the safety risk of the swimmer and yourself. The lifeguards should have made you leave the beach. If you were to talk to most experienced surfers at wb, most would agree with my comments. The problem is immature acts from a select few will affect and take away the privileges of many.

 

im not a person to forget to apologize to people if i hit them but the dad of the kid i hit pissed me off and he never gave me an oppurtunity to apologize but i dont want the surf zones to change i like them and i dont want me due to a stupid mistake i made to change them again. And the lifeguard came and talked to me about it after it happened cause he saw it and i went and apologized to the kid but the dad was a real a hole for pushing the kid on a boogie board on my wave. and i just think that it trully wasnt my fault since i did yell the direction i was goping and the dad didnt hear me. Finally when i go surfing most of the people swimming in the surf zones duck under the water or get out of your way if they see you coming.