watermen only! listen up. a surfboard to your leg means nothing when 5 sets brake on your face and rip ur board into three. Rips in hurricane type surf are like nothing you will experience in short lived wind swells. When the water air-rates and your tooming for 15 seconds underwater...it feels like a minute. thats why your mom is keeping you out...cuz u rely on your surfboard to stay a float. seriously, sunday evening will be perfectly glassy and clean and smaller. show your parents this and tell them to take you down to the beach sunday evening. saturday will be a great day for body surfing for the watermen. the water is 75 +. so with some fins and some balls you can get a great drop but hardly worth surfing when it gets like this. All though there will be a surfing potential for the more experienced/pros. be carefull kiddies!
rips are no joke. A guy got caught in the SS jetty rip this wednesday (so we're talking what Chest high). Head injury on the rocks, lots of blood. CPR on the beach and from that i heard permanent brain damage from the long time his breathing was stopped.
so right, like in big conditions, leashes have been known to catapult the board back at you and what if the leash broke? It happens. Just from the Hannah waves the past week, my leash string is already unraveling and i need to buy a new one
i feel your pain dude i know exactly where you are comin from. my parents are the same way. and i'm all the way up in jersey. its not even gonna hit us that hard. its B.S.
know your limits. that's all. never, ever, ever, ever, have i heard or seen an experienced surfer/waterman die or even feel threatened whatsoever by a rip current. people die and get injured when they are in rips if they are not experienced and familiar with the ocean. as a surfer, sponger, bodysurfer, paddler and beach patrol member i will personally allow any person who is knowledgeable and experienced into the water in dangerous conditions, because i can trust that they are just as capable as myself in the water. however, i would absolutely never, under any circumstances, ever let an inexperienced surfer/swimmer/sponger into the water. rips are no joke to the inexperienced. it's like a ski lift for surfing to us, but its a death trap to others. even a rip pulling for onl 25 yards is incredibly dangerous to someone who has not logged serious hours in the ocean. any time it gets head high from tropical swell in ocean city we get a incredibly huge surge in rip current strength and activity. more water in = more water out. on labor day rips were pulling 100-150 yards out, which is a very strong and serious rip. sunday, as on labor day, people will not be allowed out past waist deep on my beach, and those i deem incapable will not be allowed in at all. anyways, the point of all this is that your parents are going on the fear factor of rip currents and heavy tropical swell that the media and governmental agencies have successfully spread. though it does not apply to us, the experienced community, it does absolutely apply to everyone else, and we are the minority. your parents are looking out for you, and i grew up with the same concerns and restrictions. the best thing to do is have them watch you, and to explain what myself and these other guys have been saying. hell, my mom still calls after a big swell to make sure im okay. if you feel in danger, get out of the water. its going to be BIG. safe surfing all, ill see you in the water
Dude, what on earth are you talking about? Labor day was like shoulder high in OC. I surfed with hundreds of others, and clearly not all were "experienced" It wasn't BIG just decent sized. Saturday is obviously a washing machine and will be unridable in OC. Sunday is forecast to be head fading to chest high. Were not talking Puerto Escondido here.
yeah, If you don't know the ocean, don't swim in it when in doubt. I've been surfing for the best of a couple of months so far but I've been playing in the ocean ever since I was a baby. So my past experiences help my surfing greatly. It annoys me when tourists or other people just come and say they want to surf, but they live in like Kansas! People who surf and are good at it spend a lot of time in the ocean and it's a living breathing thing unlike a stagnant pool. NOTE: To prevent confusion, I'm annoyed that they treat the ocean as if it's a Wave Pool at a water park. If they wanna learn to surf, kudos to them! But respect mother ocean.
it was absolutely rideable today, around 6 ... winds switched SW and then W hard, pretty damn good out there. and labor day was def. chest high, with some plus sets in ocean city.
I saw it really good today later in the day and was pretty pissed i couldnt go and the tropical storm didnt even get us bad.
yea for sure i lost my bodyboard twice today when i just lost grip of it going under waves cause the leash plug stripped out yea just floating around out there 100 or so yards out there with nothing to hold on to can cause some panic but you just gotta remain calm and take a couple on the head on the way in-bodysurfed a 5 footer in on assateague and got pretty wiped but i was laughing. Ended my sesh both times today
