Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Surf Videos w/Boardcams!
While hunting for some photos of Saturday’s big waves, I came across a few surfing videos shot by people with waterproof cameras. It’s a lot of fun to watch other people out there having a good time. The fun thing about the boardcams is seeing people fall off and come right back up smiling and [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Angry Waves
Conditions: 8-10 ft. – 3 ft. overhead to double overhead and poor conditions. Overhead+ to double overhead waves with bigger sets at the standouts. Mostly clean, light winds, but a pretty tough paddle. Gear: 9′ 4″ Sunset Soft top from NorCal Surf Shop One of a handful of valuable lessons one can learn from surfing [...]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Teaching
Conditions: 3-4 ft. – waist to chest high and fair – conditions. Sloppy, scattered peaks in the waist-head high range with a few bigger sets on occasion. Cleaned up as the day went on. Gear: 9′ 4″ Sunset Soft top from NorCal Surf Shop Another beautiful day out in Pacifica. After flying cross country I [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Surfing on the Great Lakes
I’m back in the Midwest visiting my folks. They recently moved from the house I grew up in to a new house about a half mile from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. If you’ve ever seen Step Into Liquid there’s a great scene about the die hard midwesterners surfing in Sheboygan. Today’s fairly clean although [...]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Yikes
6-10 foot surf with occasional 12? I think this Saturday is best left to those who can handle the big waves. The plan for this Saturday had been to teach 5-6 of my friends how to surf, but these kind of conditions would make that dangerous if not impossible. There will be other, better days to [...]
