Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Rounding Out the Year Stoked!
SURF: Inconsistent sets ranging from Thigh high to Head High. Warm sun, clean. What a great way to round out the year. This pretty unassuming day turned out to be so much fun. We hit the beach at high tide and the waves were a little mushy. I was just happy to be in the [...]
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Catching Waves on a Saturday
SURF: 3-4ft with 5ft standouts. A little inconsistent, not terribly clean but protected from the winds. Warm for the season, friendly and sunny. Trying to wait out the high tide, Aaron and I rolled up to the Jetty early afternoon. Aaron has pretty much the raddest board ever. I need to snap a pic next [...]
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Early Friday at the Jetty
SURF: 3-4ft, mellow and fairly smooth. Second attempt at dawn patrol before my new gig. I’d already lost time putting my roof rack before I even got around to picking up Mike. He was a pretty good sport with my relentless swearing and freaking out about needing to be at work by 9. The delay [...]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Waiting for the Sunrise
Surf: Flat. Occasionaly 2ft waves. I tried to sneak in a Dawn Patrol before the new swell hits. 6:45 I was standing on the beach in almost complete darkness trying to make out the shape of a wave on the horizon. There were none. It was flat. I waited for Luke thinking he’d want to [...]
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Surf Videos I Dig
I’ve been collecting a few videos that I really dig both the surfing and the music. Here they are in no particular order: I love the ride anything mentality. Boards, inflatable mats, big waves, small waves, weird wooden board like things. Really dig the song. I wish this video was higher quality, some of the [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Chilly mornings
SURF: 3-5ft, choppy, sloppy and cold. I went out for a little paddle practice on the 7′. I’d stripped the wax off my longboard on friday assuming my job would start Monday. It’s probably for the best, Linda Mar was a mess. I could have made it into the line up with my longboard but [...]
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Day 6 in the Marathon
SURF: 2-3 ft.+ knee to chest high and fair conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Peaky, clean, soft lines, with some occasional workable little corners on tap. After 5 days on the water I was pretty relieved to get a small wave report at Linda Mar. Just after paddling out I caught wave after wave. All [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Swamped
SURF: 3-4 ft. + waist to shoulder high with occasional 5 ft and fair to good conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Mostly walled-up, glassy lines continue this morning, with some occasional lined-up, makeable corners through the inside. A +7 high tide and freak big weekday crowd made Linda Mar a bit of a challenge today. [...]
