{"id":877,"date":"2010-09-13T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-09-22T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T18:50:05","slug":"ocean-beach-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2010\/09\/ocean-beach-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Beach Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Surf:<\/strong> Small, slightly bumpy soft waves. 2-3ft with some 4-5ft standouts.<\/p>\n

I like surfing ocean beach when it’s small. In the summer it can get nice and mellow and I can paddle out with my longboard like it’s any other day. I’d mostly neglected the usual OB breaks over this summer. I guess I’d gotten into the habit of picking off lefts at Linda Mar and wasn’t really thinking much about surfing our local avenues.<\/p>\n

Today Linda Mar was flat so Chris and I headed back up the coast, checking out the usual alphabet streets. <\/p>\n

I got a real nice wave right after paddle out, then a few warbly drops on other jumbled waves. OB is always a surprise. The wildlife is a lot less timid and some pretty large waves can come charing through a spot that had previously be sleepily breaking at knee to waist high. Trying to scrap over one larger wave my board got yanked my the wave. I had a few seconds of bobbing around before realizing my board was surfing the wave without me. I had a nice long ride being drug along behind my board that was happily enjoying a nice wave all on it’s own. The 9’4 really gets moving fast, even towing me splashing behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surf: Small, slightly bumpy soft waves. 2-3ft with some 4-5ft standouts. I like surfing ocean beach when it’s small. In the summer it can get nice and mellow and I can paddle out with my longboard like it’s any other day. I’d mostly neglected the usual OB breaks over this summer. I guess I’d gotten … <\/p>\n

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