E's Surf Report

for all you bored at work, check the new boogie mag on the net.

www.a-framemag.com

thank bbr an extra lot, cause he basically put the mag together.

Damn, Balangan....I would love to be sitting there right now chucking back a Bintang or 2....

Tom, you suck. Good call on the trip.

awesome stuff BBR! The interview with Alex is great reading. Really cool design too.. Fuck yeah BBR.

thanks for posting hoseph.

boogies unite!

e - I agreed with the general point you made about strip clubs yesterday (sleezy vibe / heavy hustle), but good for you for expressing regret at possibly offending/insulting, strippers and those who frequent strip clubs. It shows your heart's in the right place - that you care about people's feelings. Personally, I really appreciate the wide range of subjects that get coverage on this here board. It would be boring if ALL we talked about was surfing. Keep the social comment coming.
I haven't been in the water for 2 weeks. Hell, I haven't even seen the ocean for 3 days . . . I'm beginning to feel withdrawal symptoms. Another week of acupuncture and chiro and I'll be good to go. I turn 52 today - if I knew I was gonna live this long I would have taken better care of myself!

i am headed to mainland mexico for a short one - may 12-16. by the way, anyone looking to sell any travel bags?

Loon, where you headed in Mainland? I was throwing around some ideas there. Never been. Wife friendly? Child friendly?

Good point Jimmie.

Yesterday I learned the following:

- the Long Emergency will be a major bummer;
- next time I bang J Lo I should do her missionary style as she might otherwise shit on me;
- it is possible to lodge pork in the sinus socket behind your eyeball;
- my tounge fungus probably came from licking the walls at the Lusty Lady; and
- worse yet, i missed a surf window on Sunday - ARRRRR!!!

from wavescape.co.za

Cool site bbr-with a great Bruce Seq! Nice RZA pics too.

Here's a trippy site from a Photoshop master
http://www.humandescent.com

I've got a couple travel bags for sale, one is a triple or four board bag 8''6" and the other is a 10' double longboard bag....

Bigger than you might think out there this morning. Definitely overhead sets with some thump. Nasty, relentless sandbar midway out.

Super smooth but there was a little texture on the outside as I was leaving. A little sectiony which I like 'cause it makes it more interesting. Solo for a while and one other familiar face showed up near the end of the session.

Heading south in a couple of weeks for a few days so I'm sure you heads up here will have epic conditions.

Keep surfing no matter what (you too Jimmie)

kais & loon,
check this one in Troncones
owned by an aptos contractor/surfer
stayed there last new years with two families
four kids ...fun fun fun
beach break out front
plenty of point breaks within short driving distance
he's stocked with long boards, b.y.o.s.b.
http://www.casadelfinsonriente.com/delfin.htm

mexi - is the LB bag wheeled?

i'm out, next Monday for a week in Cabo. a little early in the season, but the lodging is free and the water warm.....stoked. i've got low expecations. which with my mojo means i will be duped by a week of waves.(fingers crossed) i located a fickle semi secret spot last time i was there. i'm hoping to connect with it this time.

travelling with boards is so farking expensive. thinking about leaving the boards at home and renting. anyone rent boards from Costa Azul - Olea? if so how'd the board(s) go?

Sweet site BBR, sweet set up! It reads and feels like your reading a magazine. Great photos too. Bruces sequence looks sweat, I see you touched it up and it really pops out of the screen. I link it to my site. Alex's art is very cool but pictures of it don't do it justice, they look much better in real life.

J, no wheels

3 to 5, I was in Cabo last Feb and I noticed that costa Azul wasn't there anymore (across from zippers), maybe they moved.

thanks fellas. i'm amped on how it turned out. big thanks to bruce for the photos and to schaffer-czech for the interview.

trips: CR may 12th > 19th STOKED.
and kauai from may 24th > june 7th for some "work".
2X STOKED.

got the new journal yesterday and spent a LONG time
last night looking at it.....kept seeing these shots of
glassy GLASSY GLASSY-ASS waves. best quote on here
in a while was from kaiser yesterday...and it kept playing
through my head as i saw glassy wave after glassy wave.

"what a waste of an ocean."

what does a glassy wave look like in person?
i am starting to forget....and to surf one? holy shit!
what a concept.

thanks for posting the pics, e.

the alameda park is pretty fun. it sits right on the bay so you get a nice view of sf while you're skating. you might also want to check out the berkeley park while you're over there. it's a bit bigger and easier to carve around. although last time i went there it was closed due to some toxic waste in the pools!! team toxic!!

kdalle, might have had a sighting...I was heading out on the clownboard as you came in?

SKUNKED! Skunked!!!! arrrhgargharghargharghargh!!! Farking damn! It's been a while! .02 secs away from zipping outside, near dry hair paddle, but didn't squeek by the corner of that one, farking one, last, outside wave. Got sent straight into the hubris zone. Duckdives were working and everything. Even the bigger waves on the head weren't bad at all...but I simply wasn't moving anywhere! AGGHAGHGAGH!

Sorry, rant off. A tad aggravated. Got out last 2 times, same place, no problem! But *those* times didn't catch anything. Grrrrr! Grr!

Summer Trips - I decided to make my summer one big trip. The city wasn't sounding like the best summer option to me so I got a part time job in Honolulu for june and july. So it'll be south shore Oahu for 2 months and then Kauai for the first 3 weeks of August. I can't wait for trunks, sun, and south swells. Now I just got to figure out where I am going to live and if i should buy a car while i am out there to cruise around. Any suggestions?

3to5, I stopped by Costa Azul 3 weeks ago. It's across the highway from Zippers (I'm not sure if that's a new location). My girlfriend was thinking of renting a board, but ended up taking a pass. The selection looked pretty good with more variety than I would expect. Are you hanging out in Cabo, or heading to the north or east? Definitely "secrets" aplenty once you get just a little bit out of town.

3to5-

I've rented boards from Costa Azul, and I believe they were fairly priced.

I remember noticing that it was one of the first places that I had seen which offered decent shortboards for rent as well as logs.

E and kdalle have it right. More juice and more fun than it might've looked like. A tougher paddle than I'd expected too (mid-beach 9-ish; there but for the grace of that last wave missing me go I, sharkbait!). Not totally mushed out, occasional speedy walls, pockets, reasonably clean at first . . . but it got pretty bumpy for my little board by 11---slap-slap-slap-slap....I saw some white-capping from the sea wall as I left. For me, some kookery, some "eh", but a couple of rides to keep me smiling for a while. Two guys just north of me at first, then another joining me at the end, but that was all; lots of waves unridden.

hey kaiser - i'm flying into guadalajara because a friend is there for work-school right now and has a vehicle. then we drive (@4hrs) to the michoacan coast to whatever spots suit our fancy, and either camp or stay in cheap hotels. i've only travelled that stretch of coast once before, back in 2002, so i can't say much, but there are some nice spots. but it gets pretty hot after may, and the rains can prevent access to some spots with dirt roads. does seems more family-friendly further south, especially down by zihuat.

thx for that link, mig, looks like a sweet spot.

E-

wear wrist gaurds and start carving and pumping in the smallest bowl. Get your confidence up and the rythm and move up to the larger stuff. Keep your momentum by constanly pumping through the transitions. Loosen those trucks!

Tom- My dog pay some local $20 and have them take some photos of ya....we know you doing this

Thinking of mainland Mex but would love to got to baja with som travelers...anyone going to baja?

Any good fares out there without the friggin added charge for boards?

i just (as in yesterday) got tix for a trip in may to visit my girlfriend who is working in melbourne. now i have to figure out the how/what/where for surf...

A-FRAME MAG! SICK SHOTS!! Good job guys!

Sorry for the long post. But this is what the itinerary's looking like.

Central America
1. Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica: July 1-15
2. Costa del Balsamo, El Salvador: July 15-31

South America
3. Lima, Peru: August 1-10
4. Santiago, Chile: August 10-31

United Kingdom & Britain
5. Britain & Ireland: September 1- October 9
Dublin: September 1-2
North West Ireland (Donegal): September 2-10
Dublin: September 10-11
Ferry to Glasgow: September 11
Thurso, Scotland (Caithness): September 11-19
Edingburgh, Scotland: September 19-20
New Castle, England: September 20-25
Manchester, England: September 25-26
The Gower, Wales: September 26-October 1
Newquay, England: October 1-8
London, England: October 8-9

Europe
6. France: October 9-21
7. Europe: October 21-November 15
8. North Spain: November 15-30
9. Portugal: December 1-15
10. Barcelona, Spain: December 15-31

Central America
11. British Virgin Islands: January 1-10

Africa
12. Morocco: January 10-25
13. Canary Islands, Spain: January 25-31

Australia & New Zealand
14. Gold Coast (Queensland), Australia: February 1-28
15. Taranaki, New Zealand: March 1-15

Nice cutty Alex! Good shot Bruce!

I think I may be able to ride my bike down to Big Sur in August.

thnks for the replies about costa azul. last time i was there i saw a massive selection of good looking boards for rent and at almost half the price of packing my own for the week. taking the family so i'm going to rent a few different sticks to mix it up. i'm just hoping the boards aren't dogs. hard to beat the flow of coffey.

I have been to Costa Rica and Fiji with Tom.

Awsome guy! The fijians call him "Big Man"
They called me "Yellow Shorts" cause I had these bright yellow quick boardies. The boat man was all over them. 'Give me those yellow shorts,' he would say as we trucked out to Frigates...

Korewin can you email me..

panic @ Radio City for three nights is my vacation

no surf but really stoked

Ian -- Glad to see that you've got the Gower on your list. That's where I'm from.

I'd recommend surfing Llangennith -- I was just there last October and had a great time. Let me know if you'd like the name of a great local Bed and Breakfast there...... Oh, and check out PJ's Surf Shop -- those guys are pretty amusing (they have one of Jay Moriarty's boards from a contest there years ago).

you're going to score so huge Ian! that trip sounds disgusting!

niiice.

Whoa Ian- What a trip!
I actually may be down in Chile the same time in Aug.

If any of you guys are interested a buddy of mine directed an amazing, soulful 16mm Freeride Mountian Bike Flick called
The Collective
Probably one of the best MTB films ever made.

http://www.thecollectivefilm.com/

It's one of the selections this year for the Banff Mountain Film Festival and will be playing at Wed/ Thurs Berkelely and Fri/ Sat in SF (Fort Mason)
Check it out! Tix @ REI I think

cool Tom pic Pez.

Lerm, MWSF and i are headed to Baja for 2 weeks may 27 to June 10th. Stoked! Starting in Cabo. Depending on swell might do a little east cape sojourn.. then up to abriejos area i think. any insights or spot tip-offs would be the greatest thing of all time ever.

just one more morning
i had to wake up with the blues
pull myself out of bed
put on my walkin' shoes

went up on the mountain
to see what i could see
the whole world was fallin'
right down in front of me

cause i have a hunger
for the dreams i'll never see.

A-Frame mag is waaaaayy well done.

E-
Which airline did you use and do they have a board fee? Your renting a car I assume, who'd you go with?

Lastly-

I am slightly embarrassed I dont know, but
anybody know details regarding if the new procedure for driving to Mexico are applicable to BAJA as well?

ya, congrats on the mag bbr! super nice

im also going on my first cabo trip in a week and a half..

take a passport, pez.

don't forget to get KFC at the border and car insurance.

There's this super secret spot in Cabo called Squid Row- It goes off!

But that's our secret

yo MEXI...

sent one to the address on the site....pf.com

lemme know wassup.

KOOKDOM you RULE!!!

that WILL kick so much ASS!!
have fun; take notes and post some
setlists and reviews for me and traut!!

pez - i'm alaska air. i think they charge for boards. lerm dealt with the car rental. Though since i'm the first one to arrive i'll probably haggle at the airport to see if i can get a better deal. 3to5 mentioned a good deal (i think it was 3to5) but i can't remember. surf.

squid row definitely goes off huge! Cabo is kinda lame imho. psyched to bust out of there after the wedding.

If you want to see someone doing a lousy job, go see Blake.

No not Blakestah, the intersection of Blake and Geary, near Masonic. Every day on the way home from work I drive by a woman standing in the middle of Geary wearing a Statue of Liberty outfit waving and smiling (like she just won an award) to passer-bys advertising some company at that intersection. Wind, dirt, fumes, brake pad dust, forced smile, probably no benefits, low pay... Makes a desk job look not so bad. I wonder if she can dance?

Driving to Mainland Mex has changed this is what is required for mainland. I wonder if its applicable to Baja. Baja is to Mexico as Hong Kong is to China. One country two systems.....just checking if anyone has done the drive recently and if the new rules were in effect in TJ.

Bring the original plus two(2) copies of the following documents:

Valid proof of citizenship (passport or birth certificate).
The appropiate immigration form (tourist card). learn about visa options
The valid vehicle registration certificate, or a document, such as the original title that certifies the legal ownership of the vehicle. It must be in the driver's name.
The leasing contract (if the vehicle is leased or rented) which must be in the name of the person importing the car. If the vehicle belongs to a company, present the document that certifies the employee works for the company.
A valid driver's license, issued outside Mexico.
An international credit card, also issued outside Mexico (American Express, Mastercard or Visa), in the name of the driver of the vehicle.

from http://www.mexonline.com/drivemex.htm

e- the alameda park suffers greatly in the wind and I am sure that the soil on the naval base is very clean and safe to breath. the berk. park will likely be closed due to leaching toxic ground water (it was built next to a superfund site) thanks to recent rains. my advise to you is to go skate the pleasant hill park. plenty of good runs for a beginning vert/ bank rider and a really fun deepish bowl.

The rules are different from Baja and mainland, but technically they apply to Baja Sur too.

I'm headed on a trip coming up here pretty soon.A trip into the fog.Drifting and dreaming,trying to figure out if your on the same sandbar or if you've meandered a couple blocks to the next.The lulling sound of the horn in the fog-glass.The suprise of a set coming at you from the 50 yard horizon .A pelican dives ,a sea lion rolls ,and maybe even a salmon shark chomps.Hop up on the second wave because your so shocked that you missed the first.Equilibrium is back and your flying down the line in a cloud of light .Pull out and you go paddle back into the ocean and wait for the next wave too creep out of the daze that is nebula.
Enloy your travels wherever you are in the otherwise season.

thanks nebula. that was cool.

word goodmorning. thanks for the tip. I think that i'm going to alameda though. it's easy to get to work right afterward.

skaaaaate!

Thanks Korewin, I am calling Radio Child opener on thursday. Will try and let you guys know how it is while there.

mike stern interview

andrew kidman interview

just checked out the A-frame mag....very, VERY good. definitely the best online surf mag around!

thanks rza

bbr... sweeeet. I might head up way north in the fall. Currently, I need to go somewhere warm soon... Costa perhaps.