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Lordy, Lordy, its Dogtown time!

Tomorrow morning at this time, I will be 30,000 feet up headed to warm water and head high + surf!

Today, however, I am sitting in my office watching trees blow in the wind yet again. Surfpulse called the surf poor/fair this morning so likely there was something out there. I woke up at 3:00 a.m. in the morning to the sound of metal on metal as a construction van absolutely demolished a Ford Explorer in front of my house. Van had to of been barrelling down the street at 40 mph, downhill, drunk - SMACK! Then the drunk bastard tried to drive away. Little did he know he was dragging his front bumper, a 20 foot ladder, a Ford Explorer and only had 3 wheels to boot! Unreal. Guy got out and in his broken native language tried to tell the neighbors his "friend" was driving. Somehow, 5 minutes later, he slipped down the street and ran away.

He will get his! Sooooo, after laughing my ass off and then dealing with the SFPD (laughing my ass off), I wasn't having any surf this morning. 10 ft @ 8 secs, 20 kts winds at the SF Bouy. Winds locally look about the same as ever other day this week. Go fishing, have a ball.......

Some Tavvy Shots:

Today's Profile: Tom Carroll
Australian Tom Carroll, a stand-out new-schooler of the late 1970s was destined to become a pioneer in the sport’s professional evolution -- both in the water and on the dotted line. A small guy with huge power, a diligent competitor with a prankster’s soul, the picture of health with a sack full of afflictions, the two-time World Champion has reached the pinnacle of the sport and true legend status.

Winner of the Australian Junior Title in 1978 and the Pro Juniors in ’77 and ’80, Tom was ready for anything, so he joined the IPS World Tour in ’79 at age 18. The world looked to be his oyster... until he took a bad fall at a Sydney pub and ripped apart a knee. His doctors told him it would be wise to abandon all thoughts of a professional surfing career.

Only intense training and plenty of good luck could overcome a supposed career-ending setback. Undaunted, Tom Carroll embarked on a conditioning regimen that not only resurrected his own surfing career, it created the benchmark for fitness in the sport. Carroll scorched through the 1980s, winning big, losing big, and hurting big. Tom ended the 4-year reign of fellow Australian Mark Richards, roaring back to beat one of his Queensland idols to the 1983 ASP World Title.

Carroll also proved himself to be a man of strong principles, protesting South Africa’s policy of Apartheid and boycotting that leg of the tour. In Hawai'i, Carroll was redefining power surfing with insanely late takeoffs, outrageous snaps, and the boldest possible positioning. Despite three serious injuries early in the year, he won the ’87 Pipe Masters – now wearing a helmet – just a day after learning of his sister’s death in an auto wreck.

In 1989, he signed a five-year contract with Quiksilver making him surfing’s first Million-Dollar Man. Still living in Newport where it all began, his work for Quik ensures he still enjoys plenty of dredging reef-pass barrels and idyllic voyages.

TC is a snake!

Posted by: HeSnakeMe at June 3, 2005 09:27 AM

Some Fiji vids.....

http://www.globefiji.com/videos/index.php?action=gallery&galleryid=2

Oh my god the surf looked so small and weak and red and crumbly and pathetic this morning.

Have a super FUN trip to Mex!!!

Posted by: Hb at June 3, 2005 09:45 AM

45 min go out at a sm county spot
paddle duck, paddle duck, ice cream headache
jumbled mess, finally find a peak hop on turn right, pump drop for bottom turn, crumbling ahead, scoot up and out the backside paddle duck paddle duck f'n a this is june... why the frigid agua

Posted by: mig at June 3, 2005 09:50 AM

I hate it when people park their Ford Explorers in the street like that.

Bumper drag, bad for surfing, good for the club.

Posted by: at June 3, 2005 09:56 AM

Have a great trip Kaiser and I think the drive I told you about may be more like 5 hours not 4 but well worth it.

Posted by: Mexi at June 3, 2005 10:23 AM

frick i hope the waves get better this weekend i got friends in town who want to surf... this blowwwwws

Posted by: bbr at June 3, 2005 10:28 AM

dude where's my car?

Posted by: at June 3, 2005 10:29 AM

lindy 6/3/05 7:15 am

ha ha you really missed it

Posted by: tc at June 3, 2005 10:38 AM

yo, bbr turn your friends on to one of the medicinal pot clubs

Posted by: tour guide at June 3, 2005 10:39 AM

Mexi, HB, thanks for the thoughts. Mexi, I am gonna try to get up that way! Longshot right now but I would really like to get up there.

Sounds like I am gonna get swell the entire time! Fired up on that.

Maybe the 7'0'' needs to go????

Posted by: Kaiser at June 3, 2005 11:11 AM

No fun if you make it every time series. Requirements for entry to the series are simple.

Shallow reef, air between you and bottom and some semblance of upside downess before impact

Posted by: tom at June 3, 2005 11:22 AM

I don't know which of those is the worst! I am going with #2 - the-land-on-your-back-get-pulled-back-over-the-falls-on-the-reef one

Posted by: Kaiser at June 3, 2005 11:29 AM

I think the third one has more of a chance of going over, the first 2 might go deep enough to hit reef but pop up after the wave passes

Posted by: Mexi at June 3, 2005 11:32 AM

Feel the love

Posted by: Mexi at June 3, 2005 11:38 AM

Feel the love

Posted by: Mexi at June 3, 2005 11:38 AM

Well #2 deserves what ever he get'sssssssssss.......

Posted by: tom at June 3, 2005 11:44 AM

I dunno. Number 1 has a pretty nasty looking contortion thing going on there. He looks about to get sucked back into the pit by his board too. Any way you look at it, they're all screwed.

Have a good trip Kaiser. I'd take the 7'0 too.

Posted by: Dennis at June 3, 2005 11:49 AM

#1 looks like he already started his fight. but leg's went one day and he tried to spin the head the other.

Here is another shot of #2 above from another photog and link to whole series (8) of the burn and beating. this is 6 of 8.

http://sickshots.com/galleries/sequence/index.htm

Posted by: tom at June 3, 2005 11:52 AM

didn't go through but the link will show you the whole thing....

Posted by: tom at June 3, 2005 11:54 AM

Yup he went over and under...

Posted by: mexi at June 3, 2005 11:56 AM

Yah, Mexi, nice shot of Nexpa

Posted by: ixeM at June 3, 2005 11:57 AM



Posted by: Pichilemu at June 3, 2005 12:02 PM

nice pics, number 1 looks like a painful-neck twister.
tom-shoot me an email...

Posted by: flap at June 3, 2005 12:03 PM

sepp bruhwiler

doing the berty in b.c.
no wetty... argghh

Posted by: otf at June 3, 2005 12:05 PM

Tom - that's some sequence. It looks like the guy in the white t-shirt was on it first and the other guy dropped in cuz white t-shirt guy is coming in from outside the lip. The cut-off looks either intensional or white t-shirt guy never saw the other surfer til he pulled in under the lip and stalled. Glad it wasn't me.

Posted by: Dennis at June 3, 2005 12:18 PM

Occy is a snake too!

Posted by: HeSnakeMe at June 3, 2005 12:37 PM

HeSnakeMe, quit whining.

Posted by: Uwhiner at June 3, 2005 12:41 PM

Yo HeSnakeMe,
surfing is darwinism at it's best. live in the pit, sit on the boil, or scratch for leftovers, it's your choice. it's a pecking order, earn it.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at June 3, 2005 12:52 PM

I know the Bruhwiler family well, I've stayed in their tree house in Tofino for a week, the two brother are graet surfers and their sis rips too. They are the first family of BC surfers. I wish i shop pics back then.

Posted by: Mexi at June 3, 2005 12:58 PM

shot not shop

Posted by: Mexi at June 3, 2005 01:00 PM

Have fun Kaiser should be good down there!

Off to Mt. Shasta (the lindy of alpine climbs) for some climbing/ skiing now that the weather looks OK for this weekend warrior- should be a party!

Posted by: artifact at June 3, 2005 01:02 PM

Have fun Art, never been but I've been to Weed B4...

Kaiser, just had a Tapatia Burito with Carnitas... it's nap time.

Posted by: at June 3, 2005 01:19 PM

Found some tinies north of SC; glassy, warm water, no wind. But small, and not a lot of great shape. Still, plenty of fun little rides for such as me. Half a dozen out, mainly chill---one guy shows late morning with a Mr. Seriousbusiness Mustgetbestwaves act that had me totally convinced.

May the waves rise to meet you, Kaiser!

Posted by: kloo at June 3, 2005 01:30 PM

Going down for a siesta soon.....

Artifact, enjoy Shasta, bring some SPF 50, it gets hot up there this time of year. The sun will burn right thru you up there too.

I forgot to mention that since the substitute (me) is going to be out, we had to bring in a substitute for the substitute until E gets back to the normal program. Keep an eye out for some strangeness next week.

No telling what the substitute's substitute might pull.......

Posted by: Kaiser at June 3, 2005 01:33 PM

how big kloo? might head down that way tomorrow.

Posted by: bbr at June 3, 2005 01:44 PM

Thank guys! I'm sure we'll roll up Weed... ummm er I mean roll through Weed after the climb.

Enjoy those 2 days of freedom and those few months for you lucky and deserving teachers out there!

Posted by: artifact at June 3, 2005 01:49 PM

2-3 foot? Few enough rideable waves at a point break that I'm not sure I'd want to be there with a Saturday crowd.

I drove the coast, and in retrospect it might've been more fun to stop before I did. (How's that for vague?)

Posted by: kloo at June 3, 2005 01:58 PM

vague is gay, open the kimono

Posted by: e at June 3, 2005 02:12 PM

fingers crossed for some traces of south. headed south for the weekend.

Posted by: Ian at June 3, 2005 02:14 PM

art, couple of friends on Shasta today and tomorrow look for Tim and Dave up there on skis... ones tall and skinny the other short and always talking.

Posted by: mig at June 3, 2005 02:23 PM


surf sucks ...may as well bag a peak

Posted by: weedman at June 3, 2005 02:28 PM

did you look at the waves at the beach this morning, bbr? it could have proved pretty fun for bbring i think b/w 5:30-7:30. The wind was sideshore offshore and there were tons of waves, just not too shapely or peeling for long.

Posted by: steamwand at June 3, 2005 02:35 PM

My thougts exactly weedman!
I'll keep an eye out for your buddies mig

Posted by: artifact at June 3, 2005 02:36 PM

no way!
vague is vogue

do you kiss and tell? never!

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at June 3, 2005 02:43 PM

Lots more of me coming.

Posted by: onshore wind at June 3, 2005 02:51 PM

enjoy mexico, kaiser

Posted by: juanita at June 3, 2005 02:55 PM

have fun kaiser...i MIGHT bring the 7'0"...

back in the first world dreaming of the 3rd.
cheers ya'll.

Posted by: korewin at June 3, 2005 03:48 PM

happy friday niceness.

kaiser shred hard and have fun in the land of left points.

boys night out. 5 minutes till lift off......


Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at June 3, 2005 04:15 PM

Enjoy the week! May I leave a parting shot or 2......

Posted by: Kaiser at June 3, 2005 04:31 PM

What the hell, what is one more....Happy Friday!

Posted by: Kaiser at June 3, 2005 04:32 PM

kaiser, we'll miss you!

Posted by: j at June 3, 2005 05:05 PM

i love you kaiser

Posted by: Brian at June 3, 2005 09:42 PM

I laugh at gay jokes.

Am i a homo-phobe?

I laugh at racist jokes.

Am i close minded?

PC over sensitive nor cal/SF kooks.

Posted by: at June 5, 2005 09:23 AM

yes and yes, now go back to Alabama you white trash fag.

Posted by: Mexi at June 5, 2005 10:12 AM

Pecking order? Snake is as snake be!
Snake.

Posted by: HeSnakeMe at June 5, 2005 01:08 PM

valley go home!

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