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ginormo mackers funnelling in this morning!
Holy shit!!
Where did the swell come from??
I saw some crazy loony guy climb up on seal rock, leap off with his board and land onto the face of a triple overhead crunching spitting wave. crazy.

but in all seriousness folks, shit is puny out in surf land.
It's a good stretch of time to build up your alcoholic tolerance. Stay out late drinking and carrying on without worry that you'll miss the sick dawnie. Also a good time to get your fog face developed. Fog face describes the grim, determined, downcast look that west-side SF'ers develop through the summer melancholy. It's gray, it's chilly, it ain't really summer. Just hunker down and bear it. At least we're not roasting!

Garage A Trois tonight at the Indepenent. Should be a good show.

Mark Ribot at Yoshi's on monday. The guy is an avant-jazz maestro. Slanky cuban-styled guitar virtuosity. Has played with Zorn, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Bill Ware, etc. check him out.

I'll be up in Mendo from Friday through Wed. Hoping for some swell!!!

Bruce Movie preview

this wave is no more

Good bye wave! We hardly knew ye.
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Posted by: Burnt Reynolds at August 10, 2005 10:13 AM

I love off-shores at dawn.

Posted by: Burnt Reynolds at August 10, 2005 10:16 AM

Movie review from Balboa Theater last night:

Full Circle - Kinda interesting movie mostly about George Greenough. Several comparison clips of his 60's kneeboard style of ripping and getting barreled versus his contemporary longboarders bottom turning and trimming. Tom Curren and Mick Fanning paid homage to George as the origainal ripper. Nice clips of Tom and Mick ripping. Overall rating: 6.5 out of 10. There was no actual interviedw with George.

What's Next - advertised as "high voltage surfing with new moves and deep barrels by the world's best". Well, it wasn't. I thought the movie sucked. The music was way too loud and the content was way too thin. There were some big barrels but how many times can you watch a handful of surfers doing 180's and 360's in 3 foot surf and still maintain a level of interest. A couple obnoxious drunk surfers annoying airport employees in Indonesia doesn't make for good footage. I was happy when the movie was over. Rating: 2 out of 10.

The person presenting the movies stood in the front of the theater without a microphone and explained the upcoming scenes to the first three rows. Those of us near the rear could not hear anything. No give aways either. Bummer. The house was sold out.

Posted by: Dennis at August 10, 2005 10:25 AM

Felling opinionated today, I think Anthony Ruffo should be ostracised from the surf community in SC for selling meth - when he gets out of jail. He is an icon to young people and he has sent the wrong message. A message should be sent to him for all to see: You're can't surf here Ruffo.

Posted by: Dennis at August 10, 2005 10:43 AM

I second Dennis's comments on the movies.

Full Circle had excellent footage of George Geenough on his spoon (?)--whatever you'd call that thing. Pretty cool stuff. The segues were thin, but they did manage to link style with Curren and Fanning. Amazing barrel rides by Curren. Would've been nice to have some more commentary on surfboard design--as that appears to be key to the surfing. They mispelled "California" ("Calfornia") in the first frame of text. Not very professional to misspell your state's name. Overall, had that special surf-movie feel, especially with the classic footage. Tells an interesting story.

What's Next seemed like a college project gone bad. Inept interviews, so-so footage, repeats of the good footage...overall, the characters and the film suffered from a real lack of dignity. Bottom feeder wannabe pro surfers "shredding" 3-foot poo water. Would've been time better spent if they'd simply documented coastal sewer issues.

Posted by: $0.02 at August 10, 2005 10:48 AM

who knows what really happened with Ruffo.. maybe he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.. his friend cruised over with some Meth, all of a sudden the cops knock on the door. he already got busted for weed.. now he's fucked. Everything i've heard about ruffo is that he's a chill dude. I say give him a break.

Posted by: e at August 10, 2005 10:49 AM

i'm with you denny, i'll be sure to drop in on ruff next time (if) i see him in the steamers line up.

Posted by: snake at August 10, 2005 10:51 AM

howdy to traut and ss...

good to see ya'll at the flicks. i woulda spoken
more but i could not even hear myself think in
that theater. so FARKING loud!

dennis i too was bummed with the "unauthorized"
greenough flick...the old footage was nice and the
what, 10 or 12 second barrel that curren got or the
4 of them at the silver strand were SICK. other than
that not so much.

the second film was completely depressing.
everything that surfers should not be known for
was there being celebrated.

went to big sur a few weeks ago with some guys
that only occaisionally surf. and they said it is
mainly that surfers are assholes. movies like
"what's next" only confirm that. bummed to have
supported those tools. maybe i AM an old fart?

Posted by: korewin at August 10, 2005 10:51 AM

didn't see full circle but gotta tell you greenough is my hero...i'm currently riding a greenough design board i picked up last summer from bob duncan at wilderness ... tight

Posted by: mig at August 10, 2005 10:55 AM

I didn't need to pay $10 to see surfers drinking beer. Fun snippets re: Greenough though.

Sorry I didn't recognize you folks in the theater! Der. Not talkative either, but it wasn't a diss - my hearing is good outside but utter crap in rooms full of people - conversing is damned near impossible in those situations!

Every once in a while a hardy soul braves the slush out front. Rides? I dunno.

Posted by: s.s. sharkbait at August 10, 2005 11:05 AM

wct hotties

Posted by: sauce at August 10, 2005 11:08 AM

"let he has not sinned cast the first stone"

Good luck Ruffo...get it back together and tell the kids, "see what can happen. I almost lost my freedom to that shit. If you wanna surf, don't use drugs."

I'm here for you Ruff' believe in me.

Posted by: Jesus at August 10, 2005 11:14 AM

E - you're partly right. The whole truth should come out first before tar and feathering the guy:) By the reports though, the police said a trail of meth led down the hallway to the tiolet. Sounds like a lot more than just a party snoot full.

Posted by: Dennis at August 10, 2005 11:17 AM

Watch what you say about WHATS NEXT!!

Posted by: wolfpack at August 10, 2005 11:18 AM

Christianity is a religion for losers

Posted by: Ted Turner at August 10, 2005 11:19 AM

Hola peoples. Still chillin down south. scored a few unexpected waves in small shit hole of a town in Guatemala, surfed alone for a week before the Guate surf team showed up and surfed the day I was leaving which allowed me to shoot a couple rolls, unfortunately like their soccer team Guatemala isn't known for their surf team, always ranked last in Lantin America behind land locked Paraguay, I was better than most of em, and that ain't saying much.
Came back to Costa and took off to the Carrabean with Ian, he got stung by a jelly fish and started vomitting, was partially paralyzed and almost passed out, not good when surfing a shallow reef break. By the time I got him to a hospital he was back to normal, strange. Coming home in a couple weeks and I'm bringing a new pal, Buddy Bones, a dog that was practically dead when we got him, My wife and I brought him back to life and he's flying homw with me. Good meaty waves today at Hermosa, Fun. I miss Sf and my garden. Peace

Posted by: Mexi at August 10, 2005 11:21 AM

Hey Groovy Niceness peeps. Cool blog - funny input...
But why would a cool SF guy, or why would anyone invite trouble by dropping in on a local SC thug? I don't know who Ruffa is but he sounds kinda heavy. Does he surf here -OB?

I am new to this blog moved here from
Vancouver last spring. Where is that new surf/art shop?I thinks its called Mullet or Musk or something.

Posted by: Ben Dover at August 10, 2005 11:22 AM

What's Next made my ears bleed. It was like listening to a transister radio at 120dB.


Posted by: R3W at August 10, 2005 11:26 AM

MexDeathTrip2005
August 18th - 21st.

Pictures to follow.

Posted by: Shralp at August 10, 2005 11:36 AM

mexi that is awesome about the dog save! i have wanted to bring many a third world dog home with me from trips but never really seriously considered doing it for pratical reasons. good for you man!

Posted by: vons at August 10, 2005 11:36 AM

I pulled into the empty lot and parked.

No one in sight. Waist to head high bowls and walls to myself.

dropping in, knees bent, my legs are springs compressing and extending as i go from bottom to top linking, flowing.
connecting dots between desire, trajectory, and commitment.

smacking lips and banking off corners.
another and another and yet another.
early morning sun peeking through the fog.

carving away my craving.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at August 10, 2005 11:43 AM

3to5, local experience or dreamland?

Posted by: snake at August 10, 2005 11:46 AM

e, why is that wave no more? appears to be mexican, no?

Posted by: snake at August 10, 2005 11:47 AM

ok, never mind I can do web research
harrys r.i.p.


Posted by: snake at August 10, 2005 11:53 AM

Saturday August 13, Sam George of Surfer Magazine will give a series of free speeches covering surfing know-how at the Linda Mar Taco Bell. From 10:00am to 10:30 he will cover "Finding your Stance." A 15-minute Chalupa break will then be followed by "It begins with a Fin Key." Though unconfirmed at this time, "Bad Vibe Bob" is slated to give a presentation on "Ancient Snacks of Indigenous Peoples" Those who stay around for the t-shirt raffle (featuring the names of the world's top 100 surf spots) can join in a group spiritual happening by paddling out together to form an aloha circle in front of the boathouse where Sam will dump a 50-gallon drum of used motor oil into the lineup as part of a protest and homage to the passing of the late Harry's in Baja, at the hand of a natural gas plant currently under construction. Niceness blogger regulars are encouraged to bring their own used motor oil ahead of time to donate to the event.

Posted by: niceness event hosting at August 10, 2005 11:54 AM

The jetty is being is being built despite a campaign to save Harry's carried out by Wildcoast, Save the Waves Coalition and the Surfrider Foundation and 13 lawsuits against the Sempra-Shell filed by local landowners and the part-owners of the nearby Baja Mar Golf Resort.

WHERE were these guys when then created Sand Spit or the Wedge in Newport. Things come and go. Big Government can create magic and destroy it too. thats life in the modern era. Whats the current score card on lost waves vs. newly formed magic?

Posted by: dsx at August 10, 2005 11:59 AM

Posted by: sonny sharrock is the man! at August 10, 2005 12:04 PM


Slapping it hard all wet I imagined myself slotted deep. My gesticualting and hard frown can get in the way of my lust until I release a fat lipper.

I know better but I just gotta jam!

Posted by: SFBoyz at August 10, 2005 12:07 PM

Sam George at the Taco Bell... hee hee... hope he will also be giving out the detailed "Beginners Surf Map of the Norcal" which explains how to find every decent uncrowded spot between Santa Cruz and the Oregon border...

Posted by: J at August 10, 2005 12:09 PM

Good on Mexi.

Bad on developers.

Posted by: at August 10, 2005 12:10 PM

Surf movies suck... a bunk of kids on 6'0's smacking the lip and a bunch of solat surfing parkingl lot big men with beanie caps watching em. patetico

Posted by: antman at August 10, 2005 12:23 PM

Hey e., where in Mendoland are you heading? South coast? Surf potential for the weekend will be marginal at best. I'd rather not discuss more on a public forum but if you have some free time, drop me an email and I'll give you some tips on where to maximize what swell there will be.

Posted by: rabbit at August 10, 2005 12:31 PM

rabbit. what's your email address?

Posted by: e at August 10, 2005 12:38 PM

My email address is:

gosearch@foryourself.com

Posted by: blabberblog.com at August 10, 2005 12:58 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8882532/

Gaza surfers will be forced to find new waves
Pullout means settlers will bid farewell to beach paradise

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip — The long strips of white sand pour into the deep bright blue Mediterranean, welcoming visitors to a beautiful beach paradise.

It's not the image normally associated with the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas of the world, home to more than 1.3 million Palestinians and a declining number of Jewish settlers.

But as the deadline approaches for the evacuation of settlements in Gaza, the beach lovers and surfers of Gush Khatif are in mourning.

More Posted by: at August 10, 2005 01:28 PM

Gaza Surfer Story

Posted by: Ate my code at August 10, 2005 01:29 PM

do u think if the long bros and murray disclosed the location before anything else that it might have been preserved? tourism vs. corporate bux. anyhow, i would like to say... bastards

Posted by: weems at August 10, 2005 01:32 PM

do u think if the long bros and murray disclosed the location before anything else that it might have been preserved? tourism vs. corporate bux.

Posted by: weems at August 10, 2005 01:33 PM

snake, it was this morning......at a skatepark.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at August 10, 2005 01:41 PM

ha, "Ancient Snacks of Indigenous Peoples"

Posted by: bagel at August 10, 2005 01:49 PM

the101corridor@hotmail.com

Posted by: rabbit at August 10, 2005 01:55 PM

ps. is "whats next" a new Lost movie, you know like the brand, lost?

Posted by: bagel at August 10, 2005 01:55 PM

kaiser, this blog needs your input now.....

delayed oregon report: HOT HOT HOT inland, a bit breezy at the beach thanks to the heat. fun waves on saturday and again on monday. friday and sunday were a bit blown out. good times though.

Posted by: j at August 10, 2005 01:57 PM

sorry for the off topic post yo, but I'm cleaning out some old things from my er basement and if any of you are interested in this, shoot me an email. it won't last long.

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/fur/90219456.html

Posted by: the gimp at August 10, 2005 02:29 PM

traut RIPS on the longskate....

last night after the ear torturing movie...
i saw the funniest thing i have seen in a
LONG while....traut and his buddy were longskating
down 36th as we looked for my car and the
two of them collided or almost collided.
all i saw was traut flying over gary and boards
banging. hysterical.

traut give a first person account! please.

Posted by: korewin at August 10, 2005 02:33 PM

On Harry's, unfortunately, it's not a jetty. There is some build-up on the shore, but a breakwater is going in to protect the terminal from the swell. Pretty much no hope of getting a surfable wave breaking alongside. It's not even a mound breakwater, but a big concrete pre-fabbed block in 25m of water.

You can just see the edge of the breakwater in this rendering, it goes on for 600m or so.

In our lifetime, we'll being seeing wave power generators and offshore wind farms. So either start riding your bicycle and using flourescent light bulbs, or get your NIMBY friends together and start making signs now.

Posted by: at August 10, 2005 02:38 PM

crowded day at the beach

Posted by: i'm not kaiser at August 10, 2005 03:20 PM

Posted by: oysterhead fan at August 10, 2005 03:39 PM

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Posted by: Clair B at August 10, 2005 04:24 PM

The day ominously started with a near collision. G had just parked his car on Lombard so he could run inside a pet store and grab 100ibs of food for his 100ib lab. The green grill and the blaring of the Transit bus's horn at 120dB from 2 feet away greeted G who casually proceeded to open his car door, flip off the bus driver and enter the store.

Following this close encounter, we headed out from Russian hill on G's handmade Karv boards down Polk street to the N-Judah where we got off at the inner-sunset. From there it was a slow ride with all of the innner-sunset's forces working against us. Not only were Asian drivers cutting us off at every opportunity, but the onshore winds held us up and the rough pavement slowed us down. Amazingly, we made it to the Balboa within an hour of leaving Russian hill and had plenty of time to grab 4 22 ouncers for the show.

After the show we tracked down Korwin who agreed to give us a lift up to the VA hospital. While heading to his car, G and I were carving down the hill each trying to replicate the 180 / 360 maneuvers just seen on the big screen. G was on my left when I began my left facing power slide. He was carving right. I caught a glimpse of him coming in hot right toward me and dove for the ground. He jumped over my somersaulting body. Our two boards became intertwined like 2 sailors finding their love again in the Castro.

While in the Korwin express lift, we puffed as the Green rule states should be done while riding a lift up the slopes. Once out of the lift, a fault free, car-less blacktop beckoned us down. Carve, Carve, speed check slide, carve, carve, power slide and so on. With the Albertsons on the left and stop signs on every rapidly approaching street corner, our eyes searched for headlights coming out of the Aves.

Now on the last 2 blocks of slope, we took the barrel position, knees almost touching the board, hand squarely placed above the wheels to limit speed wobble and sped past 28th, 27th, 26th, 25th, 24th, 23rd, 22nd and then turned toward Geary on 21st.

Managed to miss the bus while in 7-11 for some Green tea and munchies so we hopped into a cab to the top Golden Gate at USF. Again, a glassy surface teamed with gravity as we sped down the hill. No cars and a green light on Masonic allowed us to arrive at Scott St unscathed.

Up Scott 2 blocks to Fulton at Alamo Square. Again, carve, carve, slide, crouch and speed bomb!! Zipped past Fillmore, Webster, Buchanan, Laguna, Octavia, Gough and came to a stop at City Hall. Turned around and could barely see the hill that we had just bombed.

Skated up to VanNess and Munied it on home.

Posted by: traut at August 10, 2005 04:44 PM

Posted by: best phish jam ever at August 10, 2005 04:46 PM

Well, purity of intent and playing in a way that is beyond the ego. I never even feel like I'm performing. I feel like I'm there to be an intermediary between music that's in the universe and the audience. It sounds silly, but I believe it more than I believe anything in my life. When I'm onstage I feel this incredible togetherness and intense energy that is like fuel for goodness. It's something that I've felt so strongly that in the last few years I started researching it, reading interviews with musicians to see if others have felt this way-and they have. I've read interviews with Brahms, Bach, Jimi Hendrix, Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, [jazz trumpeter] Art Farmer and many others and found similar themes running through them. All of them essentially say, "There are vibrations there, a natural order to the universe, and I'm not really making music. I'm just hearing it and channeling it so that other people can hear it." Everyone calls it something different-Brahms said it was coming from God and Sun Ra said it was coming from Saturn-but it's always a very similar experience.

The problem is when you try to verbalize it, it sounds weird, but only in a world that's completely lost touch with its spirituality. I think the world has become a commercial, surface place where every aspect of ritual and spirituality has been systematically turned into a way to make money for somebody.

Posted by: at August 10, 2005 04:53 PM

traut, that sounds like fun! thanks for sharing.

Posted by: lerm at August 10, 2005 05:09 PM

The way I see it, what I was doing last night and what we do every night I couldn't imagine being more alive. I love communication through improvisational music so much that, I mean, it's the deepest kind of passion. I couldn't ask for anything more in life.

Posted by: at August 10, 2005 05:11 PM

nice one trautster! shred on!

Posted by: e at August 10, 2005 05:16 PM

my girl just called from the oakland home grown "bordertown" skate park where barbara boxer was giving an interview on channel 5 news promising to keep the park open. pretty cool. peeps got organized and fought and looks like they're winning, although the park's locked shut right now. i'm gonna hit up alameda tomorrow a.m. for a little bowl time. i'm jonesing. tired of summer. endless summer would be hell.

Posted by: steamwand at August 10, 2005 05:34 PM

if i had more time tomorrow am steamwand i'd session alameda with you.

i've been hitting the parks on this side of the bay for the dawnie. i have such a better attitude from it.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at August 10, 2005 05:38 PM

Go Traut! That is what skatin' is all about.

A good night bomb/carve fest gets you so stoked.

Posted by: Hb at August 10, 2005 05:53 PM

Manhattan Beach. This morn.

Posted by: This doesn't get you stoked. at August 10, 2005 05:55 PM

Traut, we need video! I wanna see some S.F. hills being bombed.

Shoulda taken my camera out the other night. Coulda smashed it when I was rolling across the street on my back. Stil woulda been a good vid.

-sockrider

Posted by: Cornboarder at August 10, 2005 06:05 PM

got a few microdrizzlers this am. pretty funny to work a pocket waay inside, carve out and step off into ... calf deep water. Sometimes all you need is a taste.

Posted by: banjo at August 10, 2005 08:06 PM

If that spot called Henry's wasn't kept so Damm " Secret " it would have come to this... You think they would have? If it is so fickle like they say. Then..Sorry.. Wasn't gonna happen for it to stick around....

Posted by: pixelepete at August 10, 2005 09:41 PM

pm arvo session at ob didn't do it for me..... stayed out long enough to get the obligatory three waves to call it a session actually skated into one more for good measure dude on the carve board with the kite seemed to be havin' more fun than me post sesh(i use the term loosely) chowder and oktoberfest at the chalet, go a's

like that
bevilaqua shot above, she's sweet

Posted by: well hung slave at August 10, 2005 11:16 PM

talk about your women... wish she could be mine

Posted by: at August 10, 2005 11:21 PM

that manahattan shot blows

Posted by: former so cal dude at August 10, 2005 11:22 PM

Okay, so my Surftopia idea in the outter sunset was perhaps a bit too ambitious given the ability of 30 or so surfers to come up with the $30 million required. But I got a friend that does one of these anti-coastal development in HMB. They buy up small parcels of land in the middle of large developable tracts, making the whole thing uninhabitable. If someone had just bought up a couple square hundred feet at Harry's, we'd still have the wave there.

Who's up for buying undeveloped land at secret spots? You won't make a return on your money but perhaps Niceness Offshore and Beach bUILDingless tHEmatic REalty (NOBUILDHERE) could generate some future retirement property?

Posted by: Andrew in Alameda at August 11, 2005 10:19 AM
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