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booming

Lots of energy out there.
Lack of a daytime low-tide has options limited.
My girl ran the Nike half-marathon yesterday so i watched poorly-shaped, Overhead++ groundswell mush and close-outs beneath the sea cliff while i waited for her to round the corner.
I'm sure the few spots that can handle large swells on a higher tide where crowded as all getout... especially considering the Lane was off-limits due to the cold water classic.
I heard that Timmy Reyes pulled into some monster barrel at the Slot on sunday afternoon?

My mom and i took a hike through the Presidio and then spent an hour or two on a little beach in the city.
Sun shining.
Dogs barking.
Little kids playing at the edge of the water..

hey!!

little kid!!!

Watch out!!!!

BOOOOOOMM!!!!

A backless, 8-foot wall of spine-munching close-out destruction smashed into the steep beach only yards away from the little kid. She got swept off her feet and carried up the beach, deposited on the sand shocked and crying.. but luckily didn't get sucked back out to sea and into path of the next wall of bitch-slapping power force. The waves at Baker were mesmerizing. And there was a booger out there!! Taking off on no-joke Waimea-looking shorepound. He was just getting smashed to smithereens too. Taking off on these huge closeouts in 2 feet of water, air-dropping into foamy, gaping, cataclysmic barrels.. and then just getting cremated. But.. seemingly unfazed by the assaults, as he leisurely paddled back out for more.. very impressive and pretty nuts!

Body-boarders pushing the envelope.

Mexi photo

Hey E,

That was me.

Posted by: MSG at October 24, 2005 09:11 AM

I was also that guy.

Here's a video of Montara yesterday:
http://www.culturewave.net/Surfing/mov/AlaskanSwell23Oct05.wmv

Posted by: Horse King at October 24, 2005 09:31 AM

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 09:37 AM

sunday with the crowd at marin's dog town
five or six paddling into each and every shapely peak
locals were screaming "its to f'n crowded"
the city denizens were unfazed
paddling and dropping in at will
strong current in the channel
got tangled with a senior on a long board
exhibited niceness

Posted by: mig at October 24, 2005 09:38 AM

There are a few people in our surfing community that investe time and money to make our world a better place. The services these people provide vary but they all have my repsect for what they continually do for us.

Every day, E shares his visions and offers us a place to communicate and entertain. Blakestah regularly shares his vast technical knowledge and provides us with accurate surf forecasts specifically for OB. I'm sure for both you guys, it sometimes feels more like work than pleasure.

I was inspired to write this after participating in a water rescue class this weekend with about thirty others including Sharkbait and Steve, at Half Moon Bay. The small cost of $45 included 3 hours of CPR at the HMB firehouse and another 3 hours of water rescue training in the very chilly HMB Harbor. Surfers came from Santa Cruz, San Francisco, the East Bay and even Oregon to learn how to help others in trouble. Of course we hope that never happens.The instructors were professionals who perform these duties on a regular basis. At the end of the day, we got to be rescuees as the harbor patrol pulled us to safety on PWC's. That was so much fun. A great end to an intensive day.

The event took a lot of planning to coordinate instruction from different organizations. Big kudo's goes out to Mark Alfaro from Surfpulse for putting this all together. His reason was to help us help others in case of emergency. I'm proud to be able to call this guy my friend. Not only is he a total ripper and a Mavericks charger, but he's also one of the nicest guys I know and a positive force in our community.

Thanks to all you folks that consistantly give to us takers.

Posted by: Dennis at October 24, 2005 09:47 AM

E- I have often wondered if the appropriate amount of concrete blocks were to be deposited on the oceanm floor an epic surfable wave could break at Baker (yeah I named it and if people are stupid enough to want to surf it be my guest). It picks up so much swell but alas, the bottom contour is just a drop-off leading to the boomers you saw yesterday.

Posted by: antman at October 24, 2005 10:14 AM

Was at Baker in the morning before heading to SC. It was definitely like wet concrete coming onto my head, but I think the spot we went to in SC was a lot hairier. Yeah, definitely heavier.

Posted by: MSG at October 24, 2005 10:19 AM

antman - dropping extra shit in the ocean just for surf sounds like a bad idea

Posted by: g2 at October 24, 2005 10:20 AM

Nice of you to watch out for that little girl, E. I remember it was only a couple years ago that a 10 or 11 year old kid visiting from China got swept out at Baker on a (OB) 20 foot day. Sad. They never found his body either. That beach, like any on a big swell, is a killer...

Posted by: Surfseeker7 at October 24, 2005 10:21 AM

i am always shocked how close people let their kids get to the waves on big days at baker and ob. just clueless i guess.

sat got pretty nice where i was when the swell started filling in late afternoon. sunday i didn't see any takers at ob, looked just ok and crowded at another spot i peeped.

Posted by: vons at October 24, 2005 10:41 AM

Alfaro is so nice it makes me uncomfortable, sometimes I think he is joking. He is a wave hog though... Great dude.

Posted by: Mexi at October 24, 2005 10:43 AM

Was watching on Sunday from a cliff where there were only a few in the water below. Normal set waves were coming every 10 minutes or so and nice workable but mushy lines. Then the set of the day came in and broke about 100 yards outside the reef where everyone was floating. Perfect crashing left tube all the way down the line that left a massive pool of whitewater in the wake. Majestic and beautiful from the cliff. I can only imagine what it looked like up close and personal...

Posted by: jardinee at October 24, 2005 10:53 AM

waimea saturday

Posted by: otf at October 24, 2005 11:06 AM

outta here for a week...uk bound. unless
there is surf in the mouth of the thames
i will be shut out. get some while i am gone.

dennis....what a great post. nice vibe. keep
spreading that. i look forward to seeing you
in the water soon.

cheers.

Posted by: korewin at October 24, 2005 11:16 AM

Sunday Surf Trip with Doof

Wake up at dawn, feed the pets, make the tea and coffee. Walk the dog, pack the car, and off to Doof's place.

I bring my Gun along with my 7'6" bonzer, but rely on the driver to make the call on which to bring. He plans to take his 7'6" Miller, so I opt for similar proportions.

Last trip down to a certain point on the day they filmed Ghost Trees, had me feeling stupid on the Gun and Doof ripping it up on one of his other 7'6"s.

Drive south in Doof's machine with sticks on top. Couple heads dodging close-outs on the South end of the Mar. Past the first possible, since the lot will be frothing with Mavs chargers. Cars are parked and people out at 12 monkees, probably the only ridable spot from Fort to Pleasure points, today for some.

Drive past next possible without stopping. Next spot has twenty cars parked and as many or more in the water. Two cameras set up. Watch for a while and it doesn't look all that.

Next possible has three jet ski teams on the outermost peak, but those inside don't look worth the increased risk of Cancer due to the diesel fumes.

Many cars in the lot at the higher numbered location. More than we'd like but less than the first at the lower numbered location. We join the parked cars. Broken glass marks the spot.

Walk out, looks fun with 15 out. Walk back, make that 16, 17, make that 18,19,20. Damn, somebody better walk out on our way in.

Doof heads out and sits outside of the second peak and proceeds to nab every big set that swings wide. I goof around trying to hop the first peak. I get one into inside of the second and grovel through the rest of the set. One or two more that are less than satisfying. Two more aborted attempts. For my Last wave, I set up with Doof and get a big one. Long drop and hey, I can ride way out here infront of the curl, cut back about 20 yards, back in then up again. Like carving up a house, as opposed to the car sized waves I'm used to. Backdoor the inside section unfortunately it is crumbling rather than throwing out. Still make it around. Then jump off before the trip into the big slab.

Left the house at 7, and got back at 3. One wave.

Still worth it.

Carved pumpkins and decorated the house with the kid and Wifey when I got home.

Posted by: friend #1 at October 24, 2005 11:29 AM

Friend #1 and I managed to catch some waves yesterday.

Decided to pass on making the paddle at the Beach and headed to an easier paddle out spot. I made it outside wihtout a single duckdive, though I did have to windmill it for the first 50 yards.

Double overhead drops, solid overhead and half as you powered down the line, and it was nice to break out the Scott Miller 7'6".

I saw some better surfers get long rides from the next peak over, but if I may be so bold, none of those felt as long as my best wave that took me all the back to the impact zone I windmilled my way through as I first left land.

I made it around three different boils either by carving around it hard off the bottom or taking the highline with my chest to the wall. As I drove through the last section and carved deeply into a false cutback (more to bleed off speed than to snap a change in direction), only to zip down the line again, I saw two guys paddling out with a face full of smiles well out on the shoulder looking downward at me.

Made me feel like I knew what I was doing.

On Friend #1's last wave, I was too deep and stroking to climb up and over. I saw him in good position, almost a litle behind the just cresting peak. I was shouting, "Go! Go! Go!"

He did, and pretty much rode it to shore. In his wake were all the poor bastards who were waiting around for the more common, smaller waves.


Posted by: Mr Doof at October 24, 2005 11:32 AM

Drove past all the same spots. Stopped at the friend #1 and doof spot at dawn. Looked kinda mushy and inconsistent. Two guys way out at the point. Continued to the most pleasant of points and was out at about 7:30. Sat outside and nabbed a bunch of set waves. Sets were bigger earliest. Verrry long rides. After about 2 hours a large set swings in and clears everybody but moi. Get a leg cramp and catch a long one in. On the way in passed a guy swimming. Found his board floating near the rocks and paddled it back out to him with my gun trailing off my leg. Actually felt good to stretch out the cramp.

More on the way I guess...

Posted by: kdalle at October 24, 2005 11:43 AM

charge those charging chargeables!

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 11:45 AM

hey dennis

can you give out some info on where to look for something like that in the future for those of us that didn't know about this time?

thanks

Posted by: wanna know at October 24, 2005 11:54 AM

We live with it every single microsecond of every day. I'm constantly in doubt about what I'm doing, I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you're doing, working and working until you feel it's finished. And that's an interesting point too, that you've got to know when to stop. Sometimes there's a magical moment when everything comes together.
- john zorn

Posted by: e at October 24, 2005 11:55 AM

yesterday was beautiful. i love living in the bay area.

niceness query: i'm on this year's planning committee for my work's holiday party and need to select a local charity who would appreciate lots of toys and maybe some cash - any recommendations are appreciated!!

Posted by: rza at October 24, 2005 11:55 AM


San Francisco in Jell-O
Elizabeth Hickok

Posted by: bagel at October 24, 2005 12:09 PM

Yeah E's like the next Wordsworth,Twain, Jeffers, or Don Redondo...
Saw some great stuff yesterday at Spot 1019.
This 25 yr. old (kid) paddles out, all hair and 'tude on his chippy transplanted 'Al Merrick Kelly Series Pro-model' shortfuksurfboard shaped by a machine...
Old crew of locals and well established heirarchy.
Half hour into the session this guy does an vertical move right over the head of one of the older longboarders who happens to be an established local north coast shaper.
Next thing you know the older guy is paddling hell bent to the inside seeking revenge or something - he's fuming -. From where I was the guy should have straightened out in courtesy instead of nearly taking the longboarders head off...
I get a wave and ride to it to the inside where I see the kid smarting off to all rational verbal reason. Next thing you see is the longboarders furry fist crack the smart ass right in the nose and he's bleeding...crying even. Paddles in and weall watch as he slowly makes his way up the cliffside...
I was kind of shocked but of course did not say a word - paddling off...thinking, ' whao, that was a direct hit to the guys nose -ouch!'
Is it ever ok to punch someone in the face?
On the one hand the guy tottaly deserved it but on the other one might be accused of battery or assault.
It's not unlike my neighbor over here in the Sunset when a Chinese guy blatently chumped his parking spot; he walked up to the drivers side window and asked politely that he move to which of course came nothing but some uninteligable spew so he punched the guy in the face so hard it made the guy cringe in agony - eyes watering and blinded.
Needless to say my friend drove off and then found more suitible parking elsewhere.
California lost.

Posted by: Gerry Mander at October 24, 2005 12:12 PM

I'd like to munch on the transamerica pyramid righ now. i'm pretty hungry.

wish that was a gummy version of the city. Yum!

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 12:13 PM

.

Posted by: . at October 24, 2005 12:34 PM

That Old guy was an ASS! I mean he is sooo cool, I hope I can surf with him sometime. What a ripper...

Whata fuckin dick. He went too far. It is one thing to prove your point and back it up. Then there is Cheap Bullshit! It is Bolinas on a sunday not Pipeline, or our favorite "LOCALISM" spots. Fuckin cocksucker. If he is such a tough guy what's he doing surfing that spot. Weak old man. One or two punches would have been sufficient but his surf "RAGE" was a joke, especially when the younger guy started taking cheap shots at the guys nose. LOSERS!


I hope you feel tough, big man. Way to regulate the women and children on Sundays. Why were you in the guys way??? Why didn't you get out of hsi way MR. surf stud. You are a FAG.

Posted by: sf at October 24, 2005 12:48 PM

BIG shoutout to Mark M for putting together that cpr/surf course, that must have been a lot of work. Class well worth more than $45. Wish I'd been more social and/or help clean up in the end, but my brain was frozen. Muchas gracias, Mark!

I must say, upon graduating from the surf rescue course, Dennis looked not unlike David Hasselfhoff.

Happy surfing,

Posted by: s.s. sharkbait at October 24, 2005 12:57 PM

if they knew where to surf at sanibol they're wouldn't be a problem

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 12:57 PM

again

where can i find info about that HMB cor wter course??

ANYONE?

Posted by: wanna know at October 24, 2005 12:58 PM

Sonny Garcia was at Spot 1019 yesterday?

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 01:01 PM

Yes. It's true SS. I'm much better looking than I look.

Posted by: Dennis at October 24, 2005 01:06 PM

Wanna know - prolly not again til next year. It was posted on surfpulse.com for a couple months. It would be nice to put together one in SF though.

Posted by: Dennis at October 24, 2005 01:08 PM

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Posted by: at October 24, 2005 01:20 PM

that jello cityscape is insane! damn. nice lighting, too.

pisspoor session with a niceness head saturday. i suck. more suckiness sunday before watching the pros at steamer lane.

Posted by: j at October 24, 2005 01:44 PM

Violence is cool - right? I mean the USA murders peeps everyday...in our name, in Jesus' name amen.
THEY KILL US WE KILL THEM - what goes around...comes around. Wipe em out!

What's a few shots to some surfers nose - too crowded out there - too much competition; endless naming and claiming endless bs..
Sorry to all you Christians out there!
Your Republican goverment is now the Facist American Govenment - land of the blind.
There is more to life than surfing.
Or was there?

Posted by: Heil Bush at October 24, 2005 01:54 PM

E - I couldn't agree with Zorn less regarding happiness. But that magical moment when work stops and everything comes together, well hell yeah. Bring it on!

Posted by: Dennis at October 24, 2005 01:55 PM

Posted by: Republican at October 24, 2005 01:57 PM

And the other night, Daniel Lanois mentioned that his music is based upon optimism and doubt.

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 01:59 PM

spot 1019

Posted by: no slappy in sight at October 24, 2005 02:09 PM

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 02:24 PM

Lost California....Nice post Gerry.

I've been run-over by a surfer and it fucking hurt. It didn't have to happen. I hope none of you are ever in a position where another surfer simply dis-regards safety for a cheap thrill and you become a victim.

I had a established ripper do a slash off my right ankle once on a solid 6' wave as I scratched to the lip. We made eye contact and he could have avoided me easily. But didn't. Fucker made that wave too. The resulting damage took me out of the surf for nearly a month at a time I was surfing daily.
A few days later I'm watching the crew score the evenings offering with my swollen sore ankle........So Pissed.
Mutual peeps had warned me that the guy was a Judo expert and pretty cold inside so I should watch my 20yr. old smart ass mouth if I confront him, which knowing me was inevitable. The guy pulls up to the cliffs, I ask him about the incident and he just flatly replied "you should not have been in my way." "Look man your not even going to say I'm sorry?" He turns walks to his car.........I'm livid.
As he paddled out, I began a campaign that lasted for a few years. I urinated on his car door handles every chance and place I could pull it off. That was a long time ago.

Now today what happens in the line-up is enforced far more via the criminal justice system than it used to be. If it happened today I would have filed a police report and sued the guy for medical expenses......Then the door handle treatment...Just kidding.


Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at October 24, 2005 02:29 PM

Been staring at this NW swell all day here in Pacifica and the nuggets still keep coming. Mellows out for 10-15 minutes and then a raking overhead set comes through, surprisingly clean and very rideable. If you haven't surfed yet today, get out there...you shouldn't be disappointed. and...looks like more swell on the way with another peak on Sunday/Monday?



The "Save the Waves" benefit at Terra (511 Harrison/First 7pm-Midnight) this Thursday looks pretty noice. Surf Fashion show, Surf Photos, Big Wave footage. . .hope to see some of the niceness crew there...






Posted by: PacificaNiceness at October 24, 2005 02:34 PM

That rescue class sounded fun, bummer to miss out. Fun watching j rip every set wave all to the beach! Nice.

Sunday did the same coastal drive, checked the same spots. Watched the CCC from the cliff. That Timmy Reyes barrel was sick! Fun watching it from above a hearing the crowd explode when he came flying out of it. Then the denser fog started to roll in..

Cruised to a long E side point for the late afternoon sesh. Super thick fog. Kept paddling until the was no one to paddle past. Didn't really know where I was other than I was the farthest outside. New strategy paid off as I befriended the loudest crusty local. Encouraged him on a few bombs- a couple waves later when it was my turn - he yelled so loud nobody dared dropin. This one was mine. Nice steep drop, weaving through the scrambling inside crowd, dozens of deer-in-the-headlight stares, some sunrays breaking through the fog, a couple cutbacks, kick out by Jacks house- sweet, repeat! Coulda swore I saw Sunny Garcia walking back.

Posted by: artifact at October 24, 2005 02:40 PM

Nice Artifact. My Saturday outting kept me from preparing for a midterm on Tuesday night so Sunday was all about statistics. No surf for me. What are the odds of that happening again?

Posted by: Dennis at October 24, 2005 02:47 PM

Gerry,
that old man longboarder is a prick. he shouldnt punch the kid just because the he surfs better than the longboarder.

i guess violence = "established".

asshole is vogue.

Posted by: joe h at October 24, 2005 02:59 PM

Rob working the small kine stuff

Posted by: whats up with the norwegian church at October 24, 2005 02:59 PM

When does the time change again for the early dawn patrol??!

Posted by: Thanks. at October 24, 2005 03:15 PM

Let's see: some people got run over, someone got a fat upper lip, somewhere I think someone somehow ripped the lip off something and claimed it hard for himself, another dude got or gave stinkeye when da other guy beat on his chest like a silverback storming out of the underbrush, and somewhere where no cams live there was solitude and a secret spot offered pu insai for da kine. Yah, typical fuckin' weekend. :)

Isn't punching a complete stranger -- who has done you no harm in the face -- an unprovoked assault? A punishable offense, and in some cases a felony? Yes, it is. Manic behavior like this is childish, utterly disgraceful and w/o dignity, but that code of ethics seems to be quite fashionable for many out there. We should not hurt one another this way. It's awful, but I think people who punch hother surfers are really just taking out their shitty lives (outside the water) on others they feel they can victimize and get away with. These are the types who paddle out practically *looking* for a whipping boy. I know you've all seen them -- gaming for it at one point or other, aggressive, antagonizing. You cannot peace them out. I see it and realize "Uh-oh, someone needs to pick up a copy of Psychology Today." Someone's cornflakes got pissed on this morning, so now theiy're certainly going to piss on yours. These types definitely go home and kick cats and dogs around for fun. Unconscious anger, full of the sound and the fury, signifying nothing.

Posted by: Monkey Milk at October 24, 2005 03:15 PM

Next Saturday night is the end of daylight savings. Weekday morning DPs can commence on Halloween.

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 03:20 PM

The kid ran him over. The kid should have apologized or acknowledged his bad judgement. Like a man. Instead it sounds like he mouthed off. So he got punched. Why is that so objectionable? Getting punched is a right of manhood. Maybe the kid will now actually grow up to be one.

Some of you piss your pants so easily.

Posted by: Kix at October 24, 2005 03:23 PM

RESULTS:

1st - Bobby Martinez
2nd - Matt Archbold
3rd - Timmy Reyes
4th - Cory Lopez

And I think Gerry Mander pulled a fast one on you. Don't believe everything you read.

Posted by: Cold Water Results at October 24, 2005 03:34 PM

Posted by: Cold Water Facts at October 24, 2005 03:36 PM

And at the same E side point, after just missing getting into one of those wide swinging set waves, I'm pounded by the even larger one immediately following.
What a delicate little pop as the leash breaks.
How interesting. After swimming for a couple of minutes, I notice that I'm not the only one headed in without a board.
Five to ten minutes later, over to the right 100 yards or so, someone's yelling that they have a board.
What a coincidence. I swim across and get close enough to find that it's not mine.
As the kind soul/good samaritan doesn't really need two, I offer to take his extra one in.
Through the shorebreak and up the stairs, I'm scanning the base of the cliffs for pieces of mine.
I leave the purple Miller longboard up top, and start checking the rocks to the south.
Nada.
Heading back to my car, past the stairs, I'm hoping that it was the "Dave" mentioned on the stringer who picked the board up.
At the head of the point, surprise, my board's resting under a tree.
Thanks to whom ever brought it up.
Only a few dents on the bottom, but a cracked rail and an edge-edge buckle.
On the way home, I buy a new leash for the other board.

Posted by: Something in the way she moves at October 24, 2005 03:37 PM

Punching the guy in the face sounds a bit brutal especially in light of what apperantly transpired. Did the kid pull a crackhead move - unsafe at any speed?. There are times when people 'push it' out there -. Their surf-ego obviously raging - I'm tired of dealing with all the crowds and the newer attitude of all those now entering into the sport and these homieland breaks. Heck - some kids today don't know the difference between the Clash and The Fall. Good on ya finding the pic of 1019!

Posted by: Idylwild at October 24, 2005 03:37 PM

Alright! A Beener wins Pipe! But Gerry's a Beener too so...

Posted by: Mr. Limp at October 24, 2005 03:41 PM

Uh..punching someone lands you in jail and the courts. Better to trash their property, then you just get the courts.

Posted by: bert at October 24, 2005 03:43 PM

property damage is for pussies. face to face if you have a complaint. the kid had options. he chose the wrong ones.

Posted by: Kix at October 24, 2005 03:45 PM

at least the kid didn't come on the niceness report to cry about locals and bad vibes in the water.

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 03:47 PM

Pipe? I think that's the Cold Water Classic.

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 03:49 PM

Woops. Right.

By rights it should be clear, crisp, dry, warm and offshore. Indian Summer would normally be breathing in the last of the easy easterly offshores. Now its farking
almost November and nada - maybe one or two clean days with sun for an hour or half a day.... Now we are clearly into an early winter with lots if rainy south wind days.
OB SUCKS!

WTF! I hereby boycott myself from niceness blogging until the weather patterns of old return.
Could be awhile...

Goodbye

Posted by: Big Hank at October 24, 2005 03:59 PM

you will be missed Big Hank

Posted by: little hank at October 24, 2005 04:15 PM

$10,000....how does that convert to pesos?

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 04:21 PM

simple division

Posted by: Kix at October 24, 2005 04:21 PM

Truly missed.

Posted by: Medium Hank at October 24, 2005 04:25 PM

good riddence

Posted by: who gives a hank at October 24, 2005 04:26 PM

I need a Hanky

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 04:27 PM

I need a hankjob...

Posted by: Small Hank at October 24, 2005 04:30 PM

Hidee Ho big hank!

Posted by: Mr. Hanky at October 24, 2005 04:30 PM

east side today

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 04:36 PM

Posted by: viva brazil!!!! at October 24, 2005 04:38 PM


Posted by: that's some Norweigan church at October 24, 2005 04:41 PM

This is the nuttiest whack job forum, blog, whatever, i've ever seen. It makes me lose faith in humanity. I think it's about time someone, or something, hits the reset button on the human population.

How's that for good riddance?

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 04:42 PM

Other Steve was with Dennis at the water rescue class.

A few weeks back, I had a guy do a bunny hop over me as I paddled over the lip of a wave down in Eastside SC. He tried to do it again to a friend of mine later in the day, but clipped my friend's heel. Luckiliy nobody got hurt, so we didn't make a stink.

I drove around SC and points south yesterday pm and this morning, without actually surfing (%$#@). Only one spot had slightly offshore winds Sunday, but I got there too late and the sun was almost gone. Looked big, but clean with rights and lefts and a little spindrift coming off the tops. Usually that place has quarter mile close-outs on the big swells, but I think this swell didn't wrap into the bay that much. Waves were tiny in SC this morning and the wind was almost as bad as last night.

Posted by: steve at October 24, 2005 04:42 PM

Whatever, The old man was out of line.

Posted by: sf at October 24, 2005 04:44 PM

I can't believe that pic was from Eastside SC this morning. I didn't see anything like that.

Posted by: steve at October 24, 2005 04:45 PM

I like da guy Monkey Milk, he's right on.

Posted by: Monkey Butter at October 24, 2005 05:17 PM

Meh, he's just ah-ight in my book.

Posted by: Monkey Yoghurt at October 24, 2005 05:18 PM

Thanks to all my Monkey dairy product friends. Or something.

Posted by: Monkey Milk at October 24, 2005 05:20 PM


Posted by: bodyboarders pushing the limits at October 24, 2005 06:23 PM

The guys on this blog remind me of the saying, "Too many freaks, not enough circuses."

Posted by: Monkey Man at October 24, 2005 06:55 PM

HOLY SHIT LOL that booger is getting a huge barrel... how do those camera guys not get smashed

Posted by: Brian at October 24, 2005 07:04 PM

perspective, perspective, perspective. theres a huge channel at shark island, the photogs are probably sitting in it

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 07:32 PM

Cue MSG's lame posts......now.

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 07:49 PM

will this work?

Posted by: at October 24, 2005 08:39 PM

boogers suck ass farkin speed bumps. why cant they stand up like men? cuz they SUCK. Cue bbr's lame pics again.

Posted by: boogers can kiss my ass at October 24, 2005 08:44 PM

the (kind of) bummer of this last swell was it got too big too fast, so a lot of people's expectations were not met. Hence the blog tone. The bobo thing - inevitable with 100+ people in the water. Only takes two to tangle. If you pull an up close aggro move, you'd better be prepared to back it up or back down fast. Here's to swells that spread the love. Hope to see some good mavs wave shots through the fog - sitting in a cotton ball there Sunday would have been a trip.

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