E's Surf Report

Frost

I'd like to be one of those guys in the lawn chairs in pic #2....except, I might be heading for the water before sitting.

Finally someone gets skunked. Digging the dailies e.

so, no one's trippin' on the fact that devil's slide will be closed for quite some time? that shit is going to wreak havoc like it did back in 95 or whenever the hell it closed for months. and what about SF surf explorers. guess you have to kick it down to 92. damn.

Some guys were going after it this morning @ middle beach. I was watching from my window somewhat jealous, but also apprehensive. Full rainstorm, DOH, and gnarly paddle out. Saw them catch a couple of bombs.

Anyone kayak to work today?

good news for the montara/hmb/grenada/pescadero crew. Less crowded waves for a while. Sucks if you live in montara and commute to the city. big time!

Acupunture? Anyone have names of good peeps in SF and any information.

im triping on it EG pimp. there are many factors that bum me out about it.

what's a better summer trip with the wifey:
bali for 17 days or tahiti for 10?

17 trumps 10 no matter where.

Like I said, Pimp.

Your old stomping grounds just got a lot less crowded.

Drove past Ryan Seelback getting into his suit at Taraval.

Watched from Sloat as a guy exits the water with that despondent look that says denial.

Worse yet his friend made it so he sits in his wetsuit on the bluff, board over his knees.

One charger just getting through the inside line.

A couple way outside.

Saw one big drop where the guy looked like he wished his board was longer.

Lots of waiting in very cold conditions, and me with my alternate suit.

Good excuse that one. As it did look very Doable.

Duncan later told me when he watched, guys flew north on the inside current.

Could have been tougher than it looked.

Judith checked and passed, I later saw her on the North end on my way to work, she was passing again.

It's out there.

A bit of work though.

Jeff Harrison was recomemded to me here on niceness. I've gone twice and so far so good, actually helped the back pain somewhat. surfer and pretty mellow scene. in the book....and thanks jimmie

thanks z, I'll check it out

The slide will reopen next week.

On Friday I start an 11 day mini trip, don't know if I'm going south or north yet, I'm waiting until the last minute to decide. Either way I'm stoked!!!!

On the Bali / Tahiti tip.. If your bringin' the lady, I'd say Tahiti. More laid back and "romantic". Bali is all about Bintangs, surf and jiggy jig massage.

Name dropping transplanted rootser. Rape Cali. Then finish the rape of Mexico.
Culture suffers the loss of the Sam Mateo Coastal surf culture.

"?" inside.

a little moderating going on today?

did E cull the flock of idiots or something?

some dude is flaming and hating and i edited a few of his posts and now he's telling me that my wave count is going to go down. probably same guy as "rape it date it." dunno.

i don't have time the next few hours soooo.

good luck trying to control someone's "wave count" at ob. we hardly ever even see each, let alone have the ability to impact one another's wave choices. that's one of the things that so great about our beach. one of the few things, one might say, after months of rainy onshore slop.

nice onion.

I hope someone is moderating as the board was getting out of control w/ moronic postings. It's like grafiti tagging, if you allow it to remain it just attracts more. Intelligent criticism is one thing, but childish rants and threats should be deleted.

z - Glad to hear Jeff has been of some help to you. The whole thing with accupuncture is that for acute pain and recovery from a recent injury, you can often see positive results pretty quickly. For chronic pain from old injuries or repeated re-injury, it requires a commitment of time and attention (and MONEY) that some aren't able or willing to invest - but it treats the root cause of the pain, not just the symptom of discomfort. Sometimes it can even help reveal stuff about our behavior that may be preventing us from healing properly - crappy diet; smoking; not enough exercise; too much exercise; wrong KIND of exercise ...
In any case, good luck and like kdalle used to say, "Keep surfing no matter what!" - well, at least when your back is ready for it.

What id someblow out da guys?

Private Property Creates Crime.
Surfing Big Waves Equals Shrivled Balls.
Me no never no one else see in da water.
Guy so far away me.
Wave count of get none no more no way no how.
Judif.

complete contents of 1st deleted post:

"fiend #1 names five in one post...loser"

...opinion or flaming and hating?

http://www.studioaka.co.uk/html/projects.php?p=nationallottery

one for the haters

Click play where it says play next to quicktime.

please stop blocking Sactomex posts. Those onions have to be seen.

http://www.studioaka.co.uk/html/projects.php?p=nationallottery

another sick one.

"idiots", "moronic", "haters" = OK

"loser"= hating and flaming

typical niceness hypocrisy

read it now before it gets censored

sorry same one..check "the hells kitchen" in the short films..

Surfed with Danny Rip It Up on my Larry Merrick twin finner fish in double D overhead waves at RINCON this morning. On our way north we surfed HAMMONDS then SANDSPIT. For lunch we had burgers at Kahuna Burger at the mall in Goleta. It was served with RANCH STYLE BEANS. Through San Luis we surfed HAZARDS then we stopped in BIG SUR and surfed FULLERS rights before heading to MOSS but that was blown so Juan Lopez guided us the rest of the way to MANRESA then we stopped for more waves at THE LANE. Too crowded so we surfed 4 MILE instead but the gnarly dude paddler guy told us to BEAT IT so we ended up murphing MONTARA but it was so crowded we had to go all the way around the goddamned globe and ended up at OCEAN BEACH SAN FRANCISCO but it was WAY too big according to Johhny Fuk Lip. From there Rad Vibe guided us to FORT POINT. We stay with him tonight and then tomorrow we head North to POINT ARENA with Doc Hazard. Stay tuned for my report tonight after the evening news with Catie Couric.
LATES GUYS!

Look what i found

Your not niceness, Niceness. Just plain wrong and stupid at times, and you know it. Like to wallow in your own shit do you? btw. Ranch Style Beans rule.

Jinkies!

what will Scooby do?

Awwwww. Rad Vibe posted the mirror again and now everyone is gonna bring the hate on him.
Hate the rapers not the regulators.

Rad Vibe smokem too much greenbud and woke up on wrong side of deb.

Let me be perfectly clear. I don't hate Bob. In fact I like the fundamental reasons behind his madness. I also really dig the way he surfs. I just feel he of all people should know better than to post something like that.

Bob doesn't have fundamental reasons behind his madness. He gets off annoying people. He does exactly the same shit in real life he does here. If you spent much time with him you'd see the light, too.

The "naming" line of posts typically degenerate quickly into sophmoric arguments regarding crowds at spots that are well known and have been crowded for decades, "exploitation" (whatever that means) and trannys. Good riddance to them.

Don't talk about it. Be about it.
Makes niceness.org obsolete.
You a talker or are you a doer?

here comes the dirty diapers pics! what a great site!

He no makum existing "shit." He no smokum no more now mo bettah. He beatum chest to quell the madness inside his mental prison - head runneth over with madness. Name not "Bob." He Bwana. 357 you be cool there.
Hup hup. Ranch Style Beans refers to SURFER mag story pre industry pro rape '88 Dave Parmenter, but why care we no care so like that.

Ss this guy shows up in diapers. Met him on the net.

BRIAN!! It's D.A.D.! Son!
I just sent you an email!

Surfing is one of the most fun and relaxing activities anyone can take up, and Playa Dominical and its surrounding beaches are the ideal place to learn. So stretch out your muscles, wax up your stick, and get ready to be stoked!
Hey! Just found your site. Great stuff E!

Damn that chick has some serious cankles! The rest of her is A-OK!

delete all naming posts or ones that are too obvious in their allusion to a spot.

delete all flaming posts

delete all posts perpetuating the incredibly lame tranny vs. local fights

delete all posts by people insulting anyone by name (or nickname or initials of nickname), especially if they know where to find that person but are too pussy to do it.

delete all diaper posts

delete anything you feel is lame, it's your site and if they don't like it aggroville will welcome them with open arms.

unfortunately you have to work, and it may take a while before fools are tired of posting crap. maybe appoint a few trusted peeps to help you moderate?

delete all posts

this site reflects the opinions attitudes and actions of surfing. and the internet.
put 'em together and let the shit fly. the chinese stood in front of tanks to fight for the right to free speech and now niceness is going to take it away because rad vibe doesn't like spot naming, tranny come lately kooks with beanies and merricks on their exterra's and put's a mirror up to show you?

If I was better at the zeros and ones, I would recommend a "relevancy" button. Think of it similar to Digg.com or the like where the commmunity can rank each post or comment.

Let the masses rank a post or edit a post. If the community thinks a post sucks and should get deleted, then say it would take 5 "diggs" to remove it and the comment is gone.

Moterated by the public for the public. Take it out of E's hands and let y'all regulate yourselves like an old crusty local should regulate his sacred spot.

Makes sense to me.

Claire, show 'em whats up:

If there were any waves here, I would share the waves at my spot, if I had a spot.

damn, i think i just popped one. that's nice. she must be at the far end of the jet. looks like EG in the back. never saw that kind of ass around them parts, though. keep pimpin' and burn soon!

I'd eat it then hit it.

miss luana yes please!

I love the relevancy button idea and would glady set it up. Could make it so each IP only gets one vote per post, which would easily make it so the BVBs of the world can't flag multiple times.

So have some threshhold system, like more than, say, 10 flags and the post goes to a "needs approval" bin and then E logs in and either deletes it or resets the flagging.

Obviously the numbers of the various threshholds will need tuning, but it's as easy as changing a variable once it's set up.

I'd also like to show IPs next to postings. Maybe not the actual IPs, but some identifying number that's the same for each IP, so even if we don't know the name or IP of the poster, we at least know which postings are from the same person.

Good rainy day project for the recently surfless.

myusername@gmail.com

i never knew what an IP is. is it like a number your computer has basically? anyway, cencorship sucks but so does repetative negativity when im trying to be happy at work.

wrybread, you dont know much about IP addressing. did you know that multiple users can have the same IP address? did you know that all we have to do is reboot our routers and we get different IP addresses?

i say, if it gets to the point that you guys want to moderate it so closely, just go start a Yahoo group or Google group. sounds like you have too much time on your hands if you want to start monitoring IP addresses. i thought E had a job.

who the F cares? just ignore the idiots and they will eventually leave.

you are like those people who whine about 'getting so much spam'. just delete the spam, or ignore it, and move on. grow up and quit whining!!!!!

btw, that dark chick has a fat ass and thick legs. no thanky. the other one would look better naked. just an FYI

Question / answer

I'd go for Bali personally. Depends what you like. Tahiti is more of a package deal, expensive, not easy to get around cheaply - and for 10 days you're not going to see too much.

Bali has much more for the independant traveller - crap load to see and do on all levels, and a much more interesting diversity of people (not that I've got anything against rich french - but you do get a bit sick of them in Tahiti).

Plus as was said 17 days - you can stop elsewhere and tag on another element to the trip.
have fun

"cankles" that's a good one.

go to bali. phuck ya!
tahiti too expensive, brah

re boot your router and get a new IP address? Me thinks you need to do some more reading before talking out of context bollocks.

But yes you are correct that some ISP's (such as AOL) may show the same IP multiple times. however this is the exception not the norm.

google "DHCP" and you will figure it out. All ISP's use DHCP unless you pay extra.

if you have SBC DSL at home, or Comcast cable modem, reboot it and you will see that you have a different IP address. look at whatismyip(dot)com after each reboot.

try it before you pass judgement, bollocks kisser.

BVB nuggets:

"Ok, ok - ok. So I wasn't BORN is San Francisco. I was born in the California Hospital on Hope St. in Los Angeles in 1959. OK ????!!!!!!! So what."

"We used to CHARGE!"

"After a few too many shots to the head I decided to completely withdraw. I became sullen and I'd give stink eye to just abut everyone I saw in the water. It was ugly. My face was ugly."

"...these days I manage my anger and energy by putting it into the actual act of surfing. "

Check this email out. I just got it in one of my email accounts:

Hey everyone! Donavon's new single, "Move By Yourself" has started to play
on the radio so please feel free to call in and request his song! You can
also check it out on his website: http://www.donavonf.com. Be looking for the new
album which will be out it stores June 6th! Thank you all for your support
on keeping Donavon's music alive!

That is pathetic! Pleading in an email for me to request your damn song? Questionable at best.

e, please delete the last several posts. I was offended by their tone.

i think it is more pathetic that you are on a Donavan Frankenrider email list.

Donavon is a gay name

I am not, someone emailed it to me.

So, what is more pathetic is that you think before you speak.

grow up brian.

About the DHCP issue, yeah in theory people could reboot their routers, and whatever, let them do it. We could also use a cookie system, and yeah, they could clear their cookies. It's not foolproof, but it'll get rid of most of the fools, and so easy to implement.

Look at Craigslist's system where they have the flag system to let users flag. Sure someone could reboot their routers and flag multiple times, but in general it works.

And rememember that the only thing flagging does is put the post into a purgatory where E or whoever could check "delete" or "ignore flags". So it wouldn't matter that much even if someone did game the system.

Don't get me wrong, I don't care that much, I find most of the idiot postings funny. But E's clearly getting exasperated, and I think we could fix the issue or at least make it way more managable really easily.

Right. She's too fat for you.

Please post either a pic of yourself or bank account so we know for sure who's going to be making the decision on whether or not the two of you will fuck.

ive only known one donavon and he was the creepiest mutherfucker i have ever set eyes on. Hella would stare at chicks breasts every minute of the day and freak em out shit

Oh, sorry for naming a couple streets and a few of the local chargers.

You're right, today was such a crowded day at the beach, no doubt due to my report.

I opted for Champions League for Lunch.

Damn Stevchenko.

VFW's ramp is going off right now!!!

Make that Shevchenko.

There, I named him.

wrybread, if it is that big of a deal for you to know who is posting, you guys need to set up your own yahoo group. if E didnt want this thing open to the public, he would have shut it down long ago. i think he also gets a kick out of the humorous idiots.

bloggers write on blogs so that people read what they say, if not, he would write in a journal at home where nobody could read it.

complaining about people posting on your open blog is like lindsay lohan complaining about paparazzi. just my thoughts.

Personally I think moving it to Yahoo would kill the vibe.

We mourn the passing of a legend today.

I know it isn't surf related, but if you ski or ride - this guy was the real deal. He'll be missed.

http://www.skipressworld.com/us/en/daily_news/2006/04/doug_coombs_killed_by_avalanche_in_france.html?cat=Adventure

dude, bro, hella

its all zeros and ones man, there is no vibe, only emmissions. you want vibe? hang out and socialize with actual carbon matter people in an actual four dimensional environment.

Doug Coombs was the man. I met him along with Scot Schmidt through his girlfriend Emily at the time when they were filming a movie in Montana in the early 90s. This guy was one of the most radical skiers of his day but had the most humble demeanor of anyone on the mountain. He took the time out to talk to an adoring teenage fan and ski a run with me. He'll be missed.

That sucks for Coombs. Reminds me of Mark Foo...

Doug Coombs sounds like what a real surfer should be. Just humble, minds his own shit, doesn't get on websites at rant anonymously about how the inevitable evolution of society is fucking up his life and sport.

Coombs was the man! You know he's ripping down some deep pow up above.

Ski on Doug Coombs!

wishful thinking. he is no longer existent. dead. period. there are no elysian fields. there is nothing more. not even a test pattern. just empty void without consciousness. zip. zippo. maggots.

did the baja excursion last week. went about halfway down the pennisula only to find...crowded waves! i couldn't believe it. here i was, 500 miles south of the boarder and a group of 25 san diegan's show up and the break is instantly crowded. after much scowling and vibing, my friend and i decide to move north and check out a remote point that looks far off the beaten path. after a half day's drive along a bumpy washed out dirt almost-road, we get to the coast after dark, make camp, drink a few tecates and head to bed. awake at dawn to discover we're not at the point, we can see it a few miles south. backtrack along the dirt "road" and find a way along the bluffs. get out of the car, and sure enough, down below, a huge wrap-around point is bringing in the swell and sending peelers into a little bay. there is nobody around for miles. the only signs of life are a wandering coyote and few vulchers. we make the treacherous hike down to the break, but the tide seems too low and the swell is supposed to be filling in all day. we take naps underneath crevaces in the rock and wait. a few hours later, we begin to see more and more good waves. we paddle out and surf head high perfection for as long as our arms can stand. it was a session to remember. warm, blue water, total isolation, staggering red/brown desert mountains, and pitching, thumping walls marching towards this beautiful desolation. baja is a long, parched desert road full of hazard with a long, right-hand point break waiting for those willing to charge into its bleakness.

Men are pigs.
EEEE as in eeeeee.
Where does that obsessive stalker get all that SBV material? Weird. Did he like you know like wallpaper his house with that old crappy story?

Rest in peace brother

hellz yeah slugger! niceness.

you mean the part where he scowled and vibed them?

way to spread the OB love.

gar! in my day we didn't have no 1s and 0s, and we liked it!

yeah. i guess that part was shatty. but the exploration and discovery pretty much rule.

Feel like i'm in college again; currently listening to a 30 minute ac/dc bag 12/30/97 MSG. I was there with friends. The band rocked until 1:30 and i was flying.

life.

good job slugger

Tragic news about Doug Coombs. His lines always inspire me. RIP!

e, good one this morning. I knew that ending was coming, because any time you expect the beach to be good, anywhere, it's not. Kaiser, nice rebutal. That's the first time I've ever chuckled from a comment on here. Thanks for that, slugger. Rad report on the mexi trip. Bagel, thanks for posting that man. Awesome. You didn't happen to have a helping hand in that did you?

Who was that getting those sick right hand barrels this morning? Good steeeeez, yo. Great waves today, until two guys got super agro and jock with each other. Give everyone out in the water a break and drop it, or take into the shore if you can't swallow your pride. Totally brings the stoke level down.

See you on the high-tide magic.

yeah ian. slugger scoring. nice.

I can't friggin wait until band practice tonight!!! aggh tooo much pent up cube-shackled energy brewing! argbhg!!

Mussst.t.. shredd.... sooonn...

Inspire you to do what 3-5?

probably shred

Shreddd....sooonn? Is that what it's called?

just like Sonny Sharrock ripping shit on guitar inspired me when i used to play footbag all the time.

shredding is a state of mind.

what what's called?

Reality is my 51st state.

mexi- have the same spring break off and am in similar quandry. thinking of snow, but this story got me thinking of a baja trip. hmmmm what are the deciding factors, surf, snow, friends, solo...

no worries ian! and i dont think i had a helping hand in that, not sure what your talking about though. but thanks! also where were there waves today?

oooo! i just owned that hour bitches!

that was meant in the most positive way possible. have a niceness night!

Slugger, nice one. Just got back from Baha a little while ago and had a similar experience. Best waves I've had since Maui. Fierce desert down there though, nothing but cacti... liked it a lot. I was surprised the water was so cold, I wore my old 4/3 wetsuit, and it was just about right. Wouldn't have expected it so far south.
E, thanks for keeping the stoke up- niceness rules.

knowers know, that the two guys sitting in lawn chairs checking out that sweet right probably just got done skating the empty pool nearby....... great story e, I really enjoyed it!

accupunture recommendation on ocean just off mission near wells fargo bank. the accupunturist shares a store front with a watch repair guy,rather strange set-up.the doctor is a little old chinese lady who also teachs in oakland at some chinese healing arts school.I have good results for lower back issues.a kick boxer told me about her.good prices also $25 or $30 about a year ago

Actually those guys are really happy with themselves because they have just finished 3 solid hours of very impressive posts on E's website from their WebSat-enabled PalmTops.

Bummer about Coombs.

I think you can only ski La Grave so long without doing yourself some major damage. that place is insane - so many ways to kill yourself. You just need to catch and edge in the wrong place and it's all over.

Back in town and hit the beach today. Christ I'd forgotten what a bitch ob can be. Paddle out in to some reasonable size mid beach - not thinking it's going to be a pain.

35 mins later still duckdiving I snap my leash.

Back to car, hack together a new one.

20 min paddle out to the outside.

10 mins later it switches to evil onshore. Current picks up.

Spend the next 45 mins trying to get into mushy closeouts and stay in postion.

Catch a crappy wave in. Dropped off into crappy reforms.

Struggle for 15 mins to actually get to the beach.

20 min walk back to car.

Ahh OB!

Oh and E - if you want to filter out some of the negative stuff - why not do what so many other forums have done and go to register to post.

You wanna post you register and get a link via email. Then you can post (you can always make a wait period if things get really bad).

the site remains unchanged other than that. Everyone can still read it just the same.

your problem is not unique at all - many a core quality discussion on forums have to deal with crap and filter it out in order to maintain quality. Mostly they use a register system.

I really think that would improve the place no end - I know there are many like me that read quite frequently but cannot really be bothered to post too much because so much crap gets slung about.

I think you will find that the quality of discussion would go up, whilst you will still get interesting pics, tits, etc... posted by regulars. I think that most of your interesting posters would register, and maintain the good side of the board, and after a while most of the bad apples will drift away.

Anyhow just my 2 cents.

e
good to see you are back at it
always enjoy your words and photos
keep the stoke

looks like the beach breaks will be good manana
antone on it?
mexi and z head for the snow
right now snow is excellant

Dead pan variants take this launch too seriously. It's only words. Try to have a sense of difference and humour about it. Heal this. And to you you you anon anon anon it ain't just about life and it sure the fuk isn't just about surfing. This I found out today hobbling back alone from the proverbial beach. It's life as art and living freely thinking, like all the smarty pants motherfuckers dropping in on E. We trash his ass because its shit you need to pancake. Obviuosly. Ain't nobody maybe gunna kick your ass or come to the house that you rented after Blake. Heighten your brain wave count. What matters is the drop and a long long long right wave and no rape at the end. How is this?!
Stop the exploitation. Work for the good. Be weird. Try difference. A wall is being built but always remember that you can't build walls around life.

anyone want to meet at the windmill to give me some head? How about those faggots from Mollusk surf shop? Hope you read this faggots cuz your days are numbered, bring your gay ass fish boards too. I'll shuv that right in your cornholes. Come down to the cove with your fishes, we need a new set of fluffers.

Wow, thanks BlakeWadus for that interesting glimpse into a very confused and disorganized mind.

And I agree, registration system would probably do it.

So let's get this straight.

-Mollusk surf shop and everyone who works there is gay.
-You want head from them.

What does that make you? Not that there's anything wrong with your sexual preference. Nobody here judges. But you're making it sound like anyone who is gay, is inferior to you.

Now, since most children learn simple logic at the age of 2-3 years old. We can all put this riddle together.

You're posting to the wrong website.

It's too bad we live in such a diverse area, and there are still ignor-anuses who have such a closed mind. Ahhhhhhh... Gay's everywhere!! I hate them, they might take over the city!! Wow.. Please. I was going to say "grow up" but you're probably "grown up" anyway. If it hasn't happened yet, chances are it's not going to. But we all have faith in you. It's NEVER too late.

And who says "your days are numbered" hahahaha... You gunna bring your six-shooter to the OK coral?

Wow anonymity is fun when you use it to back up stoke, instead of start problems. Yeah, maybe I'm fueling the fire, but probably, no one's going to read any of this anyway.

And by the way, it's not that I even like Mollusk anyway. You could have said it about Wise or Aqua, and I woud've said the same thing. By the way I don't work there either, so don't jump to that conclusion.

Too bad I'm too scared to post my name. I wish I wasn't. I'm not a local, and no one even knows who I am anyway, but the risk is too high of someone wanting to beat me up for standing up (although a bit cowardly) to someone who is just as much a coward as I am.

If you have a problem with someone, or some establishment, why don't you talk to them about it. Write them a letter, and let them read it, instead of posting to here where everyone's just going to laugh at you anyway.

Anyway, surfing's supposed to be fun. Someone forgot that.

Mollusk has style and some cool boards too

I can't wait for the next person to suggest that users register to post. its so exciting. kinda like trainspotting.

register me, please, i want recognition and cute little smiley faces on my posts.

that face hugger post is HIGHLY amusing. will you still post like that when you are registered?

Please say you will...

yeh, registration is the way to go. no more anon fools

register with me

Register with me and I'll set you free...

...still waiting

first!