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#950 Re: One for the surfers
February 18, 2010, 11:40:13 am
 :shrug:

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#951 Re: One for the surfers
February 18, 2010, 12:15:50 pm
NO FD,
i'm not refferring to you,
we all know you love the long board and secretly fantasize about having a SUP!!

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#952 Re: One for the surfers
February 18, 2010, 12:56:33 pm
RE: Urchins ... I am well versed in urchin spine removal after an encounter in OZ, scraped my bare feet over one and had a nice collection of spines embedded in the top of my foot.  The bigger bit were followed by gushes of blood. Nice!

Gonna take some boots, tweezers, iodine, and wife to watch the car!!

GME Newquay is brilliant you should move there you'd love it.

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#953 Re: One for the surfers
February 18, 2010, 02:25:20 pm
Lanza is great, have had many a good trip there and generally get surfing everyday. Your biggest problems are the winds not the locals. morro negro (santa point) gets the prevailing winds cross but gets a bit of shelter. most of the other waves are on shore a lot of the time.

There is an inside reform left at la santa which, whilst being a bag of shite wave, is off shore when everything else is onshore.

You will be dropped in on by the locals and even told to get out of the water so just accept it and chill, eventually they get out. On that point, unlike most other spots getting up early is generally busy, all the locals work so generally piss of about nine so head out then. they also seem to arrive on mass so get out together a crowd of 12 can suddenly be 4, if you want to surf the slab just sit and wait for a shift change, you should be able to grab one or two.

Urchins are bad but not that hard to avoid, biggest tip is to walk on top of the rocks not inbetween them, harder to walk but saves you a lot of pain. Booties dont help against them but make walking on the razor sharp lava a lot easier.

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#954 Re: One for the surfers
February 18, 2010, 11:28:01 pm
Oldfella

You must have the wrong preson, i am one of the milton Keynes massive. Our local spots are on the EAST coast out past the wash.
I love pasties and am hopeing to move to newquay next year once i have finished converting my split screen VW.

I went upto the NE coast once but it was too cold the locals were miserable bastards and took offence at me and my 8 mates catching party waves.
  :lol: :lol:

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#955 Re: One for the surfers
February 19, 2010, 10:30:49 pm
i just spent a few days in county antrim. Its bloody lovely.

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#956 Re: One for the surfers
February 22, 2010, 11:03:19 am
Seem as i have now posted on here having just looked for the last X years i thought i would keep it going.

More swell for me this last weekend with sat big and mean, too much east in swell meant most waves closing out onto slab  leaving me battered brused and with my tail between my legs. Plus yet another badly dinged board (luckily not terminal). This is now my third board in two months that has been claimed by this reef, 1 totally dead and two in intensive care, who said surfing was cheap?
Sunday could not have been more opposite, shoulder to head high beachy action for three hours, clear blue sky and snow on the ground with not a breath of wind. Fun Fun Fun
God i love surfing.

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#957 Re: One for the surfers
February 22, 2010, 11:59:46 am
Moray Coast was apparently ace yesterday, shame I couldn't get there.

CLM could you see that pic I sent you a link to?

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#958 Re: One for the surfers
February 22, 2010, 05:49:43 pm
Moray Coast was apparently ace yesterday, shame I couldn't get there.

CLM could you see that pic I sent you a link to?

Sorry chris, didnt get round to replying. I couldnt see the pic.

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#959 Re: One for the surfers
February 22, 2010, 10:07:45 pm
most waves closing out onto slab  leaving me battered brused and with my tail between my legs. Plus yet another badly dinged board (luckily not terminal). This is now my third board in two months that has been claimed by this reef, 1 totally dead and two in intensive care, who said surfing was cheap?

readin that is like music to Sam Egan's ears

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#960 Re: One for the surfers
February 23, 2010, 09:55:38 pm
Fistral clean today... good 3 ft sets...
South coast banging 8 ft yesterday two spongers and and three Newquayites....
tommorrow looks great... now sat in Kendal.... fackin work.

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#961 Re: One for the surfers
February 23, 2010, 10:01:51 pm
South coast banging 8 ft yesterday two spongers and and three Newquayites....


was the report for Porthleven...

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#962 Re: One for the surfers
February 23, 2010, 10:04:46 pm
Damn, i need to put my new wetsuit to good use before the winter waves finish!

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#963 Re: One for the surfers
February 24, 2010, 09:46:25 pm
McNuffin for the rest of the week!!!!

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#964 Re: One for the surfers
February 24, 2010, 09:51:13 pm
Fistral clean today... good 3 ft sets...
South coast banging 8 ft yesterday
Yeah Gwithian was nice too (but Godrevy bouldering was wet..)

I watched a few guys out in Mounts Bay in my lunch hour yesterday, never seen people getting long long rides right next to St. Michaels Mount before. Looked really nice but a hard paddle. Can imagine Porth/Praa/PerranT must all have been firing

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#965 Re: One for the surfers
February 25, 2010, 09:25:27 am
Amazing swell would wrap all the way in there. Any pics?

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#966 Re: One for the surfers
February 25, 2010, 12:42:57 pm
Amazing swell would wrap all the way in there. Any pics?

Yep here..



doesn't really do it justice, it was peeling better over nearer the causeway
« Last Edit: February 25, 2010, 12:50:03 pm by ben »

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#967 Re: One for the surfers
February 25, 2010, 02:00:25 pm
Still cool tho'.

Should you venture out at Aberdeen today you run the danger of hitting lumps of ice. I kid you not, the Dee is full of it getting washed down and out to sea.

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#968 Re: One for the surfers
February 25, 2010, 02:41:36 pm

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#969 Re: One for the surfers
March 05, 2010, 11:48:55 pm
Small clean pulse tomorrow....

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#970 Re: One for the surfers
March 08, 2010, 07:08:21 pm
I don't know if this has been mentioned on here but on the subject of blogs (falling Down) i am a big fan of Dane Reynolds (http://www.marinelayerproductions.com)

A happy medium for me as i like the artsy side of it all rather than the juvenile bullshit in a lot of the cutting edge surfing stuff, but i really am not into the retro/ alaia ridding hippy shit that tends to accompany many of the better written stuff.

Dane Reynolds and a few of the younger surfers (check out the modern collective DVD) who are really pushing the boundaries of what is possible seem to be putting a bit of character back into the top end of the sport.

Hope you enjoy, i am off to put the finishing touches to my tri plane hull bonzer i have shaped from my home grown Koa. Hopfully i will get well over two grand for it once finished.

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#971 Re: One for the surfers
March 09, 2010, 08:39:22 am
2 grand? If you are Roy Stewart add a zero? :)

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#972 Re: One for the surfers
March 09, 2010, 12:18:07 pm
Didnt know the old blond crooner was making surfboards now.

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#973 Re: One for the surfers
March 30, 2010, 09:55:38 am
Last Friday had my first ever taste of surfing with an evening lesson in Lahinch as the sun was setting.

Absolutely brilliant fun  :thumbsup:  Managed to get to standing on the first wave (meager achievement, but I was chuffed  :-[).  Thoroughly enjoyed every minute in the water, and the sunset was gorgeous too  :great:

Going to see if there are any beginners breaks on Madeira where I'm off too in just over a fortnight.

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#974 Re: One for the surfers
March 30, 2010, 10:32:47 am
Nice one slackers. Have spent many an hour looking out the window at howling onshore winds and rain and drinking Guiness in the pub overlooking Lahinch. Had a couple of good sessiosn down the coast though.

Will look at stormriders guide later on, I'm sure Madeira gets a writeup.

 

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