[slackline]

T'was nothing, I wrote the UKB Wiki page to save having to type the same thing each time someone was having trouble posting pictures.

[Falling Down]

Great film - Just show's how good UK surfing can get when it's on.

Gav - Any pics of you on the Flickr stream?

[fatdoc]

Some bean spillage on Vimeo



ET managing to get through those two lips at the end is pretty impressive.

this looks amazin

give some climbing context here... is this what.. E5 onsight? E8 ??

bolted 8b redpoint or on sight??


I have no idea.. but, damn.. that was cool!

[Falling Down]

The guys in the vid are all good surfers and have some form of basic sponsorship, photo's in mags etc or another.  They can surf and have also surfed much more impressive and demanding conditions...

Difficult to make a comparison with climbing as the two don't really match up and it depends what you do on the wave once you're on it, but, when you surf outside of England you regularly see surfing to this standard regularly and the surfers in question are rarely sponsored.

It depends on where you put yourself and what you do with the wave rather than the wave itself - that's why you can't grade surfing thank god.

[Probes]

Some bean spillage on Vimeo



ET managing to get through those two lips at the end is pretty impressive.

Hey Chris do you know where this is exactly?, unless it says on the vid but im watchin it wit no sound. Im thinking shitty water so not to far north.

[Adam Lincoln]

Some bean spillage on Vimeo



ET managing to get through those two lips at the end is pretty impressive.

Hey Chris do you know where this is exactly?, unless it says on the vid but im watchin it wit no sound. Im thinking shitty water so not to far north.

Its 'Cookie Monsters' but i assume its a heavily guarded secret!

[SA Chris]

Aye, I think mum is the operative word there. I don't know, but think gme might. PM him with a good bribe and he might just tell you.

[Falling Down]

It's in Yorkshire...

[gme]

This has caused an absolute shit storm in the last 48 hrs, the locals (non of which are in the vid) are totally fucked off with the producer of the video. Even one of the surfers in it isnt happy. i have had loads of emails and texts trying to get as many people as possible complaining to carve about it.

Despite it being the worst kept secret in the world its still a secret spot and does not feature in any guides. So if you know where it is keep it to your self.

Re the link i posted, i would be greatful if it does not go further than this forum and, again if anyone knows me and can therfore identify where the pics are taken please keep it to themselves. i shouldnt really have posted them and kind of regret doing so now.

[SA Chris]

It's in Yorkshire...

No shit

[SA Chris]

i have had loads of emails and texts trying to get as many people as possible complaining to carve about it.

Hardly the first time Carve have fucked people off with cats getting out of bags. Managed to do it in ireland, Scotland and Wales already IIRC.

[Probes]

This has caused an absolute shit storm in the last 48 hrs, the locals (non of which are in the vid) are totally fucked off with the producer of the video. Even one of the surfers in it isnt happy. i have had loads of emails and texts trying to get as many people as possible complaining to carve about it.

Despite it being the worst kept secret in the world its still a secret spot and does not feature in any guides. So if you know where it is keep it to your self.

Re the link i posted, i would be greatful if it does not go further than this forum and, again if anyone knows me and can therfore identify where the pics are taken please keep it to themselves. i shouldnt really have posted them and kind of regret doing so now.

Locals, fuck em, surfings now pretty much fucked anyway, half the residents of greater london have got boards on there roof. Ive got a really good local crag thats got some good problems on it, theres no way id want to try and stop anyone experiencing it. Selfish bastards is what they are.
Anyway when a place like that is ripping your pretty unlikely to get joe bloggs rocking up for take off, he'd get splattered.

[Probes]

Sorry gme, just re read thats not suppose to be a rant at you, just a the old local attitude in general. Having been on the receiving end of some localism it hits a nerve with me everytime.

[SA Chris]

Ive got a really good local crag thats got some good problems on it, theres no way id want to try and stop anyone experiencing it. Selfish bastards is what they are.

Crags accessible 180 days a year compared to breaks that work like that maybe 3 or 4 days a year do not equate. I can see why people get fucked off.
Magazines have little to gain in the long term by publishing things like this other than selling a few more copies of that current issue.

There is dickheadish chestbeating "I am a local this is my wave" localism and then there is justified, "I have waited for this day all year and don't want too big a crowd " localism. Two ends of the scale.

[gme]

i am not getting involved in this again. Read a few pages back for my stance

[Probes]

Yeh i appreciate what your saying Chris, there's the local nobs and the local good guys, but it still doesnt cut. Eg. I was trying a certain traverse local to me, and you only get really good conditions once a month tops, especially when you have to fit it around job etc. So i been training and trying for this thing for over a year, i rock up, dry wind from the north, suns out, low humidity, perfect, only happens 4 or 5 times a year. Place is fucking packed, and now ive got to climb past people, put up with distractions, people laughing etc etc.. its same thing, buts its my problem not their's.
Anyway, i guess this subject has been bashed to death n is tiresome  so ..

[fatdoc]

Ive got a really good local crag thats got some good problems on it, theres no way id want to try and stop anyone experiencing it. Selfish bastards is what they are.

Crags accessible 180 days a year compared to breaks that work like that maybe 3 or 4 days a year do not equate. I can see why people get fucked off.
Magazines have little to gain in the long term by publishing things like this other than selling a few more copies of that current issue.

There is dickheadish chestbeating "I am a local this is my wave" localism and then there is justified, "I have waited for this day all year and don't want too big a crowd " localism. Two ends of the scale.

Ok, soooo... if it  only works 6 times a year... shurly only the locals /  those able anable that can get there (and one would presume not fuck up the line up as they would know they are in a special place with equally minded souls) would go?

I and a vast army of punter just wouldnt / couldnt go?

I dont quite get the *crowds are anathama for surfing to be any good* concept. there again I just like flailing around on a sponge so what do i know? I presume that puts me right down at the bottom of the pecking order.. which is wierd.. as from my very limited experience spongers have a high sucess rate in catching a wave they go for.

It's all new to me, but in the UK with it's over population I find it hard to believe there are few regularly breaking secret spots 

may as well get em all out in the open, to dilute the other breaks if crowding out the back is a national problem 

there again, if i knew of such a place... i'd perhaps have a different view

[Adam Lincoln]

Re the link i posted, i would be greatful if it does not go further than this forum and, again if anyone knows me and can therfore identify where the pics are taken please keep it to themselves. i shouldnt really have posted them and kind of regret doing so now.

Indeed, a certain landmark in the background of one is a big give away. Might want to take that one down.

[SA Chris]

I wish i had taken gme's stance

I am not getting involved in this again

I understand why it happens but don't necessarily agree with it. Like many things in life unless you are in the exact situation you can't really appreciate it.

[philo]

at least they cant come to my local barrel fest and just shoot videos of it like this!
oh wait, brb

[gme]

how do i remove my post.

[SA Chris]

Hopefully a mod will read this and do it for you ask Bubba or one of the IOs.

[Johnny Brown]

Not sure of the impact of removing them from here tbh, flickr is a site with rather more traffic.

I can identify to some extent to the secretism in surfing (as opposed to localism) but I think this illustrates why its going to struggle in the information age. The research I've done on Lleyn spots suggests a lot of info all ready online, and very little consensus on which are secret.

[granticus]

Looks like there was quite a collection of visitors from down this way, including a youngster from Croyde with 'acting skills'..

Not gonna get involved either I think all that could be said has been said and that's 'nuff said.

Solid swell is arriving SW tomorrow along with Northerly winds, perhaps the NE mafia could start an impromptu exchange programme with their Cornish chums and pile on down to the Lev or nearby secrets that'll be cranking

[slackline]

Like anyone actually "owns" waves/breaks, they're so ephemeral! 

(I do however understand that that is part of their appeal)