Twiggy on a bomb. Not sure if this was today or yesterday.
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Big Wednesday coming on 12/2/20
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Yah, he is finally starting to look his age. The guy has surfed every big wave spot in the world, many times over. Traveled the world. Surfed on ASP tour and WSL big wave tour. Surfed the biggest rawest Mavericks of all time and got the cover.
Pretty amazing surfer life he has led. I wonder how much longer he'll keep surfing Mavericks, with other SC guys long retired from big waves that are his age or younger.
Pete was down here on this part of the Central Coast a couple weeks ago.
Edit: CDIP model just went black for Norcal.
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When's the last time you saw someone draw a line like that on a drop at mavs!
That run from mid-September to Thanksgiving weekend was one of, if not THE, most consistent run of surf I've seen in 31 years.
We have a slightly below average hurricane season and a slightly below average winter, and you could easily go from March of one year to Sept/Oct/Nov the next year without getting an overhead day.
Subway you are currently on surf alert for Wednesday morning, and that will be a head to the public parking just North of the condo you looked at condition set, with a massive high tide, peaky short period, and wind going offshore in the night. It will probably change but as of right now, looks like some tubelets would be on offer.
This was a weird "fall" out here. We had the strongest cold front we'll probably get all year before calendar Autumn began, and we had early October for like 2.5 months after that. Then, after Thanksgiving, it went straight to January.
Stocked for West Coast; great photos and tales of triumph and beatings. YEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
If I were to drop into that wave (I wouldn't have), and I was to draw a top line like that (I wouldn't have), I most definitely would have lost my rail and went for the unintended platform diving triple gainer with two and half somersault twist, pike position.When's the last time you saw someone draw a line like that on a drop at mavs!
How is high line insanity? The guys that go to the bottom are the ones that get left behind. Watch footage of Nazare, the guys that make it stay high, those that try to get to the bottom struggle. Black's breaks like this, even Cardiff will pass you if don't get up and go. Jaw's too, the "impossible" high line is the one that makes too the shoulder.
The roll ins over the ledge (and I know roll in sounds a bit dismissive) are nuts.
Pete's wave was nuts.
Twiggy's is one of the biggest I've ever seen.
Willem has shots of his airdrop wave that are filthy.
I'm still waiting to see some of the gold that people must be holding back, but I wonder where they plan on publishing them?
Pete's wave was nuts.
Twiggy's is one of the biggest I've ever seen.
Willem has shots of his airdrop wave that are filthy.
I'm still waiting to see some of the gold that people must be holding back, but I wonder where they plan on publishing them?
Is there anywhere to publish surf photos anymore? Few rag mags overseas and Surfers Journal is pretty much it. Other than that, it's all about Instagram.
I remember the first time I went into the SurfING offices way back in the day. It was the mid 90s and i was just a college kid trying to make my way through the grind. I was dropping off some slides I had recently taken and a few of the guys were showing me around the offices. We went to the photo archive room. They had 10000's of slides archived from all over the world. Binders upon binders of poly sheets filled will jaw dropping slides.
I flipped through a few of the binders and was blown away at the amount of stellar 'mag worthy' shots. Then the reality hit me that 99% of those shots the world will never see. They only had so much room for shots in each issue + content for each issue was planned out well in advance + the amount of new shots they received every month from around the world was ridiculous.
It kind of blew my mind, but in a way it helped me instantly realize making a living as a surf photog is damn near impossible. Oddly, nothing has really changed.
I surfed Blacks a lot when I lived in SD - I think it's kind of a hoax. Good sometimes, but def not the best wave in the County, or even in LJ.
Which one? The guys that dropped in or the filmer dude that was operating 1-of-the-3 drones that were flying around that day?
Lots of drop ins and an unbelievable amount of sections paddled down onto people in that video. The worst part was, half the time, it was like the fourth time someone who OBVIOUSLY wasn't going to fall had to stop what they were doing/going to do, go around a section paddled down on them, reset/re-assess....for the next section someone was going to paddle down on them.
I'd say a rough guess of the dick measurement would be on the order of 750, maybe 800 CentiJunoPiers.
I'd say a rough guess of the dick measurement would be on the order of 750, maybe 800 CentiJunoPiers.
What if you went for the first or second one and just missed it, and then turned around and saw four more already feathering outside of you? These are the twisted scenarios I like to day dream about.
How's that inside left?!What if you went for the first or second one and just missed it, and then turned around and saw four more already feathering outside of you? These are the twisted scenarios I like to day dream about.
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That inside left is probably 12'-15' on the face.
Waves on the outerbar have always reminded me of Belharra in France. If you look at them through a good set of bincoulars, they look very similar to Belharra in shape and how they break. Imagine paddling 2 miles out to ride one of those babies.
I think I've seen bigger swell before. Maybe not as clean though. Early 00s? Late 90s?. When was that big storm that had winds over 100 mph in the hills north of the Carquinez Strait?
This is the snap I took when I was coming home from Santa Cruz on Tuesday:
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Edit: It seemed like the swell cleaned up the further north from Santa Cruz I went, which is not the usual case.
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