east coast is way better. everyone should move there, they are just trying to keep it a secret!
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Gotta give that post a thumbs down. The Outer Banks, New Jersey, New York, New England and occasionally Delaware and Florida produce great waves when there is swell. What are you calling a real wave destination? Won't disagree with the quality ride time at the pacific point breaks but its not nearly as bad as you describe. Some places on the East Coast do suck but not everyplace. Glad to live in one of the places that doesn't suck and where I can have waves like this down the street......Corey Lopez seemed to like the place.The best day of the year on the EC (in any given year) is just a day with waves on the WC. While it has moments, the EC in general just doesn't compare to any real-wave destinations. It's just not comparable given the bathymetry, lack of variety, consistency, weather etc. You can almost literally do more actual surfing (feet on the board) in one session at, say, K38 than you would in a month or more here. It's still fun, but good attitude is crucial.
East Coast is surely better. Notice how the OBSF guys are silent?Gotta give that post a thumbs down. The Outer Banks, New Jersey, New York, New England and occasionally Delaware and Florida produce great waves when there is swell. What are you calling a real wave destination? Won't disagree with the quality ride time at the pacific point breaks but its not nearly as bad as you describe. Some places on the East Coast do suck but not everyplace. Glad to live in one of the places that doesn't suck and where I can have waves like this down the street......Corey Lopez seemed to like the place.
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Yep -- has its days for sure. I went to HS on the OBX, which probably gets the lion's share of waves on the EC, and have surfed a ton of good, nutty, barreling waves. But IMO, it just doesn't compare to somewhere with a geographically and bathymetrically diverse coastline that receives consistent, long period groundswells from a variety of directions (as well as some short period stuff too). I know there's lots of hometown pride, but even the best days are typically 5/7 on a global scale.Gotta give that post a thumbs down. The Outer Banks, New Jersey, New York, New England and occasionally Delaware and Florida produce great waves when there is swell. What are you calling a real wave destination? Won't disagree with the quality ride time at the pacific point breaks but its not nearly as bad as you describe. Some places on the East Coast do suck but not everyplace. Glad to live in one of the places that doesn't suck and where I can have waves like this down the street......Corey Lopez seemed to like the place.
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Yeah. SF and Santa Cruz are "North Central." Where's north start? Maybe after Bodega Bay?Californians seem to forget there are waves north of the golden gate bridge.
North side of golden gate fort point is North Central ohh and no matter how hard Ventura and SB try we are Southern Ca and central does not start tell Santa Maria sand dunes.Yeah. SF and Santa Cruz are "North Central." Where's north start? Maybe after Bodega Bay?
that's because i'm too big of a p**sy to surf up that farCalifornians seem to forget there are waves north of the golden gate bridge.
that's because i'm too big of a p**sy to surf up that far and wear a hooded 4/3 and booties in SD
what he said, except the part about HS.Yep -- has its days for sure. I went to HS on the OBX, which probably gets the lion's share of waves on the EC, and have surfed a ton of good, nutty, barreling waves. But IMO, it just doesn't compare to somewhere with a geographically and bathymetrically diverse coastline that receives consistent, long period groundswells from a variety of directions (as well as some short period stuff too). I know there's lots of hometown pride, but even the best days are typically 5/7 on a global scale.
Most people are calling Indo, Hawaii, South Africa, West Oz, etc. real wave destinations. Montauk and New England are pretty much the only places you named that can even handle anything referred to as "swell" at a real wave destination.Gotta give that post a thumbs down. The Outer Banks, New Jersey, New York, New England and occasionally Delaware and Florida produce great waves when there is swell. What are you calling a real wave destination? Won't disagree with the quality ride time at the pacific point breaks but its not nearly as bad as you describe. Some places on the East Coast do suck but not everyplace. Glad to live in one of the places that doesn't suck and where I can have waves like this down the street......Corey Lopez seemed to like the place.
The East coast, particlularly the NJ, LI region fucking sucks. The only thing we have going for us is that the waves suck here so badly that it is nominally less crowded than places where the waves dont suck, and during our best wave season the water is so fucking cold that it clears at least half the lineup. Last Saturday was the coldest day of the year so far, with fun chest high waves at my local. I was super stoked to see a few people out at the jetty I frequent...chatted and traded waves with a good friend and two guys I dont know at all. How often are any of you guys stoked to see someone you dont know in the water and genuinely happy to trade waves with strangers. Reminds of what surfing in California used to be like say 60 years ago. That said anyone that even tries to compare EC waves with WC waves just stfu. Our absolute best days of the year would be a decent morning at Emma Wood...Not a dig on any East Coasters, but I feel like the only people who every try to do a comparison between both coasts are people from the EC. I've never heard someone from the West care enough to try to initiate a comparison between the two
I agree with you except this statement, Emma Wood is generally a terrible wave. A decent sized shorter period swell with offshores would sh!t on most days there. The EC can get extremely good when conditions line up, you can probably count that number on one hand per year in the NE and maybe twice that in the OBX.Our absolute best days of the year would be a decent morning at Emma Wood...