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What is needed for a beachbreak to be good?
- Thread starter Northern_Shores
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Did a detailed post on this a while back but the search feature sucks, so in brief:
a) Long term: something to hold sand - meaning headlands, scattered reef below the sand, piers or jetties
b) Short term: sand movement - rivermouths, sand pumps, unusually heavy swell activity at side angles
c) Swell angle - typically you don't want a beach that is mostly steep angled swell, it's more prone to producing walled closeouts. Canyons can be good for refracting swell. Exposure to combinations of opposite direction swells can make a typically crappy beachbreak excellent and peaky.
This is all wrong. It's all offshore canyons. For beachhbreaks and for all surf breaks
fck. ☝that paragraph sums up all my surfing life right there
Do you also live at a shitty beachbreak that’ll actually get good 1 session out of 10?
happy new years
'Been surfing a spot that's rarely if ever good by high falootin standards but it's been fun a few times lately because of the high tide and steeper beach/backwash factor. Angled short-med period swells(by our scale, today's 10 seconds was getting in that window).
I noticed as the tide continued coming in, the back wash was making for some fun racers and started looking for it a bit. An hour later the resulting dump was unleashing too quickly to tap into perfectly and tried to get some regular ones without too much backwash, but it wouldn't happen any longer. The tide was too high and without the perfect backwash the rides were not much..
As I was leaving, the last few waves I saw through the fog, gave me hope for tomorrow.
Sometimes the spot working the best is the spot you need to work, at all. Like the surfer having the most fun.
I miss the jetties. Mostly a romanticized notion.
I noticed as the tide continued coming in, the back wash was making for some fun racers and started looking for it a bit. An hour later the resulting dump was unleashing too quickly to tap into perfectly and tried to get some regular ones without too much backwash, but it wouldn't happen any longer. The tide was too high and without the perfect backwash the rides were not much..
As I was leaving, the last few waves I saw through the fog, gave me hope for tomorrow.
Sometimes the spot working the best is the spot you need to work, at all. Like the surfer having the most fun.
I miss the jetties. Mostly a romanticized notion.
attitude makes a beach break good. beach breaks are emotional bitches
My personal shiity beach break looked so fun, until I paddled out. Closeouts, very inconsistent,when the sets came 90% were closed out and I was always in wrong spot for the makeable shoulder
Some beachbreaks are like anal sex.My personal shiity beach break looked so fun, until I paddled out. Closeouts, very inconsistent,when the sets came 90% were closed out and I was always in wrong spot for the makeable shoulder
Harder to get in than you would imagine and never as fun as you thought it would be.
- Autoprax, out!
Like big pipeline, butt sex is best left to professionals.
My friend says he imagines a giant coming along with giant can of insect spray and spraying them and killing them all.
I'm like, "Tell me more."
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I know it well. My dad moved to Emerald Isle when I was 10. Split my time growing up between there and So Cal with my mom. Cool spot but definitely lacking in good surf.
I could see comparing Boca Rio to anal sex. In both cases you're with a sewage outflow spot.
lack of time, cpnsiderbale family/work committments, hangovers, er'bb members out of state and/or seriously injured, car issues, seriously disfigured boards. one insurmountable factor is enough...2-3 issues bring serious peaky hope...get four together and its a wave orgy
you forgot one thing - it needs me not to be there