Any east coast surfers?

i surf and im on the east coast but im going away next week and i probably wouldnt have gone anyway i dont surf very often

but it should  be sick

Im sooooo stoked. I just bought a new shortboard last week and there hasnt even really been any good waves to try it out on...but it will be perfect for sat/sun's conditions. Magic seaweed is showing 8 ft @ 14 sec for Kennebunk beach and Swell info is saying 9.2 ft @ 15 sec. Ahh i cant wait! Anyone else gonna be in the Kennebunk area?

as the swell models only get bigger right now, im betting most of ur summer beachbreaks will not hold this swell. ur prob gonna need to find the points which barely break, or even better try and take a boat to an outer reef (which there are in the NE). to the kid trying to surf in ri this weekend, its not even worth it, gansett will be closed out and u will hurt urself.

bummer, well i plan on being reasonable. i will still go with my group on saturday but hopefully ill be able to slay it on monday or something. thanks peeps

Yeah it probably will be too big for spring lake, but I'll ride my bike around and check it out. Where do you normally go, north or south end?

i am pretty sure that arlberg only rents out bics, but mooose would know better since he kind of works there, but if you want to go surfing with mooose and i, i have an extra 6'6" lost speed demon II (shortboard).

pine point is probably the least likely to close because it is fairly protected and it only gets swell when the waves are real big at scarborough and higgins. so pine point will be smaller, but less likely to close. if the waves are too gnarly at scarborough and higgins we will go there.

im so jealous of you fools

Thanks for the help I'll call Arlberg and see whats up. Mommie will drive me to scarb higgins and pinepoint so I'll see whats best and go from there. If the ripcurrents are too bad, I may just go Monday but I doubt that will happen.

i surf the Ocean City NJ shore. im heading down to the 10 foot waves this weekend. ill be at 56th street.

im bout to stash a hydration pack bladder in my springsuit so i can stay hydrated on what im sure will be the toughest paddle out in a longggg time haha.

and to anyone who doesnt think they have the proper skill or equipment to surf this weekend, don't forget about a sponge and some fins. walk out to some shorebreakthat will be pumping, get shacked, pounded, then do it again.  i'm definately gonna bring my bodyboard to have some fun if my 5'8 doesnt hold on too well.

people dont realize how much these waves are going to wreck you if you have no idea. 

The locals will be out in full force but please don't be that person that is a kook and not ready for something like this.  I dont want to hear about anyone dying.   The ocean is nothing to mess around with and conditions this upcoming weekend is basically an avalanche in comparison.

So true^ if you're gonna get rocked, don't go out. I'm not, I know they are gonna be too much for me, I only started surfing this year. Nobody wants somebody's board flying in front of them while they are catching some amazing wave.

I went out today in the Belmar NJ area (as usual) and those waves were enough for me. They were pretty big. I need an ns sticker for my board.

well, thats a shame. it sucks to be a newb in a sport. i wish i ruled at surfing. god its like alta just got 80 inches of unstable pow and everybody is denying me anything over a blue square. bummah!

are you still in belmar? I'm a town over and I have a ton of ns stickers.

how were they today? I basically missed out on everything and only got home at 7ish.

i'll be in Ocean City as well but i think im heading to cape may for some deeper water breaks. I really don't think any board under 6'4" will hold a rail if ur actually going out.

yeah I agree.  Anything under a 6'3 I think won't be able to handle a good railing.  Better learn how to drop in quick kiddies.

hell ya breh high tide shorebreak status

Fuck, reading this I feel like it's winter and I'm missing a major dump

Hooray for living 6+ hours from the coast

God you guys sound like fucking kooks. It will probably be 6' closeouts and you guys will be claiming double overhead and firing.

shit swell info is now saying double overhead,but pretty choppy...it keeps changing though. I'm thinking I may have to sit this one out considering the condition my knee has been in all summer

*No wonder

says the kid from a small town in colorado.

this is why im only going out with my sponge and swimfins, anyone who surfs the EC and especially jersey in the winter knows how steep/scary those drop in can be

1) Only shoobies say "kooks"

2) I don't even know what 6' is, but closeouts can be firing if you know how to surf

3) No one hates on east coast surfers, and those of us in the northeast are even respected more because of the conditions we surf in and make the best of.

bahahaha.

if ur a surfer u know he meant "rail" so y go out of ur way and be a dick, does adding the ing really piss u off that much. and eastcoast surfers, especially NE, are some of the most dedicated there are in the US. i bet u rip though on ur 7'6" BIC.

o yea and im pretty sure st. paddy's day 2007 we "claimed" this to be 1-3 feet overhead (first pic in the slideshow)  is that your 6'?

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/strong-winter-storm-sends-pumping-freezing-surf-to-the-northeast-happy-st-patricks-day_8384/photos/

Well their reporting 20-30 ft seas off bermuda, even though its closer to the storm than you guys (hurricane bill will pass just 182 nautical miloes off their coast)

I'll be in OBX by sunday, then for the rest of the week! Hopefully the swells will still be around

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I live 100 yards from the beach and lived around the ocean 90% of my life. Nearly all of the east coasters that I have met traveling in mexico or central america are fucking kooks, so it really isn't that hard to extrapolate to everyone on the entire eastern seaboard. You surf what, maybe 40 days a year for an hour or two per session? In the fall/winter I log more time in the water in a month than you do in a year.

dont give a fuck. you are still from colorado, so you have no say in this. and i surf in the winter, so if you do log more days than me, its because i go skiing. also, you act like cali waves are amazing, when we all know they are mediocre at best. i am not even going to argue about east coast surfers being kooks because thats fucking retarded. and fyi, south jersey invented the word kook.

have you ever even surfed the east coast, not including the summer. please come to NJ/NY/RI through sept-nov. then see if you can "extrapolate" that all east coast surfers are kooks. mind you that kelly, the hobgoods, and the lopez's came from florida which combines for like 11 world titles.

I don't know where you are getting your information, I was born and raised in CA and didn't move out till I was 18. Cali? What the fuck is that? CA waves aren't amazing, but I can guarantee that the waves within 5 miles of my house in either direction are far better in our worst month than they are in your best month. I have logged a 100+ days in the water and 100 days on the mountain in a year, so I can guarantee I put in more time than you. If surfing or skiing actually mattered to you then you wouldn't live on the east coast.

^^ cool !!

Kelly would have been the same surfer if he came from Alabama. And wow you have two airheaded jesus freak pro surfer brothers, cool. Ever wonder why surfers move the fuck out of there during most of the year when they actually get good?

hah im not trying to debate whether the east coast can actually measure up to the west coast wave wise, thats just stupid. but to say that we are all kooks and don't know how to surf based on a few guys u met in C america, is just wrong. for the waves we do get, its pretty crazy the talent that still comes from the east.

No, you're wrong, you're all kooks.

I'm in east brunswick, its like 45 min from bradley/belmar/avon and that area, and i go often.

The waves were good, i just started this year so I'm not sure how to properly describe them... Anyway, most were breaking going north, so all the regular footed people wanting to surf frontside were lucky. Me being goofy, well, i tried to go backside and it didn't work too well. They did have some power to them, and most had a pretty steep face that i had fun dropping down. In the morning at around 9am i had the ocean to myself and they were nice, decently long periods and nice breaks but then it got crowded. Towards the end of the day it got really, really choppy, swells were like two feet apart and everybody was just bobing up and down in the water. The only good breaks were like 5 feet from the jetty, and the good people were taking them so i stayed away. I hope that didn't sound rediculous.

And not everybody on the east coast is a kook, I've seen quite a few people kiling it out there recently.
Actually, I just though of a good comparison, sort of. A kook isn't just a noob, it's like a snowboarder who insists skiing is gay, is probably bad at snowboarding and only does it to be cool. Somebody who will snake you in the park or something. A good kook/noob is somebody willing to learn to surf properly and not take all the good people's waves, like a boarder who is cool with skiing or something. I know i'll almost always stop paddling if i see a good person about to catch the same wave.

Wow, that turned out longer than i thought. I heard my local lifeguards talking about closing the beach and sunday or something.

If you want shoot me a pm if you're in the area again and I'll get an ns sticker to you if I'm around.

anyway, that's dope. I'm jealous you got to go out in the morning. I missed it cause of a doctors appointment and pretty much only was there for the ridiculously choppy afternoon. Still was a lot of fun though, and they're definitely powerful. I'm hoping the wind isn't so strong out of the south again, that was ridiculous. I spent half the time paddling against it.

I know what you mean about the better people getting a bunch of the good waves. I've been surfing for awhile and if I'm in the right position to catch the wave I'll usually make it, but it's still intimidating when the you know the other guy paddling for it really rips.

Sunday RI 22 foot swells predicted. I Body Board but still thats fucking huge, to big for me at least, maybe tomarrow

you guys sound like  tupac vs. biggie

screw all this east vs. west  bullshit cause we (east) are the ones who are about slammed with a huuuuuge swell,     who else is fucking pumped for this weekend??????

meeeee

Snowbladesfor whatever you sound like an idiot.  No offense but anyone who claims how much time they spend or where they live in comparison to the ocean sounds like a "kook" to me.  If you have ever ridden a double overhead wave please enlighten me on your experience with a longer board.  The drop in would be horrendous on a 10'0 long board or even a 7'6 funboard and you must be a ripper if you can drop waves as big as they are calling on them.  And if you don't know what a "rail" is when surfing it doesn't sound like you know much about it.

The rail on your surfboard are basically your edges.  These help you turn.  When waves get big, it gets harder to cut and if the rail doesn't hold, good luck.

Yo, just spent 5 hours in the water at higgins beach up in Maine. The surf was so sick. ive seen tons of ppl from jersey, mass, and vermont kickin it around here. The weekend is looking HUGE :)

holy fuck

omg! you are the shit! 100 days skiing and surfing. you are the man. and you are right about your waves being far better. your wrost day of the year is better than our best. your average day consists of 5 foot waves while our best days are knee high at best. i wish i lived in socal.

AHHHH! i'm supposed to be going to boston tomorrow but i really just want to surf all weekend. it should be sick. it has been really dead on the cape this summer so this is much needed haha

I was having a hard time drop in yesterday on my 6'4'' board with not a lot of rocker on some of the waves. It's so similar to dropping in on a skateboard though, there was a guy doing it with one of those stand up paddle boards, they are huge. A couple days ago i was also competing with kayaks for waves. I couldn't see somebody doing it on a 10' board, not going straight down it at least. I was going straight down and just getting massive speed.