HELP! Swell of the summer and my rash is GAAHAhahaaaaNONONO

[garbarrage]

something in the water over there? you guys are ruining all my dreams of being able to surf minus the wettie....
can wear a 5/3 all year round over here... best we can hope for is losing the boots gloves and hood in the summer months IF there's waves!!!

[kitesurfer]

Buy yourself and sup board and p**s everyone else off by hogging all the waves!

KS

[LOLRuss]

I woke up, put on liquid bandaid, put on my wife's under-armor tights under my board shorts. They worked. I felt no pain.

WOO WOO

[LOLRuss]

something in the water over there? you guys are ruining all my dreams of being able to surf minus the wettie....
can wear a 5/3 all year round over here... best we can hope for is losing the boots gloves and hood in the summer months IF there's waves!!!

The water and air have both been 80F this week. And we don't have many waves either, we just lucked out on a good ground swell this week, courtesy of Bermuda

[LOLRuss]

Buy yourself and sup board and p**s everyone else off by hogging all the waves!

KS

Eh?

[Rodrigo]

i used to get this, i carry a big tub of vaseline in my surf bag and smear the affected areas before i paddle out -inner thighs mostly. also i started wearing a sleevless rash guard which gave me a hell of a rash behind my arms, so i do those too and voila no more red sore bits

also vaseline those darn nipples as they can rub against the deck.. ouch
i used to run long distances so have a big appreciation for vaseline... best skin product ever , takes care of everything

[justloafing]

something in the water over there? you guys are ruining all my dreams of being able to surf minus the wettie....
can wear a 5/3 all year round over here... best we can hope for is losing the boots gloves and hood in the summer months IF there's waves!!!

I gotta hand it to you all over there. Man I hate the wetsuites. Yep I wear them in the late fall-early spring but to have to wear them all year long . Gotta say you all have a good stoke about surfing to surf where you do.

[garbarrage]

really not as bad as all that... gettin in and out sucks tho... as does blue hands, and feet... we're total martyrs lol!!

stoke is a powerful thing!

[LOLRuss]

Just how protected are you in Ireland in a super thick wetsuit? Still really cold? Feel tired when you get out of the water?

Thats how it is here in the winter when the water is 60-65F and I'm out in my 3mm.

[garbarrage]

colder in our summer than your winter bout 14C 57F... winter's about 51-52F 11C. wear a 5/3 all year round.. open the zip a little in the summer to give a cold flush every so often.
never get out of the water if there's waves until the arms give up!
but once hooded and gloved the winter's not much different to the summer except we are plagued by storm surf and howling onshores...

pretty sure i can can get in and out of a wetsuit in world record time in the winter lol.

[Dan710]

That was a pretty nice swell

[mrc]

how do you manage to get scabs on your knees

[garbarrage]

shaggin on carpet lol

[LOLRuss]

how do you manage to get scabs on your knees

Sliding them on the rough wax as I pop up, on the edge of my board shorts. Also on my inner thighs, from the board shorts + salt water.

[sebastiansurfer]

man i dont get scabs but i get INSANE charliehorses(or cramps in your whole thigh)

like to the point where im sooooo helpless if anything were to happen.current,big set,SHARKS(i live in florida so its shark season all year)not fun

but is organo wax supposed to help with rash? i never knew?