Surfing Waves

Hi

My name is Cat and I am studying for a BSc Goegraphy degree at the University of Plymouth.

I am currently writing my dissertation but I need to have some research data first. My dissertation is on the artificial surf reef in Boscombe, with particular focus on the surfers' experiences. It would really help me if you could all please leave a comment, just a few words on how you feel it has gone and how it is to surf etc. For example, 'great for more advanced surfers' or 'it is not producing the quality waves we were expecting' were a coule of comments I have had from interviews. If you could also leave your first name and age with the comment that would be great. Again this is for my dissertation so any comments or thoughts you have would be helpful.

Before you all ask, I have been down there and surfed it myself as I am from this area, but trying not to push my views onto you and keep it impersonal I am not going to say my personal opinion but could I have a few comments please.

Thanks

Cat

Use the 'search' button, its been done to death.

Topic closed.

I second that. The search button isn't used enough so here's a helping hand.
search.php
search.php?keywords=artificial+reef&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

KS

That doesn't help me because I need first name and age for my dissertation data. I just need a couple of comments and I have already tried on the other threads but it isn't enough and isn't really what i need. How i need to write it is written below:
Mark, 20 'it works well for the more advanced surfer but the waves are too violent'

Surfing Cat wrote:That doesn't help me because I need first name and age for my dissertation data. I just need a couple of comments and I have already tried on the other threads but it isn't enough and isn't really what i need. How i need to write it is written below:
Mark, 20 'it works well for the more advanced surfer but the waves are too violent'

Well if you've read the threads, you know the comments and views. Even if we gave you our first names and ages you have no proof that they are our real names and ages so why don't you just add ficticous names and ages to the comments? Easy!

To help you along. My name is delbert i am 69 and i think the reef is awesome, dude!

KS

Again, thanks for the unbelieveably useful comment. It would have just been easier for you to answer than post all of that. but yes, thanks delbert, maybe next time use a more reasonable age

Hey - I know loads of people who surf at older ages ! (no offence Gower crew !)

Surfing Cat wrote:Again, thanks for the unbelieveably useful comment. It would have just been easier for you to answer than post all of that. but yes, thanks delbert, maybe next time use a more reasonable age

Using an internet forum by asking a bunch of potentially ficticous characters their views on the reef and using this as your research data is hardly going to give your disertation credibility. Yes i hear you say you have surfed the reef yourself but unfortunately your going to need to speak to actually people down in boscombe so that you can gauge wether or not they are giving you credible infomation.
Or of course there is always the magic seaweed forum, they are usually quite helpful.

KS

I have to agree with KS here, get off your butt, get to Bournemouth and ask people on the beach or that have just come out of the water. OMG is it really that easy to just use the internet and get a degree?

kitesurfer wrote:Or of course there is always the magic seaweed forum, they are usually quite helpful.

KS

lol

xswind wrote:I have to agree with KS here, get off your butt, get to Bournemouth and ask people on the beach or that have just come out of the water. OMG is it really that easy to just use the internet and get a degree?

Sure is.. Heck.. if the beach interviewing doesnt come up with anything, Im sure there is a whole Wikipedia article describing all the goods and bads and opinions of the reef.

haha.

The the OP; good luck on the research. Hope you find what you are looking for.

Seriously, Cat. If you'd searched this website for Boscombe, then you might have found this:

"you ever noticed how many students make their first and only post to this forum requesting help with their home work, paper, thesis, dissertation, etc.? At least Jamin84's post is coherent. So many of these alleged students seem to have no grasp on grammar and spelling; let alone how to properly present themselves."

billie_morini wrote:Seriously, Cat. If you'd searched this website for Boscombe, then you might have found this:

"you ever noticed how many students make their first and only post to this forum requesting help with their home work, paper, thesis, dissertation, etc.? At least Jamin84's post is coherent. So many of these alleged students seem to have no grasp on grammar and spelling; let alone how to properly present themselves."

Sssssh don't call it homework, they get upset if you do that! I seem to recall getting into trouble for that before!

KS

wow you guys seriously dont have a life, maybe you just resent me because you clearly cant get a degree. maybe instead of posting all of this you should have just answered the question, it would have been a darn sight easier. but thanks, and I have interviewed a few surfers and they seem to be helpful, maybe you should get off the internet and surf yourselves. thanks so much for the help, remind me next time I ask a surfer for help it will turn out a colossal WASTE of my time

Hey!!! I'm not one of the sad ones they are just losers with nothing better to do, the rest of us surfers are nice... see I am being helpful!!!

Joe, 23 it doesn't work as well as it should but I like it as I am a more experienced surfer, so it hasn't really done what it was aiming for but I enjoy it when it works. I also think it is good for the local area, we surfers do like a drink!!!

oh and really, ask surfers???? you really want her to interrupt you when you are trying to catch a wave or when you just want to finish and go for a pint. if you can't be bothered to say it on here whilst sitting on your asses at home why would you when you are either about to leave or are in the middle of surfing. Anyway Cat, best of luck, hope this helped

joeyb99 wrote:Hey!!! I'm not one of the sad ones they are just losers with nothing better to do, the rest of us surfers are nice... see I am being helpful!!!

Joe, 23 it doesn't work as well as it should but I like it as I am a more experienced surfer, so it hasn't really done what it was aiming for but I enjoy it when it works. I also think it is good for the local area, we surfers do like a drink!!!

oh and really, ask surfers???? you really want her to interrupt you when you are trying to catch a wave or when you just want to finish and go for a pint. if you can't be bothered to say it on here whilst sitting on your asses at home why would you when you are either about to leave or are in the middle of surfing. Anyway Cat, best of luck, hope this helped

I see some people are helpful!!!! oh and i am not using the internet to get a degree but I really hate it when people interrupt me when I surf for the sake of a questionnaire so I would have thought that you lot would have prefered this, don't worry, next time I will just sit in front of you talking so you miss all the waves... good times

LMFAO! Interesting how Joe joined 2 minutes after cats post and then his very first post just happens to be on this thread!
Conincidence? I don't think so.....
Wheres mulder and scully when you need then eh?

KS

MEOW, Surfing Cat!

When I was a grom, I had to surf uphill in the snow in both directions to get my degrees. I've got 3 of them and not a single one involved data gathering on the internet. No Siree, Kitty, we used ancient devices called card catalogues and books. Sometimes we had to make a long distance phone call or mail a post card to a librarian at a distant library to request a book. We built laboratories and drove to distant research sites just to have an hour or two of discussion with an experienced professional or an esteemed professor. While some of us were slaving away in engineering and science, the social scientists were busy creating surveys called questionnaires and interviews. Social science is silly, but practitioners worked admirably hard on these instruments. And business students managed to find ways to interview corporation personnel that included CEOs, VPs, Controllers, and more in order to complete their research. Well, Kitty, I also have 4 professional licenses / registrations, but that's another story from this old timer.

Jeez, I don't know what's wrong with kids today. Maybe they lack imagination or ambition. Could it be the result of growing up playing with these new fangled computers and computer games. I'll have to inqure with my old friend, Kitesurfer.

Boy, and that JoeyB99 is some kind of whippersnapper! Nap time now. Zzzzzzz

wow good times. My dissertation advisor told me to do this. and I have already been down and asked some surfers I just wanted some more information, maybe because in your day there wasn't the internet lol kidding, but on a serious note KS get more of a sense of humour and no unfortunately for your humour I did not invent joeyb99. I am clearly not that sad

Surfing Cat wrote: but on a serious note KS get more of a sense of humour

Don't you just love the irony in this statement???

KS