Surfing Waves

What would you rather be in, stupidly warm water, or cold water?

I've said cold becuase in stupidly warm waters there are more health risks associated than with cold.

including chafage of fins.

hot for sure though i dont mind the cold i would perfer to surf in hot water

I survived winter here in my 4/3 (for the first month of winter with no thermo vest). So I'd say cold with a 5/4/3 and a thermo vest!

Warm would be nice too but if that means more sharks I could do without. Anyway I'm used of coming in with numb toes. And hands that are so numb I can't take my booties off!

I would prefer hot water to say... 50 degree cold water, you can stay in it longer. But i would go in anything with the right equiptment.

I don't like hot water because you get hot, and then like don't really sweat or anything so you get really hot and it sucks. You can allways warm back up from cold water, but when the ocean is 90 degrees, and then the beach is 85, it usally is miserable.

Id say overall.... Drumroll please!! ....Cold, as of what most other people have said, and also we dont have to worry about certian 'marine-life' in colder water
You just gotta keep telling yourself that in the deep dark depths of winter when each wave you duck-dive gives you brainfreeze...
Oh well, bring on the autumn sessions!!

Hang Loose

Um, is it not true the life-form we all know & love to hate (Mr Grey & White suit with the big teethy smile) prefers cold water- deep, dark, clean, cold water...

I always thought the warm water nasties (like fat old ladies on summer holidays wearing crochete thongs) preferred the tropics.

Give me cooler water & Mr Grey suit anyday :-)

Let's see here, I prefer warm water cause it just feels nice. Also I would rather take a 3% (guessing) chance of getting bitten by a shark and surfing more than 2 hours a day rather than getting a brain freeze every duck dive and only being able to surf a couple hours.

It not just sharks though. What about stings form those spikey things on the reef or jellies. I surf on the east coast of england which is maybe a bit too cold. But hey during the winter the waves are nearly deserted (and thats not beacuse they are crap)

Thats more along the lines of my thinking... sharks are of liottle worry really..
Jellys, urchines, stinging fish etc not to netion the pollution factor in warm waters.. perfect bacterial and viral habitat!

Meh who cares your warm aint ya.

Classic...

ive never surfed anywhere warm. sniff sniff.

warm every time - not wearing a wetsuit is great.

Ditto. I wear a 3/2 in winter and a rashie in summer.
The rashie wins hands down I'm sorry...

im not talking about comfortable good tempatured water, but about like hot water, like in the high 80's and 90's.

how hot is 80/90 ? what is 80/90? farenheight? ctually i wouldnt even know how warm that is in celsius. ive surfed about 4 times in boardies. in englad i must say. not much warm here.

Um, where on earth does the sea water reach 85/90 degrees?
I read somewhere the warmest sea water on earth was some exotic place near the equator like the Galapagos Islands, and it only gets to the mid 80's even in strong in El Nino conditions.
Curious.

just came back a couple weeks aco from visiting the florida gulf. the ocean was more like a lake (barely waves at all) but the water was definately 85-90 degrees. was like being in a friggin giant hot tub. i think the ocean was warmer than the water coming out of my hotel shower.