Surfing Waves

is it just me, or is almost everyone on this site from the UK???
every one is talking in pounds and talking about exotic surf locations such as wales! i didn't even know you could surf in britain before i found this site, sounds like all anyone ever does in britain is surf!

ha!
I think it says something that we are all sitting staring at computers talking about surfing rather than actually out there and doing it.

The surf today is about one inch. Maybe two inches on the big sets!!!

Joking aside - we get world class surf here in the UK. A whole mixture of breaks too with a thriving surf community.

The only problem we have is that summer months tend to be pretty flat. Winter months get the decent swell but it is bloody freezing.

sactly!

it hits tomorrow/thusday... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm classic conditions sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet :)

Have got a live feed from Aberporth bouy on my comp... as soon as it hits, I'll know.... waiting, waiting, waiting...... c'mon, it's been a whole week!

The tension ismad... I've been watching it travel accross for 3 days now... man its going to be sweet... havn't wanted a surf this much in ages! Just in time for after my exams, Last one tomorrow.

Sweet! Good luck buddy!

hey NZ Girl, its cos new zealand sucks for surf, the UK is just one HUGE secret spot!!!! only joking, but we do get some cool waves, its just we have to practice having cold showers and baths so we dont faint when we get our head under!!.........................

yeah, i didn't know that the uk had surfers either until i came here, and it does seem like it's only uk surfers on here. well,i guess i'm in the minority, cause i'm from the us!

Surfing was invented in the UK, back in pre-roman times, the british and irish celts started surfing on mats of woven kelp glued together with sea bird gauno.... Unfortunatly, the romans spoilt all the fun cos they rode jetskis...

I've booked tomorrow off, so I can finally get my new baby out in some waves. But is it definatly gonna be good tomorrow?! I'm prolly going to Wooly.

SingleFin wrote:Surfing was invented in the UK, back in pre-roman times, the british and irish celts started surfing on mats of woven kelp glued together with sea bird gauno.... Unfortunatly, the romans spoilt all the fun cos they rode jetskis...

lmao! many jet skis by you then singlefin? did the celts really invent surfing, i always thought liek tribes in hawaii did:S lol. or are you being sarcy?

Not sarcy, just being stoopid as usual.... yeah we get a few jetskis, mainly brummies on holiday who forgot to pack a clue. Dammit!

It is TRUE - the romans pioneered tow in surfing and dropping in.

Many people think that Hui Nalu means wave riding club in Hawaiian, but it is actually Anglo- Saxon for "Get off my wave, you invading scum!"

Unfortunately Gasoline/ Petrol has always been extortionate in the UK (just like today c. US$5.80 per gallon) and the romans love affair with Jet Skiing was short lived, going underground until it was rediscovered in the early 1980s.

The classic roman shield, made famous by the awesome 'tortoise tank' manoeuvre was discarded in the UK by legionnaires who favoured a new design made with high density foam and a slick plastic bottom. Thus was body boarding born.

The wetsuit was also not invented by Jack O'Neil (a common misconception) but by Ogar the Terrible in 12 A.D. who strapped pieces of leather to his bare skin and headed out to the lineup on a board carved from the stone pits of North Wales. Unfortunately Ogar died of hypothermia and waterlogging shortly thereafter!

This is how it really happened - trust me, I was there!

Cheers

Sinista

PS - The bit about the price of gasoline in the UK is NOT a joke!!

southcoaster wrote:hey NZ Girl, its cos new zealand sucks for surf, the UK is just one HUGE secret spot!!!! only joking, but we do get some cool waves, its just we have to practice having cold showers and baths so we dont faint when we get our head under!!.........................

i dont know why everyone complains about the water being so cold! whats the matter? have you all bought springsuits to wear through winter? get boots and gloves and a htermos full of tea if you're so cold! we're being hit by hte gulf stream, our waters are lovely and refreshing! :D

the waters warm in the summer about 17c in the southwest but can get as cold as 9c in the winter

anyone see that program about the gulf stream that it could stop in as little as 20 years making the uk as cold alaska

SingleFin wrote:Have got a live feed from Aberporth bouy on my comp... as soon as it hits, I'll know.... waiting, waiting, waiting...... c'mon, it's been a whole week!

HA! a week! try six months...

so who's up for emigrating the :wink: n?...

i wish the waves here would get 1-2 ft lol. I live on the west coast of florida by the lake of mexico lol. My dad has to drive us ALL the way to cocoa beach 4 hours right there!

I thought that was a movie called the Day After Tomorrow :P

But honestly, we've only ourselves to blame for it anyways, it's all cause from pollutants. What is serious on the other hand it the Polarity change that will happen within 100 years. Now I think that's gonna mess things up in the ecosystem.

Anywho, makes me glad I'm livin' down in Florida. Aye, the waves suck so I hear. But sure does beat the cold waters from Cali that I remember from when I was a child.

Knightshift wrote:I thought that was a movie called the Day After Tomorrow :P

lol that movie was sooo far fetched it made me laugh. Was slightly anxious when leaving the cinema to head out into gale force winds though, yoiks!