Surfing Waves

Right i don't normally like to offend people, but hey some of you ask the most stupid questions. Like do the great lakes get surf, yep, great expance of water, gets wind =surf. You must have seen the other posts. Like the med, big lake really, gets surf, if your into surfing don't you plan your holidays around it.
I love this site, but the lack of understanding of people who reckon they have surfed eight foot waves makes me laugh. I am happy when its overhead and a half 6-8ft, but on your bics and stuff? Cmon, you wouldn't get out back in much more than a four foot swell.Sorry and rant over and that. Everyone needs to learn and i will give my opinions and advice possitively and freely.
Love Mark

For those in doubt this is overhead,UK, 5-6ft



I'd call that at 5ft

everyone ive meet off here has never boosted about there ability, and all the ones learning and still progressing have allways been keen to learn even if they do ask stupid questions.

as far as surf forums go this is the only one ive found that people are friendly to each other (with the exception of hawaii sucks)

except for kitey he just plan sucks at surfing

I agree this is th efriendliest forum i have come across, but to check ppls reality that is a 5ft wave.

I'm only short so overhead isnt big !:D

I definately surfed 12ft at boscombe this morning....on a table got a bit hectic when I tried it with the ironing board whilst drinking a mug of tea and whisking some eggs, I think thats cos the waves jacked up to triple overhead though.....I'll work on that next week

Theres always gonna be a bit of bull for sure - while we're all sat annomously (sp) behind our laptops artistic license is a comfort we can all enjoy. I maintain that my biggest wave I surfed (*cough* wiped out on) was a measly 4ft, it possibly wasnt even that but just felt it at the time - always seems a lot bigger when you're new and out there in the water.

...yeah, soz MR K.Slater.

Us mere Bic riders bow at your feet.

Waves always seem bigger than what they are.

And surely overhead for some people is different to others, depends how tall you are.

I'm still getting to my feet in the white water, and enjoying the learning curve, whether it's 1ft or 3ft.


Last time i went out Compton Bay was like 15ft, double overhead, i was out back on me Bic, caught this hollow tube, ran straight down the line, just in time to hit the lip and do a 360, just before it closed out on me...

oh and just an afterthought regarding the lack of knowledge or something or other regarding the great lakes. After watching Unsalted - a lot of the people who live right next to them (albeit non surfers) dont know that they get surf so you cant blame others who live miles away for not knowing - Its a lake!! A lake!!!

Thats the whole point, i wasn't even on that peak, i was probably surfing a foot smaller, because there were so many locals charching it

People measure waves way differently.
i would call that wave 7-8 foot but i didnt know that you had to measure the face until not so long ago.

for example, i lied when i said i whent out in 8 foot surf because i did not know how to measure the wave, it was just overhead.

In the photo it looks about head high if you were standing straight upright, so I'd call it a solid 4ft. I know the wave may have been bigger in reality but just from that one shot it looks about 4ft. And I don't mean a tape measure 4ft, I mean a surfer 4ft. It would probably be a tape measure 6ft, so its a 4ft wave..

It was head high+ thats why i called at 5ft it was bigger on the odd set, but that was the point i was trying to make. That was a decent wave. Bigger on some sets smaller on others as it was a wrap round of a 28ft northerly swell. I will post more East Coast pics but on the wrong ccomputer

I would definitely call that wave "time to get out of the water," or maybe "can't get out back with my longboard"

Seriously though, if I say 3-4 ft I mean waist to chest high, maybe a little bigger. There was only one time I ever took off on a wave that was head high + and I've always refered to that one as a 6 footer.

I'me hoping to get back in the water within the next 3 weeks or so and I don't really want to see anything higher than waist for a little while, til I shake the rust off.

Phil wrote:everyone ive meet off here has never boosted about there ability, and all the ones learning and still progressing have allways been keen to learn even if they do ask stupid questions.

as far as surf forums go this is the only one ive found that people are friendly to each other (with the exception of hawaii sucks)

maybe if certain jerks (phil, phil, and phil) stopped being unfriendly to me, i wouldnt have to be unfriendly to them.

northswell that wave looks like atleast a 7ft wave to me, unless that fella has a height deficit.

ah, the ultimate question...

good way to avoid been branded a pub surfer ("yeah man, it was like 7ft" - no one calls it 7ft) is to say something like...

yeah, it was head high on the drop, shoulder high on the face. stops you looking like a kook.

waves are different heights all the way along, depends on the bottom contours really.

hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote:

Phil wrote:everyone ive meet off here has never boosted about there ability, and all the ones learning and still progressing have allways been keen to learn even if they do ask stupid questions.

as far as surf forums go this is the only one ive found that people are friendly to each other (with the exception of hawaii sucks)

maybe if certain jerks (phil, phil, and phil) stopped being unfriendly to me, i wouldnt have to be unfriendly to them.

northswell that wave looks like atleast a 7ft wave to me, unless that fella has a height deficit.

LMFAO

I think mark the great wave height debate will allways rage on and it doesn't reflect a general tendancy to bull. Its just that people do elaborate on the truth abit with regards to wave size and also most people don't use the correct way to measure wave height.
It doesn't matter and personally when chatting with someone and there talking about wave height it's quite easy to gauage after a short while if they know what there talking about and you can then decide if they've got a grip on wave size.
No i think the forum is refrshing as it doesn't have the usual moddy stigma that you can get with surfing attitudes down the beach and in the line up and i think thats because the people on here surf to have fun and thats good surfing.
Except for that norbert who goes by the name of phil who sucks at everything he does except for wiping out. LOSER!

northswell wrote:Right i don't normally like to offend people, but hey some of you ask the most stupid questions. Like do the great lakes get surf, yep, great expance of water, gets wind =surf. You must have seen the other posts. Like the med, big lake really, gets surf, if your into surfing don't you plan your holidays around it.
I love this site, but the lack of understanding of people who reckon they have surfed eight foot waves makes me laugh. I am happy when its overhead and a half 6-8ft, but on your bics and stuff? Cmon, you wouldn't get out back in much more than a four foot swell.Sorry and rant over and that. Everyone needs to learn and i will give my opinions and advice possitively and freely.
Love Mark

posting drunk again?

I love the ambiguity in wave estimation. I think it says alot about the person thats estimating.

Im crap and i know it !