The Chat Thread

by **Hotpink6699** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:25 am

hmmm everything is all about exotic places and everything so i thought maybe some one just wanted to well... CHAT!

by **Duncs** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:47 am

I don't mean to be cheeky, but surely the "General Chat" section is your best bet if you just wanna chat...

OK well here goes:

"I fell out of bed this morning, and then tripped over my cat, watched friends and ate some cocoa pops"

"How about you?"

:)

by **freaky_welsh_chick** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:47 pm

im eating coco pops now :)

by **vitopilot** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 2:05 am

you guys watched friends, we just finished the final episode, good ending. to seven long years. I use to go to the coffee shop they used to go to, funny no one ever went to it until the show started.

I got up 4:30 am because people for some reason need to fly 5:00 am in the morning 8(

by **leolivi** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:18 am

my board is now at the place where they fix boards, and i am waiting till they finish fixing my fin so i can go surf. Today i dreamed the board was ready and this weekend i could go to the beach to surf.

:(

i hope i dont break my board again very soon
waiting like that sucks!

by **freaky_welsh_chick** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:55 pm

im meant to be surfing like... now, this very moment :( but i got home from work (at Spar, no less) to find my family out, so therefore no lift to the beach, how sucky is that?

by **nz girl** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:47 am

hmm, seems like heaps of you guys live ages from the beach, how far away are you that you need to drive? i totally respect the extra dedication required just to get to the beach that some of you fellas seem to have to go through in order to go have a play...imagine, i live on an island ( well the south island of nz) have never lived further than 10 minutes from the beach in my life and yet have only started surfing recently and still hardly know anyone who surfs! i guess its a bit of a cultural thing ( or a cold bloody nz thing) . it totally amazes me that people could get into surfing that live an hour or more from the beach. dunedin where i live is literally surrounded by amazing surf beaches and yet you can usually go out on a resonable day ( say, 3 foot ) and still be the only or one of the only surfers out there!

by **Duncs** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:43 am

sounds like heaven to me,...:( some of us can only dream. I should come stay with you. :)

by **sinistapenguin** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:43 pm

It's true a lot of the people on here live ages from the beach.

That's why we're all on here instead of in the water. I live 2 hours from the nearest beach - 3 1/2 hours from the nearest consistent break!

I've always wanted to go to NZ a friend of mine went there for a year as part of his Uni course.

Surfing and snowboarding in the same day - imagine that!

Sinista

by **saffasurfer7** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:04 pm

Well, I passed my drivers about 3 weeks ago and am now FREE to go to the beach WHENEVER i want!!!! :D Yipppeee!!! Oh, and I've also only ever surfed once, and that was a year ago in Jersey. I've had a wetsuit hanging outside my bedroom door for about 4 months now and finally bought my board yesterday!!! :D It arrived this morning. Just finished fitting the skegs and leash on and tucking it neatly back into its little comfy boardbag. :P
Drove down to Tynemouth today to try and pick up some boots and gloves from the shop only to find it was closed - now there's a surprise - to be fair the beach was packed with fog and I could hardly even tell if there was actually any water out there at all. Oh well, just means another trip tomorrow I guess.
Can't wait to get in the water now. I've been waiting for this for about a year now. Another month and I'm back out in Jersey to surf everyday in gorgeous, clean, relatively warm water.....How awesome! :P

by **nz girl** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:39 am

surfing and snowboarding in the same day? i guess distance wise its definatly viable, i'm not sure if anyones ever done it though! nz is a pretty good place to be if you're into your sports aye .having lived in germany for two years and travelled the world, i feel i pretty much say that nz is still the most amazing place i've been. course i could be slightly biased!

by **surf patrol** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:14 pm

You are a lucky snowboarder and surfer if you live in NZ, If you live on the south island you can have a dawn session on the east coast, drive into the mountains and have a couple of hours snowboarding then nip over to the west coast just in time for the evening glass off. (you would'nt want to do it every day though!)

by **nz girl** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:03 am

sounds like a good way to spend a day, any of you guys going to be in new zealand any time in the near future? thats one road trip i don't want to miss! a bunch of the guys i've been surfing with are going camping down in the catlins for a couple of days of surfing and i have to go to my cousins wedding in the north island! am very guttered. not only that but dunedins biggest dance party - crave ( a rave in a cave, get it?) held at long beach in the massive caves every year is also on this weekend...600 or so people dancing on the beach in grottos and caves with primo mc's , bonfires and atmosphere galore...and i have to go to a wedding! mind you easter holidays are coming up, will have to go down to the catlins then as i'm fairly sure everyone is keen to go down again ( real good surfing in the catlins and the only others you have to share the line up with is seals, penguins, dolphins and the like...very rad.

by **sinistapenguin** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:08 am

Yeah New Zealand may be good, but here in the UK you can wake up miles from the beach in glorious sunshine to reports of 4 ft glass in South Wales.

Get up, strap the boards on, drive for 3 hours into torrential freezing rain and gale force winds to find that it's actually 1-2 foot and horrifically blown out. But then you get suited up and go in anyway, because 'you drove all this way'.

You paddle out past the take-off point, by which time you can no longer feel your hands or feet because it's so cold and you have a ringing ice-cream headache.

You sit on your board and immediately get blown off the peak by the hideous cross-shore gales. You paddle against it until you can't go on, but you're now miles from where you started, so you think - 'I'll just try and catch something here' you paddle for a dribbly 1 1/2 footer, get up and it immediatly closes out on you. You try to kick out, but lose your balance cos you now can't feel any of your lower legs. You get sucked through the whitewater until you wind up in a foot of water.

You stand up and retrieve your board. Looking back out to sea you realise 'it's bleedin' miles back to the lineup' and you're shattered and numb. So you decide to call it a day and turn to go back up the beach only to find that you've drifted so far down the beach, you can't find your way back to the car cos all the dunes look the same.

After an hour of battling against the icy wind, which has blown your board out of your hand twice because your fingers can't grip any more, you make it back to the car. You try and get your wetsuit boots off, but nearly break your near-frostbitten fingers in the process.

Finally you're down to your shorts and a towell that is too small with the wind whipping sand at your shivering body. Eventually you manage to pull on some clothes and chuck everything in the car and the rains starts pouring as you get the board strapped back on. So you decide to head to the nearest cafe to buy yourself an overpriced cup of tea. You sit huddled up in a window seat so that you can make sure no-one is trying to steal your board off the roof. Finally warmth returns to your now aching body, and this new warmth releases the salt water from your sinuses which falls into your tea with a plop. You now can't drink the rest of your tea and decide to head for home.

You drive the 5 hours home (now there's traffic) and collapse on the sofa. At 2 in the morning you rush to the bathroom to be violently ill, because you have been surfing where the stormy seas have been washing the sewage outlet back into the shore.

You spend the next 2 weeks feeling like death, then finally log in to your computer. Log in to surfing-waves.com and post about your 'epic session in 4 ft glassy conditions'

::smile::

Penguins & Dolphins?? Who needs em!!

LOL

Sinista

by **nz girl** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:29 am

damn, sinista...you make surfing in the UK sound so 'inviting'...!
i know what you mean about the whole 'i've come all this way so might as well go out now' phenomenon. i've been borrowing boards for the last few months as i've been learning and finally bought a board yesterday (7/6 mini mal, the sweetest custom board, at mates rates cos i know a guy who knows a guy...) so i was frothing to go out and see how it goes and i get to the beach and its real messy, dumpers, no one out, with a hideously strong current. but of course i HAD to go out. so went out for just over an hour, hardly even got up, spent most of the time battling against the current and waves coming at me from two different directions and generally just getting hammered, not to mention it was a nice day so there was heaps of people just watching me from the beach as i got dumped by wave after wave...but the board is so sweet for paddling, totally boyant and light, and goes heaps faster then i'm used to and of course size wise its a plank so its pretty much the perfect board....only wish conditions had been better! i won't be able to get out for at least another week as have to have the first chapter of my dissertation in by next week and havn't actually started writting it yet...! guttered. i live so close to the beach and yet have no time to go surfing ( due to having two jobs, doing post grad and generally being way over committed ) i'm never going to get any better at this rate! and don't really want to take my new baby out till i get a board bag as its ultra fragile compared to the tanks i've been using! oh, question; got any tips on how best to look after my board?

by **surf patrol** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:31 am

lol

takes me back to my sessions in Norfolk with the big northwesterlies blowing.

by **sinistapenguin** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:35 am

I'll post a 'Board Care' discussion on the Surf Chat board

Cheers

Sinista

by **kieran** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:44 am

lol i did exactly the same last night. It was the first time there has been waves since my new board came. The surf was crap yesterday at tynemouth but just went in anyway, horrific rip no power to the waves lovely and good old onshore winds. There were a few other desperate souls out there though. At least there is gonna be swell throughout the whole of this week give me antoher chance

by **nz girl** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:49 am

i always tend to just go to the beach when i've got time spare, so i have to surf no matter what the conditions are or i'd never get out. actually the whole off shore/ on shore wind thing, etc dosn't mean a lot to me anyway so i never even have an educated guess at what its going to be like. how do you know if the waves/swell is going to be good a week in advance?

by **sinistapenguin** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:56 am

NZ you can't ever really know what the waves will be like in a couple of hours time!!

Onshore winds are winds that are blowing in off the sea, they tend to make conditions choppy and messy

Offshore winds blow off the land and keep the waves nice and glassy. Ideal conditions have nice light offshore breezes.

Sinista

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