wind died, morning sickness cleared up, and the surf turned mediocre. chestish high, crossed up, and soft. but it was better than not surfing.
and as soon as the sun came out so did all the people, like moths to a barely flickering dim flame. and plenty of dudes out taking their mustaches for a ride.
Worst bit of aggro I've witnessed in 5 years of surfing the beach went down out there this morning. 3 foot wind shit is totally worth fighting over. What a buzz kill.
None of it had anything to do with me. However, I did get briefly barked at by another onlooker who was acquainted with one person involved for calmly trying to intervene by asking two people to calm down. Without going into vivid details or outing anyone, I'll restate what I said earlier by simply saying the situation was out of control and involved more than one incident. I'm a teacher and my worst 6th graders generally behave with more tact. Localism has it's place (albeit it should be enforced without testosterone-drowned threats of violence and childish screaming) when people are out of their limit zone, showing a lack of proper respect, and/or are doing something that could potentially prove dangerous to others. This wasn't that type of situation. Alas though, that's just treading on old threads here. I've definitely never heard the "what high school did you go to" bit north of Santa Cruz before. I wish the response to that question had been "Fisherman's Wharf Class of '58."
What high school did you go to is common in SF according to the SF Gate's article today under you know you're a real san franciscan if...
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2012/06/26/you-know-youre-a-real-marinite-if...
hurricanewe! Are you really a teacher?? Really?? Check your usage of "its" and "it's". Maybe you didn't go to school anywhere, after all.
I heard the "what high school did you go to?" at dead-mans in the 1990s.
My kids go to catholic school in the sunset and there are a lot of parents who went to the same school when they were kids. The sections of SF by the ocean have a lot of SF natives.
Winter swells means less of these salty dudes...
for some reason they are only out when OB is breaking like Lindamar.
Only 4 months to go.
What happened to our Spring and Summer southern Hemi hurricane swells that generate out of the South Pacific?
Haven't seen much if any of them this year.
Are we in the doldrums or what?
This is what I've found so far that might explain it:
"On May 24, the Climate Prediction Center released its pre-season outlook. The scientists stated a 30% chance of a below-normal season, a 50% chance of a near-normal season and a 20% chance of an above-normal season. The climatologists expected 12–18 named storms, with 5–9 becoming hurricanes, and 2–5 becoming major hurricanes. The below-normal activity forecast was because of increased wind shear and a high expectation of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-neutral conditions throughout the peak in the later months of summer, together with lingering La Niña conditions at the beginning of the season, even though so far, there have already been two named systems, one tropical storm, and one major hurricane in the month of May."
@Aardvark,
Sometimes I forget to thoroughly scour my forum postings for slight grammatical errors. All apologies. I don't think double question marks are in the textbooks though. Also, periods always go inside quotation marks if we're adhering to U.S. guidelines. I dropped out of Cable Car H.S. back in the early seventies. It was around that time that I began leisurely dominating triple overhead OB and pummeling kooks. Luckily, CA's Department of Ed is in such a state of disarray that they let me start teaching without my G.E.D.
I'm not going to out people, name the location, or give folks the play by play. Honestly, it's not going to help matters. I will tell you the main incident sparked up when one guy (who I've seen surfing around a bunch over the years and is always kind in the water) talked a bit of shit in attempt to defend a guy who had already been chased out of the water. All in all, everything got blown completely out of proportion. Most importantly, had the really aggressive parties involved not been surrounded by friends I doubt anything would have been pushed to that extent. Conditions today and the events that transpired hardly warranted it. Ultimately, surfing is supposed to be a release or cathartic break from all the bullshit in our daily lives. This morning, even for those that weren't involved, the result of paddling out was the exact opposite.
All fair enough.
And wow that's an aggressive location turtle auto replace that ######'d out my post. Can probably guess which end I mean seems to be especially prone to local vibes though. I was surfing there with a longboard the other day, which was a pretty ideal board choice for the conditions I thought, and I actually got a little bit shortboard vs longboard stinkeye in the parking lot. That's a first for me at OB, but then I've never longboarded that end before.
Having learned to surf in Newport and Huntington I find the vibe here at OB particularly mellow. I've been yelled at a few times and yelled back a few times. Just dudes blowing off steam for the most part.
As far as localism goes, I haven't been the recipient of anything like that here. At this point I'm as local as anyone. I live on Great Highway and have sand in everything I own. This is my street. My beach. You all are welcome to surf here. Be cool and I'll leave you alone.
most of the time the vibe you bring is the vibe you get..
But occasionally there is that total bonehead who blows it for all of us...
Can we just get a role call of people on this thread that were actually born and raised in the city? I'll go first. Me.
Can we get a roll call of people who live in the Presidio and surf Fourtee Pointay?
I would tell you all what High School I went to, but it's pretty obscure.
You probably haven't heard of it.
Most of those "high school" fuckers are from Marin. Which is hella funny. I went to Amador Valley High. It's in Pleasanton.
