Is Santa Cruz back? Is that too much to hope for?
Santa Cruz lost the title Surf City, USA to Huntington Beach in 2004 and seemed to lose its mojo along with it. Meth descended upon the once proud town, eroding locals’ features and pride. Sadness reigned. The surf world turned its back.
And really how rude. Santa Cruz is the place where Peruvians first taught mainlanders their wave dancing. What a history. What a gift to cherish but meth etc. and it seemed as if it was just easier to forget. To pretend those brave Peruvians went to Huntington Beach instead.
Not even native son Nat Young’s exciting World Surf League campaigns (2013) were enough to break the spell and hope was all but lost.
Until Jan 1. 2019 and is Santa Cruz’s frown finally turning upside down?
If Surfline is any indication of anything (and it usually isn’t) then yes! Let’s turn there now and read about the just finished Prime Series at the very famous Steamer Lane.
Santa Cruz native and USA Surfing’s 2020 Olympic coach Chris Gallagher Stone — Gally — called Steamer Lane “one of the most high-performance waves in the world.”
“It is so rare for a powerful reef wave to be that close to shore,” he said. “The gnarly conditions require surfers to decipher the lineup and harness the waves’ power and rawness. The winning waves have a very specific look and can be hard to find without experience. Victors at the Lane need a combination of skill, guts, fitness, knowledge, great equipment and some luck to put it all together. Congrats to all the winners and finalists. You earned it.”
I haven’t read Steamer Lane described so effusively since 2004.
Is Santa Cruz back? Is that too much to hope for? I’m tired of Huntington Beach.
Peruvians? Hawaiian princes brah
Nat Young paddled out at absolutely flawless, pumping, 6 – 8- 10-foot+ M_____ L_____ a few weeks ago on a 6′ 4″ and destroyed it – and that place ain’t easy.
A lot of game older guys were having a go, but Nat hotdogged a big, gnarly, powerful, perfect day.
He is a really good surfer. Very good.
He got one barrel that would have been a 10+ if there was anyone around to judge it.
Santa Cruz has always been great.
Especially in the winter.
It’s off the hook today – big and stormy.
Thanks Ben.
Nah, it can’t be Ben. He didn’t claim to ‘know’ Nat.
I think Santa Cruz should take back the title of Surf City. At least they’re meth heads actually surf. My(Huntington’s) meth heads don’t.
`Ive said it once and i’ll say it again, Steamer Lane, Campus Point,and Cardiff Reef are the most technically advanced and proving waves anyone can surf.
Where else are you going to hone your frantic speed-generating pumping and eventual disappointment?
I usually use pornhub for that!
Hope you wear one of them Rip Curl watches so you can track your surf.
I strap a step counter to my wrist and don’t stop til I have gone 10km. pretty sure its where the fiddler crab got its name.
Posiblé
Let’s get more from SLane
O´Neill Coldwater Classic 1990 Barton Lynch… “The Commentator” X Gary Elkerton / Bryce Ellis X Richard Marsh… “The Coach”!
ps: Kong is brutal!
ps1: Noa Deane’s and caterva soundtrack’s movies make me cringe… total bullshit music!
ps2: Here, The Untouchables, pure bliss and ska, rocking! Wild Child from the sublime album Wild Child!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
speaking of sponsors.. you see seabass has no sponsor, #14 or something in the world.. the money is drying up!!! WSL in trouble some day soon, the olympics the last gasp.. gulp.
It’s all just words on a screen to me.
If I’m not mistaken, “high performance” now refers to surfing while on meth in that neck of the woods.
Can’t knock it till you try it I guess.
I know fuck all about team USA rah rah but I’d much rather be Nat-style retired from the CT getting the state’s best barrels and stalking a five-county radius than Simpo-style CT-retired condemned to a pier where I give AirBnB “experiences” for pennies on the dollar.
But really, Bret could try a little harder. Maybe he doesn’t drive?
Difficult wave, based on Wilko failing to complete his final turns. Taj laughed.
fuck chas use a fucking comma just one fuck
Please see third and fourth sentences, and observe commas, therein.
Aherrrmm…
If I may …
Fuck, Chas !
Use a fucking comma !
Just one.
Fuck.
Better ? You’re welcome.
Let’s ask 89 World Champion, in his prime and year, and The Man With The Secret Turn, if they both team up, and join Chris!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Well…
He describes exactly Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil… the spot in front of my street
Gallagher you’re a lier!!!
I’ve never trusted a Gallagher before, even now!
Only Rory!
And he’s irish!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Never trust a man from Donegal, they are all cowboys, but Rory would get a pass due to spending his youth in Cork. You know a Gallagher is a twat if he can’t pronounce his own name. It’s pronounced Gal-ah-her not Ga-li-ger.
Hahaha nice
I tried to pronounce… maaaannn… wtf!
It a tough ask for the colonial descendants to pronounce their own name correctly.
Curse you. I’ve just gone down a rabbit hole and learnt the bass line for that song. I have things to do…
Gerry McAvoy, fantastic in all tunes with Rory.
Most of the power trios, principally in the past, drummers and bassists, were (are) brilliants, even with the main artist being the guitarrist.
For me is the best formation for a rock band
Lemon, take a look at this band
It’s a power trio here from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Even known in the undergound circuit in Europe.
Autoramas, with a beautiful and talented bass player, Flavia Couri
Here it shows the set up of bass, strings and pedals!
More precisely she begins to explain about the set up at 02:33
As it is in Portuguese, I suggest you put the subtitles in English, even if appear some words absurds and meaningless, in general you capture the essence.
Unfortunately she left the band, married and moved to Norway, and set up another band with her husband, a duo, The Courettes
I really like both bands.
Oh.. and she’s gorgeous!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
‘Uncoiling a Steamer’ has a different denotation in my household.
Care to elaborate?
You can drop a steamer in the whistle’n’thud.
It’s to do with extremely local wave generation and tidal fluctuations within porcelain micro-noceans.
I uncoiled a steamer whilst reading this
Clean snap?
The cleanest. Almost spiritual
The best steamer uncoiler, is the one having the most fun.
I surf the Steamer.
Or was it like there was a brown marker up in there?
good chance the bloke in the picture at the top has just uncoiled a steamer in his steamer. coasteering at its finest.
The most high performance move I’ve seen at the Lane was Flea jumping from the sketchiest spot on the cliff that only he knows about and pretty much choke slamming his board from like 20 feet up. Dude was EXCITED
Your handle is so lame, but oh so wonderful. Gold star/spank cap to you!
Haha! Thank you sir, doesn’t ‘so lame but oh so woderful’ pretty much describe this entire operation?!?
Yes it does.
Stop being such a pedantic cunt mate. It’s just a typo. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone actually said “it’s one of the most high-performance longboard waves in the world”.
you ever seen those cunts that get Harry Potter tattoos? Adult (legally) fan fucks. I don’t get it, it’s a fucking kids book? Fuckin hell, what the fuck
Local poster promoting Steamer… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…