Rotation time.
Surfers are odd creatures, relishing weather anomalies much, much more than the next man. Swell events, for example, pushing big ol’ barrels toward shore. The next man might be worried about his house, but surfers are there, boards waxed, ready to ride straight into infamy. Or wicked winds licking the sky, bending palms like toothpicks etc. The next man could be worried that his house will become crushed, but surfers are there, boards waxed, ready to stick an elusive double, even triple rotation.
But let us hurry quick to Ventura, California where a “State of Emergency” has been declared over barrels and airs.
Strong winds whipping across Southern California are bringing dangerously high surf to beach communities once again Thursday.
The conditions prompted the city of Ventura to declare a state of emergency due to severe high surf events. The order allows the city to receive emergency funding from the state and speed up any needed disaster response.
The National Weather Service said: “High surf and coastal flooding are possible through Friday at west and northwest facing beaches.
This comes after recent damage to the Ventura Pier during high tide events.
I would very much like the think that one Albee Layer is, currently, on his way to Silver Strand. The Maui-San Diego surfer has been really cursing himself after almost, but not quite, landing a 2x spin. Taking to Instagram, he wrote, “After thinking about this section instead of sleeping for most of last night I decided I hit it a half a second early and didn’t stomp hard enough on the landing. Good news is I probably hate myself enough to land it today if I get another chance which the odds are pretty low on. Fuck.”
I think the odds will very much improve with Ventura’s predicted 80mph winds. I think, even, a 4x spin in the cards.
Huzzah.
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Why he punch da water? Is he 6 years old?
and a jolt.
Lol. U landed out the back brah. Not even close.
Little do they know, C-Street is in a constant state of emergency during a lick of swell.
Can someone explain to me what the hell Albee is bitching about?
“Good news is I probably hate myself enough to land it today if I get another chance which the odds are pretty low on.”
Maybe Dane’s Sushi can decipher this?
His brain doesn’t function like the rest of the world’s does.
otto-dialing from City of V last week requested evacuation. old lady I know said they called 1-1/2 days AFTER the peak swell and replied: “Aren’t you guys a lil’ late…?” Kinda like this post, Chas…
It is neither super windy right now nor is there much swell in the water in Ventura. This might be the biggest over-reaction ever, brought on by the idiots who were on Seward Ave and didn’t realize the ground under their feet was wet, sandy, and full of ocean debris. Use your brain people, its not that difficult to be aware of your surroundings.
i was 700 feet above sea level and could watch safely…without the need of a Bailey ladder. but i do use a Celestron C-90 to see The Strand. VTA>Albee>Strand? And I’m all over the place?
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That looks like a fun toy
it’s The Patrone of telescopic lens and as such, should not be operated while intoxicated…https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.ne…
Your taste in food is questionable but as an
astronomy nerd your taste in telescopes makes up for it.
Wanted a C8 when I was a teenager but cost too much. Bought an eight inch reflector instead.
craig electronic tape machine…seismograph, a multi-receiver, record-player, boards & racks…have wou seen the stars tonight?…jefferson airplane…
I remember Paul Kantner used to sit in my room to watch video tapes of concerts when I lived at Marty Ballin’s musics studio. Nobody else had a VCR.
savin’ grace…noted.
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and…
Was just a place a lived at in Fairfax called the church studios. $175 a month for a room. It was an old church with a recording studio. Grace slick and Paul kantner were over there a lot.
The living room which was the main part of the church with a steeple was covered in original Beatles concert posters, worth a fortune now. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
first concert? first surf? we’ll pray…
vertigo, earthquake, AI? retaining walls and long sidewalks. hot tuna~
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Interesting side note. The first ever modern mountain bikes were put together in that house by Charlie Kelly and Gary Fisher.
Charlie Kelly was a roadie for the Sons of Champlin and lived in the same room I lived in before me. Gary fisher lived up the street. This video was filmed in Fairfax and around 1978 I think.
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I did a spin and back, wind was windy, no swell to speak of.
No windier than usual though. East buoy blowing 16-17 right now, that’s piss wind. It’ just because we are on a king tide so every idiot that knows nothing about the ocean attaches to that. They don’t seem to understand that tide and swell are completely different things.
Just looked at C Street cam. Looks about chest high.
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