Archive for May, 2007

Quality Response

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I’ve been getting some good response, from the origional article: Llandudno Idiot and the Reation to that article, and a guy called “Peter” has some positive comments. Take a look: Peter’s Comments

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Surf Conditions

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I managed to sneak a little surf in last night. 1-2ft light offshore, mid pushing tide at Llandudno. I went in for a paddle, but managed to sneak a couple of wedgy ones. Pretty nice vibe in the water, Winston surfing his long board and some nutter doing hand stands on a 6-0 on a what was a 1 foot wave – I gave him 10 points for style and decided to not bother going switch as the nutter had already out done anything ‘crazy’ I could’ve done.

As for today, the surf is evern small, with Seapoint and Greenpoint having better conditions for Wakeboarding than surfing – no jokes. It’s like a pond/oil slick out there.

Bring on some more swell.

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Llandudno reaction

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

After posting my little rant about Llandudno I’ve been having lots of thoughts and reactions about surfing in the busy bosom of Cape Town.

The guy at Llandudno (granted a he is still a dick) was he was actually a blessing in disguise, because it made me start looking for new spots. I didn’t really feel like making the 20 minute drove from town to bump into him, so I drove 20 minutes the other way – which I did up the west coast.

Now I’m only talking about Big Bay and a little bit beyond, but it really is a different world up there. Everyone has always been friendly – even chatting to strangers (OMG) in the water and everyone was getting waves. I have to say I was getting pretty stocked seeing everyone get their fair share of waves.

Since I started venturing out of town, I have had a couple of the best surfs in years (since I went round the world to hawaii, fiji and oz) and having not felt stressed about what kind of agressive idiots there lurking in the lineup.

Things happen for a reason, which is why I got some cracking surfing up the west coast, and which is why karma will come round and kick selfish agressive surfers in the ass.

Next up will be a little note from someone elses opinion on Localism, a nice UCT student whilst we chatted surfing at Off The Wall and soon I’ll be posting some of the legalities surrounding agressive behaviour in the water and what your rights are.

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