Dume Alert

I just finished a 4 hour session at Dume with my neighbor. For the first hour we were the only ones out...until Laird paddled out and started dominating! That spot is pretty epic, and according to the guy I was surfing with some of the crotchett is gone, and has been replaced with families and overweight surfing professionals. All and all, A+ session

Buoy, Oh Buoy! This is Swell!

After years of virtual buoys and eye-balled surf sizing, Puerto Rico's North Shore is finally getting a buoy that will provide actual real-time wave data. This info should prove useful not only for forecasting, but also to figure out which spots might work best for a given swell. I guess it's time to dust off the wave log and start recording swell height, period and direction on those epic days.

A big shout out to Dr. Miguel Canals for bringing a surfer's perspective to this effort.

To make things even better, Canals is feng shui-ing a buoy off-shore of Rincón. It should be in place around Halloween. That's some seriously localized swell info on the horizon.

Check the San Juan Buoy

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Say Wha?

Some ridiculous board riding from one of the masters of glide. The video title is a bit mysterious as even a French surf check would be unlikely to cover the distance from Lafiténia to J Bay. Then again...

The decline of western civilization... or at least Point Dume

Native Point Dume surfer and author Katie Arnoldi has watched her beachfront community turn from rural, board-and-batten enclave to haute bourgeois beach club, filled with yoga moms on SUPS. She is not amused.

Her latest novel, Point Dume, is a study of the place she knows like few others. She skewers a variety of Malibu archetypes, but saves much of her venom for the despoliation of the coastal foothills at the hands of Mexican drug cartels and residential developers.



Sounds like this could provide some insight into the step behavior found in and around Malibu. Then again, it could just be sour grapes. Probably worth eyeing.

The Original Cabron

The Original Cabron, pre-jo, doing some old school charging on PR's north shore back in the day.

Interesting Eye

Alive and Well 10 years later!

Just a quick note to commemorate the10 year aniversery of THE Robe
Rage. If anyone is interested Pony and are meeting at my place at
5:30am on Monday to charge No LA solid south. The Mossi In the picture
is EPIC!

Thank You KB

'nuff said




For some reason, the embedded code isn't working, so Click Here to Listen To LCD Soundsystem's show. It's well worth the the time and effort. The show is epic.

Honey, we need to go to the market!

Overstoke

Stoke can fuel the best of fires. Like cobbing, it almost always makes good things happen.


On the rare occasion, however, an overstoke can lead to some wayward eyes. Case in point: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas read John Milius's script for Big Wednesday and got so swept up that they traded points with Milius. They gave Milius points in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars for a piece of Big Wednesday.

Big Wednesday was a flop, and Close Encounters and Star Wars each grossed around $600 million."

Sweet eye for Milius who allegedly said that the loot "helped pay for his divorce."

How Things Should Be

Whoever reaches the finish line first needs to facilitate this future form of malogua facilitation.

Who's in?

A Moment of Weakness

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

Church Fish Alert!

Great session at Church with activist representing Hawaii, New Jersey, Oregon & San Clemente. Inside peak to ourselves.

(sans Kaenon)

(with polarization by Kaenon C-12)

Equipment: 5'6" KG Twinzer
Surf: Head high
Weather: Sunny & high high 60's: Light side/off-shore breeze.
Water Temp: 64degrees
Stoke: 7.8

Here Come the Maloguas

Shot posted by Chovy from land o'malogua

and the Surfline assessment of the area's conditions

REGIONAL SUMMARY:
New SSW(195-205) groundswell builds in, peaking through the day. Exposures see solid surf in the head high+ zone, with sets to double overhead for top breaks.

along with the forecast

I knew it!

Abe discovers...

The Joy of Coolers!

Wind & Sea Log Alert issued Saturday, March 28th.

Dry Run

Here you see Chad tuning up the young cobbs on quality mow and the importance of cooler hygiene.

Obviously there is something missing in this photo, but the strength coach still seems stoked.

Abe top-roping his first pitch. Obviously, he'll have some big shoes to fill as a climber following in my footsteps. Check the nonchalance of Sam, he reluctantly climbed with ropes and harness so that Abe would.

Chadrico and I took the boys for some dry land cobbing. Abe's first camping trip was a great success. After hours was chocked full of yucks, magnification, strength, and cold beer. As an aside, 2 days later I surfed overhead Zeroes on the first legitimate South of the summer. I have high hopes for the M2!

Hometown Hero

Check out this footage of the Gundo benevolent alpha dog chargin huge Porto on his log this winter. I think the most impressive part is the paddle out. This is something to aspire to...I think.

What's your tacoshed?

The maloguas love tacos. They are also responsible stewards of our environment and seek to minimize their impact on the planet and waves we so enjoy. As such, it's important to understand your "tacoshed". What is a tacoshed?

The tacoshed, much like a watershed, establishes the geographical boundaries of a taco’s origins—the source of everything from the corn in the tortilla to the tomatoes in the salsa.

Here's a nice example pulled together by some CCA students. The taco the group deconstructed for the illustrations below was from Juan’s Taco Truck in the city’s Mission District





Even a single taco is a window into the complexities of globalization.

You can read more about the project here.