Spent the first half of my day this morning down at The Wedge in Newport Beach. Surf along SoCal beaches is way up and I knew today would be epic. Every LA area news station had a broadcast truck down there and there was probably 300 - 500 people at any given time. There was even a fire truck and rescue parked on the street on standby. I'm a bit too old and out of shape to do it any more but it was just fun watching the body surfers (and a few board surfers) risk getting their ass handed to them. Here's some shaky-cam video I shot:
The Wedge
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that's a pretty dangerous wave to try to ride. as fast and as sharp as it breaks i wouldn't even try....
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looks cool, I'll have to watch Point Break for the 110th time now
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Didn't stop this guy yesterday:creep wrote:that's a pretty dangerous wave to try to ride. as fast and as sharp as it breaks i wouldn't even try....
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my sister was out surfing this morning in sunset and got interviewed for abc7.
lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.
still haven't found his body.
lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.
still haven't found his body.
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you have a sister?sinep wrote:my sister was out surfing this morning in sunset and got interviewed for abc7.
lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.
still haven't found his body.
we need pics now
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I don't believe sinep has a sister.
He's never mentioned any siblings before.
He's never mentioned any siblings before.
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Sure he does. Everyone knows his sister's name is anigav.Artemis wrote:I don't believe sinep has a sister.
He's never mentioned any siblings before.
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Someone's gonna have a nasty day at the beach this weekend when they bump into this poor guy's body in the surf.sinep wrote:my sister was out surfing this morning in sunset and got interviewed for abc7.
lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.
still haven't found his body.
The last Summer (2005) that I did a lot of surfing/swimming, I was body boarding off doggy beach in Bolsa Chica and took a tumble in some whitewash and slammed into "something" that felt like a big tree log. I popped up outta the water and almost shit myself because I had slammed into a floating dead seal with a huge, obvious shark bite in it's side. Fucked my head up good and proper.
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...grew up in so.cal... the wedge was always a place to go if you wanted to get nuts. there's no sand on the bottom; all rocks. not good, especially with a wicked riptide that produces good strong waves but with a hard undercurrent.
but it was also where i got lucky on my senior prom; living in a group home---but the optimist's paid for the whole shebang and that included a limo. got out to the wedge and at 17; i learned to love it even more.
but it was also where i got lucky on my senior prom; living in a group home---but the optimist's paid for the whole shebang and that included a limo. got out to the wedge and at 17; i learned to love it even more.
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The night I finished my sentence, I proposed to my future wife there on a full moon-lit night.jptm wrote:...grew up in so.cal... the wedge was always a place to go if you wanted to get nuts. there's no sand on the bottom; all rocks. not good, especially with a wicked riptide that produces good strong waves but with a hard undercurrent.
but it was also where i got lucky on my senior prom; living in a group home---but the optimist's paid for the whole shebang and that included a limo. got out to the wedge and at 17; i learned to love it even more.
BTW, actually the bottom is all sand (which is the consistency of gravel) with just a few big 'fridge-sized rocks scattered around depending on the season. Because those waves break really shallow, getting pounded down into the bottom is like falling off a fast moving motorcycle on the freeway - you can easily get road rash without a wetsuit and there's on average about 2 - 5 people a year that get broken necks or other spine injuries even on small surf days.
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my parent's had a weird sense of humor.Pandemonium wrote:Sure he does. Everyone knows his sister's name is anigav.Artemis wrote:I don't believe sinep has a sister.
He's never mentioned any siblings before.
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always hated the wedge since i was a teen...it sucks way better places to be
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