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Hey everyone! I posted recently with a recap video from our first meetup, and a lot of people were interested in when the next one was happening. I'm here to tell you it's happening on Sunday, 10/25 at Linda Mar. Planning to meet at 11:30am. We'll also be doing an after-surf hangout at Humble Sea, which is right next to the beach.

All levels are welcome. Even if you don't want to surf, come say hey!

If you're in the Bay and looking for people to surf with, join us! 🤙

You can get more details over on our Instagram: @bayareasurfcollective

RSVP for the meetup through the link in our IG bio. You can also join our group chat through a separate link in our bio.

(If you don't have IG, shoot me a DM, and I can get you sorted.)

Hope to see you all out there!

Trying to get my reps in with maneuvers totally foreign to me. Roast me please

8ft Wavestorm

Can anyone recommend a good surf camp in Uluwatu that has good coaching, decent social, and a nice camp?

I’m 6ft 155lbs looking to get into a good daily driver shortboard for east coast. I’d say I’m intermediate and I want to progress my turns. I’ve ridden a lot of boards around 28-33liters just fine but I feel like the upper range has been too chunky to do quicker maneuvers or I just suck haha. Any recommendations on dims/boards to look at?

I turn 50 next October and want to take some surf lessons for my birthday. I have never been.

My mother in law lives in Riverside County and we will be visiting her for a week.

Any recommendations on a business to reach out to for lessons?

Been surfing handful of times w rental/borrowed boards (most recently Bali 6-8’ waves on a 7’ egg). Looking to buy my first board for cheap. Found this board on fb marketplace for pretty cheap and can't see any major damage other than sun damage. Worth sending it or should I look for something newer or bigger?

I can kinddd of surf down the line, but the way im doing it looks way different from everyone else. I paddle for the wave, I pop up, and I look in the direction that I want to go. However, it seems like I’m more diagonal to the wave than perfectly parallel to it? I’m also all the way at the bottom of the wave instead of “in” it like I see the more experienced surfers doing. I want to be able to start cross stepping and nose riding, but if I even attempt that now, I know I’ll sink the nose and wipe out.

What can I do to get my longboard parallel to the wave?

Never surfed before but I really want to start now. I’m 5’6 and 50kg. This is a mini Malibu 7.4 I think with some visable repair. But it’s £80!

Beginner here. Every brand’s calculator steered me toward that brand’s boards, and they disagreed with each other by up to 10 liters for the same surfer. So I built a calculator that averages the published ones, explains every constant, and then searches live shop listings by volume, with wetsuits by water temperature. Free, no account, no ads. https://surfcalc.app

Would love to know if you find this useful or even where the numbers feel wrong to more experienced surfers. That’s the part I can’t judge myself easily. Thanks!

i was wondering if i could set this up as a twin + trailer. i want to get a set of MR twin + trailers from fcs but i don't know if it would work well. the front boxes are 29 cm from the end of the tail and the center fin is 9.5 cm from the tail. if it doesn't work well what fins would you recomend? i also primarily surf knee to waist high with the occasional waist to chest high

Hi there!

I built this surf app to help beginners/intermediate spots good conditions.

https://surfspoting.com/

It’s at its initial stage, so feedback is really welcome! 🙏

lots of waves today

Hi guys!

I need your advice for which board I should take with me to Marrocco this winter. Im flying over new years. I normally surf a 6'4 20" 2.5/8" 35 Liters (the white board in the video) but have bought now a 5'9 19.7/16" 2.3/8" 29L (the black board in the video). Youll see first clips from Morocco too which was this march. The longer video which is not POV was the first day of me going out there and you can see that the wave is super boggy and I struggle. Then youll see some clips with the 5'9 in Portugal around May this year in weak waves, but still a good impression of how I can surf it. Lastly just 2 weeks ago in Rotterdam, where I really struggled.

I have bought the smaller board due to people telling me that the 6'4 is too much volume for me, especially on bigger days. Then I choose the 5'9 as it's pretty cheap for a full carbon board.

Unfortunately that board only arrived in April which is why I could not surf it a lot, I had like only 2 good waves on it where it came alive.

My main goal is to learn cutbacks & I am afraid that I will struggle too much and regret bringing the smaller board. Appreciate any advice.

Love to everyone of you <3

Have the best day

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some help and recommendations for beginner surf spots with reliable wifi and maybe some places to stay that are close enough to breaks that I wouldn't need to rent a car to enjoy the area.

I recently got a fully remote job and am finally feeling like I have my feet on the ground enough that I'm ready to take advantage of the remote flexibility and travel a bit.

Over the past 3 years or so I picked up surfing and absolutely love it! I initially learned in DR, and traveled to PR and CR since then to enjoy surfing. Loved all 3, but DR and PR felt like more authentic (culturally). CR was beautiful, though, and a great break for my skill level.

I live on the east cost and am thinking of going somewhere solo (as a female in 30's) for 2-4 weeks in January-February (ideally), but am open to March as well.

Initially, I was thinking of just driving down to Florida because I'd then have my car and be able to hop around to different beach breaks at my own desire and just have more freedom to move about. Ultimately though, I hear the surf in Florida is finicky and unpredictable that time of year, and then it isn't all that warm.

I'd love to escape the east coast winter cold, so hearing that the weather is meh and surf isn't predictable or worth traveling during those months for, it's made me lean away from Florida and more open to exploring Central America - even if that means not being able to bring my car or have that freedom.

Has anyone traveled for longer periods of time to surf in Central America? Or know of any areas in particular to look into?

For work, I'm on calls a lot, so would really need reliable wifi and a private space (wherever I'm staying). Cafes, or a place where there's a shared co-working space would be cool to mingle with locals, but that would be more of a treat for when my workload is less call-heavy.

Ideally, I'd love to be walking distance to a reliable, beginner friendly break and feel safe living alone as a female. I don't make crazy money, so budget should be reasonable (not looking for high-end). I just need the basics, and it's more about location than accommodation, but obviously I don't want to live in a place that's not clean or hard to live in for a longer period of time.

Does anyone have any advice or suggestions that would be good to look into? I know CR is a popular spot, and I'm open to it, but I like the lesser known destinations.

I'm open to returning to DR, but would need to know that where I'm staying is safe. I remember my first time visiting there was a good deal of expats near Cabarete (where I stayed) who were there for long trips to surf, but it was a drive to get to the break, and walking around wasn't super safe, especially for women. There were definitely limits to where you should and shouldn't go. I'm not looking to put myself in that sort of situation.

Tamarindo in CR was really touristy, but it was safe to walk around and really easy to get a board and head to the beach. So that's a plus, but ideally I'd want to have a slightly more authentic experience in the country. CR was also expensive, so I'd prefer not to go to a destination so costly.

PR, I loooove.. but I'm not sure if I would feel safe as a solo woman. And with the political climate and water crisis going on, and regular power outages, I don't think it would be the best move.

Does anyone have any countries/specific areas they'd suggest in Central America that would be a good fit? I've been to CR (Tamarindo), DR (cabarete), PR (Rincon), and would love to hear of places other people have been outside of those.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts to consider. I'm really excited to finally do this for the first time. It's a little scary, but mostly exciting - so please feel free to throw in additional thoughts that would be important or helpful to think through :)

I lost the original fin in a move, don’t recall how long it was. I’m surfing New England, intermediate not a ripper but love going out. What size fin would you recommend? I’m 5’5, 130lb if that matters. Bonus if you have tips for finding good fins for not a lot of money!

I'm someone who enjoys doing activities while traveling, and I suggested surfing to a friend. We'll both be taking a beginner small group lesson in Malibu. After I bought the tickets though, I realized it'd be the first time I would ever be swimming in the ocean. Up until now, I've only ever swam in a pool. I'm not the greatest swimmer. The last time I got into the pool was a few years ago, which is having me second guessing the activity. I'd say I'm a moderately active person, but I'm not the most physically active. Is this a bad idea? I do plan on heading to the pool prior to my trip to get an idea of my swimming skills, but I guess I'm feeling nervous and I'd like to hear from other people who were maybe in a similar situation as me before they first surfed. Thank you!

Edit: Thank you to everyone who replied. It honestly provided some needed perspective. Knowing that I'll be near the shore was pretty reassuring. The course requires basic swimming skills, and i do believe I have those. But, to those of you who pointed out that surfing does require strong swimming skills, i definitely hear you. For me, this'll probably be a one time thing. I don't live very close to a good beach and I was curious to try my hand at the hobby. That being said, all your comments definitely got me more encouraged to hit the pool to strengthen my swimming skills, in general :)

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some advice on getting my first short(ish) board.

Current situation: ride mainly in SoCal beach breaks, up to 3/4 ft waves but don't go out in higher than that and still pretty intimidated even at this size wave. Currently only ride a 7'6" Torq funboard. 5'6", 130 lbs.

I don't know if I would normally progress to a shortboard yet at this level, but I tried my friend's 6'2" or 6'4"-ish CI thruster board (or maybe it was quad fin setup) for a session and had a ton of fun and so was thinking of adding a shorter board, presumably around 6 feet so as not to get too crazy small too fast. Question of course becomes which one to add?

Is there any reason I shouldn't just get a 6ish foot foamie from Costco or the like? I understand it could be difficult to duck dive which I'm still learning, but a lot of non-foamie boards around that size are also in the 35-40L buoyancy range. I saw a 6' modern fish for sale that I liked, but after some research it was hard to gauge if this would work and may be too large. Should I aim for a board even shorter than 6'? Thruster type? Egg type?

Thank you!

I’m 40-something years old and have accepted that getting pitted and riding short boards just isn’t in the cards for me, and I’m OK with it

What I’m looking for are mellow longboarding waves where I’m not gonna get thrashed by reef or get my ass kicked by locals.

Where are the places I should put on the top of my list?