Hamish Patterson High Frequency Tribe aka The Illusion aka The Surfing Thread

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So who's actually been surfing? Is Craner really a surfer? catalog's reluctantly having lessons in a couple of weeks. Anyone else?

 

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I haven't been surfing for years, but I still have my old board and a wetsuit.

 

[catalog]

I've been a couple times before, once when I was 17, then a couple years ago in lanzarote. I can only really stand a day or so of it cos I'm so shit. Just ordered a wetsuit tho.

 

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I haven't been surfing for years, but I still have my old board and a wetsuit.

Where've you surfed?

 

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Where've you surfed?

Llangennith, Pobbles, Caswell Bay, Langland Bay.

 

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Is there much of a surfing scene in Wales? Are the waves good?

 

[catalog]

yes i've heard the peninsula (abersoch area) is good

 

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I wonder how Catalog's getting on in Cornwall.

 

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@craner @IdleRich

Riding the giant: big-wave surfing in Nazaré

A small fishing hamlet in Portugal has become a magnet for the world’s most fearless big-wave surfers. Tim Lewis reveals how Nazaré became the ocean’s Everest

www.theguardian.com

 

[Murphy]

My brother’s a surf freak, 30+years of working chef jobs globally to spend time doing what he loves. Even at home, I can’t imagine going in the sea in January, ice on the shoreline, changing in car park in driving hail, getting mangled by undertows and dragged down by terms I can’t recall.

So far so good, but he got a shocking infection a while back and is all about the Surfers Against Sewage organisation these days. He takes my lot when he can at home (thank you gods) and constantly monitors on-shore breeze forecasts courtesy of

Magicseaweed - Global Surf Reports, Surf Forecasts & Live Webcams

Surf Reports, Surf Forecasts, Web Cams and Surfing Photos for Spots around the Globe.

magicseaweed.com

I love the sea, but surfing waves is never going to be a personal endeavour.

 

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Even at home, I can’t imagine going in the sea in January, ice on the shoreline, changing in car park in driving hail, getting mangled by undertows and dragged down by terms I can’t recall.

You ever seen those guys who surf Lake Superior in winter?

 

[Murphy]

Indirectly. Said bro met a crew from Sheboygan in Morocco who seemed to fit this typology, although the hash seemed as big a draw (coat got) as the wave riding.

 

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Nazaré in the news again.

The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year (Published 2020)

Maya Gabeira didn’t just ride the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman. It was the biggest wave surfed by anyone in the 2019-20 winter season, a first for women in professional surfing.

www.nytimes.com

 

[catalog]

Surf Notes from 'Dark Green Religion' (Bron Taylor, 2009)

Surfing fosters understandings of nature as powerful, transformative, healing, and sacred. Such perceptions, in turn, often lead to ethical action in which Mother Nature, and especially its manifestation as Mother Ocean, is considered sacred and worthy of reverent care. Many surfers also develop feelings of communion and kinship with the nonhuman animals they encounter during their practice. These experiences sometimes take on an animistic ethos and lead surfers to activism on behalf of marine ecosystems and particular species.

 

[Corpsey]

not good enough at swimming to even think about it

hope this helps