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Post by Taildragger on Jan 1, 2024 17:39:45 GMT -5
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professor
Wholenote
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Post by professor on Jan 3, 2024 11:11:46 GMT -5
Lots happening up and down the coast and the wild videos to prove it. Mobs getting crushed when a big close out piles in. Is anyone using foils? Seems that would be very hazardous to everyone given the conditions and the crowds..
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 3, 2024 13:01:25 GMT -5
Foils and crowded surf lineups are a bad mix. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a foil in surf that large (or even half that size) when the hammer comes down. Surfboard fins are enough of a hazard under those circumstances, thank you. Back during the mid-1980s, a fin opened my face up 40 stitches worth as a result of a freak accident in head-high surf. Others have been even less lucky:
More thoughts on foils in the surf zone:
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 3, 2024 14:17:15 GMT -5
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 3, 2024 19:47:53 GMT -5
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 4, 2024 0:55:35 GMT -5
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 7, 2024 12:51:27 GMT -5
Not as big, but these could easily paralyze or kill you:
Note the big chunk of coral or lava that awaits at about 3:00.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 7, 2024 16:29:50 GMT -5
Here's a different angle on Mav's. You can see it get progressively nastier and less predictable as the swell fills in. Surfer get crushed about 3:53. jetski is caught inside and eats dookie trying to punch through the lip at about 4:33. Another guy catches his outside rail on a chop, falls and gets hammered at around 5:16---
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