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Wed,
05/21/03
Assateague and Arlington,
VA
Little or no winds early
3 to 4 feet and clean
Kirk, Chris Smith, Todd
@ Assateague
SF Film @ Dr. Dremo's
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| The Kirk Report:
Todd, Chris Smith, and I met at the Bay 50 lot at 3:45am today to hit the
light dawn winds and low tide at Assateague. As part of our duty to represent
ASC in the upcoming TOTN contest, we divorced ourselves from our shorter
sticks and took only our longboards.
Arrived to find no wind and
waist-chest peelers, as predicted.....with no one out anywhere. The lefts
were a little sectiony, shutting down after about 50yds after a semi-steep
dropin over the sandbar. Rights had a little less form but walled up for
really long rides if you managed your speed and turns well. We all took
a little time to get adjusted to the oil tankers we were riding, and then
started picking the place apart. There were some beautiful rides by everyone,
and a few classic wipeouts also spread around. Onshores picked up at about
8:30am, and by 9am we were bobbing around in shapeless mush--waves not
even connecting the sandbar. Also found out that the (formerly walkable)
trough between the two major sandbars is now apparently a hole---super
deep. Something to look out for the next time y'all surf there.
Not a bad morning!
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SUMMER of SURF FLICKS
@ Dr. Dremo's Taphouse in Arlington, VA
ASC Regulars: Chris
Smith, Neal Carver, Rod, Foon, Jeff Marlow, Chet, Curtis Miller
Surfrider Foundation
Capitol Chapter/ASC Newbies: David "LongBoardKook" Riordon, Darcy
"ADRIFT," a Jipsie Brother
Production. Synopsis: A collection of longboard action footage that ranges
from small wave rides to pipe tubes. This video features Donald Takayama,
Joel Tudor, Bonga Perkins and other top longboarders in 0-10' waves in
California, Hawaii, Australia, and New York. All put together with the
great sounds of blues, classical, Hawaiian Music, and jazz legend Nina
Simone delivering a classic version of Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" for
the Pipeline sequence!
The
ASC Gang @ Surfrider Video Night / Dr. Dremo's Taphouse
From Bottom Left:
Foon, Curtis' Friend, Chet, Chris Smith, Unknown,
Dave Riordan, Jeff Marlow,
Neal Carver. Photo by: Rod
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Food
Master Foon... but that's not what this picture is all about!
Featured in the left background
is Darcy speaking to Darryl H. |
Rodrigo
Report: This was an excellent way to cap off the hump of the
week -- the feature film plus some other light surfing video. It is sometimes
amazing what these riders can do in larger, steep surf. On the other hand
that should come as no surprise since all some of us had in the beginning
of our surfing days were longboards (rather crude shapes by today's standards).
Nonetheless, despite my allegiance to *very* short board riding, it is
always fun to marvel as the best of the sport dazzle us with smooth and
incredible moves that they so effortlessly execute. On the ASC side it
was good to finally put some faces and bodies to names... Curtis and Darcy
(having met Chris Smith and Jeff Marlow at Guys' Weekend). Kerrie called
in with last minute regrets as she had to pull duty with the Orange Terror
Alert in effect. Most of us left before the Goths took over for the evening.
Postscript: Without
ASCers in attendance the turnout would have been very small (<6).
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