NJ Surfing Community

waist and clean today. increase to chest+ this weekend from TS Colin. Water temps: mid 70s

lake atlantic flatness with no end in sight. Water temp mid 70′s. Enjoy the nice weather:)

a little knee high bump in the water that fades quickly to lake atlantic for the week. water temp high 70s

I am pleased to announce that Life Rolls On Foundation’s award-winning They Will Surf Again event will be taking place for the first time this year in Rockaway, NY. The event will be coming to 90th Street Beach on Saturday, August 28, 2010.

Currently, we are still seeking volunteers for both land and water, along with participants with SCI, for this amazing event!

If you are in the area and want to spend the day with us to “push possibilities,” I encourage you to register at: http://www.liferollson.org/twsasignup

Should you require any additional information, please feel free to contact me at Sarah@liferollson.org or call (310) 807-5488.

Thank you for your continued support of Life Rolls On and I hope you will be able to join us at the beach!

Sincerely,

Sarah Donaldson

Program Manager- They Will Surf Again

Life Rolls On Foundation

400 Corporate Pointe, Suite 525

Culver City, CA 90230

***NOTE: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS BOOK WITH OUR NEW SUITE NUMBER!***

P| 310.807.5488 F| 310.943.1918

E| Sarah@liferollson.org

www.liferollson.org

choppy Chest-Head. cleans up sat and sun. will get smaller mon but should be surf all week. water temp: 76

beautiful day in NJ but no waves for the next week. Enjoy the sun! water temp: 68-72

check out this pic from surfer mag:

Found this on stabmag: http://www.stabmag.com/jed/stabs-guide-to-surfboard-design-for-dummies/

Stab’s guide to surfboard design for dummies

1. Boards with a straight rocker paddle faster. And, paddling is 50 per cent of the game. If you can’t catch waves, you can’t surf. Even if you’re surfing two-foot windblown peaks with three friends, you still have to compete to get waves. And, you thought it was all about thickness, right? It’s not; it’s how the bottom moves across the water. However…

2. Volume is your friend. You can have a really thick board, but if you put a vee bottom in it rides neutral, whereas a medium-thickness board with concave can ride flat like a plank.

3. Tail shapes don’t matter as much as you think. If the width going into the tail is the same, a square, a squash, a diamond or a swallow is going to behave in a similar way. Round tails and pintails decrease the rail line, so they’re going to hold a little better and shorten a turn radius.

4. I don’t buy into the whole back-foot/front-foot surfer thing. We’re all surfing from the back foot. You’re either a weak back-foot surfer or a strong back-foot surfer. You push hard or you don’t. You’re either Taylor Knox or a flicky little kid.

5. Look at the outline of your board. Straight lines go fast. Curved lines turn. Simple.

6. The straighter the rocker, the further back you need to stand and boards with a continual rocker have a bigger sweet spot. However, and this is a big however, a drivier board will be more forgiving in picking up speed, just less forgiving when you need to turn.

7. Match the curve of the board to the curve of the wave. This is for the average surfer. Everything goes out the window for pros – they can do anything. I travel with a curvy board and a flat board: curvy boards for the Gold Coast and for Sydney shorebreaks. Flatter boards for mushy points or blown out crumblers. On a planky board, it ain’t gonna work when you need to jump to your feet and bottom turn in one quick move. And, when you do get up, all you’re going to do is parallel floaters.

8. There’s a magic number and it’s called your cubic volume. It’s up to us shapers to educate people, and it’s information available, right now, on our shaping machines. Let me explain. One of my team riders, Shea Lopez, was teasing me about how big my boards are. We were down at Lowers, two fat cocktails in hand, and he grabbed my board and said, “Have a fucking look at this boat!” And, I said: “Well, I’m fat, I’m 40, but you know what, fucker? I bet my volume-to-weight ratio is not far from your’s. I’m 30 per cent heavier and have maybe 30 per cent more volume. The difference is, I’m a desk jockey and you’re a professional athlete.” If we know our cubic volumes, all the other dimensions can be left to the shaper. Instead of saying, I ride 6’1”s x 18 5/8” x 2 5/16”, you’d say, I’m a 42, make me a small-wave craft. This does require a degree of trust in your shaper. Which leads me to…

9. There are two types of shapers you can trust. One is the local shaper who knows the conditions and who probably knows how you surf. That’s a certain kind of trust. Then there’s the trust you have for an international shaper. You trust Al Merrick because he consistently makes great boards for great surfers and for the globall market. If you live in Santa Barbara, where Al lives, you get local and international knowledge. If you live on the Gold Coast, you get both: Darren Handley and Jason Stevenson. If you live in Sydney, you get both: James Cheal (Chilli). If you live in San Clemente, you get Timmy Patterson and me. But, if you live in, say, Adelaide, you might have to balance the tradeoff between local and global knowledge.

10. Balance in a surfboard is everything and shapers walk a tightrope every time they build you a custom board. If you want a board with a lot of rocker, your shaper has to build everything around it to balance it out. If one element is extreme, the rest of the board has to act as a counterbalance to neutralize the extreme. Greg Webber was a genius on the wire. Everything is balance.

knee high today with water in the low 70s. look for an increase on sun-mon to the waist+ range.

flat with nothing in sight. enjoy the nice weather. water temp 67-71