my local millpond today

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by cj » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:02 am

What's a millpond?

by **.Jen.** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:08 am

cj wrote:What's a millpond?

somewhere thats normally really flat.

Heres mine this morning. Nicked from HERE. Gotta love webcams

by **dougirwin13** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:15 am

Millpond:

n: a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel

Generally built in rather sheltered localions and, hence, associated with being quite calm and flat.

-doug

by **hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:00 am

my god its horrifying.

do you english actually know how to surf? its hard to imagine youd be able to do much other than surf whitewash on a longboard looking at that. i cant even stand a wave shorter than me. its gotta have atleast a 6ft face. jeeeezzzzzzzz. i am in shock. those waces are too small for my lego men. yes, i still have my legos.

aagrh its awful. and theres actually people out there.

by **drowningbitbybit** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:04 am

hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote:my god its horrifying.

Well, yes... thats why they're comparing it to a millpond... :roll:

by **drowningbitbybit** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:08 am

....And this is the weekend before, for instance...

by **GowerCharger** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:56 am

hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote:my god its horrifying.

do you english actually know how to surf? its hard to imagine youd be able to do much other than surf whitewash on a longboard looking at that. i cant even stand a wave shorter than me. its gotta have atleast a 6ft face. jeeeezzzzzzzz. i am in shock. those waces are too small for my lego men. yes, i still have my legos.

aagrh its awful. and theres actually people out there.

thats a big part of the reason why theres loads of top notch hawaiian surfers and you can count the world class british surfers of the last 40 years on one hand. Theres probably plenty of locals where you are who dont stand out much in hawaii but could breeze through most uk competitions.

Having said that there is usually constant swell here this time of year, my local indicator beach hasnt gone that flat for weeks, and has been well overhead maybe at least half the time.

by **essex sucks** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:51 pm

dude somtimes small waves can be fun too ride and harder to stay on if u are a short boarder which gives u somthing different some of the time.
i do love surfing bigger waves more but some wave that u can surf is better than no wave at all

mark

by **FishKid Wales** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:42 pm

hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote:my god its horrifying.

do you english actually know how to surf? its hard to imagine youd be able to do much other than surf whitewash on a longboard looking at that. i cant even stand a wave shorter than me. its gotta have atleast a 6ft face. jeeeezzzzzzzz. i am in shock. those waces are too small for my lego men. yes, i still have my legos.

aagrh its awful. and theres actually people out there.

Whats the point of pi$$ing and whinging about something we have no chance of changing?

by **WooD** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:09 pm

Not to disagree, but here in Florida we don't get too many big days. Still there are several world class surfers from here. I remember some kid named Kelly that grew up about a 100 miles south of me. I heard he turned out to be a some what decent surfer.

GowerCharger wrote:
hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote:my god its horrifying.

do you english actually know how to surf? its hard to imagine youd be able to do much other than surf whitewash on a longboard looking at that. i cant even stand a wave shorter than me. its gotta have atleast a 6ft face. jeeeezzzzzzzz. i am in shock. those waces are too small for my lego men. yes, i still have my legos.

aagrh its awful. and theres actually people out there.

thats a big part of the reason why theres loads of top notch hawaiian surfers and you can count the world class british surfers of the last 40 years on one hand. Theres probably plenty of locals where you are who dont stand out much in hawaii but could breeze through most uk competitions.

Having said that there is usually constant swell here this time of year, my local indicator beach hasnt gone that flat for weeks, and has been well overhead maybe at least half the time.

by **Phil** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:22 pm

hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote:my god its horrifying.

do you english actually know how to surf? its hard to imagine youd be able to do much other than surf whitewash on a longboard looking at that. i cant even stand a wave shorter than me. its gotta have atleast a 6ft face. jeeeezzzzzzzz. i am in shock. those waces are too small for my lego men. yes, i still have my legos.

aagrh its awful. and theres actually people out there.

you whine about how crap hawaii is then go and make a post like that, i dont know some times i think your just trying to wind some of us up :roll:

by **GowerCharger** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:20 pm

WooD wrote:Not to disagree, but here in Florida we don't get too many big days. Still there are several world class surfers from here. I remember some kid named Kelly that grew up about a 100 miles south of me. I heard he turned out to be a some what decent surfer.

yeah, but it was warm where he was from, thats our other problem.

by **WooD** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:30 pm

GowerCharger wrote:
WooD wrote:Not to disagree, but here in Florida we don't get too many big days. Still there are several world class surfers from here. I remember some kid named Kelly that grew up about a 100 miles south of me. I heard he turned out to be a some what decent surfer.

yeah, but it was warm where he was from, thats our other problem.

Yeah its warm here most of the year. I just got back not long ago from a surf, and the water was 82 degrees. Around Late December to February our water temps are usually in the low to mid 60's, but sometimes dip down to a bone chilling high 50's. I'll skin it down to about 67.....after that I get out the dreaded wet suit. If it gets in the 50's I keep my ass on the beach.

by **GowerCharger** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:04 pm

well i dont know farenheit but i think 50 is about 10 in celsius, which is warm for winter here, warmest we get is about 16 degrees in summer (about 60F) so most people here are in wetsuits all year round, and seriously thick suits with boots gloves and hoods in winter, that kinda hinders your surfing development a bit :lol:

by **WooD** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:58 pm

GowerCharger wrote:well i dont know farenheit but i think 50 is about 10 in celsius, which is warm for winter here, warmest we get is about 16 degrees in summer (about 60F) so most people here are in wetsuits all year round, and seriously thick suits with boots gloves and hoods in winter, that kinda hinders your surfing development a bit

Damn now thats cold. I hate wearing wet suits, and have never wore boots, gloves, or a hood.

by **IdRatherBeSurfing** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:44 pm

lmao at all these replies :lol:

that was quite a fun wave! swell picking up today (tues) so gonna go out 4 a play

whoop whoop

will try and get some morepics of my (other) local millpond

by **hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:35 am

my name is hawaii sucks except surf. i know the surfing is good.

anyway, that last shot doesnt look too bad. maybe like a 4 ft face? not sure.. still too boring to surf it. but im used to paddling past the reef to get to the waves, and im a lazy ass so the waves must be worth it. thats probably not as bad of a paddle.

small waves are boring, it is harder to stay on but why would i want to? the damn thing is moving like a gradma. its like going to the kiddy rides when youve already gone on the ultimate one. you cant go back. i remember lingboarding was fun wen i was a kid, and i havent done it since, but i suppose i can see why its fun when the waves dont usually get very big.

why dont you guys snowboard? i wish i could do that.

by **IdRatherBeSurfing** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:36 am

4ft face? nah, it was knee high at most.. like 2ft

by **GowerCharger** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:39 pm

cos we rarely get snow by the coast, and when we do its not enough to ski on.

my local millpond today

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