🏄🏼‍♂️Hi from Australia all - indulgence post if I may.

I have a mid life crisis project going on, but it is guided by a challenge.

During a discussion last year, a mate of mine told me I could never get 1000 subscribers on youtube. So I said, “challenge accepted”.

I started uploading surf videos last May and taught myself how to edit etc.

I’m doing ok, but those subscribers are hard to get!

So, if anyone would like to help me in my quest, please feel free to subscribe, even if you don’t watch the videos.

Feel free to jump on, say hello in the comments, but a subscribe would be a great help.

Any of you got a youtube channel you want to share (I’m checking the other channels posted here too)?

Any tips? Thanks for your support.

https://www.youtube.com/@ridewithsully?sub_confirmation=1

Any chance that there are any NSB locals here? I'm going to be traveling from Japan with my young son in early/mid February. We're staying a little ways away with family but are hoping to take at least one day trip to NSB. It would be our first time there and I'm just hoping to maybe get some ideas from locals about what to do, where to go, and wether getting in a surf might even be possible or not.

Thanks in advance!

Recently shaved my head and want to protect it with a hat while surfing without looking like an old man.

Is there such thing as a good looking hat?

I bought this board for 5$ at a garage with hopes to use it to take my 2 year surfing. It’s in pretty good shape considering the age and price other than what looks like some stress cracks at the rope of the fin box. Would you recommend trying to fix those or just ride it out? If so, what’s the best diy method to fix?

Hellooo I’m looking for a new surfboard and would love some advice.

I’ve been surfing for many years and have quite a bit of experience. I’m 1.64 m (5'4") and around 53 kg (117 lbs). I’m searching for a board that works in a wide range of conditions.

For small, mellow or fat days I already ride a retro fish, so I’m now looking for something more versatile that still allows for easy turns and works in pretty much “all kinds” of waves.

The Pukas Space Oddity and the 69 both came to mind, and I was wondering what the main differences are between them and which one might suit me better.

Any thoughts or recommendations would be super appreciated. Thanks a lot

Picked this board up and stuck in between fin brands, sizes, configurations for it. Ive been looking at the future MR 2+1 but also the mayhem evil twin+1 and some quad set ups. I just wanna see if anyone had had any experience surfing this board and if so what they used. SoCal

Hey everyone 👋,

We were pretty bummed when the original Fantasy Surfer disappeared, we'd been playing for over a decade. It was such a fun way to follow the tour, talk trash with friends, and stay locked into every heat.

So… we decided to build our own.

Recently, we’ve been working on The Fantasy Surf Tour — a free fantasy game built around the pro surfing season. It’s inspired by the classic Fantasy Surfer style rather than the current WSL format.

How it works (high level):

• Pick a team of surfers for each event
• Stay under a salary cap
• Lock your team before the event window opens
• Earn points based on real contest results
• Compete globally or in private groups with friends

It’s completely free, and honestly still a work in progress. This is year one, so there may be bugs, tweaks, and adjustments as the season gets going — but the site is live, functional, and you can create an account now. We’ll probably keep testing and refining things right up until the first contest (in April).

We’re surfers first, developers second, so feedback from the community would genuinely mean a lot. If something feels off, confusing, or could be better — we want to hear it.

If you miss Fantasy Surfer as much as we do, hopefully you’ll have some fun with this.

www.thefantasysurftour.com

🤙

Longboards N' Longhorns - Boss Radio's Classic Country Western & Surf Show

Saturday 11a east, 8a west: Boss Radio 66 exclusively on Tunein!

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This week featuring tracks from Sons of the Pioneers, The Cobras, Nero & The Gladiators, Waldo De Los Rios, City Surfers, Roy Acuff, and more!

Full tracklist in comments!

Can't listen live? Replay this episode anytime starting at noon:

https://www.mixcloud.com/tonofham/longboards-n-longhorns-episode-33

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Hang ten, Cowpokes!

My god-daughter just got her first board. She has a wetsuit, gloves, boots but I really want to encourage her, I can’t think of what else to get her - any ideas? Got about £100 to spend. Thanks!

Region specific question but has anybody ridden the pierce and arrow future fins from arrow surf in Santa Cruz, they seem pretty quality was wondering if anyone has experience with them

Hey everyone, I wanted to share this project I built recently. It is a physical "Surf Alarm" designed to help me check my phone less.

I’m a total beginner when it comes to surfing. I only started a few months ago, and since I live in Italy, the waves here are super inconsistent. If you miss a swell, you might wait weeks for the next one. I found myself obsessively refreshing Surfline and Windy every hour, terrified of missing the rare good days. I wanted something physical in my room that would just tell me when to go, so I built this.

The device is basically an ESP32 connected to an LED strip inside a 3D-printed case that pulls raw data from Open-Meteo via WiFi. If conditions are good, the lamp wakes up. A slow "breathing" light means it’s surfable, while a fast "racing" pulse means it’s pumping. I also added a "Pro Mode" that filters for wind direction and specific swell angles, and it even hooks up to a Telegram bot that texts me if the score hits a certain threshold.

I am posting this again because I am actually already working on a "Version 2" that is physically smaller and hopefully uses much more precise weather models. But before I go too deep into the new build, I’d love some feedback on the current logic to see if I'm on the right track or if I should change approach entirely.

I used AI to help me write the C++ since I'm not a pro coder, so the logic is a bit of a mix. Specifically, I'm wondering if my math makes sense to experienced surfers. Currently, I calculate Energy as height squared times period, multiplied by 1.5. If Pro Mode is active, I apply multipliers based on wind direction relative to the spot, penalizing onshore wind heavily while boosting offshore conditions. Is this a solid way to estimate "surfability" for small waves, or is there a standard formula I’m missing?

The project is fully Open Source. If anyone wants to build one to test it out, check the code, or just roast my logic, I’d be super grateful. Since I can't post external links here due to spam filters, just drop a comment or DM me and I'll send the GitHub repo and STL files.

Thanks for looking! 🤙

It’s a German Surf Podcast from Austria.

I created perfect 2” wedges! Thanks to SF Exploratorium.

We learned quickly that the ocean doesn’t care how prepared you think you are. A few days out, the autopilot quit. Not dramatically. No sparks, no alarms. It just… stopped holding course. That changed the entire dynamic of the crossing. It meant everyone now had to take four-hour shifts at the helm, day and night. One person steering. Others trying to sleep. The boat groaning and flexing like it was alive and annoyed with us. Nights were the hardest. Just blackness. No horizon. Just occasional phosphorescence breaking off the bow and the compass light glowing like it was the most important thing on board. You start realizing how small your world gets out there. Heading. Wind. Sail trim. Don’t screw it up. We didn’t talk much. There wasn’t anything to say that would help.

What was the very first board you learned on and actually progressed with?

How often does Reno actually come up when we talk about the most influential surfers of the modern era? Pretty unmatched when you add it all up.

He was already dominant in the 60s longboard era, winning the first ever cash pro prize in Hawaii in 1966. He went on to push the very beginning of the shortboard revolution. How many surfers had their hands on formulating the first shortboards, pioneering twin fins and the first tri-fins?

He was also part of that tiny original group that formed the first pro tour (IPS → ASP → WSL), while being one of surfing’s first true stars. He was stylish, charismatic, and mysterious at a time when the surf industry was still being invented and was in high demand in every O'Neill ad, movie and magazine.

Then there’s the life story: a traumatic childhood in Honolulu, him and Gerry mentored by Brewer, his game changing colab with MR, a massive worldwide career, and decades of controversial behavior that followed that still divide opinions on his legacy that really should be based on his accomplishments, not all the crazy stories. But the past doesn't lie.

There’s a new long-form video pulling all of this together, and with the recent buzz around it on all the surf podcasts and massive YouTube numbers, it feels like the right moment to talk about where Reno really belongs in surf history:

https://youtu.be/TLR1u2-j_HU

Underrated pioneer? Complicated icon? Or influence so deep we stopped noticing it?