Jeff’s 2009 Surf Roundup
Hope you all had a wonderful new year’s day and had some time to spend with family and friends. We sure did. I know we’ve been cyber-silent for a bit, but we back and ready to surf the new year. But before we do that, I decided to take a look back on my stats for 2009. Granted, these data are a bit goofed since we only started the site in June of last year, so this is really a 6 month recap. Still, it’s fun to see what I was up to from June to December. So, without further ado:
Total surf sessions logged: 96 (that averages to just under once every 2 days)
Board usage: Electric: 33 Spherical Revolver: 30 Quatro: 21 Pumpkin Seed: 6 Swellwood: 3 Michel Junod: 2 Kruisechev: 1 |
Breaks Surfed: El Porto: 22 Beach Bowls: 19 HB Pier, Southside: 18 HB Pier, Northside: 9 Taco Bell Reef: 9 Bolsa Chica: 5 17th Street Huntington: 3 36th St. Newport: 3 Solana Beach: 2 Goldenwest: 2 Venice: 1 Sunset Blvd: 1 56th St. Newport: 1 Cocoa Beach, Fl: 1 Salt Creek: 1 Huntington Cliffs: 1 |
Surf Session Rating: Fun: 43 Meh: 19 Decent: 17 Epic: 16 Dismal: 1 |
I won’t bother with tabulating weather or water temp, and wave size is a bit hard to tabulate with the all the x’, x’-y’, x’-y’+, y’+ type values, but I did calculate that I had 69 surf sessions where the waves were 3 feet or higher and 18 sessions where the waves included 5’+ swells.
So what can I take away from this? Well, I was lucky enough to have 16 days that I considered to be epic within 6 months. How sweet is that?! Clearly I tend to favor my Harbour boards (but that is no surprise). I could use some more exploration – only a half dozen sessions were outside my comfort zone. But maybe venturing out once a month is decent. Finally, I need to normalize my data better for easier tabulating next time.
This is a great recap! I feel inspired to start logging my surf sessions…wonder if I could actually have the discipline to do so…
Thanks for sharing the your surf stoke!
Thanks! If you really want to keep an online surflog, it can be done super simply at Swell Watch. (This post gives a quick review: http://www.elportofridays.com/gear/swellwatch-session-logs ) It’s nuts how well it tracks everything. And if you are diligent, after it figures out what you like in you surf sessions it will start alerting you to conditions/breaks conducive to your tastes.
Hope the site launch went well and things are moving along!