Just saying - it's not a bad thing.
It means less crowds, of course.
Surfing is dying, and that's okay with me

Then why do I get buoyed by loggers at my home break?



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Edited: 04/21/2025 at 05:52 AM by Cole

Oh! I'll take surfing for $200 Alex! Surfing jumped the shark with the first: a) professional, b) aerial, c) tow in. Answer in the form of a question!

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All we need is 1 great surf movie and we will be back to crowded breaks again.


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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Really they just need to PUMP THE SAND UP ONSHORE.

It's just not that damn hard to see...

Nor is it hard to make a device that does it.

Nor do those coquina matter - just pull some out.

dig out the live coquina and put them in an area where they'll stay alive, then reseed the bank once it's built out.

Could send in all the sand from 100+ yards out. A device that floats mostly but pulls sand through it from a grid. Not that hard - floatables around the rubber tubing. Pump is on truck on the beach. A few small tugboats move the grid along each day a little more. This stuff ISN'T that hard... It's all about how the home owners WANT to manage THEIR beach, which is to keep the walkers low. They don't want too much sand filled in. They don't want walkers in their back yard. But they could simply put up good fencing. It doesn't cost that damn much. Each home owner pays. It's only 1 side of the yard for PETE'S SAKE (Note: I don't drink - just for clarity...).

They could always make a mound somewhere and build on top of it - something that's better in some way up high... Cuz we just have too much sand in the area - it has to go. Maybe sebastian mainland area - dumping ground - not sure if space there or not.

The want us to be okay with NO WAVES because it's what they feel is best for their homes - to keep the sand offshore - plenty of it to drag the wave energy away.

COULD have SICK waves here...

All they would have had to have done is pull sand from nearshore when rebuilding the beach - that's it. Too easy and doesn't work in a bureacracy, does it?

should just have a dredge boat come through every year and dredge out a mid re-form (deep) like it used to be, and shoot that up onto the beach - it could reach - I believe.
Just once a year the dredger/shooter(or thrower) comes through and rebuilds the beach. Eventually sand keeps filling in - and eventually all that sand out there becomes the shore again. Sure, you'd cover up some of those ancient corals in the area. If they need more coral, we can build some to seed out there on the new banks. But eventually they need to pump it across the river and up onto the land. IT would have been nice if the homeowners WERE surfers, but that's not typically the case, or they don't care about these type of surfers. They do all theirs with big money.





Edited: 04/21/2025 at 02:32 PM by TunnelVision

If we could just stick a dagger into surfline and stop them from telling everyone to surf RC's then I'd be okay with it.

Otherwise, surfing goes thru ups-n-downs and it doesn't slow me down none. Only thing slowing me down is aging. Can we stop that also?

With younger people, surfing goes in and out of fashion. There's also the need for surfing or surfing-tolerant parents. I once coached a slightly hesitant dad--a St. Augustine Minorcan, even! Southern California has some important lead-ins. High school swim teams, water polo, extensive Junior Lifeguard programs. The more elaborate ones could issue diplomas. I think water polo's growing in Florida.

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I played water polo and swam growing up on the west coast.
Swimming and water polo are definitely bigger in the western state.

I haven't seen any surge of popularity in water polo here.
From what I have seen very few high schools even have pools suitable for water polo.

But I hope it does.
It is a great game and not for the meek.




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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

The South, Florida somewhat included, had a long period of almost no public swimming pools and white people staying away from beaches due to integration. Jacksonville Beach had a long period of decline--I coudl have picked up a decent house there circa 1985. Since then, the Blighted Zone has disappeared and I think water polo is growing in Duval. Circa 2010, I noticed that Kill Devil Hills high school in NC had an actual swim team, coached at the time by the town's ocean rescue chief. It was a way to recruit summer lifeguards. Circa early 70s, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill required students to pass a swimming test. At the time, the place had a nice but small indoor pool and a crappy outdoor one. Don't know what the rules were at NCSU, a bigger and arguably better state U.

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wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again

Surfing.aint.fukkin.dying
Period.
A lot of the kook ass heavy ultra local types: have, are, will: dying off....cool.
Surf moguls dropping like the leech ass vermin they've always been.
Meanwhile all of us that actually still surf...and always did.....
If every surf brand, corporate surf shops shut down:


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It's a democratic hoax

Aging doesn't have to slow you down.

You ever seen Klaus Obermeyer?

You just have to know what to do, and they won't tell you.

I fix problems all the time that they say there's "no cure".

Broken system... (that doesn't help until expensive surgery)

corporations and surfing don't mix - 100% agreed.
this is small business owner territory.
there's less than 100k of us.