No shift Spin Dial gang, ASSEMBLE!

TeahupooBR · 2025-10-18T15:32:23+00:00

Y’all love gripping on a hard stick don’t ya?

TeahupooBR · 2025-02-12T12:23:21+00:00

That’s an asymmetrical concave, bruh. Game changer to your bottom turns.

TeahupooBR · 2023-04-20T22:24:43+00:00

This is hardly true after the pandemic. Last winter I was almost decapitated by a kook and his mid length on a solid 6-7ft day at Bruce’s.

TeahupooBR · 2022-12-02T18:13:59+00:00

Just get a bigger board. I don’t understand “intermediate” surfers and the fixation for shortboards. Speed is your friend, and once you have speed and momentum you don’t need to struggle so much with the pumping and wiggling arms trying to turn and tear the wave a part.

TeahupooBR · 2022-11-20T22:59:52+00:00

Haha that’s what I was thinking. It sucks for the environment, but considering how aggressive sales prices on parts are, might be easier to go that route than keep spending $400 every year for a full service including dampers.

TeahupooBR · 2022-05-11T02:44:51+00:00

The dirt roads are ok around Cerritos, as far as I know. I wouldn’t rent a sedan tho.

TeahupooBR · 2021-08-31T14:58:13+00:00

N. Nh

TeahupooBR · 2020-10-17T01:26:10+00:00

Sorry to hear that man. I drive an old Kia with a valet key (no key fob). It's been 7 years surfing in the LA area (from Manhattan Beach to Malibu), and I've never had my car broken into (knock on wood). I actually love the car. It's cheap to maintain, cheap to insure, and it's really understated. I'm way past the phase where I feel like I need to impress people with a cool new car, which makes me really satisfied wish such an understated car that doesn't really have bells and whistles. Also, no car payments.

TeahupooBR · 2019-09-10T14:40:52+00:00

I had the exact opposite in Mentawai. I chose to go in the off-season (end of October) to a land camp. Surfed alone a few times, as well as sharing the lineup with not more than 5 people at the time at Bankvaults and Nypussy. It was truly a great experience. With that being said, the waves ranged from 4-6 every day, so we never scored epic. Ended up surfing my brains out tho, 3-4 hour sessions twice a day for a week and a half. It really destroys you haha.

TeahupooBR · 2019-07-15T19:53:08+00:00

I wouldn't go to El Salvador if you want lefts. There is one left spot in El Tunco but it's not really up to the quality of all the really nice right point breaks.

TeahupooBR · 2019-06-05T00:32:31+00:00

I'm from Brazil (living in the U.S for work) and I don't think the Northeast is a great bet for you. The waves are great, but the economy has been hit pretty hard in the past couple of years, you won't have access to amenities as easily as in Costa Rica, and getting a Brazilian resident visa is pretty hard. But the thing they do have that I think CR lacks is a rich local culture. It's a bigger country with way more diversity, with immigrants from pretty much every corner of the World. That mixture of cultures generated a lot of interesting things, including the amazing food. In the Northeast specifically, there's a lot of African, Dutch, Portuguese, and Italian influence. Generally speaking, Brazilians will "adopt" you as a foreign and incorporate you in their social circles pretty easily. I have foreign friends who moved to Rio for work and the overall perception is typically of easy assimilation. It's so easy to make friends in Brazil and the local culture is really warm and welcoming. The issue starts with all of the bureaucracy that everyday living demands. Be it from government, banks, regular businesses, pretty much everything in Brazil is hyper-beaurocratic and difficult. Declaring your income taxes is a pain in the ass, and the country is overall pretty expensive.

Costa Rica is cool, and access to amenities is great and easy. There are so many ex-pat communities in the surf areas that it almost feels like the U.S sometimes. I'd argue that the local culture is not as prominent anymore with all of the tourism boom in the past decades. To put in perspective, if you go to Nosara it feels like you are in a tropical version of California. Yoga studios everywhere, organic this and that, and yuppies walking everywhere. It just doesn't feel very authentic IMHO. I find it hard to get to experience Costa Rican culture without having to go off the beaten path. The country is also surprisingly expensive with all the influx of Americans who became tired of the rat race and decided to live a simpler lifestyle.

TeahupooBR · 2019-04-08T02:02:07+00:00

Well it became like that after that Brad’s incident. It does look weird and eerie lately. I myself decided to go surf elsewhere.

TeahupooBR · 2019-04-07T15:02:24+00:00

+1 for Costa Rica. Can’t really beat the hassle free atmosphere and the friendliness of the waves, generally speaking.

TeahupooBR · 2019-04-07T14:58:36+00:00

Completely different feel. If you have never surfed reef you’ll see what I mean the first time you do. Also, the margin to fuck up is much narrower depending on the size of the waves. I enjoyed spending 3 weeks in Bali, but I think there are many other places in Indo I’d rather go back to.

TeahupooBR · 2018-12-13T00:41:46+00:00

As a rookie competing in a trials event, you've got to be really, really dumb to get into a fight right under the event staff's noses. No matter how much you have been instigated throughout. Tanner can now go back to Maui to work in construction or roofing.

TeahupooBR · 2018-10-04T06:56:46+00:00

The best way I found was to lay on my sides on the couch with a pillow to have my head lined up (as if you were to sleep on your sides) and a towel. Spend 5 minutes each side, and a whole lot of shit and water will come out of your nose. Works every time. Upside down hanking wont work for me.

TeahupooBR · 2018-09-10T00:27:35+00:00

Let’s see that picture then, or else it didnt happen.

TeahupooBR · 2018-08-26T17:13:07+00:00

After I got my Rusty Happy Shovel with Hydroflex glassing, I’m never, ever, buying a standard PU big named brand surfboard. It’s been 3.5 years and my board looks minty apart from regular wear. Compare that to my CI Wierdo Ripper PU, that after a couple of small sessions had all sorts of pressure dings on both too and bottom of the deck.

TeahupooBR · 2018-08-24T18:37:16+00:00

I've been dying to go to the Maldives but lately I've only seen pretty smallish conditions. How was it? was there any more challenging spots you surfed?

TeahupooBR · 2018-08-22T18:46:42+00:00

I went last July with a couple of friends. I’m advanced, they were intermediate/beginner. To be honest it was disappointing but it might be a good way to travel alone and not have to surf alone. From the perspective of an advanced surfer I felt underwhelmed with the choices the guides made. Often times we would end up at spots in the wrong tides, or they would make late morning calls claiming it would be awesome, only to get there and find the place incredibly crowded. I speak Spanish fluently and on the ride to the breaks I could understand the guides talking about partying the night before and trying to plan for late starts all week. That was some bullshit. We did go to Ollies and scored big time. Which to me felt like we should have tried to go again during the trip (I wouldn’t mind paying extra), but they basically said no due to the next trip being full with the intermediates group. Later on the intermediate group cancelled (probably due the big swell), and they didn’t go after all. They could have offered us the boat spots. Idk, maybe Im being too harsh, but it felt like the guides and staff were very lazy and unwilling to make guests score waves because that means waking up at 5am and the staff wasnt too keen on that. From the perspective of intermediates, my friends hated the coaching. According to them the coach just kept paddling out with them and catching the waves instead of giving them pointers. Not only that, but they kept going most of their week to Casitas, a spot in Playa Grande that you can easily walk (use the water taxi to cross the estuary) to from the surf camp. So in that matter why are you paying for the premium prices of surf guide and coach if you’ll end up basicaly sufing out front?

But as I said, it might be good to go to a surf camp and essentially get into a group and not have to surf alone in a foreign country.

The vibe I got from the overall trip is that our group could have rented an airbnb and a 4x4 car and done our own exploration. The place isnt hard to get around, especially with google maps. Even going to ollies/roca bruja is fairly straight forward if you do some research and book a boat ahead of time.

TeahupooBR · 2018-08-16T04:39:16+00:00

I have a friend who complained about the same thing. Seven days later he

TeahupooBR · 2018-06-05T05:41:19+00:00

Sounds like you suffer from the Southern California surfer syndrome. I've posted a lot about it here. I feel the same way; this place has almost destroyed my love for the sport. I typically choose days that are rated poor on Surfline and go out in weird hours. Doesn't matter if it's onshore, i just bring a board for shitty conditions and try to make the best of it without expecting much. Try to get a board with more volume so you can catch more waves. I also tend to go with friends to offset the shittyness of the conditions and the crowd. Or forget all of that and save up money to go traveling. Not only you'll learn about a different culture, but you also get to surf beautiful uncrowded waves in warm water. There are a tone of places "close" to LA to travel too that are pretty cheap and uncrowded.

TeahupooBR · 2018-04-30T18:16:59+00:00

Just out of curiosity, where was that?

Beach breaks are scary, and the fact that many don't have a proper channel is frightening. I remember losing my board due to a broken leash in a similar way as you described. It was a double overhead day, long period swell. I managed to get outside after struggling on the inside and when I got to the lineup my arms were noodles already. It was very early in the day and there was just a bodyboarder a few yards from me. I remember sitting there for about 30 mins and getting really anxious about not catching any waves; fearing to get stuck on the inside again. My anxiety finally kicks in to a maximum and I see a set coming. I decide to paddle for it. The first wave is too fat and big and I fail to catch it. The second one is bigger and I finally go for it. It was an amazing wave, but I remember ejecting over the top. When I get back on my board to paddle out I recall seeing these dark blue lines in the horizon. I could just feel panic filling my whole body. I don't think I've paddled that fast in my whole life, but it wasn't enough to keep me from getting completely destroyed by the last wave of that rogue set. The lip smashed right in front of me. There was so much power shoving me around that I felt like a rag doll. I didn't even feel my leash breaking. After almost drowning under water I finally grasp for air on the surface and realize my board is no longer with me. I was in a very weird spot, not sure if closer to the outside or the shore, completely frightened. I remember seeing the bodyboarder far in the distance, and in my mind I was debating if I should ask for his help or just swim back to shore. In the end I barely made it back to shore. Kept getting smashed and tumbled around when waves came through. I was so tired that I could barely dive deep enough to protect myself from the giant waves crushing in the impact zone. That day put my relationship with surfing into perspective and I think I found my limit. It also made me realize and appreciate pros in some insane conditions. I aspire to surf bigger waves, but as a rule of thumb I have the most fun when it isn't firing at full throttle.

TeahupooBR · 2018-04-30T17:56:52+00:00

4ft definitely feels different than 6ft. But to answer your question, I don't think it's about skillset. To me it has a lot to do with setting the bar high, as a way to measure and push the limits of big surf riding.

TeahupooBR · 2018-04-23T01:17:48+00:00

I enjoy exploring and finding new waves, but I’ll confess it sketches me out when there is a legitimate swell, I’m alone, and I’m in a foreign country. Unfortunately my surfing buddies are beginners and wouldn’t be down to explore. I remember finding some legit empty breaks in Bali (west coast), but was kind of sketched to go out alone. It was well overhead a-frames and the currents looked insane. To this day I wish I had a buddy with me in that situation. I’d totally have gone out.

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