Hey All,
Just home from 18 Months Travelling RTW. Am selling some boards to pay for a winter siut. Never realised how cold it is here.
27 male.
Surfing Kayaks since 18 then Waveski for a while, worked as a lifeguard and was forced onto a board. Nevel looked back since
I ride a 9'ft performance longboard, looking for a cheap 9'8 Noserider.
Have been to Biarritz, Bali, Raglan and most of Irelands breaks.
Had to opportunity to guide Riverboarding in NZ for a season.
Have a big interest in wave prediction and am at work on a unique spot prediction formula that may get to be a real website when I get off my ass.
Thats about it,
Decky

Tom

24
Cork (please don't mention the All Ireland)

Started surfing when i was 17 or so and gave up (was shite and GAH was taking up any free time). Took it up again 2 years ago and love it now, although still not much better at it, kicking myself for not keeping it up years ago.

I have a newly received Elua Makani 9ft Longboard (came from Maui), and was on a 10ft BIC noserider before that. I also surf a 7'6 board just as much although with the arrival of the new 9ft i think the 7'6 will take a back seat for a while. I surf Cork mainly and sometimes take a trip west, usually to Kerry.

I havent noticed many girls posting here so I said i'd better keep the womens end of it up.

Melanie
27
Single
Cork

Started surfing in 2004 because I wanted to be in the water more than just swimming around in a tame pool. Always come out of the water feeling completely zen, even if it was a scrappy session. Still not much better than i was then, may even have gotten worse,
Got involved with Cork Surf Club which is always fun.

Currently have a 7"4 Nigel Semmens Ripcurl and a 9"1 Glide Longboard,
Started with the 7"4 and was getting nowhere fast, ended up getting the longboard and somedays I love it, somedays I hate it (ask me about the windy day in cork - finger slicing good)

Havent surfed anywhere else but Ireland but mostly cos i'm a big chicken (why is there no chicken smiley ) and i'm quite happy in my comfort zone, thank you very much!!!!
Ask High Pockets about the time he took me out in a certain spot in cork, i was picking sand out of my teeth for a while after that one

I'm currently on a break from surfing and all other physical activity after an accident in bed, no not that i rolled over and put out my neck, sympathy in this direction plz !!!
So it better stay flat until i recover. so next month it can start getting good again

Fozzied!

LMAO

Go on so.

John

Nine and twenty years.

Live on the south east coast where it never gets good, honest. Go to Tramore, there's a bypass round Gorey now.

If I could surf naked and get away with it I would - I've a love/hate relationship with neoprene. It would also help in thinning out the crowds.

Girlfriend who also surfs has recently moved West, not that I needed any more excuses to head over there every weekend I can get away with it, but if it's on, I'm usually there, wherever there may be, and if it's a weekday, I'm probably skiving off work, so sssshhhh now.

Quiver includes a recently-reversed-over-with-my-van 5'6 fish, shaped by Brian K. of Cork Custom Shapes. Hoping it can be resurrected.
A 7'3 Circle-One mini-mal which was my bread & butter for about a year until I got a 6'8" thruster-fish hybrid, same shaper, not pop-out/epoxy though. Great board, a plague on anyone who say's otherwise.
Have a 6'6 Webber Afterburner (Surftech)...rarely surfed.
9'3 Fireball - or Terry's Chocolate Log as she's more affectionately known for reasons which have already been discussed on this forum. Have had her about 6 months now. Has taken me to places on waves I knew were possible but not on a longboard and not by me. The day she snaps I'll cry, break something else in a fit of rage, then order a new one.

Only place I've surfed outside of Ireland is France which is somewhere I've a lot of grá for and where I've been challenged the most surf-wise but give me a home break anyday with familiar faces in the water and an otherwise empty line-up.

First stood up on a 12' something windsurfer sans centreboard, fin/skeg when I was 8. Paddled onto waves using a canoe paddle as the board weighed a ton. Stood up, threw paddle away, headed for the beach or on rare occassions went down the line. If I'd left on the fin then things might have been different, but then the fin was lost one day by someone who took the board out windsurfing so that was that. Did that till I was 17. Went to college, lived a very unhealthy lifestyle for 4 years, went to Dublin for another 4 and continued polluting myself, found surfing (as in with a real surfboard with fins, a huge novelty at the time) 4 years ago and it's changed my life.

It's a rare day I meet another surfer I dislike, but if I do they're usually a shortboarder who think they're the next Occy. I make a point of dropping in on them.

Love big waves but can often be seen surfing what could only be described as toe-slappers. Ankle-slappers would be an exaggeration.

Yes, I'm a bona-fide surf-addict. Hopefully I'll die doing it, but not before either my knees have given up or my eyes have been burned out of my head.

welcome john

Richie

17 yrs old

tbay local
member of the Tra boys!
surfing 3yrs.

wouldnt be writing this if it werent for my bro kev, first dip was in a two piece long-john suit, lifejacket, pair of runners and yellow marigold kitchen gloves....been hooked ever since
never forget that day, i counted 8secs before i fell over

shortboarder, cos god knows we have enough loggers down here.

not been outside eire yet...wales in november

60 years old
Married for 41 years
2 kids my son has been surfing for over 20 years
I have been surfing for 47 years
Home break Pleasure Point Santa Cruz CA
I have surf a lot of the breaks in CA
a few on Maui, Kauai, and Panama, my next trip is going to be Costa Rica.
I have never been to Ireland but I have friends that have and they were stoked with the surf you bloks have there.
I rep Lance Carson in Santa Cruz because I love the way his boards surf, I don't get paid for this just do it because I love his boards.
If there is any help I can offer to anyone over there let me know.
One more think I forgot, Little Al is a joke, I'm 6' and tip the scales at 240lbs, not sure how many stones that is but I sure wish I did since I'm sure it is a lot smaller number.

Welcome Al, you sound like our kind of surfer. Hopefully we'll all be as stoked at 60, though in my case that'll be sooner the the rest of the crew

welcome on board little al

David
29 & Single
Dublin

A couple of friends got me started last year and I've been flat out surfing ever since. I try to get down south/west/north as often as possible. I've even made it down to John's home break a few times . The driving was killing us so we converted an old Merc van into a camper last winter - a feckin 7 month nightmare job, but worth it cause we are getting allot more surfing in now. You can spot it pretty easily - big, white, and with a grey roof and a chimney... If you do, call over - there is always beer or tea on the go

I started on a 7'6" Spider minimal, but tried a longboard for the first time on holidays last Christmas and loved it. I now have a 9'1" Southpoint (NSP), which I like but my Kiwi mate (who unlike me can surf ) thinks is a ball of dirt. After reading all the positive comments here, I had a weak moment with the credit card last month and yet another Fireball is on the way to Ireland! It will be wasted on me, but what the hell.

Outside Ireland, I’ve been to Costa Rica last Christmas and Portugal last spring. I loved Costa Rica, beautiful clean waves every day and some great lessons. I learnt more over there than in the prevous 9 months of Sundays flapping around in Ireland. I wasn't as keen on Portugal, the atmosphere in the water wasn't great and we were a bit unlucky with the swell. I liked Costa Rica so much that I'm heading back for 6 weeks this Christmas.

I've got to say that sometimes reading the posts on LBI it sounds really grim with hassle in the water and localism, but I've been to most parts at this stage and every Irish local I’ve met has been sound. The only guys I've seen acting like idiots in the water have been a few foreign guys....

Anyway, if you spot the van drop over for a cuppa!

Pat

35

Getting married next year

Working with people with learning disabilities last 15 years-shift work

Jackeen now living and working in Mayo, Just a couple of minutes from the sea

First tried surfing at Dumps In 2000 while scubadiving at Waterworld- had to be helped out of a riptide there- Thanks whoever you were

Started trying to surf this spring on 7 foot Powersource-didn't get on with it.

Now on 9'2" loose-fit log-Sweet!

Tried surfing again in Torquay Oz, but only surfed locally lately.

ill have to excuse myself,thought i had already introduced myself.ah well

mark
29
happily married[as long as im allowed in the water at weekends]
live in maynooth,kildare
started surfin bout 3 years ago
spend most of my time around sligo but have surfed all over ireland apart from up north.also cornwall,france,portugal
surf a 9ft beach beat performer mostly,animal board.ive just aquired a tyler craftsman nose rider[ssia,ha,ha]great for smaller days.i also find my surfin on the bb improve alot after riding the tyler

any way,hi all