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The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:54 pm
by Pandemonium
Spent the first half of my day this morning down at The Wedge in Newport Beach. Surf along SoCal beaches is way up and I knew today would be epic. Every LA area news station had a broadcast truck down there and there was probably 300 - 500 people at any given time. There was even a fire truck and rescue parked on the street on standby. I'm a bit too old and out of shape to do it any more but it was just fun watching the body surfers (and a few board surfers) risk getting their ass handed to them. Here's some shaky-cam video I shot:


Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:05 pm
by creep
that's a pretty dangerous wave to try to ride. as fast and as sharp as it breaks i wouldn't even try....

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:09 pm
by Matz
looks cool, I'll have to watch Point Break for the 110th time now

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:10 pm
by Pandemonium
creep wrote:that's a pretty dangerous wave to try to ride. as fast and as sharp as it breaks i wouldn't even try....
Didn't stop this guy yesterday:


Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:30 pm
by sinep
my sister was out surfing this morning in sunset and got interviewed for abc7.

lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.

still haven't found his body.

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:38 pm
by creep
sinep wrote:my sister was out surfing this morning in sunset and got interviewed for abc7.

lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.

still haven't found his body.
you have a sister?

we need pics now

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:51 pm
by Artemis
I don't believe sinep has a sister.

He's never mentioned any siblings before.

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:13 pm
by Pandemonium
Artemis wrote:I don't believe sinep has a sister.

He's never mentioned any siblings before.
Sure he does. Everyone knows his sister's name is anigav.

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:22 pm
by Pandemonium
sinep wrote:my sister was out surfing this morning in sunset and got interviewed for abc7.

lot of news trucks there because of the guy that died last night.

still haven't found his body.
Someone's gonna have a nasty day at the beach this weekend when they bump into this poor guy's body in the surf.

The last Summer (2005) that I did a lot of surfing/swimming, I was body boarding off doggy beach in Bolsa Chica and took a tumble in some whitewash and slammed into "something" that felt like a big tree log. I popped up outta the water and almost shit myself because I had slammed into a floating dead seal with a huge, obvious shark bite in it's side. Fucked my head up good and proper.

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:51 pm
by jptm
...grew up in so.cal... the wedge was always a place to go if you wanted to get nuts. there's no sand on the bottom; all rocks. not good, especially with a wicked riptide that produces good strong waves but with a hard undercurrent.

but it was also where i got lucky on my senior prom; living in a group home---but the optimist's paid for the whole shebang and that included a limo. got out to the wedge and at 17; i learned to love it even more. :hehe:

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:04 pm
by Pandemonium
jptm wrote:...grew up in so.cal... the wedge was always a place to go if you wanted to get nuts. there's no sand on the bottom; all rocks. not good, especially with a wicked riptide that produces good strong waves but with a hard undercurrent.

but it was also where i got lucky on my senior prom; living in a group home---but the optimist's paid for the whole shebang and that included a limo. got out to the wedge and at 17; i learned to love it even more. :hehe:
The night I finished my sentence, I proposed to my future wife there on a full moon-lit night.

BTW, actually the bottom is all sand (which is the consistency of gravel) with just a few big 'fridge-sized rocks scattered around depending on the season. Because those waves break really shallow, getting pounded down into the bottom is like falling off a fast moving motorcycle on the freeway - you can easily get road rash without a wetsuit and there's on average about 2 - 5 people a year that get broken necks or other spine injuries even on small surf days.

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:11 pm
by sinep
Pandemonium wrote:
Artemis wrote:I don't believe sinep has a sister.

He's never mentioned any siblings before.
Sure he does. Everyone knows his sister's name is anigav.
my parent's had a weird sense of humor.

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:57 pm
by kv
always hated the wedge since i was a teen...it sucks way better places to be

Re: The Wedge

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:13 am
by chaos

Re: The Wedge

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by Artemis
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