Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

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With gas nearing $3.00 a gallon you have to think twice about driving far for surf in the summer, but I needed some of this south. I didn't even check the close spots I usually do hoping that somehow they would light up, no I just bee-lined for Oxnard as if I surf there all the time, although that isn't true. It was already blown out but I was going out. South swell was in the water, with nice multi-wave sets with long lulls. Waves would march out of the south and jack up on the sandbar and warble down the beach.

Without a doubt this was my worst surfing performance in 3 years. I was in the springsuit and freezing my butt off in the wind, and on my shortboard that I'm still not used to again. I missed half of the waves I paddled for, and the ones I did catch I ate it within 5 seconds. I would not win a bullriding contest. Blown takeoff, blown bottom turn, monsters grabbing my ankles at every oportunity it was if I have never surfed before in my life. After every wipeout I'd look around for some invisible fishing line that perhaps was my problem. No such luck. I eventually blamed the shifty bumpy conditions and my equipment. Yeah.