brindleblog'n

So really I learned to surf to pick up on the hot surfer chicks in their spandex pants and tight breast hugging tops.......

I graduated high school and continued to surf........and since I was going to college I noticed that I could get credits in the collegiate surf team at Orange Coast College.........

This is where I really advanced to learn to surf all weather conditions and deal with unruley crowds control....we had about 200 people (it felt) in our college surf team.......cold rain....overcast.......stormy seas.........you name it I would surf it.........

Orange Coast College surf team practiced every tuesday and thursday mornings at the river jetties in Newport Beach, and we competed every other saturday.........if you were late......you didn't get any parking.........as eventually became my demise....as my parking tickets began to collect I began loose interest.....I quit the surf team late in the second season but I kept my new found collegiate surfer buddies and we would go on surf safaris frequently........

One such safari was in 1982.......the year of the monster waves...the pier breakers......the day I almost lost my life south side of the huntington beach pier in a strong south swell.......8-12 feet