I surfed Windansea this afternoon for the first time with the red stick. This was my first time in maybe 25 years out at windansea on anything shorter than an 8-2. I was working today, going to Pacific Beach to flyer and happened to drive my during a set. It looked clean and the wind was northy offshore. Look really lined up, the rights were peeling, ruler edged long tapering peaks, so I immediately decided to ditch work. I parked, changed into my surf trunks, unbagged my board and trotted down to the shorebreak. After paddling out the waves were inconsistent. Plus it was crazy crowded -- whi h I knew beforehand -- with about 40 guys sitting on the peak barking at each other and charging it whenever a set of two or three waves would come in every 15 minutes. Then there was the inside section with another crowd haggling over the scraps. I was out for about an hour, and caught four waves. Even though I didn't get much surf I consider it a success because two of the ways were overhead set waves. One was a set wave where I took off on the peak, and the drop was steep. I didn't know it but some guy had taken off behind the peak and went right as well, and then some girl took off in front of me on the shoulder on a longboard, and at one point we were all bunched up at the bottom doing our bottom turns and bumping rails. It was annoying but kinda.funny too. Then I was paddling back out on the next wave I was inside a little bit and an overhead Insider wall some guy wasn't able to paddle into came and he pulled back right before it got to me so I turned around as it was standing up and took off and it was a super steep drop. As I was getting to the bottom about to come ontto the flats and do my turn the wave dumped on me and blew me off my board. Underwater now I open my eyes and see the world of green and how I was so close to the reef I could touch it, big black rocks all around me. Hello, Windansea. It's nice to be back. #sunfingwindansea #surflife #gypsysurf #califormia #lajolla (at San Diego Sperm Bank) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2aouzzFasJ/?igshid=1w2qaarqlud64
