Surfing San Diego

This site is here for all your San Diego surfing needs, from the local surf cam to lessons on how to shape a surfboard. This site has gathered information from various resources and present them in their entirety, at one location, Surfing San Diego.

While you're here, check out our surfing forum to see what's going down at your local surf spot, or to get together with some buddies and go surfing.

You can now also upload your favorite surf photos, surf videos in our surf gallery, and even buy and sell surfboards and anything surf related in our new surfing classifieds section.

Welcome To JK's Corner. JK is a San Diego surf shop owner who has been in the surfing business for over 30 years. JK knows surfing.
Read his monthly articles about surfing, the surf industry and anything related to surfing.
Also read monthly articles featuring local and national surfers in addition to articles submitted by our members.

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Most Recent Surfing Forum Posts:

Forum: Just Learning
Topic: What places are good at what tides?
Message: just to add to what baratacus said

at reefs
swell size will also effect the break.
if the waves are small then the tide needs to be lower so the smaller waves will "trip" over the reef
when the waves are bigger then the water can be deeper.

this is really something you have to do your own research on.
back in the day before surfline and all that stuff, you had to learn the breaks and what swells and tides worked at them.

it's just part of surfing, enjoy the search.
Date Time: 11/20/2009 1:01:18 PM

Forum: Lets Go Surfin' Now...
Topic: Session Reports
Message:

DP at Del Mar. Rode a 6'3" quad in 3-4ft surf. Nice head high bombs but not enough of them (~40 min intervals). Surf was decent till about 7am, then the tide really started softening things up. Only caught one quality wave, but made it worth the effort. I'm really starting to like quads more and more. They carry speed through turns. It feels like riding a skateboard.

Still some fun surf out there. The beaches look like a better option this morning, with more power.

Date Time: 11/20/2009 12:44:22 PM

Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Ordered new fish
Message: much as I love the look of the green one, the white one has the option of a tri fin configuration. If I was about 40 lbs lighter I'd be making you an offer right now.
Date Time: 11/19/2009 11:31:13 PM

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