Just got back from a surf trip on the east coast and caught almost too many waves to count in tiny conditions on my SUP. I have to say it was one of my most enjoyable "surf" trips in years. Pretty strange to think that this took place in tiny waves. A year ago I would have been surfing and thus spent most of the time around the campfire or reading. SUP is so much fun when the waves are 1/2ft - 2ft.
I never used to enjoy really small waves much when surfing. It had to be 3ft to be any fun. I am a born again SUP zealot! It'll be nice when I feel confident enough to SUP in bigger waves. My main concern is killing someone else when a clean up set comes through and my SUP goes feral. Getting over/through an oncoming 3ft+ wall of whitewater on the way out also poses a problem.
And +8. So good to hear from guys getting so much enjoyment from tiny waves. It just goes to show you dont have to be surfing 10ft to be having fun. I hear ya about paddling through the whitewash. Nothing like getting caught in the impact zone to wake you up in the morning:)
As for the whitewater, well, I had to get rid of my prone surfing habits and realize that I could paddle miles without problems, to not hesitate to go the long route outwards, to either fetch the rip or avoid the closeout, and most important, begin by getting very far from any surfer before beginning my "Salmon upriver trek" battling the surf to get back to my mating place... oops sorry I mean the lineup ;-)
Just spent a week long flat spell on Nusa Lembongan, surfing 1 to 2 foot Shipwrecks and Lacerations on a crappy old 9'6 rental SUP, had a ball, no crowd. When the swell came in 40 to 50 guys on each break..........
