Category: Walk On Water Productions – Surf Videos and More :)
Walk On Water Productions is Me (Oldwaverider/Art Hansen), and I am diving into all kinds of Video and Video editing projects for Church and eventually for Work. I do mostly Videos for my Church, but also like to Video my Passion , Surfing! Friends and Neighbors and eventually a children’s surfing ministry at Christ Lutheran Church Cape Canaveral
Surfing Video of Tim Calderone, with some mixed footage from a couple surf sessions at the Cocoa Beach Pier in November.
Today will provide more waist to chest high wind chop Surf , with chest high sets down in Satellite Beach. Winds, go from NE to ENE thru the day, in the 10 – 15 mph range.
Saturday, size drops and the wind switches to SSE in the morning and for the day.
Sunday, more size drop with strong offshore winds. My guess, it will be mostly to small to ride except longboarders, and mostly at the Pier.
Saturday Surf looking Rib to Chest high, winds looking NE to ENE but very light, in the 5 to 8 mph range, so the Pier looks best, especially since this is a windswell, with no chance of ground swell. Could be a lot of fun folks!
My buddy Mike in Satellite Beach, from September 2013:
Sunday this swell fades during the night Saturday/Sunday, as a new NE windswell rolls in. We would have had nice offshore winds Saturday, but this new swell kinda disrupted the prevailing winds pattern, but heh, at least we will have 3 or 4 more days of waves, choppy, but still waves and some fun to be had. By late Sunday, there should be more huge wind chop served up for us 🙂
Will there be anything rideable from this big, steep angle NE swell late today, tomorrow, will there be a glassy day? … see below ;
Video clip below is from November 7th, this year at the Cocoa Beach Pier. (video by http://www.walkonwaterproductions.biz ) Marcus enjoying a nice clean right:
Today, if you don’t mind a workout, at 3 PM, go to Lori Wilson or 4rth Street North, and you could still have North winds at 30 plus mph with well overhead faces, with a few semi-clean faces. You could do the same at the Pier, but the size won’t be near the same. The angle of this swell is so steep, meaning like it is coming from a 45 degree angle, and since the ocean straight out, here at the Cape is 90 Degrees, it isn’t too hard to figure out, that our Jetty and the Cape itself, sticks out way way way, further then like New Smyrna/Ponce, so 60% or more of the swell will be blocked out unless you drive at least 2 or 3 miles South.
Below, Ride of the Year entry for Billabong XXL Awards for 2014, Maya Gabeira, first time a Woman, and she is always deserving 🙂
Thursday, the winds should be cut in half, so then, the normal animals that enjoy the Pier for a User Friendly chop paddle out with 1 to 2 foot overhead faces should be there to great you in the morning. Satellite Beach, if u want some 3 foot over head drops on the sets, and a much longer paddle out 🙂
I don’t see anything showing a glassy day, except a weak model for Tuesday. Since this is really a wind swell, our window for glass, will most likely be 3 or 4 hours, and could be morning or in the dark, but I don’t see that day being big. Most likely a waist to chest high day at best, but we’ll keep ya posted 🙂
After a great surf session in Satellite Beach, I came back to the pier, to shoot some video footage for a friend/customer, which we’ll share in the future.
This footage is around 12 PM, some candid footage of a few different surfers, Hope you Enjoy !
Today was Awesome, Waist to Shoulder high, depending on how far south you went 🙂 Johnson Ave had one of those rare days, where the form held tight and perfect for 3 or 4 hours, and very light onshore winds, with long lines, and a few hundred yard rides to be had, well, on a longboard. Below is a video I shot of the pier this morning from 9 to 10 AM.
Waves Sunday? Down below…
Weather.com is showing 6 to 8 mph offshore winds, SSW turning SW by maybe 9 or 10. MSW is showing twice that on wind speed, so I guess we’ll see which model shows up first. I go with weather.com Anyhow; Sunday should be some knee to thigh high for the Cape, and waist high plus down south. Enjoy, I believe it’s the last day of this swell 🙂
If you ain’t 50 or older, then you may ask, what the _ _ _ _? Why is this guy posting a Glenn Miller song, “In the Mood” on Johnson Avenue Surfers? We do have waves coming for Monday! See below…
My buddy here in Cape Canaveral, plays the Saxophone, and nails this classic Big Band Jazz song by Glenn Miller. (Jimmy Stewart played the movie, which was black and white, haha).
My buddy Les is about 80 years old, and you’d never know it; hope you enjoy it below: (ps – I also added the original Glenn Miller band video below my buddy Les so you could compare)
He also gave me a 40 year old “Infinity” surfboard from Ocean Beach Surf Shop, where I took a surf trip back in 1979 🙂
And here is Glenn Miller, it’s a low rez video, so that’s why it’s smaller:
UPDATE:The Surf Report Below was done 2 hours ago, when the swell model was “bigger”. Now it looks like maybe Monday afternoon it will wait to hit even CCB , and waist high is now the size call, sorry, models change every 6 hours, and the report below was from an earlier model, at the tail end of it, if u will 🙂 (This update was done at 7:38 PM EST Sunday night)
We have a very steep angle swell, a Northeast swell, that will be blocked out by the Cape, but should hit Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach well, and by late Monday, it may trickle in to us finally. Should be a wind swell, no ground swell, but will give us some waist high waves here by Monday night, and should give us some chest high waves Monday late morning in Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, with NE winds in the 8 to 10 mph range in the morning, so it could be fun.
Tropical Storm Erin should give some waist to possible chest high chop waves Sunday thru Wednesday, and maybe a Waist high glassy morning on Thursday, or Friday, or somewhere in there, if the storm doesn’t weaken anymore. 🙂 As soon as it gets 150 miles North of Central Florida, those winds could blow offshore and give us some glass.
Compliments of Magicseaweed.com hurricane tracking screenshot
CLEAN YOUR SURFBOARD ! Yes, I just stripped my Winter wax off my board, and yes, it was melting before I got it into the water during the last swell 🙂
Below is a link to a great article about cleaning your wax. And for the final touches, Turpentine or Gasoline works to get the residue off. NO ACETONE OR MINERAL SPIRITS ! THAT WILL DAMAGE THE FINISH ON YOUR BOARD !
SURF UPDATE , thigh high and glassy at the Pier this morning, and bigger down South, and
Saturday should be Long Board fun and glassy in the AM, thigh to waist high plus down South, and perhaps knee high plus at the Cape, smaller than today, but still fun. It is still holding strong in the 2.5 feet at 13 or 14 seconds at our near shore buoy as of 10:30 PM Friday night (now), and at the Fort Pierce Buoy, still around 4 feet at 14 seconds, so we still have a nice ground swell hanging on. The 120 buoy has been out since the 11th, but I failed to see that the last few days, so I guess my medication is working 🙂
Maybe Sunday. Smaller, but fun as this 10 day piggyback swell subsides 🙂
Carvin’ and Cruisin’ at the Pier Surf Video, as we enjoy learning the world of motion graphics, at Walk On Water Productions. With some awesome talent at the Pier, some of our Gifted Longboarders, and some shortboarders workin on their Aerials…hope you enjoy! I accompanied the video with a Jason Mraz tune, that seemed to flow with the mellow crowd yesterday morning.
TUESDAY afternoon is shaping up to be the Gift for us All!More down below, but for a Tuesday (03/12) morning 8:10 AM update; the winds will be lousy at the Cape only until about 3 PM. (maybe a little before) Why? South and SSW winds are onshore for us, until SSW becomes more SW. But since the SSW winds are too strong, it will be sem-choppy anyhow until 2 or 3 PM, my bet is 4 PM. Then we should see Waist to Chest high at the Cape, and Chest to Head High Plus in Satellite Beach. The best time to paddle out, is 4 PM to 5 PM. Get off work, and enjoy 2 or so hours of big glassy waves, and enjoy Nature’s Happy Hour!(thus ends the Tuesday morning surf update, all below was created the other day )
The video, we created (no Tripod used, apologies) with some Clips/Highlites from the Saturday portion of the Ron Jon’s Beach n Board Fest, Quiksilver Surf Contest, and more. NOTE: YOUTUBE DEFAULTS AT LOW REZ 360p, SO BE SURE TO CLICK THE 4 FROM RIGHT BOTTOM ICON, FOR HD 720p 🙂
Monday, looks to remain Chest high to over head at the Cape, and still 1 to 3 feet overhead in Satellite Beach, with 9 to 15 mph SE winds, starting low at daybreak and increasing to mid-afternoon.
Tuesday, Chest high plus at the Cape, and Head high to 2 feet overhead in Satellite Beach.Rain in the morning until noon with winds from the South in the 10 to 15 mph range, slowly switching to SSW until 2ish, and hopefully total OFFSHORE AND SW by 2 or 3 PM in the 10 to 12 mph range. Then the winds start working there way to WSW until dark. So from 2 PM until dark (which is now around 7:30 or so, yeah daylight savings 🙂
Wednesday and Thursday, still should have some sizeable leftovers, but the winds are looking to be in the 15 to 20 mph NNW range Wednesday morning.
I just had to add this Anderson Cooper, interview of Garrett McNamara, about his 100 foot wave ride on January 29, 2013.
Enjoy and pray for an Epic Tuesday afternoon to hold true!
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