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Hapy birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday, jah ras-ti-far—eye.
Happy Birthday to you.

See you at the Pony.

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Miss TK & the Revenge will be performing live tonight at the Langosta Lounge, 1000 Ocean Front in Asbury Park.

Come out for celebrity squid bartendahs, drink specials and power pop from one of NJs best.

Show starts at 9:00. Call LL for details. 732-455-3275.

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Intimate moments with Shaye Cavanaugh to get you out of your snuggie and into the tube:

From my local marine forecast for this coming week:

SUN
E WINDS 15 TO 20 KT…BECOMING NE 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS UP
TO 30 KT. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT…BUILDING TO 5 TO 8 FT. A CHANCE OF
RAIN.

MON
N WINDS 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 KT…DIMINISHING TO
15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 5 TO 8 FT. A CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE MORNING.

Maybe that island east of Manhattan will be doing it’s thing!?.

Keep an eye on NJ News 12 meteorologist James Gregorio for all the details and please visit Guerrilla Guru for more white line stokage.

Hope to see you all in the barrell!

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ANZ450-451-051000-
COASTAL WATERS FROM SANDY HOOK TO MANASQUAN INLET NJ OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM MANASQUAN INLET TO LITTLE EGG INLET NJ OUT
20 NM-
332 PM EST MON JAN 4 2010

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT

TONIGHT
NW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS 2 TO
4 FT. A CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING SPRAY.

TUE
W WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS UP TO 25 KT.
SEAS 2 TO 3 FT. A CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING SPRAY IN THE MORNING. A
CHANCE OF FLURRIES IN THE AFTERNOON.

TUE NIGHT
NW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS
2 TO 4 FT. A CHANCE OF FLURRIES.

WED
NW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 KT. SEAS 2 TO
4 FT.

WED NIGHT
NW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS
2 TO 4 FT.

THU
W WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS 2 TO
3 FT.

THU NIGHT
W WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS
2 TO 3 FT. A CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH VSBY 1 TO 3 NM.

FRI
NW WINDS 20 TO 25 KT. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT. A CHANCE OF SNOW…
THEN A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS. VSBY 1 TO 3 NM.

SAT
NW WINDS 20 TO 25 KT. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT.

Red blobs typically excite me but, unfortunately, all the swell is headed AWAY from our coast.

Winter is always a challenging time of year, this one seems especially brutal even though it’s only just begun. Massive amounts of snow fell before winter even started, and historically low temps have been prevalent, our only saving graces have been the consistent swells. If this high pressure pattern keeps up though, there won’t be any swell and depression could seep in and take hold until spring. I remember a particularly painful winter of 2002 or 2003 where I didn’t surf once from Christmas until mid February. I think it was 7 weeks of total flatness.

A glimmer of hope lays in the form of a very consistently pumping Caribbean. Even though finances are super tight and chances are very, very slim that I could pull off a trip, I begin most mornings on the Atlantic WAM studying the swells heading to PR and points beyond. It has been pumping. Maybe a credit card max out is in order!

Suggested remedies for extended wintertime flatspell surf jonez include: Snowboarding (El Nino years have great effect on the east coast peaks and snowfalls), travel, home renovation, hibernation, skateboarding, ice fishing, baby making and whittling in front of the fire…I like whittling.

Good luck Squids…if this flat spell endures, we’re going to need it.

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Happy Hollow Days from your pals at Sqiuidforce.

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Two interestingly similar clips. Both make me wish the weekend came two days earlier and that the winter would already end (och). Enjoy each one, but if you can, try listening to the Police while watching the trailer. A simultaneous start works best.

Rick Kane in the tropics.

The Police in the desert.

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I once read that your surfing life should begin and end on a longboard. Until recently, I believed this statement to be true. Shit, I’ve even re-quoted during times of quivering doubt, shortboard remorse, and bad choices off the rack, believing that I was soothing my somewhat out of shape or aging compadres with “it’s alright to log” compassion. Well…ladies and gentlemen, I’m here to tell you that it’s all a farce!

Because of recent events, shapings and enlightenings, I have come to an epiphany. I know now that this often quoted adage is 100% false.

Like Dickie Vocals once sang: “Body…want to feel my, feel my…BODY!”

The glide begins and ends with the BODY! not the longboard. Just watch a group of kids enjoying small onshorey slop at your local beachie and you’ll know this to be true. My kids can’t even carry a long board to the beach together with a tail wind, let alone paddle one through the soup. But at 10 and 6 they are well on their way to becoming consummate body surfers. I’m so proud:)

Body surfing is the mother of all surf riding acts, and is in fact the truest, most essential and sole-full form of all. Your surfing life should begin and end with body surfing. The real progression goes: birth, bodysurf, belly board, longboard, shortboard, fish (or kneeboard or mat, kite or all of the above depending your turn ons and conditions), funshape (yikes), longboard, belly board, body surf, check the surf, die.

This time of year, in this part of the US and A, body surfing is a bit of a challenge, but please, PLEASE! Embrace the body. The super stoked geezer in the following clip, is push starting his micro bus in the snow and body-whomping somewhere in the Pacific Northwest in a 6 mill, boots and gloves. It appears to be winter and he’s smiling and having a blast. What an animal. Maybe I’m being a pussy when I opt out of a body surf session on New Years Day in the NJ. Going forward, I’ll try not to be such a wuss.

Hand shaped cedar and mahogany hand planes available for special order and special people.
Contact mc405@me.com for info.

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Watufaka. A phrase or word or question that will be repeatedly used during the next couple days on the North Shore of Oahu. The el nino hype has been record high, and it seems things are just beginning to really cook. God help us: Eddie Aikau on the horizon, a world-class world title race at Pipe, local boys qualifying, the return of Andy Irons, plus still plenty of time! Glitz, gloss, and glory aside, check surfnewsnetwork’s forecast, and imagine the possibilities that await the world’s best. Watch this clip and begin imagining. Enjoy and enjoy.

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It’s been a challenging couple of weeks at Squidforce Industries.

“IT” issues and unruly web hosts have had us scrambling and a little pissed. Thanksgiving, a couple of epic swells, the annual stripped bass migration have only added to the melee.

All that is behind us now (hopefully the bass and waves keep coming:)

We’ve got a new server courtesy of Johnee “Double Wide” Hanusek, and are working on some bitchin new content.

While we get our act together, please enjoy this offering of super slow motion striped bass and peanut bunker from the ultrasquidly Tom Lynch.

Cheers,

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