20th Anniversary Skimboarding Season: Session #06

On my tide chart today was marked as a 2-star day, the highest level, because high tide was to be at 4:21pm. I was feeling pretty confident the conditions would be good today, but then again I almost always feel that. In reality, the waves were decent at times, allowing me to get several good rides. I had to wait until 5pm when the lifeguards literally call everyone out of the water, which should leave the shore all to me, but of course, that is never, never the case. Every single time I’ve ever skimboarded at Chigasaki the past 2 years, at least one person or group of people have been a nuisance to at least some degree, if not a high degree. Today was almost perfect, save for a few people who against the rules went back into the water toward the end of my skimboarding area.

…Still, I was able to have a pretty hardcore 1 hour 15 minute session even though the waves weren’t so huge or frequent. I was able to get to some pretty good waves, and had a great floater on one in particular, floating a good 3-feet above the shore and smoothly gliding back down the wave. Surrounding that ride were some other floaters and a fair amount of good flairs and rips. I skimmed with a lot of power and had good speed. The water was really warm, especially compared to the relatively cool water down in Shimoda, Izu. It felt like a long 1 hour and 15 minute session, I was expecting at least 1.5 hours.

There was actually another skimboarder there, a young j-dude who stayed well down the beach in another section, although I would have welcomed him to skim along in my area. … He could get on the board and ride decently, but he had no power and thus couldn’t even come close to any real wave action.

I left the beach after sunset, and as I walked up along the walkway I watched the moonlight shimmer off the surface of the Sea, very beautiful and enchanting. In the photo you can see the moon in the center.

It was a good session.

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