Using the Home Screen to Plan Surf Sessions

The Home Screen in Lazy Surfer is your personalized surf guide – it’ll give you the run down on exactly how to find good surf at your spots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHBnyPfrmyw This is a video version of this blog post in case you don’t feel like reading Best Spot Now This is it – you paddling out …

Lazy Surfer Tips – Three keys to scoring the best waves.

Lazy Surfer can be intimidating at first – follow these three easy steps to get started! #1 – Add your spots! You can add any spot to Lazy Surfer. Just go to the “Add Spot” screen, move the map so that the pin is close to the peak, add the spot name and hit “Save …

Surfing After it Rains: Will I Die?

TLDR: It’s unlikely but you could. Know the risks and try to mitigate them if you’re going to surf after it rains. This water tastes funny… Thanks to https://unsplash.com/@naja_bertolt_jensen for the image If you live in or near a big city and you’ve paddled out after a rain you’ve probably noticed that the water tastes …

Reading Surf Forecasts: But how do I know if it’s going to be good?

Reading Surf Forecasts: But how do I know if it’s going to be good? This article is part 4 of a series about reading surf forecasts. Here are the first, second and third articles. We surfers have one goal — finding out when and where the best waves in our travel radius are going to be and making …

Reading Surf Forecasts: Swell Height

This is the third post in a series about reading surf forecasts. Here are the first and second articles. Swell Height[1] is a deceptively difficult thing to measure. The first thing to realize is that this isn’t an objective number — it doesn’t correspond one-to-one with any specific thing in reality. Instead, it’s a number that should …

Reading Surf Forecasts: The Basics

Reading Surf Forecasts: The Basics This is the first post in my Reading Surf Forecasts series. Check out the second post here. Any forecast worth its salt will include at least 7 metrics. Swell Height —This has a technical definition that we’ll get into in a later post but for now let’s use the obvious definition — this …

Reading Surf Forecasts: What Can Go Wrong

Reading Surf Forecasts: What Can Go Wrong Credit to https://www.flickr.com/photos/stignygaard In the last article we went over the 7 most common metrics you’ll see on a surf forecast. In this article we’ll talk about the ways a good looking 4–5 foot swell can go wrong and how you can use the metrics besides swell height to …