If you get free gas, you can drive around all day checking spots. If you trust the forecast websites you can continuously check those. If you have a photographic memory you can just remember the best conditions for each spot. The truth is that most of us don’t get free gas, don’t trust the forecast …
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Never Miss Good Surf Again
Feel like you’re not surfing the best waves out there? Getting skunked more than you’d like? Lazy Surfer can help. Alerts Lazy Surfer will send you notifications when current conditions are similar to a highly-rated session. So if you scored great waves at a point break last year, rest assured – Lazy Surfer is constantly …
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 …
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How to Read the Sessions Screen
The Sessions Screen gives you a very in-depth view of how current (and future) conditions relate to all your individual sessions. Overall Similarity Rule #1 of the sessions screen is that if you see a session with a 4+ rating and current conditions are identical then paddle out there! Stop reading this and paddle out …
How to Read the Spots Screen
There are a couple different ways to use the Spots Screen – the most common are when you’re trying to find out where to surf now and where to surf sometime in the future. Where should I surf now? To find out where to surf now, sort the list by rating descending. Your screen should …
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 …
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Ho.Stevie! Canvas Board Bag Review
I’ve long been a staunch supporter of the bare-it-all, dings-be-damned type of surfboard care regiment. Dirt stuck in your wax and making your boards look grimy? I like the look of a well used board. Got clear tape up and down your rails? Sounds like a good opportunity to learn some ding repair skills (something …
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 …
How is my data used in Lazy Surfer?
So glad you asked. The bottom line is that there are three options for how your data is shared – No Sharing – Your data stays completely on the phone. Sharing with the prediction model and backups – If you want backups + better predictions then your data is stored in a cloud database but …
NOAA Buoy Basics
The Lazy Surfer app is a digital surf log that helps you use your surfing data to make better decisions on where and when to surf. Download for free today. How do I read the data on the NOAA buoy pages? This is a very common question on a lot of surfing forums – the …
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 …
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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 …
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