[ExI] Physics and Searching for the Perfect Wave

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Ahh, I really wish I were born in California or Hawaii. I would
certainly have started surfing at 3, (but perhaps I would have done
nothing else but surfing all my life).

Instead, I tried to learn surfing when I was almost 30, the first time
I went to California. The friends who tried to teach me said that I
had a very good feel for waves (that, you can learn also as a child on
Mediterranean beaches when the sea is rough), but was far too old to
learn how to do it properly. What i can do, and enjoy very much, is
the kind of surfing you do laying on the table.

There are no surfing beaches in Italy. The best places in Europe are:
Biarritz and Hossegor on the French Atlantic coast
Mundaka and many places on the Spanish basque coast
Some places like Peniche on the Portuguese Atlantic coast

On 8/9/07, Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> BillK
> >Hey, that's news to me!   :)
> >When the wind blows, you get waves.
>
> >All those holidays in the Med I had where I imagined waves.
>
> BillK:
> Probably I'm unfair in scaling waves to Haleiwa and Waimea, but that's
> the environment I grew up. People don't travel to Italy to tube the
> waves because Mediterranean (at least the Italian) waves are
> inconsistent and often angle-high or nonexistent. I think one can have
> more fun windsurfing/sailboarding, as the conditions are much more
> suitable for that.
>
> Amara
>
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>
> Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
> Associate Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute (PSI), Tucson
> INAF Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Roma, Italia
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