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| 263786 | 14363 | This is the guy that advertises breaks in NJ | 21 | Chilly Willy | Oct 26, 2022 | 2022-10-26T13:20:27-0400 | hardyw said: As far as spot burning - Surfline and the proliferation of their cams and reports (I'm talking in NJ and beyond) has done 5 million percent more damage than this guy could ever do. Click to expand... I had this thought too. When I started obsessively surfing in my 20s, I read the Surfline Travel website as if it were the Bible and I was a death row inmate desperately repenting. I took mental notes on all the hot spots up and down the NJ coastline, along with best swell/wind/tide conditions and everything else. If I were still a Boy Scout, I would have certainly earned my Surf Spot Knowledge merit badge for all my research. All details were laid out in front of me with minimal effort. I'd say that is worse than anything I've seen on social media. Maybe not even that big of a deal: I only picked up maybe 4-5 new spots, one of which was local to me anyway. The other 3-4 are spots that I still surf, but probably only once every year or two. I think social media is just the next stepping stone in a long and winding path of spot spoiling. Bruce Brown started by naming a ton of spots around the world. In the 80s/90s, I learned some key breaks from a "top 10 surf spots" article in the Asbury Park Press (a local newspaper). In the 2000s, I studied those Surfline Travel pages. Nowadays you've got surf cams, Instagram, YouTube, and whatever other platforms I'm too old to know about. |