Anything worse than putting on a wet, salty wetsuit???

[Alaskan Rover]

Maybe it's just the psychological anticipation of the event...but I can think of few things worse than putting on a wet, clammy, salty, sandy wetsuit when your on a surf trip and no fresh rinse water is avaible nor any sun yet to dry it out.

Fun times.

But once it's on and the anticpitory agony is gone...it's like: WTF was the fuss all about...let's hit the break.

My trick is to go for a quick swim BEFORE I put the wet wetsuit on.....then I'm already wet and it doesn't matter. And that quick swim REALLY wakes you up when the water is cold, too. an added plus to a morning's surfing.

[moose pit]

Add cold to the list and being hungover and you're getting there.

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Add cold to the list and being hungover and you're getting there.

then add heartburn.

but honestly the only thing worse then all that is no surf at all. that sucks dick!

[BCJC]

yesterdays piss doesn't sweeten the deal either...

[icelanticskier]

eating a bad orange is much, much worse.

rog

[ilikecandy]

putting on a dry wetsuit

[Piggity]

^iliecandy is spot on, if the suit is old, wetsuits tend to get brittle and increase chances of ripping when they're dry.

But hell yeah, putting on a wet wetsuit does suck, especially the older I get.

[Ottime]

First the SUP, now the wetsuit. Try paddling out in 6F water in your board short. Surfers sure do complain a lot these days.

And don't piss in it. That is why the neoptene is brittle.

[Piggity]

Good point! if you pee in it then it never gets dry so then it doesn't get brittle. Neoprene is for men, I have fireskin in mine

[kahunamoose]

There are only two kinds of surfer.
Those who piss in their wet suits, and liars.

[HotTate]

Here's the cure to your problem. Imagine putting on a wetsuit when you're a paraplegic.

[jayfrizzo]

What's a wetsuit?

[altasnob]

solution if you got the coin

http://www.patagonia.com/us/product/...TSUITS_LANDING

[nickwm21]

I am a surfing jong... can someone explain something to me?

If it is 85* outside, and 67* in the water in SD. Why am I the only one trunking it?

[BS720]

I am a surfing jong... can someone explain something to me?

If it is 85* outside, and 67* in the water in SD. Why am I the only one trunking it?

I trunked at a semi DL spot on La Jolla Drive two weeks ago. I was the only guy in the water wearing shorts. Everyone was staring. One of my friends told me that there was a cold front that moved through about four weeks ago that dropped water temps to 60, and I'm assuming people haven't recovered from it. Just an assumption.

[Hugh Conway]

I trunked at a semi DL spot on La Jolla Drive two weeks ago. I was the only guy in the water wearing shorts. Everyone was staring. One of my friends told me that there was a cold front that moved through about four weeks ago that dropped water temps to 60, and I'm assuming people haven't recovered from it. Just an assumption.

Meh, some people in Santa Cruz seem to wear their 4/3 with booties and gloves year round now, so I'm going with "it's just habit". See similar behavior in skiers wearing the same cloths when its 30 and when its -10

[Piggity]

Nick, I usually wear my wetsuit as a habit in summer due to upwelling (That and I don't really enjoy a chaffed ball sac.). Unless the surf has been small and there is very little chance for upwelling.

I've seen the water drop a good 10 degrees overnight and the looks on peoples faces is complete surprise that the water was 70 degrees less than 12 hours ago and now it's 60 degrees for the dawn patrol. I know 60 isn't cold but when it was just 70, then it feels cold due to your expectations of it being warm like it was the night before. Usually a good NW windswell will catch some people off guard with upwelling.

[Piggity]

also, some guys go for 4+ hour sessions (upwards of 6+ hours on extreme examples) and 4 hours of trunking it in mid to upper 60's isn't really as warm as you would think. By about hour 3 you are definitely starting to get a little chilly if the wind starts to blow

[HotTate]

i've usually only got an hour of trunking it in me before i get cold. it's just like skiing, you never want to stop because you're too cold.

[S4Shredr]

Meh, aint that bad, do the plastic bag trick and putting it on is MUCH easier.

[BirdRock]

Put on my full suit this morning at 5:30 am in the garage. Got it halfway on and was walking outside and felt something in weird around my left knee. Tried adjust the suit and finally stuck my hand down my leg to figure out what was poking me. Pulled out a fat cockroach about 2" long. Screamed like a little girl and did the spaz dance waking up half the neighborhood.

That's worse than a wet, salty wetsuit.

[Piggity]

^^That would suck.

Birdrock has confirmed there is something truly worse than putting on a wet salty wetsuit....Putting on a wet salty cockroach infested wettie would be the worst!

My buddy put on an old wetsuit a few weeks ago that had been sitting in the garage. He was all itchy so he called me asking if I've ever had dust mites infest my wetsuit, I said nope but sounds like you did

[Breakwater]

Absolutley -
Taking OFF a wet - wetsuit.
When it's in the 30's air temperature, but the water is still around 40-42.

That shit freezes my grapes off.

[Hugh Conway]

that's masochism, not surfing

[Piggity]

Absolutley -
Taking OFF a wet - wetsuit.
When it's in the 30's air temperature, but the water is still around 40-42.

That shit freezes my grapes off.

Agreed on this one in addition to the cockroach wetsuit. I surfed water in upper 30s and air temp in the mid teens one day (only god knows what the wind chill was), farkna cold. I seriously couldn't even take off my wetsuit, my fingers were like silly putty