{"id":3348,"date":"2018-06-28T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:51:19","slug":"ride-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/ride-the-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride The Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t give away my secret spots\u2014hence they\u2019re secrets\u2014 but there\u2019s good surfing all through Deal and Long Branch.<\/p>\n

Right near campus there\u2019s The Pit, down by the Windmill. A lot of people surf there, and the people tend to be friendly. If the waves get big it can get heavy there, but it\u2019s not common.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a lifeguard for the Beach Haven Beach Patrol, and we\u2019ve got some good spots down there in LBI. Taylor Ave. tends to pick up swell pretty well. I\u2019ve heard that communications cables were laid there during WWII, so there\u2019s a hard surface underneath. Whatever it is, the swell can get one to two feet bigger there than everywhere else.<\/p>\n

Just south of there is 5th St. Pavilion. The breaks there are friendly enough for beginners.<\/p>\n

Farther south is Holyoke Ave. It\u2019s a really nice spot if you\u2019re a goofy footer1<\/sup>. Especially on the northeast swell\u2014 it tends to break right off the jetty and peel left. It\u2019s a magnificent wave.<\/p>\n

The wooden jetty, the very last jetty on the island, is really popular. But I don\u2019t recommend you paddle out there unless you\u2019re an intermediate or advanced surfer. It\u2019s a hazardous wave. There are submerged rocks and the wave tends to break before the je ty. You have to cross the jetty and the wave takes you down into a bird sanctuary where there are rip currents.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gotten stuck there and it takes a while to get out. The number one thing to do if you get stuck in a rip current is keep your composure and stay calm in the water, because if you start to freak out that\u2019s when problems occur.<\/p>\n

1 <\/sup>Surfers who put their right foot forward on the board tend to favor waves that break left, says Spicer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sophomore Josh Spicer, a computer science major and treasurer of Monmouth University’s Surf Club, shares some choice surf spots along the Jersey Shore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":50,\"y\":39}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-summer-guide"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Uncategorized","issue":"Summer 2018","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11782,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/11782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}