I didn’t realize how unique the waves were from beach to beach, and how avid surfers can name the location by the wave. That is very interesting. One could say the same about the 200+ day a year skiers, who could name the mountain and the run, by watching just a few seconds of a Warren Miller film. We have a friend that can do that.
Got to challenge you though on the movie “Beach Blanket Bingo”. If the waves were wrong, and we were being fooled, then there is a darn good chance that Bonehead didn’t catch a real Mermaid, and that would just dash to pieces hopes and dreams created in a young boys mind long ago. And I’m hanging up my fishing pole.
Good for all ages?
The reef breaks are like that, very distinct. Sunset, Haleiwa, Pipeline, Makaha are all very distinctive. Beach breaks are not since the sandbars shift almost daily.
BBB probably wasn’t a very good example, shot all in CA at Malibu point, I would guess. Another little surf insider is the actual surfers that were filmed, Mickey DaCat Dora comes to mind. In the movie point Break, Patrick Swayze was sposed to be in Australia riding the swell of the century. Well, it was Waimea Bay and the surfer was big wave legend, Derrick Doerner who was paid to take a dive, literally on about 5-6 rather large waves to get the final sequence right.
All sports are like that I guess.