Etiquette schmetiquette

by **drowningbitbybit** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:37 am

Now, I don't usually have much patience for shortboarders that complain about longboarders taking all the waves (stop moaning - get a longboard, or go to a shortboardier spot), but this morning was different.

The surf at my local, which is a point break, was working more like a beach break - it wasn't breaking off the point, it was breaking off in the open water and was much peakier. It was too weak a wave to be called an A-frame, but it was breaking both left and right... but did any of the longboarders ever go left? No. Granted, the ride to the right was longer if they were good enough to go around the broken section (most weren't), but - AND THIS IS IMPORTANT GUYS!!! - again and again, I was closest to the peak THAT WAS GOING LEFT!!!!

Almost every time I caught a wave - a LEFT - there was at least one longboarder going the "wrong" way along the face. I tried as often as I could to make it stick, but so many times, the old guys on longboards* couldn't see that they'd dropped in on me rather than me dropping in on them and someone was going to get hurt if I went head to head.
Shouting "Left! LEFTLEFTLEFT!!" as I was paddling for waves or taking off just met with confused looks - "but this is the point break, we always go right".

Good grief :bang:

*present company excepted.

by **oldmansurfer** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:58 am

Oh gosh and I was hoping surfing would hold off the onset of senility

by **dtc** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:58 am

come on, only goofies and weirdos go left. You got what you deserved, trying to be 'unique' and messing up the system. :lol:

A few months ago I saw two longboarders take off and the one that should have gone right went left and the one that should have gone left went right. The one going left wasnt paying attention and headed straight for the other guy, who realised at the last minute that two longboarders heading down the wave in opposite directions might not work, and managed to jump over the top of the wave. They missed each other by about a foot.

thats what happens when you go left...

by **jaffa1949** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:35 am

Is it right to go left? To be at your peak, take off or be left.
Does your backhand come to the fore?
As you head to the shore.
Is your bottom turn tops?
Do your cutbacks show a viable turn?
Or just something you get from a coral reef.
Is your time on the wax now on the wane.
Do you get barrels , kegs or slabs or only by talking
while down at the pub?
You ask what's the point as you sit out the back,
Watch out for geriatrics upon the wrong track.
They're blind and they're dumb as they sit on their boards
And you failed to notice they come in their hordes.
As you blow out the candles on your birthday cake
You're another year closer for goodness sake.
As you get older it can't be ignored
That you too will need a longer board! :lol: