Surfing Waves

So the Gold Coast can get a wee bit crowded, and there's a committee to try and work out what do about it. Fair play to them, some of the ideas have been pretty good (new breaks coming soon to the Golf Coast) and then there's this...

Surfers to wear L-plates

Not going to happen

Hmm it's usually fairly easy to tell the newbies. They are the ones in your way

Even me in my early stages of a fledgling surfing career can suss out pretty quickly skill level just by watching a person paddle and where they choose to set up to catch a wave and how they paddle for it (sit and wait for the perfect wave that they hardly need to paddle for or go chase down the first one that they have a reasonable chance of latching onto). The L would be for other newbies....it would never be adhered to as every learner seems to categorize themselves as "advanced beginners" or "beginner-intermediates"....the only ones would be the kids with overprotective parents a la JOB....

Interested to hear if city hall gets around to rating the breaks....Benji was going to surf 3ft cloudbreak in Fiji....wonder where that stacks up, esp next to a ten ft cloudbreak.

The idea that other surfers would "give the inexperienced surfers some space" is laughable - it would just be a drop-in pass for other surfers

And, yeah, doesn't take long to suss out the newbie from the experienced, the talented from the mediocre, or the aggressive idiot from the relaxed dude... do we all get to wear vests?

Big H wrote:Interested to hear if city hall gets around to rating the breaks....

This one I think will happen, although not actually enforced. There's already a whole bunch of etiquette signs at each break, plus a listing of the various dangers (including the hilarious "large aquatic animals"....), so why not give it a rating like ski runs? Obviously a wee bit more complicated than mountains that tend to stay the same size...

drowningbitbybit wrote:The idea that other surfers would "give the inexperienced surfers some space" is laughable - it would just be a drop-in pass for other surfers

That is probably the the most probable end result if this ever did go into effect....guys who struggled to get waves in the lineups would just not get them at all....they'd get dropped in on by everyone, even those one week out of the vest....