Surfing Waves

what annoys you out in the water? i dislike the sense of exclusivity (sometimes, but i love my club ) and the attitudes of some surfers who believe they have the divine right to every wave.

i have to say the polluted water, and how no one ever listens about the facts of pollution. ***hole surfers who believe they are the *hit even though they suck and they think they're a local. people who are in front of me when im paddling for a wave, and do nothing about it


lots of stuff, but when i catch the wave i feel great about it, so yeah.

I have a love/hate relationship with the utter indecision crisis of weekends like this... There's a wave, but it ain't great, but it might get better, but it might get completely blown out...

Do I get in the van and make the long trip to the coast... or sit in the pub glad Im not in the windblown slop....

I CAN'T DECIDE!!!!!

im not too fond of the water when its freezing ... or having a snuffly nose for the next half hour. but i guess its all part of the fun really.

localism

being hit on the head by your own board


but its all part of surfing !

wipe out i get frustrated everytime but i kinda take it as a challenge lol

People who talk the talk in the car park, and look the part, and act all 'heavy local' but can barely stand up on a wave - especially down in the westcountry where it happens most often (with the culprets having a 'more' northern accent usually!) .
...however this can turn out to be one of the more fun aspects of surfing when I get into the water and run circles round them whilst deliberately looking the un-trendy surfer !

blisters full of sand so they never heal, ow!

wen u get a mouth full of salty seaweedey water

when your wetsuit flushes out in winter

Puttin on a cold, wet, sandy wetsuit when your goin in after bein in already.

(with the culprets having a 'more' northern accent usually!)

OI!WATCH IT

1. The faggots who wear hollister and abercrombie because they think that surf clothes.
2. Fourth of July Weekend. Every person comes to the beach and leaves trash everywhere, leaving it for us people who live there to pick it up.
3. Kooks
4. Surftech
5. People who think they HAVE to have a brand name board (lost, merrick, rusty) when there are tons of good shapers nearby, so they buy the brand name, which slowly puts local shapers out of business.

gulfsurfer wrote:5. People who think they HAVE to have a brand name board (lost, merrick, rusty) when there are tons of good shapers nearby, so they buy the brand name, which slowly puts local shapers out of business.

i totally acree with that part...stupid gurl in my form went surfing once and her mum bought he a 6'4 roxy board...stupid fat ass

ya, that probably pisses me off more then anything else

i second cold wet wetsuits speshly bad in the rain and howling onshore winds ill go out in anything

getting caught in the breaks, cause i'm new and haven't mastered duck diving ... i hate staring at a scary wave that is about to crash over me .. that and i get really tired from paddling, but it's soo worth it, and i'll get better with practice

I hate the fact that the sea is so far away!!

The flat spells like the one we have here right now .

this really isnt a regular occurence but it happend to me yesterday. i was jumping over some whitewater right before i was going to start paddling and my leg cramped up really bad and i just sort of froze up. another round of whitewater came in and it was fairly strong and knocked me off my board because i wasnt really able to move too much so my board ended up in front of me. yet another round of whitewater came in and slammed the board into my face. yay fun haha. oh yeah… it was a longboard