Surfing Waves

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:44 pm**

My local break is super crowded. During the summer people are surfing shortboards when the wave is 1-2 feet. You get about 2-3 seconds of unbroken wave and it just closes out or that a bunch of kooks in foamie and funboard just drops in on them. I'm just puzzled because they are good surfers, much better than I can surf. What is the fun to that?

Why not just grab a longer board and sit on the outside? I think my break has 80% short + funboards. I'm the few that is on a longboard and they are surprised that I'm catching all the waves.

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:12 pm**

Often shortboarding in unfavourable conditions is about refusing to see reason beyond fashion and cool!
Take note of how many beginners argue to start on short boards. :lol:

Become a smorgasboarder, choose the suitable board like a golfer chooses their club!

Look over the lineup any day and see the fashion victims whining about how they can't surf this stuff . :lol:

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:47 pm**

I would assume they are practicing maneuvers like floaters on closeout sections. Or they suck.

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:14 pm**

Either , or! Good call! :lol:

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:30 pm**

They probably want to learn to ride a shortboard and don't really care to learn to longboard. That's why I don't ride a longboard. Some people want to cruise along and have an easy time surfing. Some people enjoy being challenged. I like being challenged but then I do that without a crowd.

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:29 pm**

"A philosophical surfer once said, 'if you live in the moment, it doesn't matter if you don't come out'"... -Holly Beck

Posted: **Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:53 pm**

A shortboarder explained it to me once, "Riding a Longboard is like driving with the parking brake on".

Posted: **Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:43 pm**

waikikikichan wrote:A shortboarder explained it to me once, "Riding a Longboard is like driving with the parking brake on".

worst analogy ever, since the longboard reaches and maintains gliding speed much better than the shortboard :lol:

Posted: **Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:45 pm**

oldmansurfer wrote:They probably want to learn to ride a shortboard and don't really care to learn to longboard. That's why I don't ride a longboard. Some people want to cruise along and have an easy time surfing. Some people enjoy being challenged. I like being challenged but then I do that without a crowd.

waist high on a shortboard can be fun if it's not mushy

Posted: **Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:34 am**

Fun is a relative thing. What is fun for me most likely is not fun for you.

Posted: **Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:44 pm**

oldmansurfer wrote:Fun is a relative thing. What is fun for me most likely is not fun for you.

yeah, TBH I suck at this surfing thing so I need perfect waves, not too big though, to have a decent ride

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