Surfing Waves

Can someone tell me why some luntatic parent would be so stupid as to wade 7yr old little johnny, on his first surfing lesson, two boards in tow, straight out throught the middle of the break???

I can tolerate the now routine drop in, i can tolerate the now routine snaking of the posi's in the line up, I can tolerate (barely) the body boarders who consider it acceptable to sit in front of everyone but i cant tolerate some F-wit bleating and yelling abuse in the water cause.. ooo... ahh you nearly ran us over........

I dont begrudge anyone a surf and we were all learners at one point but for christ sake, if you are a newbie do yourself and everyone else a favour, open your eyes before you go in the water and be situationally aware.

I feel better now..my rant finishes here.

The only real problem i have at the moment are "wave wasters".. Those people who paddle into a wave & then they have it and bail -- meanwhile you've bailed out early coz otherwise you'd drop in on them... That happened to me about 5 times on saturday by the one guy, i eventually got the shits & after a bit of discussion with the other locals we thought it best to push him onto his next wave.

what gets me pissed especially is when somebody snakes you , takes the wave and then tries to tell me Im supposed to get out of the way for an on coming surfer , cheeky F***ker , I promtly gave him a right mouthfull .....

Then seeing a guy riding a wave and another guy drop right ontop of him at the lip then not backing off even though the wave was taken .... moron !

There are also the muppets who go swimming in areas outside the flags, who are right in the way of board riders , I nearly hit some guy swimming at the weekend, if I had been 1 ft further to the left he would of been eating board.. ......

you werent out there at bondi with me were you easty? F***in tourists out there swimming near the rocks where us board riders are -- its DUMB!

Bondi! ha ha, when i was there we saw 4 accidents ina a day! The christmas tourist always sim in the surgfing areas!! HAZARD!

They get in the way and force you to bail, or hurt them!

I don't bail anymore - sick of it, i give them heaps of warning now a nice little verbal when i know i have the wave - so what if 1 idiot gets a little finchop, not gonna kill him & might show others that the flagged areas are for swimmers.

Plus, there are bad sand banks at bondi at the moment, so body surfing outside the flags is really dangerous anyway.

lol..lets send out 10 year old billy out with a bodyboard right into the most dangerous areas! Then we will swim over to where he is, just to check up on him!



GET OUT OF THE WAY!


but here in thailand, there is no problem with crowds! In july, i am usually the only 1 atthe break!

Yup I was there, I did run down a guy this morning lucky there was no damage to anyone It was in part my fault , he was in the wash on my left and I was trying to avoid someone who was on my right, I do feel Bondi is just far to dangerous even at 7am. Everybody going for the same waves,etc etc so much so its just not enjoyable

what ticks me off the most, is when I am longboarding and am further out than the guys on shortboards. So these guys paddle up infront of me, and I get mad, but keep it to myself. Then I move out somewhere else out of their way. Then they follow me to where I have just moved. It goes on and on, when ever I move so do they. And I don't have it in me to tell them to move or to run over them. So I keep moving, and finally they have stayed back, and I go for a wave, looking back and paddling for it. I look to the front, and there they are...right down my stringer.

that's basically what the only break around here is like every day....

Tomcat...join the club.
Exactly to a tee what happens every weekend here on the Sunshine Coast especially at Noosa.
What makes it even more frustrating is that they dont catch anything because it's not a shortbord wave.
As for the swimmers, the clubbies are quick to jump down the my throat if i happen to drift into the flagged area, even though im 75 metres out to sea....pity they cant pull the floating, flapping, fleshin' back into the swimming only areas.

farside wrote:What makes it even more frustrating is that they dont catch anything because it's not a shortbord wave.

!!!!! Exactly!!

It really pisses me off, but I guess I still win the day, considering they catch nothing and I manage to weave them on occasions.

where are you located?

i go down the coast every couple of weekends easty - should join me, need someone to share the fuel cost anyways.. haha - let me know if you're interested. I live in bondi, but only surf there when i'm desperate, otherwise i go up or down the coast.

[quote="farside"]Can someone tell me why some luntatic parent would be so stupid as to wade 7yr old little johnny, on his first surfing lesson, two boards in tow, straight out throught the middle of the break???

I can tolerate the now routine drop in, i can tolerate the now routine snaking of the posi's in the line up, I can tolerate (barely) the body boarders who consider it acceptable to sit in front of everyone but i cant tolerate some F-wit bleating and yelling abuse in the water cause.. ooo... ahh you nearly ran us over........

I dont begrudge anyone a surf and we were all learners at one point but for christ sake, if you are a newbie do yourself and everyone else a favour, open your eyes before you go in the water and be situationally aware.

I feel better now..my rant finishes here.[/quote]

you need a hug dude!

Hug is appreciated....North Devon

Tomcat360, Coolum Beach on the northern end of the Sunshine Coast about an hour north of Brisbane, Queensland Australia (bueatiful one day..perfect the next).

15 minutes from one of the best point breaks on the planet.. Noosa Heads.

A few of the other posters on this thread are Australian too which goes to highlight the current problems we are having with over crowed waves up and down the east coast.

Surfing in this country has experienced a HUGE popularity explosion, especially over the last 12 months and the Kooks have come out to the woodwork.

Its so bad in some places, like the beaches Gold Coast, that there is talk of surf police, surfing licenses and even registering your board as a water craft.

It could be the other way around. Sometimes at this break I surf at, the longboarders are really greedy. They get on the peak wave after wave. The shortboarders dont get a chance because the longboarders dont give them one. So then the shortboarders just start paddling in front.

yeah I have seen it both ways. I think there is a healthy medium in there somewhere, or maybe there should be longboard and shortboard breaks, but then that presents a whole new set of problems