Surfing Waves

I read the forums a lot and I often see people referring to when there learning as looking like a kook or being a kook.

Now I don't know if it vary 's in different country's but I always thought a kook was more like a poser a person who could not surf very well but acted like they could or drives around with there surf board on there car posing but never gets out in the water.

or goes to party's telling everyone how good there are but cant even surf.

I mean I am learning but i don't think I am a kook just a noob or newbie lol.

Maybe I have the wrong idea of the meaning but i would be offended from the meaning I thought if a person called me a kook .

No big deal but just interested what others actually think it means or what does mean.

kook=n00b or just general idiot in the water/land that does stupid things in the water. you could have some duder out there that's been surfing for 10 years, but if he's dropping in on people, tossing the board around, getting in peoples' way, etc. that's kind of kookish. however, it depends on the situation. i'll drop in on friends left and right, because i know them, and act totally kookish, but that's all in the name of good fun. you know em when you see em

Kook = Someone who makes themselves into a surfing god even though they cant surf 1ft ankle slop.

Kook = Someone who can surf but surfs like a complete moron putting others into danger etc etc...

Kook = someone who thinks they own the beach.

Kook = someone who claims localism but fail to realise they dont own the beach. Same as above deffinition just slightly different attitude.

Basically a kook is someone who has a shitty attitude. However a beginer is someone who is learning and therefore not a kook no matter how many mistakes they make give em sum slack we all been there. Even if they do put there wetsuit on back to front its an honest mistake

Cool cheers guys that makes sense.

Now I understand a bit better.

isaluteyou wrote: Even if they do put there wetsuit on back to front its an honest mistake

Man I hate to admit it, but like 20 years ago I tried on my first zipperless wetsuit. I came out of the dressing room and asked the kid working there, how do you tell which is the front? He had to be thinking what a kook, when he said the knee patches go on the knees bra.

isaluteyou wrote:Kook = Someone who makes themselves into a surfing god even though they cant surf 1ft ankle slop.



Kook = Someone who can surf but surfs like a complete moron putting others into danger etc etc...



Kook = someone who thinks they own the beach.



Kook = someone who claims localism but fail to realise they dont own the beach. Same as above deffinition just slightly different attitude.

I think that sums it up right there. Props man, they should make a sign of these rules and put them up at spots that have localism.

I read this comment on kooks on this board:

"All beginners are kooks, but not all kooks are beginners"

I've always taken it to mean someone who doesn't know what the hell they are doing. For most, this is corrected with experience, but for some, they will be kooks all their days.