Fistral last week..

[iomarti]

That was on thursday. It's not me in the picture, but I'll forgive you for thinking that it was

[southwestsurfer]

Now who was it that said it would be 18ft?

[surferdude_scarborough]

dunno. that looks more like 10-12 to me

[southwestsurfer]

Theres always one, lol.

[GowerCharger]

didnt they have some "big wave" competition at the cribbar last week? did it get big enough?

[drowningbitbybit]

didnt they have some "big wave" competition at the cribbar last week? did it get big enough?

Yeah, they were claiming '12ft' but that might have been a hawaiian 12 footer

The photos I saw certainly looked treble-overhead.

It was won by scott eastward who - amongst other things - got a perfect ten score for some truly epic barrels

[LeeC]

Haha I was out in that on thurs (after first surfing last saturday! I'm not trying to boast but it's funny, not that I was out further than chest deep lol ), if anyone remembers I was the one last week akiking about not wearing a wetsuit at this time of year...I did hire in the end there's no way I could of been out there without it. I hired a bic (should of got a foamboard but my friend convinced me they were a bit easy, doh!). Didn't progress far but managed to half stand up a few times. Anyway, whoever said I would devote all of my spare time and money to surfing was right! Just a pain I live so far from the sea and don't drive! Oh and do NOT stay at Cribber Green Rooms surf lodge, its totaly rubbish (dirty, over priced for the size of the rooms). Peace out

[iomarti]

where is the cribbar green rooms lodge? I have never even heard of it....

[LeeC]

its on the headland road right next to fistral (btw is cribber, im not being anal but i think there is another place called cribbar, who knows). No offence but why do some of the the newquay locals seems a bit like clique-ish, like they don't really want to talk to you or anything? Or are they just fed up of tourist groms? I made an effort to talk to some but none were that nice, the only friend I made was a 60 year old called Gregor, he's a fleshin' legend all the locals seem to know him lol!

[iomarti]

well, of course we're a bit fed up!!! Used to surfing with a lot less people out there and with friends, but that kind of has to end in the summer so by the end of it it's easier to just chat to your friends than ask everyone if they are on holiday and how long they've been surfing and listen to them say ahh, i'd really like to move near the sea, etc....
So if you were wondering why we're 'all' a bit cliquey, that'll be why, but anyone can figure that, and i'm sure its similar, there's not a welcome party waiting for everyone who goes for a surf and everyone rushes up to say Hi and How are you, etc.... plus it goes two ways as well, you gotta make an effort too.

Oh and I forgot to mention before you can rent or buy a property in newquay you have to sign a contract saying you will be a cliquey local and never chat to anyone who you don't recognise.

Really, I think you're generalising far too much. If someone talks to me, I'll always be pleasant, and the same goes for all my friends and acquaintances who surf.

[iomarti]

oh and with people saying that newquay locals are unfriendly etc, that doesn't make us more friendly, perhaps a little more hostile....

[iomarti]

ok and well, i'm not doing anything to promote the image of newquay locals being friendly (!), but this has kind of got me thinking and I gotta add another thing...like, what is everyone expecting us to do??!

You say you only made one 'friend' well thats precisely it, we aren't really that up for making new friends with who ever is on holiday every single week, we have our own friends!!
Of course we'll be nice, but we are not going to act like your best friends all week...i think saying Hi is enough. OK, I've said enough now. Sorry for ranting but people ask me this question all the time, and it gets to me a little bit now.....ok enough, finito...

[LeeC]

Ok lol I understand now, btw I was carefull to say some of the locals. I didn't expect anyone to be up my a$$ or give me a welcome party (would of been nice tho, the welcome party that is!) or anything, but some people were just rude, and I don't really mean out in the sea.... eg. one of the local girls working at the lodge I stayed in didn't even acknowledge me, for example if I ordered a breakfast or asked for the board rack key she would just bring it out without saying a word, I would expect most normal people even round here (and living on the edge of London people aren't particularly polite here) to say something like 'no problem' or 'here you go' or at least 'yes' lol, maybe she was just brain dead.

Saying Hi is enough but some people couldn't even be botherd to say that!

However, some people were just lovely! I think you have a bigger mix of personalities compared to up here or something, most are friendlier than they are here but some definately aren't. I understand that you must get fed up with tourists and have your own friends etc but it just doesn't feel very nice from our point of view to be treated as 'outside the group' or however you wanna put it. Feel free to rant back lol, I'm not having a dig or moaning just asking why it feels cliquey. x

[WalrusUK]

Earlier this year I was talking to one newquay local who's lived, surfed and even run surf related businesses there for a long time and he gets agro from so called 'newquay locals' who have only moved there for the summer, so what chance to visitors get!

[iomarti]

I dunno about that I'm quite confusesd by people saying newquay locals are unfriendly. I was born and grew up in Newquay and I have never had any agro or anything, nor am I aware of varying degrees of 'local'ness... oh well, its just people isn't it. Some are nice, some aren't so nice, is life...

[jennie]

hmmm interesting thread guys....

LeeC I got the impression from your posts that you are a begginer and still learning in the white water??? If im wrong just ignore me...purely just a miss interpretation...

However if you are still learning in the white water then generally you are always moving about and dont really stay next to people long enough for it to be worth starting a converstation. However if you are in the line up then there tends to be more of an opportunity... Then again i have never really found the line up to be a very social place, i usually end up exchangeing a couple of sentences about boards or waves but generally speaking thats about it.

Most people out there are there to surf and not to chat or meet new people...I know that i am quite a solitary surfer and quite like not chatting to my mates all the time in the line up....less distractions from clean up sets!!!

I always find people are alot more friendly in the car park, or as people are changing or on the walk to and from the beach...

[GowerCharger]

yeah, i guess a lot of people (especially those holidaying in places like newquay) havce this image of surfing as being some free love hippy thing where everyone wants to chat and be friendly all the time, fact is its not like that at all. Anywhere ehre you find a high standard of surfing, that goes hand in hand with people who are dedicated and focussed on what theyre doing, that doesnt mean theyre not nice people, but theyre there to surf not meet people. Most locals will already have plenty of friends in the lineup anyway and if you spend all day chattign to the holidaymakers youmight miss the wave of the day.
I often speak to people in the lineup, but its usually just a couple of sentences about what the waves are like, what they where like yesterday, what theyre gonna be like in the coming days, and thats as far as it goes.

[LeeC]

Yeah thats right jennie I'm still learning. I don't mean so much in the water, like you say its pretty hard to start conversations in the whitewater and in the line up you have waves to think about, its just that out and about we just got the vibe that people didn't want to speak to us even tho we wanted to make friends with them, but like you say they probably have friends already. I didn't expect everyone to be a hippy lol just thought people might be a bit more sociable/approachable.

[David S]

I used to live in Cornwall (my parents still do) and I'm sorry to inform you that Cornish people hate everyone East of the Tamar!
In fact when I lived near Truro people didn' even consider people in St Austell to be "proper" Cornish.
Newquay is also swamped by pissed up loud tourists all Summer long and this doesn't make locals feel like being sociable, they're more likely to want to lay low and wait for life to calm down after the holiday season.
I'm sure you'd feel the same if you lived there