just had bum spuds in my wetsuit!

[sharkbait]

went surfing, as you do on a saturday am, with pamela(9'1 malibu)..she has a 1.8mtr knee leash.

got wiped out and as i was tossing around the leash wrapped around my neck. the waves kept on moving reflex's kicked in and i grabbed the leash. thus preventing a decap!. holy bum spuds!!

so i left it there for the day. went home. had a cuppa tea.

[ceweal]

This just happened to me yesterday! I kept surfing. Glad to hear you have a head on your shoulders still.

[Otter]

Wow, leash around your neck? I've never had that happen. Glad you came out OK.

[bluesnowcone]

similar thing happend to me, i dropped in on a wave grabbed the rail and ended up bailing, i rolled around under water for abit, ended up with my leash wrapped around my ankles and some how my wrist was sortof tangled in there aswell, luckily my board was next to me so i clamberd on to it and caught some wash into the shore, pretty scary stuff when something goes wrong out their

[PapaW]

Must bee a week for it... had mine coil round my neck after a chun at MI's... but then its enevatable at that place :p

[surfhobbit]

Spooky! That happened to me on Sunday... never happened before. I came off and the leash had looped around my board AND got around my neck somehow when I was tumbling. Odds of both those things happening???

Anyway, the board had caught the white stuff and was draggin me into the beach pinned to the board.... weird and scared me sh8tless. Was under for what felt like ages. Actually thought I'd had it but I somehow managed to get my head out to just in time before I breathed in a load of water....

Composed myself, laughed and the paddled back out and got on with it. The wave was only about 2-3ft, but I was amazed by its power to drag me along for so long....

I had a nice leash mark on my neck until tuesday too

[Sillysausage]

surf hobbit, whats your most surfed break? (local?) is it southers or porthcawl? (don't name secter spots)

[surfhobbit]

rest week nights and sudz on the weekend, but coney if it's blown out

[Sillysausage]

cool, whats southers like these days? when ever i go down there is normally shite and a lot of the time theres a huge rip?

[surfhobbit]

I like it. Much quieter than rest bay and you've still got the length of the beach at high tide, whereas in rest, everyone is sardined into the cove when the tide pushes right in.

Not had any probs with rips there to be honest. You tend to get a bit of cross-shore drift there, especially when the wind is blowing onshore, but I tend to head to coney when the conditons are like that.