some one is puncturing tires in cottlesloe.seems to be targeting supers.5 tires have been vandalised.the police are aware.

That's never nice, some real grubs out there.
I have noticed a fair bit of resentment to some suppers, who will try to catch every wave, because they can.
I've been on a sup for three years now and back on surfboards over the last 18 months (after a hip replacement) and when I'm surfing the sup I tend to hunt out a break further up the beach. Unfortunately when surfing some of the local point breaks, you will get the wave hogs who want it all. Was on my longboard on a small 2 foot day last week, with 5 others on mals and 1 guy on a sup. he would paddle past us, turn and take off every time a wave came through. We couldn't paddle inside him as we were all sitting on the suck up and he would just go through where we were taking off. At one stage he had caught 3 waves and no one else had caught a thing (all the surfers out there were good surfers). The mood in the water changed very quickly when he paddled for his 4th wave, it wasn't very cool. Suffice to say he ended up on the rocks. I left.
What im saying is, that a small (hopefully) minority stuff it up for everyone else. If we don't, as a group, speak to other sup riders about sharing with all, I can only see these ugly situations becoming more prevalent. I know that surfers do it to other surfers, but that is usually based on skills, not size of board and paddling speed. Slashing or damaging someone's car or burning them and fading them back into the reef, is not going to solve anything. Being fair, sharing and just enjoying the experience will.

Yes talk is good and as a SUP’er I always try to chat to the long and shortboarders in the line up AND take my turn. Must say not always a two way conversation and street and I must say have been dropped in on so many times by surfer AND SUP’ers but that’s life in Perth I guess. The only thing that really bugs me are Mal riders who seem to be paddling onto a wave (very slowly) so they have the right of way but then have no real intention of going for it, strange one that, you get to know who they are and read them after a while, could be a grey top thing and that’s why they get FULL respect from me.

Phil

Will be interesting to see how I go when I start SUP'ing with mates who I surf with, I know there is a lot of anti SUP resentment going about even among friends. All I can do is make sure I am one of the good examples and not take other peoples issues to heart, I just want to have fun so ruining someone elses session is the last thing on my mind.

I kind of went through it when I started riding Mal's and still get it when you paddle out at certain spots. After long enough a lot of my mates who bagged the Mal's now love them and don't ride anything else.


Vandalising is not on in any shape or form for any reason, a lot of crew have cameras in their cars now and every phone has a camera so wont be too long before someone is caught red handed.

My son is a keen surfer and I even get stick of him !!!!!

light banter though or I withdraw his weekly allowance AND he has to give me all his waves !!!!

Phil

I try to avoid SUP surfing with other prone surfers in the water, but of course it can't always be avoided. But the challenge is where you do want to paddle past them to catch the wave in a different spot. (The same is true when surfing with other SUPers, especially newbies.)

I try to make a point of paddling past but then sitting down as a sign that I am not going for the waves. I then watch to make sure they have had their turn and then I stand up and take the next wave.

It doesn't always work.

Some guys paddle for everything but don't consider that they have used their "turn".

Sometimes there are waves that I know I will get but I am sure they won't get. It is frustrating to see un-ridden waves go through the line-up. A damn shame... A crime in fact.

But I have had stern words with SUPers who paddle past me. I try to remind them of the etiquette.

It is a problem that is not going away soon...

I have seen yesterday an incident that was - in my opinion - well handed.

Sunrise, at an outer reef, 8 surfers out, 2 SUPs. The Surfers were in a tight pack at the main peak, me and an older surfer were on a side peak. The other SUPer with a somewhat big board (I guess 9'6") was coming straight above the pack after each wave, building up silent tension. After 10mn of this, a clearing set came, and he just bailed out without a care in the world, his board left pushed sideways by the foam into the pack...

He got one on the meanest, loudest, filthiest verbal abuse for 5mn (well deserved as he didnt think he made a mistake), and was ordered out of the spot. Then the older surfer took it aside, and calmly explained what he had done wrong and what he should have done (moved sideways to be far from the pack, or at least push the board straight ahead), before the SUPer started paddling for the shore 1 mile away.

I think the dual punch worked well: a clear sanction (one of the best sessions of the year cut short for him) plus an explanation. And things have matured enough so that there was no animosity on other SUPers, just the asshole. And we enjoyed the rest of the session without bad vibes.

So, for assholes, acting fast and strong, with a bad cop / good cop technique seems to work well.

What makes short boarders think they are the superior craft?
I take off on my SUP just as deep and just as late as any other surfer out there.
Not to mention I can turn it better than most 6' tooth picks.
The only stink eye I get come from blow in's.
When they realise I know my way around they tend to back off.
It's not what you ride it's how you ride it

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colas said..
The other SUPer with a somewhat big board (I guess 9'6")

....... the shore 1 mile away.

Nice story. But I hate this board size crap. Like saying the race of the guy, he was clueless, leave it at that. I'd have grabbed my 11'.

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colas said..

I think the dual punch worked well: a clear sanction (one of the best sessions of the year cut short for him) plus an explanation. And things have matured enough so that there was no animosity on other SUPers, just the asshole. And we enjoyed the rest of the session without bad vibes.

And the asshole went and slashed everyones tyres

Don't understand surfing in packs or waiting for my turn in the surf. I find my own spot and take them all.

If you have a device(sup or mal) optimized for the conditions why do you have to wait for a prone surfer 50 meters closer to the beach to have a go? Thats a lot of wave not getting ridden.

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Darryn said..

colas said..

I think the dual punch worked well: a clear sanction (one of the best sessions of the year cut short for him) plus an explanation. And things have matured enough so that there was no animosity on other SUPers, just the asshole. And we enjoyed the rest of the session without bad vibes.

And the asshole went and slashed everyones tyres

Don't understand surfing in packs or waiting for my turn in the surf. I find my own spot and take them all.

If you have a device(sup or mal) optimized for the conditions why do you have to wait for a prone surfer 50 meters closer to the beach to have a go? Thats a lot of wave not getting ridden.

Nice attitude By that reasoning you'd have no problem if a mate and i started tow surfing around you beating you to every wave then


As Greenie said, it doesn't matter what you ride just ride it well and be respectful and you'll be fine, its not that hard

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surfinJ said..

colas said..
The other SUPer with a somewhat big board (I guess 9'6")

....... the shore 1 mile away.

Nice story. But I hate this board size crap. Like saying the race of the guy, he was clueless, leave it at that. I'd have grabbed my 11'.

Sorry, that was not what I meant. It was to explain that surfers freak out much more when seeing a big board coming at them in the foam than a smaller one. Later in the day a SUPer with a bigger board went above the pack but with no bad vibes, as he clearly signalled his intentions, and moved away from the pack in clearing sets, and did not attempt take offs through the pack.

Also, I use a 7' leash on my 8'4" to keep the board closer to me and do not give the impression of a loose wrecking ball

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Darryn said..
Don't understand surfing in packs or waiting for my turn in the surf. I find my own spot and take them all.

Yup, that's why I was on a side peak, and also moving in to catch all the medium sized waves that went unridden from the first peak. Note that it is more difficult to perform on a ShortSUPs, length has the advantage of mobility to clear the way on incoming sets.

But if you want to go with the pack, you must play by its rules. That's civilization.

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jbshack said..

Darryn said..

colas said..

I think the dual punch worked well: a clear sanction (one of the best sessions of the year cut short for him) plus an explanation. And things have matured enough so that there was no animosity on other SUPers, just the asshole. And we enjoyed the rest of the session without bad vibes.

And the asshole went and slashed everyones tyres

Don't understand surfing in packs or waiting for my turn in the surf. I find my own spot and take them all.

If you have a device(sup or mal) optimized for the conditions why do you have to wait for a prone surfer 50 meters closer to the beach to have a go? Thats a lot of wave not getting ridden.

Nice attitude By that reasoning you'd have no problem if a mate and i started tow surfing around you beating you to every wave then

Yeah, no problem, I would just keep moving to a new spot and watching the tow surfing show, I surf often enough that its hard to get a rise out of me, simply go home and come back later.

On the side topic of some SUP'ers giving us all bad names, I don't know how many people saw this article:
www.seabreeze.com.au/Articles/Stand%20Up%20Paddle/Kook-or-Kool--Your-first-go-in-the-surf_2965007.aspx

but, I thought it was pretty good. Would be nice to have something like it 'stickied' at the top of a sup forums here.

Most of the contents of URL pasted below here -----

Please have a read, and save yourself from mouthfuls of abuse, and giving the sport a bad name:

This section is dedicated to Kook & Kool!

1. You paddle out floundering to a lineup with surfers. You can barely stay standing but proceed right into or outside of the lineup. You paddle for waves while people scramble out of your way only to fall off before you can even get on the wave.... Your big board becomes an extremely dangerous projectile... Kook alert!! KOOK!! KOOK!! KOOK!! KOOK!!

2. You can barely stay standing so you practice in an area where no one is around that you could endanger or bum out. You care about the world wide effects of SUP surfing so you paddle and surf with Aloha. Very Kool!!

3. You start to get the hang of it and want to surf better waves so you decide to surf a more popular spot. You paddle out and stand outside everyone. The sets come and you paddle in like a locomotive right thru the pack. You get waves in every set... KOOK!!

4. You start to get the hang of it and want to surf better waves so you decide to surf a more popular spot. You paddle out and check out the situation. You see waves off to the side that a lot less people go for. You catch a few of those... Since you don't want to wear out your welcome, you decide to catch only a few set waves at most. You surf with Aloha.... Kool! :)

5. You paddle out on an in-consistent day to a crowded spot. You stand outside everyone the whole duration of the lulls. You never sit down so you tower over others the whole time... You make sure you catch a wave from every set. KOOK!

6. You paddle out on an in-consistent day to a crowded spot. You feel like you're on stage so you stand off to the side or sit down between sets because you don't like blocking everyone's view of the beautiful ocean. You catch a couple waves then move to the inside or on to another spot or just paddle around because you figured out how to surf with Aloha... KOOL!! :)

7. You're pretty good and can get in and around the surf well... You surf crowded spots and catch all the waves you can. Small ones, set waves etc. Because you can surf good you get plenty waves. You're always calling people off your waves. You just can't help yourself to sit sets out so you basically take over the spot for the duration of your surf. HUGE SELFISH KOOK!!!!!!!! :mad:

8. You're pretty good and can get in and around the surf well... You go to a crowded spot and check out what's going on. You see some of the lesser quality waves going un-ridden and surf those. You catch a ton of waves but ones that no one really wants. You paddle out and get a few set waves but you make sure others get waves by quietly cluing them in to incoming sets. You become a quiet spotter of sorts for others to score good waves.... You always sit out a few sets. You use your high vantage point to stoke others out. KOOL!! (When you arrive and it's already crowded NOT GOING OUT THERE is the KOOLEST!) :)

9. You see how cool SUP surfing is because you can paddle fast and want to get back at those greedy longboarders. You decide to get into it to take over and be the dominent surfer at any spot at any time. Do the entire surfing world a favor and don't get into it. You are the biggest KOOK!!!!!! :mad:

10. You see how cool SUP surfing is because you can do something that is a challenge, get great exercise, paddle far up the coast at will, have a blast riding waves you never thought would be fun, discover new spots, like to enjoy the comraderie of the SUP surfers around the world. KOOL!! :)

Note:
If there are more than one of you SUP surfing, everything becomes doubled, tripled, quadrupled, etc.
Avoid heavy rotations with other SUP surfers when surfing with others.

Be aware of your actions and the actions of others. BE KOOL!

Thanks to Paddle Surf Hawaii!

Those rules are common sens for sure ...nothing to say against but time is rolling and thing around SUP are changing like size of board coming between 7' to 8' as they come a real challenge to stay up right on those narrow hulls as well as surfing skill of SUPers are involving because a lot of them are coming from proned surfing and have gain more and more experience getting deeper with the help of a paddle.
So I will relativize the relationship between Surfers and Supers thinking how fair will be the average surfer's attitude around priority if I would proned paddle on a very short board; shall let go paddling and take his chance just for a single wave even an elder of 60 years I do think NO the mass is so selfish whatever the kind of board ridden and I think from my own experience as been copped by surfers that the use of paddle is more a motive of violence rather than a criminal offense in itself.

Selfish people like this guy who got already few bombs from the best position coming in reach of my KOOOL one on the side of the peak waiting for some spare one lost up to SUP rules written above here where he come paddling under the nose of my board for an other wave . He claims I disturb him

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gogogo said..
On the side topic of some SUP'ers giving us all bad names, I don't know how many people saw this article:
www.seabreeze.com.au/Articles/Stand%20Up%20Paddle/Kook-or-Kool--Your-first-go-in-the-surf_2965007.aspx

but, I thought it was pretty good. Would be nice to have something like it 'stickied' at the top of a sup forums here.

Most of the contents of URL pasted below here -----

Please have a read, and save yourself from mouthfuls of abuse, and giving the sport a bad name:

This section is dedicated to Kook & Kool!

1. You paddle out floundering to a lineup with surfers. You can barely stay standing but proceed right into or outside of the lineup. You paddle for waves while people scramble out of your way only to fall off before you can even get on the wave.... Your big board becomes an extremely dangerous projectile... Kook alert!! KOOK!! KOOK!! KOOK!! KOOK!!

2. You can barely stay standing so you practice in an area where no one is around that you could endanger or bum out. You care about the world wide effects of SUP surfing so you paddle and surf with Aloha. Very Kool!!

3. You start to get the hang of it and want to surf better waves so you decide to surf a more popular spot. You paddle out and stand outside everyone. The sets come and you paddle in like a locomotive right thru the pack. You get waves in every set... KOOK!!

4. You start to get the hang of it and want to surf better waves so you decide to surf a more popular spot. You paddle out and check out the situation. You see waves off to the side that a lot less people go for. You catch a few of those... Since you don't want to wear out your welcome, you decide to catch only a few set waves at most. You surf with Aloha.... Kool! :)

5. You paddle out on an in-consistent day to a crowded spot. You stand outside everyone the whole duration of the lulls. You never sit down so you tower over others the whole time... You make sure you catch a wave from every set. KOOK!

6. You paddle out on an in-consistent day to a crowded spot. You feel like you're on stage so you stand off to the side or sit down between sets because you don't like blocking everyone's view of the beautiful ocean. You catch a couple waves then move to the inside or on to another spot or just paddle around because you figured out how to surf with Aloha... KOOL!! :)

7. You're pretty good and can get in and around the surf well... You surf crowded spots and catch all the waves you can. Small ones, set waves etc. Because you can surf good you get plenty waves. You're always calling people off your waves. You just can't help yourself to sit sets out so you basically take over the spot for the duration of your surf. HUGE SELFISH KOOK!!!!!!!! :mad:

8. You're pretty good and can get in and around the surf well... You go to a crowded spot and check out what's going on. You see some of the lesser quality waves going un-ridden and surf those. You catch a ton of waves but ones that no one really wants. You paddle out and get a few set waves but you make sure others get waves by quietly cluing them in to incoming sets. You become a quiet spotter of sorts for others to score good waves.... You always sit out a few sets. You use your high vantage point to stoke others out. KOOL!! (When you arrive and it's already crowded NOT GOING OUT THERE is the KOOLEST!) :)

9. You see how cool SUP surfing is because you can paddle fast and want to get back at those greedy longboarders. You decide to get into it to take over and be the dominent surfer at any spot at any time. Do the entire surfing world a favor and don't get into it. You are the biggest KOOK!!!!!! :mad:

10. You see how cool SUP surfing is because you can do something that is a challenge, get great exercise, paddle far up the coast at will, have a blast riding waves you never thought would be fun, discover new spots, like to enjoy the comraderie of the SUP surfers around the world. KOOL!! :)

Note:
If there are more than one of you SUP surfing, everything becomes doubled, tripled, quadrupled, etc.
Avoid heavy rotations with other SUP surfers when surfing with others.

Be aware of your actions and the actions of others. BE KOOL!

Thanks to Paddle Surf Hawaii!

Did you exchange a Kook part in the war for a Kool role in a cage? Bastardized Pink Floyd lyrics.

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Greenroom said..
What makes short boarders think they are the superior craft?
I take off on my SUP just as deep and just as late as any other surfer out there.
Not to mention I can turn it better than most 6' tooth picks.
The only stink eye I get come from blow in's.
When they realise I know my way around they tend to back off.
It's not what you ride it's how you ride it

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Greenroom said..
What makes short boarders think they are the superior craft?
I take off on my SUP just as deep and just as late as any other surfer out there.
Not to mention I can turn it better than most 6' tooth picks.
The only stink eye I get come from blow in's.
When they realise I know my way around they tend to back off.
It's not what you ride it's how you ride it

Weren't you the guy selling jousting sticks??

Well I thought I have seen it all after 40+ years surfing 30+yrs wavesailing & 6 yrs Suping.
But a few wks ago took the cake .
A guy comes out @ my local , walks all the way out over the reef paddles straight over to where I'm supping in the line up on a 10'6" Laird , turns & paddles for the first wave, straight at me runs over the back of my board & goes over the falls.

Then proceeded to lecturer me on surfing rules & giving me a serve saying I paddling in front of him on a boat ?????.

I left the best till last ,he was riding a GOAT BOAT!.
After 5mins of him giving me a serve he did the paddle of shame to the shoulder to take the dregs due to the crowd eye balling him.

I agree with Greenroom quote ,It's not what you ride it's how you ride it.

Surfing in Perth is wonderful!

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Kami said..
Those rules are common sens for sure ...nothing to say against but time is rolling and thing around SUP are changing like size of board coming between 7' to 8' as they come a real challenge to stay up right on those narrow hulls as well as surfing skill of SUPers are involving because a lot of them are coming from proned surfing and have gain more and more experience getting deeper with the help of a paddle.
So I will relativize the relationship between Surfers and Supers thinking how fair will be the average surfer's attitude around priority if I would proned paddle on a very short board; shall let go paddling and take his chance just for a single wave even an elder of 60 years I do think NO the mass is so selfish whatever the kind of board ridden and I think from my own experience as been copped by surfers that the use of paddle is more a motive of violence rather than a criminal offense in itself.

Selfish people like this guy who got already few bombs from the best position coming in reach of my KOOOL one on the side of the peak waiting for some spare one lost up to SUP rules written above here where he come paddling under the nose of my board for an other wave . He claims I disturb him

Hard to tell Kami, but were you going left on that one? It didn't look overly busy out there, but I guess some people just take their crowded line up attitude everywhere.
He will be disturbed when you use him for a speed bump!

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gogogo said..
On the side topic of some SUP'ers giving us all bad names, I don't know how many people saw this article:
www.seabreeze.com.au/Articles/Stand%20Up%20Paddle/Kook-or-Kool--Your-first-go-in-the-surf_2965007.aspx

but, I thought it was pretty good. Would be nice to have something like it 'stickied' at the top of a sup forums here.

Most of the contents of URL pasted below here -----

Please have a read, and save yourself from mouthfuls of abuse, and giving the sport a bad name:

This section is dedicated to Kook & Kool!

1. You paddle out floundering to a lineup with surfers. You can barely stay standing but proceed right into or outside of the lineup. You paddle for waves while people scramble out of your way only to fall off before you can even get on the wave.... Your big board becomes an extremely dangerous projectile... Kook alert!! KOOK!! KOOK!! KOOK!! KOOK!!

2. You can barely stay standing so you practice in an area where no one is around that you could endanger or bum out. You care about the world wide effects of SUP surfing so you paddle and surf with Aloha. Very Kool!!

3. You start to get the hang of it and want to surf better waves so you decide to surf a more popular spot. You paddle out and stand outside everyone. The sets come and you paddle in like a locomotive right thru the pack. You get waves in every set... KOOK!!

4. You start to get the hang of it and want to surf better waves so you decide to surf a more popular spot. You paddle out and check out the situation. You see waves off to the side that a lot less people go for. You catch a few of those... Since you don't want to wear out your welcome, you decide to catch only a few set waves at most. You surf with Aloha.... Kool! :)

5. You paddle out on an in-consistent day to a crowded spot. You stand outside everyone the whole duration of the lulls. You never sit down so you tower over others the whole time... You make sure you catch a wave from every set. KOOK!

6. You paddle out on an in-consistent day to a crowded spot. You feel like you're on stage so you stand off to the side or sit down between sets because you don't like blocking everyone's view of the beautiful ocean. You catch a couple waves then move to the inside or on to another spot or just paddle around because you figured out how to surf with Aloha... KOOL!! :)

7. You're pretty good and can get in and around the surf well... You surf crowded spots and catch all the waves you can. Small ones, set waves etc. Because you can surf good you get plenty waves. You're always calling people off your waves. You just can't help yourself to sit sets out so you basically take over the spot for the duration of your surf. HUGE SELFISH KOOK!!!!!!!! :mad:

8. You're pretty good and can get in and around the surf well... You go to a crowded spot and check out what's going on. You see some of the lesser quality waves going un-ridden and surf those. You catch a ton of waves but ones that no one really wants. You paddle out and get a few set waves but you make sure others get waves by quietly cluing them in to incoming sets. You become a quiet spotter of sorts for others to score good waves.... You always sit out a few sets. You use your high vantage point to stoke others out. KOOL!! (When you arrive and it's already crowded NOT GOING OUT THERE is the KOOLEST!) :)

9. You see how cool SUP surfing is because you can paddle fast and want to get back at those greedy longboarders. You decide to get into it to take over and be the dominent surfer at any spot at any time. Do the entire surfing world a favor and don't get into it. You are the biggest KOOK!!!!!! :mad:

10. You see how cool SUP surfing is because you can do something that is a challenge, get great exercise, paddle far up the coast at will, have a blast riding waves you never thought would be fun, discover new spots, like to enjoy the comraderie of the SUP surfers around the world. KOOL!! :)

Note:
If there are more than one of you SUP surfing, everything becomes doubled, tripled, quadrupled, etc.
Avoid heavy rotations with other SUP surfers when surfing with others.

Be aware of your actions and the actions of others. BE KOOL!

Thanks to Paddle Surf Hawaii!

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fester said..
Well I thought I have seen it all after 40+ years surfing 30+yrs wavesailing & 6 yrs Suping.
But a few wks ago took the cake .
A guy comes out @ my local , walks all the way out over the reef paddles straight over to where I'm supping in the line up on a 10'6" Laird , turns & paddles for the first wave, straight at me runs over the back of my board & goes over the falls.

Then proceeded to lecturer me on surfing rules & giving me a serve saying I paddling in front of him on a boat ?????.

I left the best till last ,he was riding a GOAT BOAT!.
After 5mins of him giving me a serve he did the paddle of shame to the shoulder to take the dregs due to the crowd eye balling him.

I agree with Greenroom quote ,It's not what you ride it's how you ride it.

Surfing in Perth is wonderful!

11. You take the fuller waves on the next peak over because no one else wants it and the advantage of surfing a sup is that lesser quality waves are still heaps fun. Geeze I'm KOOL! But a couple of surfers see you have this to your self, and the waves look like they're more surfable because that is the nature of a SUP. So as you catch one a couple of guys venture across. You notice as you paddle back out they sit right at your sweet spot - KOOKS. Un perturbed you paddle out a bit past them, watch and let them have a couple to be KOOL. You go for your turn and they and they paddle across your entry line, or when you go for the right they fade right but go left-KOOKS. There seems to be no KOOL from these guys, infact it gets a bit FROSTY.
So why is the onus on me to be KOOL? My KOOL just got over trumped by *ucktards. So now I go for waves regardless. And now more guys have come across and I'm the wave hog SUP getting stink eye?

12. The alternative to that is the "patrol." This is about cruising up and down a 1 kilometre stretch of beach, paddling slowly, spotting a set, grabbing one, ride it as far as possible, return out the back farther on and continue on my KOOL patrol. This way I'm thinning out the animosity and taking in some occasional sweet sights on my journey - KOOL!

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Kami said..
Selfish people like this guy

Ah ah, I know this kind of assholes. I must say that if he had taken the wave, I will not have said anything, but behavior aimed at waves getting nobody on them piss me off. I guess if I had a bad day I would have "oversnaked" him, paddled inside him to up the ante in the asshole game (harder on a ShortSUP...). I do it once to prove my point, then move elsewhere to have an asshole-free rest of session.

The first time somebody did this on me, I was on a 8'11"... I was so pissed off that he didn't get any more wave of his session (plus I was on an indestructible PVC sandwich board).

But you were clearly too surprized to have the time to do it, so it would have been on the next time.

However, I must say that on a normal day, I would just have let it go and positioned myself for the next wave.

On a reallly bad day, I guess I would have launched my 100kg on him "sorry you made me fall"... but that would be a mistake, nothing good comes from physical escalations.

Boo ****ing hoo.

Nobody has ever been pissed off at a dude for being a top bloke.

Stand up paddling is a scourge. Granted there is the odd waterman out there, but the sooner the majority of kooks return to the golf courses and the Lycra brigade, the better.

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LateStarter said..
Boo ****ing hoo.

Nobody has ever been pissed off at a dude for being a top bloke.

Stand up paddling is a scourge. Granted there is the odd waterman out there, but the sooner the majority of kooks return to the golf courses and the Lycra brigade, the better.

lol

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DARTH said..

Greenroom said..
What makes short boarders think they are the superior craft?
I take off on my SUP just as deep and just as late as any other surfer out there.
Not to mention I can turn it better than most 6' tooth picks.
The only stink eye I get come from blow in's.
When they realise I know my way around they tend to back off.
It's not what you ride it's how you ride it

Weren't you the guy selling jousting sticks??

Bahahaha!

Tel 'em they're dreamin'

GOLD!

Well.... i reckon its down to how big you are. Buddy off mine, Big Unit rides a SUP and never seen him get any grief. Mind you, he charges Chopes and Sunset on a SUP...ohh and tears bags on a shortboard...ohh and a good bloke...

Hold on .... its not because he's a big fella, its because he's "Respected" . That generally works. If your not a dick everything is awesome

Hi Bobajob, in a "Kool" attitude I attempted to go right for this wave that sb cant get from his position further up the sandbank...

Hi Latestarter , I look at the meaning of "scourge " www.thefreedictionary.com/scourge so in french I would say " calamité" , I agree so

But you should try one of my boards on kind of weak waves you won't surf on any other surfboards, you might find the challenge and fun of 6'indo wave that day.

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LateStarter said..
Boo ****ing hoo.

Nobody has ever been pissed off at a dude for being a top bloke.

Any KOOK on any board is a scourge. Granted there is the odd waterman out there, but the sooner the majority of kooks return to the golf courses and the Lycra brigade, the better.

Not limited to SUP
Do you really want them back on the road in Lycra? I dunno which is worse

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surfinJ said..

colas said..
The other SUPer with a somewhat big board (I guess 9'6")

....... the shore 1 mile away.

Nice story. But I hate this board size crap. Like saying the race of the guy, he was clueless, leave it at that. I'd have grabbed my 11'.

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Greenroom said..
What makes short boarders think they are the superior craft?
I take off on my SUP just as deep and just as late as any other surfer out there.
Not to mention I can turn it better than most 6' tooth picks.
The only stink eye I get come from blow in's.
When they realise I know my way around they tend to back off.
It's not what you ride it's how you ride it

Love the quote, we should get some t- shirts printed up, I need a Mettams special edition though !!!!!

It's rare to see a good surfer on any craft at mettams, especially on that fat left.

If mettams is working, there's an abundance of spots nearby that will be better, but at least Metts does a good job of keeping all the kooks together as well as keeping business ticking over for the shapers who do ding repairs.