Hey Doggie Chrispy is at 34 seconds on this one - landing on his fins.
Can not believe how crowded Pipe gets (11 second mark). Scary. I really do not understand why they all paddle out. If there are 100 people out there with 6 wave sets at 15 second intervals and a set every 5 mins - thats only 54 waves per hour.......and that is assuming every set has 6 rideable waves and there are no long lulls. So a low bound estimator (Simondo will love this analysis I reckon). So if everyone takes turns then it would be over 2 hours before your time came around. As we all know some of the fellas out there will own it, think they own it, do own it and so will take more than their entitlement (if everyone was sharing) and hence you will need to wait even longer for your wave. Now this is assuming you are even in the correct position for it when it comes, no one drops in on you, no one is in your way as you line up the take off, no one is sitting in the impact zone after getting a good lashing on the previous wave and you have to pull back so you do not kill them.........anyway you get my drift I am sure. Is it really worth paddling out there? I would not think so even with a crowd of 50 - things are still shocking.
Why not head up the beach 10 mins and get some other nice waves and get loads of them????? Are they all lining up for the glory? the magazine shot? or is the wave that good that it overrides all your other rational choices and you just have to sit there and hope that you will get lucky (win the lottery) snake a few wide ones? I mean come on its not a wave you can shoulder hop when someone farrrrrrrks up the drop.
Am I looking at this wrong??????? I hate crowds. I normally do not boother if there are more than 6 - 10 people as a general rule. I used to live in Manly though and was prepared to battle the crowd. I hated it. I hardly ever surfed on the weekends. These days I am lucky as I moved somewhere with minimal crowd problems. But farrrrrrrrrrrrrrk me I would love to just catch one wave out at Pipe one day so maybe I am no different anyway!!
Ok I will stop the dribble now and try and get some rest - hopefully this has entertained you for a brief period of time Chrispy why you mend.