So not sure what ppl think, but i\'ve been surfin for 20 yrs now, (ouch im old) and it seems now more than ever ppl congregate in the same spots, whatever happened to spreading out, ill surf a lesser wave if only so I don\'t have to deal with 40 of my closest friends, am I weird or just getting too old and becoming anti-social. And to the kid i ran over (you looked about 20), sorry but when you sit inside with 10 of your buddys I cant keep track of all of you at once, especially when 4 of you are trying to drop in everytime. And don\'t even get me started on the surf nanny cams!
It's the youtube generation man. They like to pack themselves in front of anyone with a camera and be famous. The internet is so filled with 'cool vid's' of mediocre surfing. Drives me nuts how people care more about looking cool than just having fun out there. Nevermind the fact that showing people you can mount a go-pro and look like Gumby doesn't really make you look cool. Anyhow, I'm with ya man. I wouldn't consider myself an 'old guy', but I would argue the guys on longboards are a lot more fun to surf with. Less attitude, more aloha, more sharing, etc. The young'n have lost their stoke, maybe because they got coddled as groms instead of getting stuffed in trash cans.
I actually was out the other day with my short but went back to the house and got my 8 8 stewart hydro sat outside and caught everything b/c it was me and 1 other for a good 20 min then bam 40 ppl showed and it was way too crowded, all im sayin is go over a jetty or 2, if i walk up and see 10 at the jetty i'm movin down to less crowded block, there is only like 6 miles worth of beach on the island, but thats just me i guess. And the cams have ruined a couple of my old faves from growin up, what if we moved the cams?
nothing more annoying then go-pro videos...watch my sweet facial expressions brah!!!!!! or my super rad feet twist and turn while water splashes on them!!!!! I've never seen such an intense angle of these circumstances!
ive got a gopro, i try to surf empty breaks and im very friendly and outgoing in and out of the water. what does that make me?
No but I think there have been a ton of lurkers. Look at the amt of reads for a thread and they are in the thousands. Definitely aren't thousands of replies...
We're social creatures... we're wired to feel more comfortable and safer with others of our kind. So yea... if you're the kind of surfer who'd rather surf off season, seek out an empty peak, catch waves at your leisure, not have to worry about "taking turns" or hitting someone and damaging board or flesh... yes... you ARE and antisocial freak who's genetic code should be plucked from the gene pool. Why can't everyone just be normal... and surf the same peak, wear the same boardies, and ride the same surfboard? Geeez...
If I had my way, all popular breaks would function like the open scenes of Lords of Dogtown where the best guys get first dibs and the groms keep the kooks out of the area!
That must be why I, and presumably everyone else, just loves to get stuck in a traffic jam. Which of course is much safer and less chaotic than a crowded break.
Z-Boys Fo Life!!!!!! It a give and take situation. Dredging and storm take alot of spots ways only leaving a few. In the summers we are all put in one spot to battle it out for small waves . Then when fall comes we are still in that mentality unil most of us get back to out off season groove. I tend to surf the same spots in the summer but once fall comes I tend to hop around surfing spots from AC to CM . It just depends where I am at and what time i gotta be at work and what day it is.
Creatures of habit. I usually surf a good jetty in my area (north or south depending on swell direction) I've got street cred there because if there's waves and I'm around then I'm there. I paddled out at the south end of the same town last week and felt like I was the low man on the totem (sp?) pole again. Guys clearly had their own pecking order there. Don't get me wrong, I got my share of waves but did feel like I was in someone else's territory.
jenks was good,but the after-school crowd and the 'locals' attitude and all,so i have to be totally desperate,but sometimes,like manasquan,it's the only game in town,so i go,get my waves,get out,puke,and go home.not fun,but gets my fix
because i'm a beachbreak surfer,but when it sucks there at a certain point i have to surf a more quality wave and surf in the crowd,and it makes me sick
Yes its really wierd how people congregate. Force of habit I think! Just like everyone gets up late and shows up at the beach at 10am when me and a few lucky ones were the early birds and got the worm. Sometimes its fun to surf with my buds or the tourists for the stoke especially if the girls are out but for the most part I'd rather have my own peak or share with just a few. Winter surf is when its actually nice to see someone one else out there.
