Nobody owes you anything

thunderous applause!!! can we also add those who feel entitled to surf however they want, wherever they want without consequence.

 

I am with Lee. It seems like it is not just surfing that is going through a "pussification" but the whole country. I know I will be accused of old fartism here but it WAS different when I learned. (late 70s, early 80s). You didn't dare go anywhere near the older, seasoned guys. It was like showing up at a Pagans MC run on a Vespa. You had to fall in with your own pack of buddies and as you got older you took over. It was fun, it was safe, it was REGULATED by those in the water. No F%cking lawsuits or cops.
Now, everyone wants to claim their right to surf no matter their age, skill level, or type of craft. Is change always a good thing?

 

Damn Earl...nicely said

 

favorite thread ever

 

I agree with everything except the leash part. You have no right to endanger others just to satisfy your own ego and please spare me any crap about how a leash creates too much drag or forces you to try harder- if anything you can push the envelope with one on instead of having to hold back. That said if its waist high and just a few people out then it's no biggie.

I'm not a propopent of our highly litigious society but you'd be a fool to take uneccessary chances with it.

 

Speaking of entitlement, there is nothing i despise more than a "summer local".

 

a ****ing poet

 

YES! If I listen to one more bawl-baby pussified wannabe (in or out of the water) I'm going to jam crowbar through their eye socket. Something about how todays world hands out freebies to lazy bums too afraid to get their hands dirty. Whatever happened to scraping your knees or throwing a little elbow and then once in a while taking a good old fashioned ass-handing to get where you want? Man up folks.

 

Did you really post this?! Did you just type "brother-en", and attempt to give a surfer's history lesson? I wear a leash out of respect for other surfers (Kooks included) and other's enjoying the ocean. Sounds like you have watched too much "bra-boys" and corny a$$ surf flicks. Everyone gets tired of some kook getting in the way, but it happens. If someone is obviously out to disrespect others, well things work themselves out. You are "CALLING OUT" people on a surf forum?!! The same people that surf? Usually don't post, but these usual tough guy posts are pathetic. Your board is going to hit the wrong person one day, and you might be looking to "call the cops." Hopefully the other 966 posts of yours do not consist of crying......

Your turn......show your "tough-guy" internet skills! Freakin tool

 

first let me say that i pretty much 100% agree w/ everything contain w/in your post & earl's.


but, in the interest of historical veracity, i have to correct you on one point. the leash first showed up in the 70s, created by pat o'neill in santa cruz, ca.

 

i love how you guys take all the stupid swellinfo posts so serious. i can assure you that the nonsence that plagues these forums is NOT a true reflection of surfing as a whole.

 

let's not do the leash thing here. There is already a thread for that.

 

it DOES reflex much of summer surfing though.

 

Lee I know who you are, some of your message has validity. Some of it is, I really don't know what to call it. We did this to ourselves by trying to make some money. It is what it is. Deal with it, and damn man learn how to spell. I know you go to college. Everyone needs to stop worrying about lawsuits. Take from a cop that has been involved in a few. Oh and one more thing, before you throw out that puss moniker, you should see how you surf.

 

Grammar kook! Oh wait! Wrong thread.

 

Good stuff H20

 

The "kiddies on the inside" reference was mine. I wear a leash when I feel like it makes sense, not because it's the law... written or unwritten. I don't wear a leash when I think it doesn't make sense. And what makes sense to me is how I'd feel if I hurt a kid when I could have done something simple to have prevented it.

That's called thinking for myself. If I take a risk that might end up with me getting hurt, that's my choice. But when I take a risk that might hurt someone else, it would make me an irresponsible sociopath. That has nothing to do with rebelling against society. I do that in my own personal ways, and I don't call attention to it, because it's personal to me and who should give a fark anyway.

 

you're in the wrong thread

 

i can't believe more ppl are going nuts over this thread... along with everything else... this forum has been going down the tubes.... wait, wrong thread for that. sorry. could you spell check my post?

Lee- nice subject!!!