RESPECT THE RIDER cause the next one might be you...

Agreed, one of my favorite lefts has a paddle out on the other side of the jetty so when you make it out in the lineup you’re first in line at the peak. I’ve seen many guys snag the next incoming wave even though guys have been sitting and waiting. I usually wait a let a few roll in before snagging a good one, just so it’s fair grounds and not coming of like a d!ck. I have taken a couple waves right after getting out though, if no one’s at that peak and all on the inside or paddling back out, it’s fair game in my book, at least for that specific spot.

Also regarding the paddle back out. It is usually just my luck whether I’m heading back out to the lineup or I blew a wave or whatever, I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time and have to bail at the last second to not get in the next surfers way. I feel like whenever it happens and more than once, it’s with the same guy lol. I feel like a jackass about it but I’m always quick to throw out a sorry just to show respect and usually all is well. Mutual respect goes a long way out in the water. I’ve been in the opposite position too and have had to dodge people duck diving or paddling back out, usually just let it go.

I do remember a day in OC, was like waist high in the summer and not many people out. This one agro mother effer snaked me twice, I didn’t say a word about it but the third time when I was paddling for a wave he quick cut to the inside and went to drop in and I didn’t pull back like the two times prior and make the drop and took the wave. He FLIPPED the fck out and was yelling and crying like a little baby and wanted to go in to the beach and fight, throwing out these threats like he’s gonna beat my a$$ and what not. I kept it cool for the most part and just yelled back at him “what the hell did I even do to disrespect you?! Give me a valid reason and I’ll apologize” and he got all uppity and just said leave me alone but I was starting to get pissed and wasn’t going to leave it at that and said “no tell what I did, you want to keep complaining about what I did so tell me what I did to disrespect you, maybe then I’ll come into the beach and we can throw down in the sand but if you’re gonna just whine you’re not even going to be worth my time going in.” All while this is happening the rest of the people out are dead quiet, it was like a girl, some other kid, and a couple old dudes (not old timers). He pretty much btched out after that and headed in on a crap wave and left it at that. Closest I’ve come to a legit fight in the water. I’ve always been as respectful as possible out in the water and if I’m in the wrong I’ve got no problem owning up to it and apologizing to make things right. But that mofo was just having a bad day or something and had an attitude problem.

 

Glad this chick was ok. When she ended up passing out in the water it seemed like it was going to be worse than it turned out to be.

 

This attitude should earn you a lot of friends

 

Fitz, this cracked me up! I am glad you showed that old biatch what was up!

 

And that is why you never take your wife surfing on your honeymoon.

 

u know I don't really like jersey,i don't hate it,dont love it,but it is nice being from here.everyones talking about crowds I rarely ever see a crowd where I surf.there are days tho where its ridiculous,like people don't go to work or school and every student in highschool is at my beachbreak.but its ok,il drive 2 minutes down the road to an empty peak.cant really speak for summer,i only been out once this summer and that was the 4th of july.I don't waste my time driving to the beach when its under 3 ft to sit in traffic and surf with 30 kooks.not my cup of tea.i don't travel much to surf,i lack a good vehicle and gas money so the first spot I see that's ok I stay put.theres been times when il check one spot and its ok,not great but empty and its breaking,and il go searching for more and end up coming back to the first spot and now theres 10 people out.

and the girl that ate the surfboard,whats the deal with that?common sense would be to simply roll off your board under the wave so u don't take it on the head,and don't take a board to the head.its like seeing an 18wheeler coming at u and u just sit there.waves move fast,2 seconds under water and you come up to calm seas.if I ever get run over by a surfboard or eat a surfboard I would be very hostile,like corey pohan hostile.i had 2 situations that I almost got ran over while paddling out.my boy was about to run me over,dont remember what happened but I know we were tangled in each others leashes and when I went to stand up I was standing on my buddy lol.I was a decent way out so it wasn't shallow,i thought it was til I felt the ground moving

 

This is unfortunate. She started paddling and should have looked at the guys that we deeper than her. To her credit she wasn't up and riding yet and took one last look inside (at least the optimistic side of me wants to think she was checking to make sure she wasn't dropping in). The guy on the NSP wasn't going to kick out and also isn't very good at controlling his surfboard.

For those of you crying that she deserved it and shouldn't be on someone else's wave, stfu. She was guilty of paddling for a wave at most. At least that's what the video shows. That's the reality of surfing in crowds. I do it and will absolutely paddle for your wave because if you fall- then im going. If you don't like that, tough. That's the nature of surfing a narrow take off zone, if that's in fact what the circumstances are here.

 

he is right though.

Also, as much as it sucks for the girl, that the best gif I think I have ever seen!

 

while every lineup is different, i agree with the above

if you want to surf the better breaks then you will have to hustle, battle paddle, sit farther out (or in), be aggressive, paddle towards sets and the peak, etc

 

I try to be nice and all, but if the crowd is all aggro, than it's time to get busy. No crying in surfing.

The girl didn't deserve to get run over, and if that happened at my break the guy would have gotten his a$$ either escorted out if he was lucky, or would have suffered a beat down, same thing if it happened in a mosh pit. Chicks are chicks and right is right and don't be running over the girls in the pit or in the surf. BAD FORM!

 

What this guy said^^^^

 

She DEFINATELY idn't deserve to get cracked in the head but doesn't deserve credit either. She was already long past the point of dropping in and its actually not the nature of surfing in a narrow take off zone - its the nature of surfing without regard for others. Its ignorant to knowingly paddle for a wave someone is up and riding. I hate when someone snowballs an entire section in front of me because they think like you do and start flailing on the wave down the line. I've never seen anyone do this who wasn't a complete nuisance in the lineup. Sorry man. you got this situation all wrong.

 

You're assuming it was intentional. It sure looked intentional but we can't be sure. So, if it was an actual accident would you guys still beat this guys arse?

 

The ocean is there for everyone, if this ahole intentionally clipped this girl someone should find him and crack his skull. How is this behavior even tolerable?

 

Baddy, I'm right there with you....my buddy decided to get into surfing when he found out I surfed, I offered to help him get started and learn. Immediately, he thought he knew everything and took a defensive stance anytime I tried to tell him what he should be doing.

Twice he has ran into me, the first time I was riding a wave and here he comes laying down on his LB and nails me in the shin, blood everywhere...ruined my sesh.

The last time, couple months ago, we're paddling out, instead of of duck diving or turtle rolling, he holds on to the board, spins around and comes straight at me, I dove underwater as he proceeded to run me over laying on his board....I called him every f word in the book...I think I even made up a few....his skeg went through the nose of my board and all I could think about was if that had have gone through my head...

Needless, I say more..:.it pissed me the F off, not the $70 repair to my board, but the fact that after it happened this asshole, who is supposedly my friend said it wasn't his fault, "I should have watched where I was".

I've been surfing for longer than the ShredMachine has been on the earth , in crowds, and never had sh!t like this happen.

I want to apologize, the guy is going to end up hurting someone and I'm the jackass that got him out there...do I regret it?!

Hell Yes!

 

I think I was assuming that the guy was paddling for the wave at the same time and not racing down the line which I now see he was. That's a huge no no, and def don't think like that. I was concentrating on her actions more than the guy. To me it looked like she was getting up and he got the inside track unbeknownst to her, until last minute. Anyway the guy kooked out by hitting her.

 

And she kooked out by dropping in.

 

Thank you for saying that. There is such a thing as waitin your turn.

 

not really. in a true lineup it doesnt exist. It would be good manners but that's it.

 

Good to have you back Koki.