Stand Up Crack Down

was this up in the 94th to Clarion area?

 

it just depends who the lifeguard is.. sometimes they tell me im not alowed to stand up riding out to the wave or riding it in.. other times they tell me i just cant skim out to the wave standing up but can do anything on my way in.. other times no one cares at all.. as long as your arent skimmin into kids they usually dont care unless there ****s

 

speaking of this area, when i was infront of the clarion, a lifeguard kept whistlin at me and i didnt know why. eventually he came down and told me i was not allowed to surf in oc.. i told him it was a body board and and showed it to him but he just kept repeating surfing wasnt allowed in oc.. didnt even say just no stand up just said no surfing.. so i waited for them to shift chairs and went back out

 

What the Nazi...

Dude are ****ing serious... thats is so rediculous. Those Police in oc and the fricken idiot lifeguards... the surfing beach there is so small... .they are so stingy and sketch... dude.. im sorry to hear that. that like really bothers me. if i lived there i would be one of the kids getting arrested i just cant handle that they wont allow you to even skim board or stand up on a board. in the whole city except like 2 streets... what the Hell? and the fact the arrested that kid... NUTS? Ocean city can get epic and slightly desolate in the winter though on the right s swell.

 

that sounds pretty ridiculous. i'd check your town's local law. it was the same for me in virginia beach. i stand up everywhere that you're not allowed to surf, and i ride right through crowds just like the **** draggers. the way i see it, if you're on a bodyboard, then you're bodyboarding...even if you're surfing. and if they give you crap for doing it, then they might as well outlaw tourists buying those cheap foam ones.

 

I used to lifeguard in OCMD and I have unfortunetly had to ruin some stand up fun in the same way. The real issue was the skimming out as stated earlier... The issue here should have been the concern over neck injuries from flipping over the shore-break waves, which in my opinion is kinda stupid either way. Although the "no skim boarding" rule is kinda stupid, it does prevent a great deal of injuries that idiot tourists would inflict upon themselves
As far as the stand-up boarding goes. Ideally, Its up to the guard to ensure a safe beach environment for all the beach goers, so it should be the guards call if the "skimmer" is placing himself or others in harms way. Its unfortunate that the crew chiefs and Lt.'s find it necessary to crack down on guards who allow competent people to enjoy the ocean (I myself was written up for allowing such activities to occur on my beach) One final note never talk back to a lifeguard.... This just pisses most of us off, and we will always win if you insist on being a jackoff... Granted many of them will turn into tools on a power trip, but the majority just want to do their job

 

Technically, boards over 42" fit the Ocean City town code description of surfboards and fall out of the bodyboard category... There was a thread I think I saw on here somewhere about a similar issue about surfing soft boards w/o fins during guard hours. I have yet to see someone get called out for going stand up coming into the shore on a herlihy or whatever other kinda bodyboard but I can see it becomming a more contestable issue in the future. Especially with noone using leashes and the boards riding the whitewater back in and knocking little kids wading by the waterline. I hope that this was just an isolated issue due to one loser gaurd than a growing trend...thoughts or any other personal experiences with this?

 

Bomb that...

First of all... Lifeguards are ***gots (east coast lifeguards, props to the guys in gnarly places like hawaii) and deserve no power in the sense of telling us what to do or how to carry one self in that situation that was stated and to call the babylon/Po. i dont kknow. but the tourist i have seen saved had nothing to do with skim boarding, they were overweight and got tired or young and dift out... some **** like that, but most tourist can barely jump on a skim board. yet alone do a flip and brake there neck... its more like an ankle or some **** getting on it.... but you can do that running... can people run on the beach. if you were a life guard on the beach would this be back talking..hhaha.

 

FVCK you. way to call yourselves watermen and screw over your own. i hope that you go crazy watching the surf from your tower.

 

colin and 3 other guys were out at midtown today KILLING it, going in and out of all the little kids doing shovits, snaps, you name it, and running and skimming back into the water and never once had a lifeguard say anything.

sidenote, today was fukin awesome.

 

Ya... When I was like 13 I broke my neck doing backflips off shore pound. So it happens... If i had broken 1 vertebra up I would have been paralyzed, and one vertebra down I would have died. I consider myself pretty lucky...

So if you are skimmin, and doing flips and ****, be careful!!!!!

 

Thats how it should be.... If the guard saw no problem with it and it wasn't endangering anyone it should be their call. Its lame that per policy "fun" of this sort is nixed.

And i have gone F***in insane many a day staring at the surf from my tower. But this didnt turn me into an A-hole over how people enjoy the beach. Life is about the grey area... If you dont cause a scene then you can get away with a lot more. you wanna drink on the beach? do it discreetly... You wanna skim on your beach? talk to the guard about it. most are pretty easy going if you talk to them, and if they shoot you down find another stretch of beach. Obviously anyone who wants to talk an "unreasonable" amount of sh*t to a guard or anyone else is a f'ing jerkoff themselves and will receive an equal response back... thats just life

 

last summer me and my friends were doing stand up the guards were flippin **** about it...they called us in called the cops measured our boards one was a herlihy the other was 43 in and they said those 2 were surfboards and they arrested 2 of my freinds..pretty messed up

 

ocsponger, are you serious? were your friends being complete assholes? Thats pretty extreme for riding a bodyboard a couple inches longer than the 'official bodyboard dimensions' in the Ocean City Town Code.

 

yeeeah

That sounds pretty crappy, sorry to hear about that. For there to be only 2 surfing streets out of over 140 is just rediculous. I wonder who would be the person to talk to about changing that.

 

About a week ago i was in OC doing standup. I never got anything from the lifeguards. I do remember last year in Bethany, bodyboard skimming was outlawed when someone hit the town mayor.

 

I ride a 44" (big guy big board) The real solution here is to just get friendly with your guards. Give Respect Get Respect.

Also, just lay down.

 

Im confused? Are we talking about bodyboards or skim boards. Because the difference is huge. Skim boards are gay and should have a age limit notification on there, like not appropriate for children over the age of 9. There are a handfull of people and a couple places in the world that make it look cool. Maryland is not one of them. If your trying to do flips over thigh high shore break you should be thrown off the beach. The assumption here is that your retarded and your going to hurt yourself or someone.

As for bodyboards, summertime I would imagine, would be a windfall opportunity to get some fun waves in front of lifeguards on non-surfing beaches. And even if you stood up on one, who cares. They're made of foam or used nerf balls or something? What possible damage could be done to anyone?

Enjoy it while it lasts or when you can get away with it, because after the babysitters are gone the surfers will once again be center stage, telling you both "skimmers" and "spongers" alike to BEAT IT KOOKS! Well actually the skimmers aren't really in the way flipping and sliding in ankle deep water. Just amusement.