Yeah, rocks ouch. Reveals that most people do not have a keen sense of swell and set wave behavior (as well as shore pound). Props to dude who took nsp on the noggin and kept paddling and caught the wave.
Getting slammed or dragged along those rough, jagged rocks... Once saw a kite surfer who was setting up his rig get dragged across the more rounded rocks off Surfers Point in Ventura. A sudden big gust had come up. That didn't look like much fun.
That was worth the wait. "Big boned" girls weren't meant to fly, and those were some mighty big bones.