Might as well come clean

This^^^

A very good friend of mine almost died in Cabo rescuing a boy who got sucked out in a rip, and he's a strong swimmer too.

 

That is absolutely tragic. There are a lot of people that don't have the respect for the ocean that they should. Most of those poeple are on vacation and see the ocean once a year. It breaks my heart that these people lose their lives and additional folks are put in danger trying to rescue them.

Regardless of that. All I am saying is that i disagree with your tactique.

You "coming down" on frost is just awkward. Making him aware of the dangers to himself and others is what is important and there are several ways of doing this.

I guess he has been doing quite a bit of side stepping around the idea of learning to swim... It's never to late to learn. Suck up your pride like you did making this post and go get yourself some swim lessons.

 

Im no idiot, ive been 'learning the ocean' since I was 7, going out on boats, sand recon, watersports, golden showers, but I still dont know how to swim, and its ok, becasue other people will help me by putting their lives at risk

I have no regard for them, only my own selfish clueless behavior

does that sum it up frost?

 

I don't feel bad for for giving someone some verbal confidence to go learn something. I agree, he should learn to swim, but you know what, he is a grown adult. He knows his boundaries, if he ventures out of them, that is not my fault. I have never influenced him or told him to paddle out in cane size surf. frost is the one who made the comment about not missing any cane swells.

 

Your full of shot no man who knows those things about the ocean would teach his son to swim at a very young age

Just like me dad did for me and his grand puppy's did for him

Why don't you tell us your real name know so when reports of a drowning victim in VB come in we already know what happened

 

bull fkn sh1t.
tough love and he is a 'grown man'. he needs to understand how sh1tty he is, this isnt a group hug or participation trophy, the ocean keeps it real as fvck and frost aint ready for it.......and he puts others lives on the line by his callous disregard for common sense.

this thread pisses me off

 

^^ this is really lame. You're flailing around now, frosty......kinda like a drowning man....

 

Jeez, dude, quit while you're still way behind.

 

my god clown, there is no helping you you ignorant redneck

I dont know anyone irl who goes in the ocean and cant swim.
maybe they exist, but I dont know them, cause they are too dumb for me to talk too

 

Woah.... I don't like being in deep water and it'll be a long time before you catch me out over some kelpe bede or a 2-300 yards out. F no son.

But ****e man, not being able to swim and taking up surfing requires an astronomical amount of reckless balls. I almost tip my hat to you, be it not for all the other valid points made against how reckless of an idea it is.

Good luck. I would tell you to kill yourself but you're kinda on that path already so....

 

Really, I've only met one other person who cant swim... and he is black. Black people are like cats when it comes to water.

 

Ah MISY13 I kinda like when we agree on things nowadays

Like I really want to punch him in the face now...you know it becomes personal when someone you know died cause of a similar situation

 

A strong undertow or a rip could knock you off your feet, a wave dumping hard in waist deep water could knock you down and hold you under.....that happened to me when I was a wee brat in the icy waters of Hampton Beach, so I learned to swim shortly afterwards.

IDK, it seems like you're resistant to the idea of learning to swim, and are trying to justify all the reasons why you don't need to.

But, hey, the forum has been kinda dull lately and you've really livened things up.

 

Dang, frost is getting like 10 new ones over here...

This calls for a:

"Best way to learn to swimme" thread

Who'll be up to the task? Hmmm?

 

It's so obvious I can't believe nobody has said the word yet.

SCHWIMMFLUGEL!!! Get ya some!

http://www.mountainbaby.com/water-wings-schwimmflugel-learn-to-swim

 

Yeah man prob is several people have nicely tried to show him this is a bad idea but instead of just saying "you're right guys and thanks for giving enough of a crap that you don't want me to drown, I think I'll go sign up for swim lessons" instead he's doubling down and trying to justify it.

The stuff about being on boats. So what, by the time I was 12 I was prepping for my captain's license. When me and my Dad went out he didn't have to do a thing except drink beer and catch fish. From dock to the gulf stream and back I had it under control. Plotting via LORAN and compass, monitoring the weather, blah blah blah. We've been out 25 miles off Cape Hatteras and thrown a rod in the engine. No panic, we got it working and limped back in.

And ya know what? Other than teaching me just how easily the ocean can kill you it has nothing to do with surfing. Big block V8 don't give a damn about riptides.

Frosty, listen to what the tractor man says, swallow your pride and learn to swim. There's absolutely NO reason not to, other than stubborn pride.

 

Loran? man, you old

 

jesus fkin chris'd

i come back after 2 hours and this post gets 8 additional pages sayin the same shiete "bro ur cray, bro learn to swim, bro leashes break, bro a rip current is da realst and youll get sucked out faster than a deude wit a proffesh porn star"

do you wanna know what a real shredder wud do?!
paddle his skinny hips in da lineup during cat 3 cane swell DOH approx 14 ft steep and deep and pit so hard u losed an eyeball.

stop all this carefull bullshiete
if u ever wanna shred that hard u sack up right now buddy do a few breaststroke tell ur daughter to hold ur beer and watch this

now back to ashley madison and the bowling bawl headed sponge grom fight
that shute was mad funny

 

Ha the funny thing is I remember how awesome it was when we actually got LORAN implemented off the coast of NC.

ODB in da house.