what do you do when someone calls you a kook?

lol

the iberian pre-surf stretch-dance is epic

 

they break records.

 

Been to Cali? everybody "surfs" or at least has a board and matchig trunks, shades, t shirts ect. No excuse when you get waves like they do. Just sayin' there everywhere! And yes, I am jealous of anywhere that gets consistant surf especially since I don't get to travel like I used to.

 

I usually laugh.

Sometimes I get pissed but not the often.

Or if I thought the guy was cool and we were buds I get a little sad.

 

Like, dedicated kooks or just kooks...?

Like, EVERBODY surfs in California.

Like, there are beaches, even in Shark Land, that look like every Mormon on the west coast got a soft top and a Billabong 4 mil......picnicking and surfing...with the family......blonde moral types. Their hair was perfect.

 

Holy Macky, Sandblasters, this video is one of the things that came to my mind when I wrote that.

I've never seen anything like this in New Jersey before.

Maybe up in NY at Ditch Plains on a warm smallish day.....make a right outside of town, boys. Follow the dude with The BMW SUV. Shoot, I don't even think Rockaway is this bad. Just follow the guys in tight jeans with sticks on the subway.

1st St. in Virginny looks better than this.....and we all know what that place is like.

Therefore, I conclude that the east doesn't house the most kooks.

 

I have seen similar days at the Squan Inlet and a couple of other tight places when the conditions are right and the surf "schools" are running in the summer.

 

Two stories: One very humbling and the other well...very rewarding.

So about 1996-98 time frame. I was on the North Shore, parked at the store at Sunset (KahukuBoy...what is the store with the Ronnie Burns painting?). I was in the passenger side of my buddy's beat up ford van (best surf ride ever....all tricked out on the inside). I was sitting there with the window rolled down chilling and taking in the Hawaiian air. Buddy was in store and other friend was sitting on the floor in the back of van with big sliding door wide open. (Note, in the water, especially in HI, I am very respectful and know my place).

Anyway, two local bruddas are walking by and one guy walks right up to my window...12 inches from my face (it's Johnny Boy Freaking Gomes). He says "What are you looking at kook...I will f'n pound you". Luckily, my boy in the back put stiches in the guy's foot that Gomes was with and he saved the day. I thought for sure I was going to get false cracked...he chilled but was fuming like I really did something to him. I saw him breaksome guys fins in the water at Makaha like two weeks later and honestly I was like man I hope he don't recognize me!!!

The other time was on the Banks when I was a grom. I was about to paddle out on a decent size day and all the boys were out (back when 3rd street was happening in the 80's). Right when I was about to paddle out this guy says oh too big for you, you better not paddle out. I was thinking man I am ready and I going. So I went hard and he did to at the same time. I got worked a bit but made it out. As I set up in the line up, one of my older cousins friend was right beside me. I said, hey Tommy, you see that guy coming out. He said it was to big for me and I beat him out to the line up. Man...Tommy ripped on this guy so hard in front of all the other guys and called him a big KOOK. I only caught one wave that day but as a grom it was all time!

 

i got called a kook once lol,and it really pissed me off.first off I wasn't surfing,i was spectating on my lunch break.this was doomsday in long branch.me and my buddy co worker are standing watching the waves in awe,work boots,heavy jacket lol,full work gear,and some dude that was waxing his board before I got there and finally started heading over as we were about to leave.i see him walking towards a pack of about 30 surfers on one jetty,and I say dude u should paddle out here,and he went all agro and said why don't u paddle out there kook!!lol swear to god,this was the same guy that got rescued by a statey helicopter in lb,some murdafuka.I wanted to punch the guy in his face just for the hostility and his attitude,but my buddy said time to go back to work.

I have never seen his truck at that spot again,nor anywhere in nj.

 

theres a feature on surfline right now,huntington vs san diego or something,oh Newport it was.

theres a pic that show the crowd.i seriously thought it was photoshopped.I lost count after 75 people.just look at the pic lol and im glad nj is nowhere near that

 

I met a lot more cool people than a holes in surfing.so many times I had people ,random surfer strangers, try to talk me into paddling out with them when its way out of my league wen I started.some really cool people,would love to see some of them again.

 

No doubt...I can probably say the same. Plenty of a holes but many cool dudes along the way as well Cep.

 

so far everyone tolerates me and I don't know why. But I'm still kind of a kook!

 

You should have choked the dude with your leash Scooby. There's always someone faster and stronger than you when scrapping. But hey, you could have been his nemesis scoobs. I agree with brad, not a fan of violence. Unless its necessary. but if the dude throws punches at you, don't let him throw anything else.

 

only straight up f@ggots call someone a kook

 

I wanna say Kammie's market from back in the day but you mighta been at Ted's. Which side of sunset? Vland side or pupukea side?

 

Oh, and I don't think I've ever been called a kook. I've made a few mistakes when I was still learning the ropes, but my dad taught me well about respect in the lineup.

or maybe i've got selective memory and can't remember.

 

I dont know. I guess. I throw up in my own mouth when im in CA the last few years. But the east coast made me wanna cut my own head off. Except for Jersey. All those orange skin peoples = good heckling.

I surf with natives, whales and bigfoots.

 

Not to be racist, but 2/3 of the surfers in this vid are illegal aliens.