Out surfing a Northern Beaches (Sydney) beach last week-sunny day, light NE and smooth fun 2 feet waves, tight pack of surfers of about 30 and a bunch of groms surfing amongst the swimmers on the inside.

50 odd year old out there on a 12 foot board-taking out off the back of the pack and literally careening through with limited ability to do anything but point the board and go.

Watched him go past me and my groms on a set, in the foam and watched as he mowed down two 10 year olds surfing the foamie on the inside-heard a huge crack and turned around and saw one of the boys screaming and holding his head-blood gushing.

SUP guy is holding the kid's head and putting pressure on the wound to stem the blood flow. Takes the kid to the beach and hands over to a not impressed dad (local surfer).

SUP guy has a chat to a few people on the beach-paddles back out and keeps doing his kooky careening thing.

I hear that the 10 year old received 10 stitches and missed a week of school.

Moral-if you don't have the ability and can't control the board and it's crowded-don't go out there-use some common sense-know and accept your limitations. Don't run over children!

Rant over.