Discussed in these Forum posts:

Hipsters and legropes
I know it's been talked about before, but here goes.
I'm from Perth and at Cottesloe is a break called Isolated (Isolators or ISO's)
This has become hipster party wave central and a lot of not very good surfers seeking that authentic retro experience of no legrope. I don't care about whether these people hurt themselves or wreck their authentic boards but have some regard for other people (go Byron Bay council).

Anyway, called out a young guy, hipster as all fxxx. Said you must be the best surfer in the world. "What?"
You're not wearing a legrope, wear alegrope.

Well like all of us, he didn't enjoy being called out. What followed was a tirade of "you wanna have a go, come out here and I'll take all your waves and you fat old bastard (like this is news to me, except for my parentage).

Should we call out these people or just "mind our own business".

By the way spoke to a lot of older surfers about this and all agree, use a legrope.
View topic

More like this

Return To Classic site 😭
Or... let us know if a problem, so we can tweak! 😅