The action is at the end of the vid. I was on the wave first and closest to the breaking section. I could have pushed my bottom turn at about 53 secs, but I did not want a line tangle. He is a toeside riding Italian tourist! You be the jury...

What are you on about?

I can't believe I just spent 1 min watching that. The only good thing is that your riding a wainman kite!

Given he has his back to you, he has right of way. My interpretation is that although you may have had right of you on the wave (too hard to tell if thats the case), it is outweighed by your primary safety responsibility to bear away from him.

if he's a tourist he automatically loses right of way so tell him to neck up and F@CK off

totally in the wrong

i am sure sunny garcia and jeremy flores could offer some advice !!

This one is easy to work out.

He's Italian, he kites, he liked that wave - its his wave you fool!

You should back out as soon as you see him dropping in on you. Even get hammered on the inside for him. Kites can be repaired anyways!

He doesnt ever drop in, if hes tracking a wave from anywhere - that wave is automatically his...even on the way back out, if he sees a tasty wave...he can sneak a quick gybe in and share with the guy already riding. Thats cool isnt it!?!

Look, no one else really matters - he's the best rider out there, should get the best waves and everyone must see him riding the wave of the day.

1st class w&nker.

I hope you pointed out which direction the airport was

Regardless of who had right of way on the wave (there are plenty more out there) I believe you did well to hold it together.

I would have lost it had I been in the same situation with that antagonistic behaviour.

au_rick said...

Lazarus said...

The action is at the end of the vid. I was on the wave first and closest to the breaking section. I could have pushed my bottom turn at about 53 secs, but I did not want a line tangle. He is a toeside riding Italian tourist! You be the jury...

Looks to me like you just backdoored a wave that he was already riding ?

You lose !!

+1

Looks to me like you could lose a few kilos, fancy yourself as a charger - when in reality you muck about in knee high swell - and ride straight downwind, accross other's well established trajectory assuming you have a god given right of way... and then post a vid of your antics seeking approval for your behaviour.



Had to laff at the "Myooove! Fork orf!"

Good to see he applauded your act, he obviously enjoys a good circus.

Surprised he wasn't wearing his underpants at the same time.

who should pull out...?

I believe that it should be you

pullin your head out your arse

first wave of the day

force yourself down the line at speed doing weak turns

you could have slowed down and created a bit of distance between the two of you

a one minute clip posted by you is pretty arbitrary, that dude could have been there all day, riding from that same section on, hassle free

then some tool wearing a two tone brown steamer in summer comes flying down from way upwind and calls right of way

I bet you gots heaps of friends

Thanks, i appreciate the comments both kind and unkind. This forum is great - full of wisdom and wit.

It was in Cape Town and the water is cold, so most of us wear full suits in summer. I know, it does not look very cool and at my age I cannot be bothered to pull a pair of board shorts over my wetsuit just to try and look cool.

I did not get anywhere speaking to him afterwards but one of his kiting mates apologised for his agorance and said he was just like that. I guess some guys are just pr*cks. What was funny was he tried to terrorise me on the water afterwards - gunning for me and then pulling out at the last second, but I ignored him and he eventually drifted downwind.

I was in two minds as to whether to post or not. I have made enough of a mountain out of a molehill from this incident which if I had not got on cam I would simply have left, but i did think it might be vaguely educational and a bit funny.

There were plenty of other waves that day. Weak turns and all it is here if anyone cares

Was this the dude on the kite?

^^^In the history of time every impressive world champion hasn't needed to use bridaled beginner delta bow kites. If they needed bridals, im not impressed.

that's what you get for riding strapped. live with it or ride where others don't.

i unblocked youtube for that ?


all i saw was some d!ckwad drop onto a wave and then abuse someone else for already being there .


You are in the wrong