I read that this morning as well couldn't find a link to post up here.

Noway could they regulate this, imagine someone trying to stop you
from surfing an area,no sorry mate the sup section is up there and the
mal section is down there,this is the shortboard section.

I know that posting things on this page these days is likely to cop great criticism from people. I know that everyone has a right to enjoy the waves, I get it.

BUT a double page spread about the danger of SUP in the weekend edition of the local paper is not a good thing. Not for relationships with other surfers, not for retailers or manufacturers selling SUP. It's all round not that great. Whether you think the media has no influence or not the article remains and people will talk about it. Whether it's accurate or not is irrelevant.

There are no online links yet. The pic below is the article, you maybe able to zoom and read but you will get the drift in the headlines.

I can't read the article but from the headlines it looks like a slam at SUP, yet using a Joel Parkinson quote where he criticises Mal kooks for letting their boards go at Snapper. Are SUP surfers now responsible for incompetent longboarders according to this article?

the paper just probably got a bit of stick , over the last few weeks it has run a few positive sup articles , about Jamie one about Angie & Peru. It,s not that negative towards sup more about overcrowding in general.Apart from the bloke who got his ribs smashed by a Sup.

I like the Indian ocean highway a little quieter and wider, and a toch cooler

airSUP said...

papers like this are known for pulling these kind of stunts : "we contacted XX and got no response", "YY was unavailable for comment" , then they write one side only + mostly BS and call it gospel.

they do it to sell papers only, they don't care about what they are doing to local business or local people targeted by their lies.

when contacted for a retraction they say "that writer has been dismissed" or similar BS.

don't even wipe your ass with these kind of papers...

Yeah, except this article has quotes from local retailers, well known surfing identity lawyers, sitting councillors, marine rescue and a bloke with 5 broken ribs all making a pretty bad case.

CMC said...

airSUP said...

papers like this are known for pulling these kind of stunts : "we contacted XX and got no response", "YY was unavailable for comment" , then they write one side only + mostly BS and call it gospel.

they do it to sell papers only, they don't care about what they are doing to local business or local people targeted by their lies.

when contacted for a retraction they say "that writer has been dismissed" or similar BS.

don't even wipe your ass with these kind of papers...

Yeah, except this article has quotes from local retailers, well known surfing identity lawyers, sitting councillors, marine rescue and a bloke with 5 broken ribs all making a pretty bad case.

local retailers are probably smarting from the fact they are most likely losing sales to sups.

i'm probably the cause why base went down

supanimal said...

For many in the industry, SUP has been and is purely the business of making money with no interest in the sport or experience in the rules and regs we as surfers follow so with new entrants entertaining the idea of being involved especially doing homework by reading forums and mags before having a crack, it's always going to end in tears.

Sups can ride rivers, creeks, oceans and the like, take advantage of that and piss off out of the surf breaks cause you are an absolute pain in the arse entering 'surfboard' line-ups.

Yes, I've ridden sups in the surf and absolutely hated trying to twist and turn a blob of a board around surfers with not a pinch of stoke that you get from a surfboard.

Go downwind, go creek adventuring and ripple riding but stay out of the surf unless your in the 1% who rip it apart and can gain respect quickly or know spots that are not populated or are far away from the known and / or crowded banks.

Sup'n a gold coast point is not using common sense for the majority, it's plain stupid.

Maybe we should get a patch on our chests like the bikies to say if we're the 1% who can surf or not. How about you can be the judge and we'll have some kind of initiation ceremony were we can burn a "kook" at the stake

Waste of paper and 2 pages if you ask me.

Can't really see anything ever happening about any of it.

Everyone just needs to learn to live with it and play nice.

You may aswell included every single water based activity.

Recently over in Peru there were plently of Sup's, Mals and Shortboards all sharing the breaks, everyone enjoying it all with no bad mouthing at all. Oh and you also add racing sup's in there aswell.

At the end of the comp people were buying any sort of SUP they could get including Surf Sup and Racing Sup's.

The article that is in today's paper is very out of touch with what's really happening not only here but all over the world.

Good luck with that.

Just surf anything and have fun for god's sake!!

X angie

CMC said...
There are no online links yet. The pic below is the article, you maybe able to zoom and read but you will get the drift in the headlines.

I still can not find any but if you go to the App store you can download the Gold Coast Bulletin App and get todays paper in PDF format in a flash to your iPad.

I do not think that the article is that bad towards SUP's - more water users in general. As CMC said the SUP is probably the straw that broke the camels back. When I was learning (20 plus yrs ago) if you got in the way you were TOLD the rules and learnt very quickly to obey them or you would get a whack around the head or the fins knocked out of your board or if they were nice you would be sent in. You learnt very quickly! Half the problem with these nice easy point style waves is that everyone paddles for the shoulder getting in everyones way instead of taking the medicine and copping it on the head.

Pro surfers getting annoyed cracks me up - I believe a lot of those guys are responsible for the heartache as they tend to think they own the spots and want every wave and are not too good at sharing. Check their wave counts. It just pushes the frustration down the line as people adopt a similar attitude. Surfing is supposed to be a fun and enjoyable time in the water - not a dog eat dog world where everyone is trying to take advantage of others.

Clearly where there are large metropolitan areas people need to learn to live with each other and be very careful and respectful of others. I made a decision 18 months ago to leave Manly as I could not handle the crowds anymore or the large numbers of learners - it was just too dangerous to be enjoyable. There are so many spots around the GC area I can not believe that everyone always wants to paddle out where everyone else is. It just does't make sense to me. Everytime I have been up that way wanting to surf the Superbank (when it worked...) I have neglected to because it looked like mayhem out there. Yet have found great waves on the beaches with hardly a soul out. Go figure.

I struggle to see how they could enforce segregated areas.

supanimal said...

Dallash, not sure why you are taking it so personally mate but I think you need to take the blinkers off, it's a description of the selfishness of some and you should be able to see that being the man of the world and all, relax a little, it may or may not relate to you and I'm sorry if you threw yourself in the bucket I refer too.

I'll put you in that category based on the reply

Hard not to take things personal given this. Relax a little? That's a bit rich coming from you after your previous rant supanimal. Anyway who gives a fark just go surfing. If your good enough kooks shouldn't worry you whatever you're riding

PTWoody said...

I can't read the article but from the headlines it looks like a slam at SUP, yet using a Joel Parkinson quote where he criticises Mal kooks for letting their boards go at Snapper. Are SUP surfers now responsible for incompetent longboarders according to this article?

Relax PT,its a load of crap.
One mal rider today had a little fun with a sup guy today,asked him if he read today's paper and there's a 20mtr exclusion zone around longboarders,the guy had read the paper told my mate to f--k off with a smile all in good fun.

Supanimal has changed since selling his longboards and confessed his love for stand up,is this the same guywho made a statement a few months ago about how great sup is or do I have this wrong