I thought this was interesting, it comes from the Dave Kalama Blog,

"The ten man rule is really a windsurfing rule, if there are ten or more surfers on a break you can’t windsurf there. It only applies to Ho’okipa. It makes good sense for windsurfing–you can’t see surfers well when you’re ripping on a windsurfer, and if a break is crowded it’s likely that someone is going to get run over, so the lifeguards recommended a ten man rule and it became a regulation–ten surfers in a break and the windsurfers can’t use it.

A bunch of long-time Maui SUP surfers got together and recommended that SUP surfers use the same rule at Ho’okipa because it relieved the tension between surfers and sweepers. It’s not a regulation for SUP, just a recommendation, and we sweepers at Ho’okipa have pretty much adopted it. You rarely see a Stand Up Paddler at Ho’okipa these days, but I think it’s more because we’ve figured out that there are so many fine spots to use that it just doesn’t make sense to crowd into places that already have too many people."

Doesnt make any sense to me, at least on paper (screen).

A windsurfer is doing much higher speeds then a SUP and using that much more physical space in the same amount of time they're out there. Windsurfers are doing big jumps onto the other sides of waves blind and I can not see how you can transfer those attributes to a SUP.

Does not compute.

A bunch of long-time Maui SUP surfers got together and recommended that SUP surfers use the same rule at Ho’okipa

ie; me and 9 of my mates got together

Zimbo Reagan said...

What a load of crap (no disrespect Dr Funk)

Hey mate, no offence taken....I was just posting someone else's opinion. I generally try to SUP as far away from the crowds as possible but I live in an area were 10 in the water is a crowd.

It makes sense in that if I saw 10 guys at a break I would go somewhere else ... just to get away from a crowd.


I don't know about you but I am so over all this rule making. It sounds like a bunch of ****ty kids making stupid rules for backyard cricket.

Only two rules. 1 Wait your turn. 2. Don't ruin someone else's day.

You may append arsehole to the two previous rules for emphasis if you want. Kool or kook? Don't give a ****. Leave me alone and stop bothering me with all this ****.

i'm not much of one for rules

probably because i already rule

I've got a phuck off big board, and I'm carrying a stick

Scotty Mac said...

Its so good living in SA. I havent seen 10 out at once yet, some times the waves are poor, sometimes its cold but sometimes its really sweet

that because the waves are bigger in my bath tub than where you surf scotty

by the way hows your new banana board...............lol.................lol............lol........lol...............

Zimbo Reagan said...

What a load of crap (no disrespect Dr Funk) but why should everyone else be excluded from a break for the sole benefit of flappers?

Does the rule apply the other way as well? 10 SUP's out there and the flappers have to leave?

If everyone respects everyone else everything will be fine. (I know in reality it does not happen like that[}:)])

flappers ?

pmorgan1974 said...

Zimbo Reagan said...

What a load of crap (no disrespect Dr Funk) but why should everyone else be excluded from a break for the sole benefit of flappers?

Does the rule apply the other way as well? 10 SUP's out there and the flappers have to leave?

If everyone respects everyone else everything will be fine. (I know in reality it does not happen like that[}:)])

flappers ?

LoL thats a new one I think he means crawlers