Chopz said...

honestly who gives a ****.

Stand up, lie down, sit down, do a ****ing handstand, were all out there for the same purpose, to enjoy the water.

Like its been said, there are just as many kook shortboarders and longboarders out there, not only SUPs, and with SUP being a new sport it makes sense for there too be more of them.
You could take away all the SUPs, bodyboarders, goatboaters and every single break in your local metro area would still be crowded. And I'd put my morgage on the fact there would still be surfers paddling around out there with a chip on there shoulder coz the bloke who just paddled out isnt a "local".

Build a bridge I reckon.

It's not an even playing field comparing kooks on surfboards to kooks on SUPs-the ability to cause injury and mayhem with a 'kook' on a 10 foot SUP with no or limited surf experience or ability is a multiple of that of the same guy on a shortboard.

As someone that rides both (less SUP lately due to a back injury)-I can tell you that a guy on a SUP is equal to 4 or 5 extra shortboarders in the lineup-particularly if the SUP rider is skilled at getting waves and using the extended wave catching ability of the SUP board to maximum advantage.

Again, it's not a level playing field when comparing the craft.

SUPMTB said...

my MTB mates who are surfers have always called SUP "Stand-Up-Paddle-Goatboating".

With material like that, they could be writing for Letterman.

All good were I surf,its called respect,the few guys who sup out there all come from a surfing background and know the meaning of the word respect,simple really

We get a mixture of all craft, Saturday I had a kook on a shortboard go over the falls right in front of me,I had a nice friendly chat and helped him out,yesterday I had a little grom paddle out who could barely paddle and it was sucky as, I asked hey mate new board hmm,his reply,yes its 2 hours old DHD,wow I said nice board and gave him a tip on body position ( had the nose two foot out of the water ) and told him he would get more waves over there ( shoulder ) he said thanks and paddled over and got someI was happy for the young kid

Don't worry I'll chat to anyone if they are doing the wrong thing,if not someone sure will.

Yesterday I had a father son team near me and the father pushes the kid ( 10 yr )
as I am on a bomb right in front of me,I nearly killed the kid,lucky I was able to get out of it before any contact,I paddled over and said to the dad,hey hows it going mate,he looks at me and does not reply so I said do you have a death wish for your son?he looks at me,still no reply,go figure.

im a hog on a shortboard and a sup or even when i used to ride a mal when it was flat i would hog then but then again im just brought up that way dog eat dog or you get no waves! the bloke i surf with most lets call him goatman is a hell hog and thats when we paddle out in the dark and theres only 2 guys out but what are you guunna do?