Sometimes its hard to pick a local.

Was surfing a well known SW spot once with a reasonable crowd. A couple of guys acted like and looked like crusty old locals. Kept coming back to the inside.

I gave them respect and didnt push them for the set waves.

At the end I talked to one and he let it slip him and his mate were from Rockingham and were blow ins like me.

Talking about wanting to kick myself as I had been way to nice.

I am learning and some of this is bewildering.

First thing is I can't believe noobs would fk it up for others. I stay in the sh!t and pick up the whitewater on my mal just to get standing up and learn that before I paddle onto green waves, and even then away from everyone else. Dunno why anyone would do different but anyway...

Next thing that I don't get is that sign. All makes sense bar number 2 - right of way. It says the outside person has ROW, then it says the one on the inside has ROW? Huh?
Then Beastsurf seems to say that his gal should not have picked up a wave that a dude on the inside was going for. Doesn't first on it have ROW so if she paddled onto it out the back all those peeps inside have to leave her to it??

Sorry I assumed if he was inside then he was not up yet. Cool.
I am a bit slow... learning to surf at 39 should indicate that anyway lol

Legion said...

quirkus said...
Not exactly smashin the lip,, but stoked anyway to be surfing 250mtr very soft 5-6ft (?) lefthanders with about 7 crew !!

That's 3' quirky.

Yeah ,,, OK ,, maybe,, perhaps,,, I'll take that on board. . Maybe I got confused with the bigger sets I was dodging !!
And that's another thread too, . Some sites measure by swell size. And others trough to peak. Certainly sets were 8ft trough to peak, even if they were big and slow.
Still, I'm not about to start measuring dicks, it was big enough for me to mess around on..

^^ Ive seen that bloke before

Mark _australia said...
Sorry I assumed if he was inside then he was not up yet. Cool.
I am a bit slow... learning to surf at 39 should indicate that anyway lol

Try it at 55 !

I would be stoked to get a few like that quirkus. Keep it up mate.

byf said...
I would be stoked to get a few like that quirkus. Keep it up mate.

+1

quirkus said...

jbshack said...

byf said...
I would be stoked to get a few like that quirkus. Keep it up mate.

+1

Thanks mate,, and I do my best to stay out of the way.!!

Staying out of the way is important but in my opinion if you can stand then you deserve the rotation of waves just like the guys who pulls airs.. Loads of spots have a surfer or two that think because they are better then everyone else they get the pick of the waves. I personally will often let them be like that (which i guess it just making the problem worse) but i still will jump in and take a wave if I'm position. Often when you do this the others will start to share a bit more..

jbshack said...
Staying out of the way is important but in my opinion if you can stand then you deserve the rotation of waves just like the guys who pulls airs..

Doesn't work like that. Take Pt. Packed for example: if you paddled out at 6am on a half decent day you might get a set wave by mid afternoon if you were lucky if everyone was equal. At my local am I going to share with a bunch of blow-ins and backpackers? At thommo's local I'd consider myself lucky to get a set wave within a month, surfing everyday. At a place I've been surfing very regularly (50+ days/year) for many, many years if the right people are out I consider it a privilege to be in the prime rotation and I won't say a word (nor should I) if they pull priority.

TimKay said...
What about if the kooks want to sit way out on the shoulder and you want to take off deeper to get barreled
Does that mean you have to drift in the channel until they butcher a couple of smokers
Even though you have grown up at a place and they have just arrived and are still relatively learners
Your reasoning sounds good in a perfect world JB but not in reality

as a learner sitting on the shoulder.. you get the crumbs.. thats just a fact.

I used to get heaps of waves while learning on the shoulder without dropping in on anyone.. you just dont get the pick of the litter.. forever thankful for people falling on their first turn!

I just find its worse at my 'local' spots, than I've found with the infamous brazilnuts or locals in Bali...
thats scarey
,,, and if there hasn't been a wave for a week or two , and a 2ft swell comes in , every deperado shredder in the state comes out.. its pretty sad.