I surf a SUP because of a long term back injury and still secretly harbour hopes of surfing a very voluminous shortboard when the back is completely healed from the operation. Like Ocka and co, I surfed shortboards for a long time and marvel at the abilties of the young crew now. Unfortunately that's about 10% of the total out in the water. The rest are wannabes with big mouths. For all we know you might be the greatest kook out? Give us all a break, the joke's over there are far more injuries from rogue shortboarder and mal kooks than SUPs. Check SLSC statistics. We all make mistakes, yes he should have been further away but any halfway decent surfer would have been able to read what was going to happen and protect himself even if it meant getting his board fin chopped or rolled along the rocks, (which by the way could have been the culprit of the gash having had some experience with getting rolled along the point in a couple of large swells.) Sounds like he was to busy mouthing off instead of thinking!!!
Bit of Karma perhaps??
Well said Leo but..........why bother?
Its like dealing with poorly trained Chimpanzee's. Just when you reckon they might be getting the message, here we go again! Stand Ups are the root of all evil, their going to change the surfing world as we know it..blah blah..blah blah blah. According to the jabbering few, personal responsibility is a thing of the past both on the part of the transgressor and those who witness the transgression and as the most visible representatives of the Stand Up community, we, the users of this forum need to take responsibility for the glaring stuff ups of the very few. Happy to do that if a few of the high profile haters are happy to stand up and take responsibility for the transgressions of all short/long boarders. How bout it? Heard the Superbanks a zoo on a decent swell, know for a fact Winki is a breeding ground for short board aggro and entitlement issues. How bout Burleigh, Kirra, The Pass, Tallows, Narrabeen, Cronulla Point, Ulladulla, Caves, North Point, Jakes and any other break where more than one self appointed alpha short/longboarder find themselves in the company of like minded souls.
Here's a thought...clean up your own back yard before you stick your nose under the fence into mine!!
Cheers
Sparx
Too true Sparx.
Had a big day dealing with morons at work. I found this thread amusing at first, but when I read that incompetents get caught inside, then whinge about only possibly getting hurt by a SUP!!!!! Fin or paddle what was it? As Phill said in another thread we should be more positive on this forum
Does anyone go into the shortboarders forum and call them small penised beginners?? Maybe we should go there and start talking about the old days when you surfed without legropes , Wetsuits weighed 25kg wet and people learned to read the ocean to prevent long swims?? Sorry got the sh11ts with people that have no life experience and find amusement in bagging others rather than praising their own pursuits. 
I think I am possibly subconciously channeling Ocka's comment
Ha!!!
Just about the same Leo. Been watching this one all day and to tell truth, kinda agreed with the sentiment of the original article quoted. Pezzman is a bit of a legend, like a Seppo Witzig or Falzon. His message was that we, all, as surfers need to work our way through this stuff otherwise the decision making gets taken out of our hands and that aint gonna end well for anyone, short, long, kneeling, prone, standing or stand up. Wondered how long it would take the mutt to cut and paste that bit of Point Cartwright propoganda from the short board forum and drag it over. Not long at all!!
Cheers
Sparx
doggie, what crock of ****. i've seen 3 guys take of directly over the top of 5 guys at the bottom of a wave, then the same thing on the next wave and the next too. as a matter of fact the whole set of waves was the same thing. absolute carnage .
guess where -snapper.
NONE OF THOSE GUYS GAVE A **** OR A SECOND THOUGHT FOR THE POOR SODS AT THE BOTTOM COPPING IT.
respect my ass
CLEAN UP YA OWN BACKYARD MATE.
btw way, feel free to cut and paste this in the shortboard forum
mac,i remember a three week swell a few years that peaked on the last day. i'm talking super bank in its heyday. i read about rabbit talking about it being absolutely nuts in one the surf rags.
lm right through to greenie was turning inside out
anyway one guy paddling out says aloud to no one in particular-' i can't believe the drop ins on guys getting shacked off their brains.
some the stuff i saw guys doing that day was the worse i have ever seen in all my years of surfing the southern end
I was on a bank last year summer with basically no one out except a SUP'er who was a couple metres down around another peak. A bigger wave than normal came through so I turned around and started paddling. Guess whom had raced over. Ettiquette indicates that I was closest to the peak too because I could see the wave start to break to my left whereas the SUP'er was coming from my right.
Next thing I hear is screams of 'yep yep' and him being atleast an arms width away charging down. I pulled out last minute but got taken over the falls and I guess knocked him off his wave. Guess what I got. A mouthful about how big and dangerous getting in his way was for me. He then paddled down to the point.
To this day, I harbour a great distrust of people on SUP's. No one else out on the beach in small conditions and he decides to head where I was. Even worse are those whom are in amongst the line up. They have no place there.
should have gone, then it would not have happened- if its you wave do not hesitate just go.
there are plenty of stories going around- it seems to be a bit of the volvo effect
it's like saying all colloingwood supporters are dicks and melbourne supporters love the snow
I know mate, should of but I was still a beginner back then(hence heading out in small stuff when no one would bother) and even if I understood surfing etiquette etc, the site of an SUP charging at/ next to you is kind of intimidating. Worse was I've had this happened to me before with some tourists a while back. They were a friendly bunch of wave hogs that still said sorry if they thought they got me.
Things are different now. My 9'6 tanker begs to differ and if I'm on a shortie with right of way, a dinged board is better than buised ego
Damn straight Doggie and some people just BS and stir up trouble to satiate their own perverse needs. Lets hear from the Sunny Coast SUP rideer that nearly killed the Shortboarder. I'll bet he meant to do it and would do it all over again if he had the chance!!
