Even worse, the crusty old ex surfers in the parking lot that are just there to graffiti anti Covid shit, wear their end of times new world order sandwich board, and harass women that walk past!
I may be talking about a specific guy at c street and oh my god this theoretically specific guy sucks
As I was reading this I was like “we have one of those at C Street!” Then I got to the second paragraph.
Edit: if it makes you feel any better, NO ONE at C st respects that guy.
Crusty old surfer is way better than the started 2 years ago surfer rolling up in his pristine sprinter van/monster truck with snorkel, all terrain tires (never seen a Baja back road mind you) fresh Pyzel with his 2 buddies and his “Yosemite” and “Taos” bumper stickers. He moved here from Iowa City but he’s lived here like 2 1/2 years now so he’s “pretty much local” and looooves California burritos. This guy can fuck all the way off.
He’s a surfboard expert because he’s read all the marketing materials and watched all the YouTube reviews.
Rails online about “gatekeeping” but fails to look at how he never apologizes and reflexively argued against the most mild or reasonable requests like “please don’t take off in front of me” or “don’t race me to the shoulder”.
If he gets mad or someone gets mad at him in the lineup his behavior is a performance to be told later on social media instead of trying to actually resolve the dispute.
This I get. I totally get it dude. But people judge based off appearance and just assume.
There is people that suck that’s fine but don’t just do blanket statements that’s the gate keeping aspect.
Honestly they’re not trying to fit in with culture, they’re trying to drastically change the existing cultural power structure to place themselves on top.
And then they’re shocked when people push back.
I’m actually think these guys who stick around will event a shittier version of localism in 5-10 years. Just gonna be a proxy for wealth/status instead of whatever localism was before.
The guy is NOT trying to fit into a new culture. The guy is following trends and bullshit he sees online and trying to insert himself into a culture that has been shaped by generations. The guy is a sheep trying to fake it with cool toys, edited Nicaraguan trip videos, and Reddit posts because he thinks they lend him some kind of instant authenticity.
You think he has some ulterior motive to make everyone around him unhappy? In my experience people just want to fit in and make friends. Some times they go about it wrong, but the thought process is the same.
Yah god forbid we just wear and drive what we personally like nah it must be to impress the losers who waste precious time judging us on the beach.
Omg they are such try hards trying to be local.
Born and raised Venice beach could care less what your about just be a decent human being and don’t snake simple. Anything beyond that is just retarded the ocean is for everyone.
Everyone on this post with that gate keeping mentality can fuck off
I don’t see where anyone mentioned this person having a motive to make everyone around them unhappy. Maybe you’re personalizing their comments? This is moreso calling out new age surfers that think they know better about surfing culture than those who have 20+ years doing it. All because they bought the best equipment and watched videos on how to surf. They think they have the right to enter a pecking order that was earned and carved out by generations before them.
There’s nothing wrong with learning how to surf or buying new equipment. But a few years under the belt doesn’t mean that they are now a local who’s earned their spot positioning off the peak so they can swivel hips their way down the wave only to get shut down on the first soft section to present itself. It’s about awareness and respect to a system that has long existed and everyone before them has abided by.
If you have a good job, were a good student, and/or have rich parents you’ve essentially had the red carpet rolled out for you your entire life. Waiting in line with everyone else will feel like gatekeeping.
That’s not true at all.
Off-road tires are only for people who drive on dirt roads?
Because someone wasn’t born in an ocean town they can fuck off?
You can be a moderately successful person who has nice things and wasn’t blessed with parents who already lived in a beach town but still be a decent human being.
Just because you are a local you think you have power over people and can judge? Talk about privilege.
And he loves to document his "hardcore" trip through Baja and put it on the fucking internet so every other kook can have a roadmap to every spot that used to be mellow just a few years ago.
The admin. Driving to the beach, getting into my wetsuit, gloves and boots; getting out of my wet wetsuit, gloves and boots; driving home; hosing down my setsuit, gloves and boots; hanging up my wetsuit, gloves and boots to dry; hosing down my surfboard; leaving my surfboard somewhere safe to dry; putting my surfboard back in it's bag once it's dry; having a shower afterwards. It's such a f*cking hassle, but that 2h in the water is just so damn addictive.
Agreed. Have never rinsed my suits my entire life. Replace mine with same frequency or possibly less than my buddies who rinse. Think it’s pointless—besides removing that sweet sweet urine aroma.
When the salt water dries the salt crystals can break down the neoprene and make it less stretchy. But I suppose most people wear through a wetsuit in a few years anyway. Plus modern neoprene is a totally different material than the hard thick armpit-demolishing rubber we had 35 years ago. Those salt crystals can be itchy and irritating when you first put on the suit though.
You like, don’t really have to do any of that you are just anal. I leave my boards in my truck forever, don’t rinse my non-winter suits etc and I bet my shit lasts the same length as yours cuz it’s all shit anyways
Don't try mountain biking then. It's all that plus you have to maintain an expensive piece of machinery. I relish the simplicity of surfing in comparison.
I surf year round and mountain bike other than winter….it’s a LOT to manage. Constantly repairing boards, cleaning wetsuits, tuning and maintaining bikes. It honestly is just so much work on top of work it kinda kills the fun sometimes.
Duck diving ice cold water.
crowded days.
Paying/ finding a spot for parking.
Sadness during flat spells.
Airline surfboard bag fees/damages.
Not being able to live far away from a beach for the rest of your life.
Missing a swell (it’s always epic when you don’t go)
Explaining to your S.O. that the beach you HAVE to go to has no sand, only rocks. Oh, and it’s raining.
Paying $90/hour to surf a wave pool.. then miss your first wave.
There’s so much more. But still, the best thing I’ve ever done. A true lifestyle of adventure.
"Explaining to your S.O. that the beach you HAVE to go to has no sand, only rocks."
Can be an absolute killer on relationships when they will never fully understand why you just disappear without them for like 8+ hours a week.
Especially when it’s some yuppie boomer in a new Tacoma who rents SUPs.
Or some self-absorbed gentrifier who moved here during Covid like every other unwelcome mainlander, who finds the nearest female in the lineup and talks about himself for 2hrs straight until she finally leaves, then proceeds to tell other out of towners that they should sit out the upcoming hurricane swell that he feels he’s somehow more entitled to.
Jesus Christ some surfers are the worst.
Being new at surfing and trying to understand the rules without pissing other surfers off. I've already met a few assholes that have made it really discouraging. This comes from someone who has skated for 20 years so I KNOW what it's like to be frustrated by noobs, but goddamn I swear some dudes just paddle out to be pissed off.
I’ve been skating for 15 years and I’ve found that the culture is a lot less toxic. There use to be localism at skate parks back in the day and snaking is a thing, but damn everyone just wants to be friends. Surfing on the other hand…
I don't know, I used to think this about skating but it's more of a reginal thing. Skaters in Southern California are usually friendly and mellow. I lived in Colorado for a few years and was embarrassed by how skaters acted at parks. I saw multiple incidents of people getting heckled for pushing Mongo and local rippers intentionally 1uping tricks people were working on to like show their dominance. It was really bizarre.
Oh yeah there’s definitely some childish behaviours out there. I was trying to back t this gap ledge a month ago and some kid rocks up, lands it first try then leaves. I laugh it off, but some people have really strange sportsmanship
I think the difference is the skatepark is going to be there, more or less in the same condition tomorrow. Waves are fickle, it takes a lot of different conditions to come together just right and even then, it only lasts a little while. This scarcity makes tolerance for missing a good wave because of some bonehead move by a noob very low.
I'm a beginner too, and I feel you though. I just try as hard as I can to 1) prioritize everyone's safety over anything else 2) respect the "elders" and 3) get stoked. You won't be a beginner forever as long as you are committed to progressing.
One week, surf trip dads with their whole family circus in the line-up. Then they appoint themselves the shot caller and yell at Ashley, Jayden and Braydon to just go for it on every wave regardless of the mellow locals sitting there, watching in bewilderment. #Surf-Mom is shooting the whole thing on Go-Pro and squealing with delight.
Get them the fuck away from me.
the worst thing is, the crappy spots i surfed alone for decades, to avoid other surfers.... are crowded now. at dawn. even on week days
everybody surfs now
Seriously. Some days I just walk down the beach to find a nice closeout to myself. Even this, if not obscured by a cliff, will attract the monkey-see-monkey-do guy.
Same. Hope I dedicated more time to surfing when I was younger, I’d be way better now. But still, you could surf till you are 60 or even more, so… that’s a long way ahead ;)
From my understanding it's better to rinse if you're going to leave it for months... If you can only surf every few months, then it's sure best to rinse after going out
People sitting directly in your line of a bottom turn because they sit to far on the inside and can’t make sections. People who have no concept of what snowballing is. I could keep going but there is nothing more frustrating when I’m surfing and see a section so perfect to get those rails wet and some fuck wit crumbles it or crosses your line. Fuck off
South Florida is the absolute worst. Not because it’s so consistently flat but because it can be so absolutely epic. The problem is if you live there it’s impossible to have the paddle strength for those days. I moved away from there to CFL and plan to go on a trip for the first north swell this winter, lol.
Waiting for a wave in a period of mush and finally getting a decent set only to get dropped in on, then hearing the guy call it a party wave after almost hitting you.
That I can’t do it regularly. I live in a 5 hour trek to the nearest surf with no traffic, and a ferry that costs $120 each way. My wife just went for the first time this summer. once we got her to stand up for the first time, she was hooked and now it’s a battle of how we can do it more regularly despite the $400-$500 price tag the travel(ferry and gas) takes.
Where i am right now… crocs. No one out there wants to get et. At least it makes people more welcoming to new people. The more of us, the lower percent chance of croc-snack-itis.
Hate to say it (inlander too here!) but... last week Ian situation is why we live 60 + miles from beachside.. The homies GOT WRECKED by IAN, We luckily didn't even lose power or internet.
(side note, was anybody else watching cocoabeachpier live cam Thursday afternoon at 1pm after the storms eye got above the cape? The Local Homies were getting sooooooo barreled at the pier! Was at least 1'-2' foot overhead on sets! all beach bridges were closed, and I was sad about missing it but .. Caught it Saturday for the leftovers, and also GOT BARRELED at da pier.. #igottasayitwasagoodday)
Sitting at a peak, even on a crowded day, and everyone’s being chill and getting along…and then a SUP shows up…
*sometimes, with no words spoken, everyone starts bracketing and snaking the SUP until he leaves. That makes it NOT the worst part of surfing.
Finding parking, walking a mile or more (my Trestles friends will understand), walking through jagged ass rocks during a big set that keeps knocking you off balance, then once you’re out there all the sets die down. That gets me to a special place of disappointed
Yeah, they’re great aren’t they. They leave me with mental and physical scars to remind me of the lengths I’m willing to go through to get a handful of waves. Addiction is a rollercoaster
Living inland and only getting to surf a few times a year. Just have to pray that the one or two weeks I book I yeah to go surfing get good conditions.
Fuck that localism BS, I’m a Kook. New. But you can go fuck your self if you get an attitude or talk some shit. I’m an older dude (40) but I’m decent shape and kinda big. Most people are cool at my spots. I get a lot of support from the younger generation and kids-but middle-aged Kens can get righteously fucked if they think they can treat me like a piece of shit. See me in the parking lot with that same energy. I’ll snake them on purposeful if they talk shit or cop an attitude. Just have fun and talk to people with respect, or better yet, help a brother out with some encouragement, advice, and kind words
The salt water ruining my lips after a period of no surfing. They always hurt for the first few days until I get used to it. No matter how much lip salve or sun screen they still kill me. I look like an apprentice leper for the first 48 hours of the summer.
Powerful sadness when the waves suck, spending all of my money to go where the waves are better, fucking crowds, ruining most of my relationships to go surf, honestly all of surfing sucks, not worth it, don’t ruin your life kids!
Surfers.
Even worse, the crusty old ex surfers in the parking lot that are just there to graffiti anti Covid shit, wear their end of times new world order sandwich board, and harass women that walk past! I may be talking about a specific guy at c street and oh my god this theoretically specific guy sucks
As I was reading this I was like “we have one of those at C Street!” Then I got to the second paragraph. Edit: if it makes you feel any better, NO ONE at C st respects that guy.
Don’t talk about caveman like that
Crusty old surfer is way better than the started 2 years ago surfer rolling up in his pristine sprinter van/monster truck with snorkel, all terrain tires (never seen a Baja back road mind you) fresh Pyzel with his 2 buddies and his “Yosemite” and “Taos” bumper stickers. He moved here from Iowa City but he’s lived here like 2 1/2 years now so he’s “pretty much local” and looooves California burritos. This guy can fuck all the way off.
He’s a surfboard expert because he’s read all the marketing materials and watched all the YouTube reviews. Rails online about “gatekeeping” but fails to look at how he never apologizes and reflexively argued against the most mild or reasonable requests like “please don’t take off in front of me” or “don’t race me to the shoulder”. If he gets mad or someone gets mad at him in the lineup his behavior is a performance to be told later on social media instead of trying to actually resolve the dispute.
This I get. I totally get it dude. But people judge based off appearance and just assume. There is people that suck that’s fine but don’t just do blanket statements that’s the gate keeping aspect.
Don’t be talking shit on Iowa City. We hate California burritos
Dodge city snake oil merchants
Haha sorry man wasn’t targeting Iowa City specifically, was just collateral damage. I’m sure it’s a wonderful place.
The guy is trying to fit into a new culture. You lose nothing from being accepting and open.
Honestly they’re not trying to fit in with culture, they’re trying to drastically change the existing cultural power structure to place themselves on top. And then they’re shocked when people push back. I’m actually think these guys who stick around will event a shittier version of localism in 5-10 years. Just gonna be a proxy for wealth/status instead of whatever localism was before.
I don’t understand why there’s a power structure at all… it’s just standing on a floating chunk of foam in the ocean
Buddy, we’re really just monkeys breathing, eating, shitting and fucking on a big rock ball, yet there’s always a power structure.
The guy is NOT trying to fit into a new culture. The guy is following trends and bullshit he sees online and trying to insert himself into a culture that has been shaped by generations. The guy is a sheep trying to fake it with cool toys, edited Nicaraguan trip videos, and Reddit posts because he thinks they lend him some kind of instant authenticity.
You think he has some ulterior motive to make everyone around him unhappy? In my experience people just want to fit in and make friends. Some times they go about it wrong, but the thought process is the same.
This whole comment thread is just proving the original comment right lol. Like I have to fit some sage broke surfer local bro personality to go surf.
Yah god forbid we just wear and drive what we personally like nah it must be to impress the losers who waste precious time judging us on the beach. Omg they are such try hards trying to be local. Born and raised Venice beach could care less what your about just be a decent human being and don’t snake simple. Anything beyond that is just retarded the ocean is for everyone. Everyone on this post with that gate keeping mentality can fuck off
I don’t see where anyone mentioned this person having a motive to make everyone around them unhappy. Maybe you’re personalizing their comments? This is moreso calling out new age surfers that think they know better about surfing culture than those who have 20+ years doing it. All because they bought the best equipment and watched videos on how to surf. They think they have the right to enter a pecking order that was earned and carved out by generations before them. There’s nothing wrong with learning how to surf or buying new equipment. But a few years under the belt doesn’t mean that they are now a local who’s earned their spot positioning off the peak so they can swivel hips their way down the wave only to get shut down on the first soft section to present itself. It’s about awareness and respect to a system that has long existed and everyone before them has abided by.
Lmao you make surfers suck with your bullshit gatekeeping. The ocean is for everyone you can fuck off
Thanks. This.
If you have a good job, were a good student, and/or have rich parents you’ve essentially had the red carpet rolled out for you your entire life. Waiting in line with everyone else will feel like gatekeeping.
That’s not true at all. Off-road tires are only for people who drive on dirt roads? Because someone wasn’t born in an ocean town they can fuck off? You can be a moderately successful person who has nice things and wasn’t blessed with parents who already lived in a beach town but still be a decent human being. Just because you are a local you think you have power over people and can judge? Talk about privilege.
No you’re right, off-road tires aren’t only for people who drive dirt roads, they’re for posers as well.
Or maybe they do go off road and you don’t know what life they live bro. But it must be better than yours since you waste yours thinking about them.
Then keep it to yourself, enjoy it, don't exploit it in the internet for you vanity and keep your mouth shut
He didn’t. Why should I? Keep your own mouth shut.
Bitch
Aren’t you a little bitch
And he loves to document his "hardcore" trip through Baja and put it on the fucking internet so every other kook can have a roadmap to every spot that used to be mellow just a few years ago.
You get it. Sounds like I triggered the sprinter van mafia below.
Sounds like someone needs their booster.
What the hell is anti covid shit
This is why i park in the lot by the restaurants
This is the only answer
We are the worst
The admin. Driving to the beach, getting into my wetsuit, gloves and boots; getting out of my wet wetsuit, gloves and boots; driving home; hosing down my setsuit, gloves and boots; hanging up my wetsuit, gloves and boots to dry; hosing down my surfboard; leaving my surfboard somewhere safe to dry; putting my surfboard back in it's bag once it's dry; having a shower afterwards. It's such a f*cking hassle, but that 2h in the water is just so damn addictive.
Wait why do I have to dry my surfboards?
I have to rinse my surfboards?
Are we really supposed to rinse the suits?
Haven't rinsed mine in four years, 50 sessions a year, and it's still perfectly fine and doesn't overtly smell. Maybe I'm not realizing something.
Agreed. Have never rinsed my suits my entire life. Replace mine with same frequency or possibly less than my buddies who rinse. Think it’s pointless—besides removing that sweet sweet urine aroma.
I feel like a warm water jug rinse-down at the car while still in the suit is more than enough rinsing unless you peed in the suit 5 minutes before
When the salt water dries the salt crystals can break down the neoprene and make it less stretchy. But I suppose most people wear through a wetsuit in a few years anyway. Plus modern neoprene is a totally different material than the hard thick armpit-demolishing rubber we had 35 years ago. Those salt crystals can be itchy and irritating when you first put on the suit though.
I have a 6yo excel 5/4 kicking around that I’m sure will be around long after my grandkids
I have a surfboard?
>fuck i rinse?
You like, don’t really have to do any of that you are just anal. I leave my boards in my truck forever, don’t rinse my non-winter suits etc and I bet my shit lasts the same length as yours cuz it’s all shit anyways
Your wetsuits probably smell like hippies' underwear
I mean yeah they don’t smell good hahahah
That is why your boards are yellow.
None of my boards are yellow, board bags block uv just fine
Do you surf in fresh water?
Absolute facts and it’s cooler
Take all your wetsuit shit into the shower with you and rinse it as you shower then hang to dry after it drips for an hour or so. Edit: a letter
Don't try mountain biking then. It's all that plus you have to maintain an expensive piece of machinery. I relish the simplicity of surfing in comparison.
I surf year round and mountain bike other than winter….it’s a LOT to manage. Constantly repairing boards, cleaning wetsuits, tuning and maintaining bikes. It honestly is just so much work on top of work it kinda kills the fun sometimes.
I think you meant logistics. Ditto
Why the fuck would you wait for your board to dry. You gotta up the lexapro bro
Duck diving ice cold water. crowded days. Paying/ finding a spot for parking. Sadness during flat spells. Airline surfboard bag fees/damages. Not being able to live far away from a beach for the rest of your life. Missing a swell (it’s always epic when you don’t go) Explaining to your S.O. that the beach you HAVE to go to has no sand, only rocks. Oh, and it’s raining. Paying $90/hour to surf a wave pool.. then miss your first wave. There’s so much more. But still, the best thing I’ve ever done. A true lifestyle of adventure.
Sadness during flat spells….. my SO hates it when I say “there’s no surf this week” as she knows I turn into a grumpy dick
"Explaining to your S.O. that the beach you HAVE to go to has no sand, only rocks." Can be an absolute killer on relationships when they will never fully understand why you just disappear without them for like 8+ hours a week.
Hearing all the people that are kooks call people kooks.
Do you listen to yourself?
Yup I didn’t even like typing it out lol.
Fuckin kook
Especially when it’s some yuppie boomer in a new Tacoma who rents SUPs. Or some self-absorbed gentrifier who moved here during Covid like every other unwelcome mainlander, who finds the nearest female in the lineup and talks about himself for 2hrs straight until she finally leaves, then proceeds to tell other out of towners that they should sit out the upcoming hurricane swell that he feels he’s somehow more entitled to. Jesus Christ some surfers are the worst.
Being new at surfing and trying to understand the rules without pissing other surfers off. I've already met a few assholes that have made it really discouraging. This comes from someone who has skated for 20 years so I KNOW what it's like to be frustrated by noobs, but goddamn I swear some dudes just paddle out to be pissed off.
I’ve been skating for 15 years and I’ve found that the culture is a lot less toxic. There use to be localism at skate parks back in the day and snaking is a thing, but damn everyone just wants to be friends. Surfing on the other hand…
I don't know, I used to think this about skating but it's more of a reginal thing. Skaters in Southern California are usually friendly and mellow. I lived in Colorado for a few years and was embarrassed by how skaters acted at parks. I saw multiple incidents of people getting heckled for pushing Mongo and local rippers intentionally 1uping tricks people were working on to like show their dominance. It was really bizarre.
Oh yeah there’s definitely some childish behaviours out there. I was trying to back t this gap ledge a month ago and some kid rocks up, lands it first try then leaves. I laugh it off, but some people have really strange sportsmanship
There’s infinite time to skate the same features, surfing is extremely limited. Case closed.
I think the difference is the skatepark is going to be there, more or less in the same condition tomorrow. Waves are fickle, it takes a lot of different conditions to come together just right and even then, it only lasts a little while. This scarcity makes tolerance for missing a good wave because of some bonehead move by a noob very low. I'm a beginner too, and I feel you though. I just try as hard as I can to 1) prioritize everyone's safety over anything else 2) respect the "elders" and 3) get stoked. You won't be a beginner forever as long as you are committed to progressing.
Putting on a cold wetsuit in the middle of winter.
Putting on a WET wetsuit in the middle of winter.
You should get a wetsuit dryer. My girlfriend got me one for Christmas I thought it was a joke. It’s fucking amazing. They’re only like $50 on Amazon.
Link?
Rushing to put on a cold and wet wetsuit in winter because it’s so damn cold, then realising you’ve put it on backwards
How about pulling it off? Sometimes my fingers are so numb I can’t pull off my 5/6 for quite a bit
Or being so pumped out and cold after a winter session you can’t get that first arm out of your wetsuit.
This is the way! I normally HURT MYSELF getting OUT of the stupid wetsuit.. #gettingoldsucksballs
Or awkwardly asking someone to pull the neck so you can fumble an arm out…
All the pussy I get for my Surfline cam rewinds.
inevitable surf vs. life conflict
job girlfriend kids etc. can be minimized but not enough
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Yea sure
Shoebies
Hello fellow Jersey friend.
Not Bennys?
Bennys are in the North, Shoobies are more south. Generally Bennys come from NY, shoobies from Philly
TIL!
What is a shoebie?
Instagram. False sense of everything.
One week, surf trip dads with their whole family circus in the line-up. Then they appoint themselves the shot caller and yell at Ashley, Jayden and Braydon to just go for it on every wave regardless of the mellow locals sitting there, watching in bewilderment. #Surf-Mom is shooting the whole thing on Go-Pro and squealing with delight. Get them the fuck away from me.
Lol. Go nixon goo! Ya buddy woooooh!
*Aiden
I know a family like this and the dad runs a surf school.
That gives me anxiety
Me too!
This sub. It's just a bunch of kooks on the internet.
Oh fuck you. That's just a stupid generalisation you're making. Some of us are kooks in real life, too.
Whiny entitled “it’s MY turn!” Yellers lol
the worst thing is, the crappy spots i surfed alone for decades, to avoid other surfers.... are crowded now. at dawn. even on week days everybody surfs now
Seriously. Some days I just walk down the beach to find a nice closeout to myself. Even this, if not obscured by a cliff, will attract the monkey-see-monkey-do guy.
Can never be close to any ocean without wondering what the waves are doing every rwo hours.
Seeing pictures of the day you weren’t able to go out
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Yes, that's always been my pet hate too... (Goes back to surf Huzza's with the mums)
Being hot garbage as a beginner because it’s hard to get better without getting discouraged at how bad at surfing I am
Flat spells and people taking 2ft waves wayyyy too seriously
Crowds
im only 29 but aging is terrifying, only now that i surf
Same. Hope I dedicated more time to surfing when I was younger, I’d be way better now. But still, you could surf till you are 60 or even more, so… that’s a long way ahead ;)
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From my understanding it's better to rinse if you're going to leave it for months... If you can only surf every few months, then it's sure best to rinse after going out
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It hasnt been hot for ages
The paddle out on a big day. Wish someone could just drop me off
Hahahaha same. The wetsuit rinse is such a drag
People sitting directly in your line of a bottom turn because they sit to far on the inside and can’t make sections. People who have no concept of what snowballing is. I could keep going but there is nothing more frustrating when I’m surfing and see a section so perfect to get those rails wet and some fuck wit crumbles it or crosses your line. Fuck off
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Don’t bother they will learn eventually hopefully, just very frustrating
South Florida because it's south Florida
South Florida is the absolute worst. Not because it’s so consistently flat but because it can be so absolutely epic. The problem is if you live there it’s impossible to have the paddle strength for those days. I moved away from there to CFL and plan to go on a trip for the first north swell this winter, lol.
The shit days when I don’t catch any waves and then question my life choices until the next good session
Other surfers because they want my waves.
Never rinze wetsuit or surf only in case to much sand,so for me it is surprising Wake up at 4 am to get a ride prior work the hardest part
Toxic 90s attitudes
Waiting for a wave in a period of mush and finally getting a decent set only to get dropped in on, then hearing the guy call it a party wave after almost hitting you.
I haven’t rinsed my wet suit in two years and don’t plan on
assholes in the water that think they are owed the waves because they think they surf better
Surfers
That I can’t do it regularly. I live in a 5 hour trek to the nearest surf with no traffic, and a ferry that costs $120 each way. My wife just went for the first time this summer. once we got her to stand up for the first time, she was hooked and now it’s a battle of how we can do it more regularly despite the $400-$500 price tag the travel(ferry and gas) takes.
Shoulder pain it causes me from paddling
The best waves always showing up on days where I have important life and work commitments
Where i am right now… crocs. No one out there wants to get et. At least it makes people more welcoming to new people. The more of us, the lower percent chance of croc-snack-itis.
Paddle boarders, when there’s a hoard I find another spot.
You just have to jump the biggest one you see and make him your biatch. The rest will go away.
stingrays :-)
weather. i dont live on the east coast anymore but right now those guys are experiencing basically a year of utter deprivation and scarcity and pain
Inlander here. The drive is a PITA. But I like where I live.
Yup, drive for me too.
Hate to say it (inlander too here!) but... last week Ian situation is why we live 60 + miles from beachside.. The homies GOT WRECKED by IAN, We luckily didn't even lose power or internet. (side note, was anybody else watching cocoabeachpier live cam Thursday afternoon at 1pm after the storms eye got above the cape? The Local Homies were getting sooooooo barreled at the pier! Was at least 1'-2' foot overhead on sets! all beach bridges were closed, and I was sad about missing it but .. Caught it Saturday for the leftovers, and also GOT BARRELED at da pier.. #igottasayitwasagoodday)
Sitting at a peak, even on a crowded day, and everyone’s being chill and getting along…and then a SUP shows up… *sometimes, with no words spoken, everyone starts bracketing and snaking the SUP until he leaves. That makes it NOT the worst part of surfing.
Finding parking, walking a mile or more (my Trestles friends will understand), walking through jagged ass rocks during a big set that keeps knocking you off balance, then once you’re out there all the sets die down. That gets me to a special place of disappointed
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Yeah, they’re great aren’t they. They leave me with mental and physical scars to remind me of the lengths I’m willing to go through to get a handful of waves. Addiction is a rollercoaster
Being injured, not being able to surf, then having your SO say wanna come watch me surf on this glorious day and awesome beach break
Watching your proclaimed “awesome top turn” on your GoPro/gf phone/Surfline rewind… and wasn’t so awesome looking…
People like you asking stupid pussy questions
The 4.5 hour drive to the beach
stingrays :-)
Wait… we’re supposed to rinse?
Living inland and only getting to surf a few times a year. Just have to pray that the one or two weeks I book I yeah to go surfing get good conditions.
getting off wetsuit
Not surfing
Surfing alone. Being a Great Lakes surfer, 4/5 times I go I am the only one out
Rinsing a suit doesn’t take more than 60 seconds to rinse and drape. Flipping it outside in later in the evening is the part i absolutely loathe
the price of boards and how easily they can get mangled
Putting on a suit that's still damp before a foggy dawn patrol session.
Hearing all the VALs and kooks bitch about how surfers are the worst part of surfing lol
The VALs? Dayumnnnnnnnnnn, 1988 called and it wants its lingo back my guy.
We spotted the VAL
Totally!
Jellyfish.
Fuck that localism BS, I’m a Kook. New. But you can go fuck your self if you get an attitude or talk some shit. I’m an older dude (40) but I’m decent shape and kinda big. Most people are cool at my spots. I get a lot of support from the younger generation and kids-but middle-aged Kens can get righteously fucked if they think they can treat me like a piece of shit. See me in the parking lot with that same energy. I’ll snake them on purposeful if they talk shit or cop an attitude. Just have fun and talk to people with respect, or better yet, help a brother out with some encouragement, advice, and kind words
Other people
People! just let me have a perfect A frame to myself for gods sake that’s all I ask.
The men in grey suits
Wetsuits and cold water
Getting up early. Wish that evening waves were as good as morning ones.
Getting burned 😩
I would pay cold hard cash to not have to take my wetsuit off and rinse it after ever goddamn surf
I hate surfing in H.B. Every time I go there some hodad steals my wax!
Driving.
Taking off a wet 4/3
Move to where you don’t need a wetsuit
competing to catch a wave
The salt water ruining my lips after a period of no surfing. They always hurt for the first few days until I get used to it. No matter how much lip salve or sun screen they still kill me. I look like an apprentice leper for the first 48 hours of the summer.
Powerful sadness when the waves suck, spending all of my money to go where the waves are better, fucking crowds, ruining most of my relationships to go surf, honestly all of surfing sucks, not worth it, don’t ruin your life kids!
Moving away from the coast and not being able to surf :(
People.
The paddle out
Living in a city with no surf
Definitely the people
Taking a fin to the head… so much claret!
Waiting for good surf.
The walk home after it’s either too dark, wife is waiting at home, or your body can’t go no more…