loco4olas said...

Another child has been run over by a SUP at Kiddies Corner Palm Beach NSW. Very large open wound to child's leg, will need multiple stitches-luckily it wasn't the child's face or skull.

Be careful out there and ride where and when appropriate. Know and follow your limitations.

Definitely be careful be out there!!!!! I've got to say though, how many people have been injured by kook shortboarders, longboarders and clubbies on skis etc in the last week? Check SLSC records and I think you will get a shock This although a timely reminder is probably unnecessary!! There have probably been more fatal shark attacks this year than serious injuries caused by Kook SUP riders. I appreciate the concern but let's get real. I've got 4 kids ranging from 17 to 5 and all of them are aware when in the water. Or I'm with them. A bit of commonsense please. This sort of post only perpetuates myths that SUPs are the most dangerous surfcraft in the water which is obviously not the case. Fat, angry old longboarders and height challenged shortboarders are!!!

Just returned from the local Front Beach.......freakin Easter Zoo. In the space of ten minutes I saw two kids helped from the water with bleeding head wounds, watched a mal rider with no clue ride right through the middle of the inside groyne, our equivalent of kiddies corner and narrowly miss taking out a bunch of kids on softies and lids. Meanwhile on the outer reef all manner of craft, short long and all things in between flap around in the bowl section and cause mayhem for the three or four competents who are out there. Worst of all was Dad walking his two kids out into the surf, boards under arms, on the 'uphill' side of the groyne. With the amount of swell, tide and sweep this was never going to end well, despite the fact that myself and half a dozen others were screaming our lungs out from the car park. Inevitable happened, four foot of white water dozed them off their feet, dumped them over the top of the groyne in a mash of dinged boards, cut legs and tangled leggies. Last seen limping the two blocks to where they had to park the car for a quik trip to the local health centre. Hell of a way to start your holiday, utter freakin carnage and guess what? Not one SUP on the whole beach. It is what it is, stop beating us over the head with it!!!
Cheers
Sparx

And kooks on shortboards where they shouldnt be, and kooks on longboards where they shouldnt be and kooks on boogers where they shouldnt be and on and on ad nauseum ad infinitum. The weight issue is bulls..t. People drown in puddles, lets ban water. Its the kook thats the issue. My young bloke surfed today and I genuinely feared for his safety, again no SUPs involved. Again, stop smacking us over the head with it and if it is of real concern to you, do something about it other than posting on an internet site where to all intents and purposes you are preaching to the converted.
Cheers
Sparx

loco4olas said...

laceys lane said...

sorry to hear that, however i hope you are as diligent on your reports then children get run over by mals or short boards etc and get injured

Umm 12 feet 150litre boards with a kook on board and the number of injuries by SUPs on kids in our area-compared to the number of SUPs out there and the SUP hours compared to short board etc numbers and hours out there-are way out of proportion.

Good distraction from the real issue-kooks on SUPs where they shouldn't be.

ok, i see your point. however i bet at snapper the last 4 days there would have been a lot of injures by run overs and miss handling and a fair percentage from kook mal riders. i myself have been the victim of mal incidents. mal aren't exactly 26 litres of foam either.

shops in that area sell um to tourists and tell um rainbow bay is the go. now shouldn't they be responsible for any accidents that follow from that advice
i've never seen a sup shop tell a newbie go straight out in the surf

also,just last year we had a bad accident where a grom hero tried to do a move over a young girl- busted her up big time. you would have to say that was deliberately reckless.

i understand your concern, but still feel sups are singled out as the only surf evil.

if these 'kook' weren't on sups they would probably be on mals and still cause damage.

the real issue a kook is kook whether they be on a mal or a sup and better education is the key.
it might be a option to lobby the council for a warning sign at your kiddies corner

ps i'm not a mal basher, just pointing out some stuff boys

definatley agree a kook is still a kook no matter what there on, sups just cop a lot more than the rest of the watercraft out there,
i also see a lot of people that are oblivious to everything and just walk right onto the beach and straight into the water no mater what the conditions are like or the amount of craft ect, i feel that this contributes to theproblem because these normally end up being the people that get hit if the kook doesn't run into another surfer

Jarryd

kooks on longboards nah never

But who had right of way ? Those bloody kids just get in the way all the time.

loco4olas said...

laceys lane said...

sorry to hear that, however i hope you are as diligent on your reports then children get run over by mals or short boards etc and get injured

Umm 12 feet 150litre boards with a kook on board and the number of injuries by SUPs on kids in our area-compared to the number of SUPs out there and the SUP hours compared to short board etc numbers and hours out there-are way out of proportion.

Good distraction from the real issue-kooks on SUPs where they shouldn't be.

Hey!!!!! Us Kooks can kook it up on what ever kraft we god dam want !!!! How do you expect us to select the korrect kraft to practice our kooky kooko- style , kos kooks kannot kontrol kognitive thought process .
So what sort of kraft do you suggest a kooky kreep kleverly disguised as a serious SUP surfer
should select so sensationalist souls see no problems ?

OK, I had a jetski drop in on me off Point Danger the other day. Needless to say I took a dive and let him have the wave. There are dickheads out there, some more stupid than others. One of the main reasons I took up SUP was because I can escape the pack when I get sick of hassling for waves. I must say the Easter crowds bring out the worst in the aggressive surfers. I've had more grief from frustrated shortboarders than all other types of surfers combined, but I don't think I need to tell them to get out of the water. It takes about a minute to work out who you need to keep away from and if you want to be safe, give the idiots a wide berth. It's just not worth it!

Stuff happens....It's just like car accidents do we say Honda Civic drivers are dangerous because that car has the most accidents?....Just an example....How many waves went ridden in the world yesterday without an accident? Probably thousands so odds are slim for accidents just like shark attacks. Just thoughts.

Aloha

WINDY MILLER said...

Easter madness down here too..... A whopping 3 people out at xxxxxxxx and it was pumping... No collisions today thankfully

Only pesky great whites eating a few people. Tends to keep the crowd down

loco4olas said...

Another child has been run over by a SUP at Kiddies Corner Palm Beach NSW. Very large open wound to child's leg, will need multiple stitches-luckily it wasn't the child's face or skull.

Bugger. Was it that same clown on the 11(?) footer who never uses a legrope?

surferstu said...

I don't think kooks on body boards or even mals can be used as a comparison to a sup, its like comparing comparing getting hit by a bicycle to a road train

Must have been that bicycle in the surf that left me in hospital with 8 stitches. Funny it looked like a kook on a mal from where I was paddling.

You have to question some parents though. At the last SUP comp I went to, parents were were turning up at the beach and letting there kids paddle out on boogie boards right in the middle of a sup comp.

I took my boy to kiddies corner a couple of weeks ago and there were 3 sup, 6 mals and a dozen shortboards and none of them looked like they knew what they were doing. My boy is too young to go in the water but if he wasn't I certainly wouldn't let him surf there, even if I as teaching him.

weiry said...

surferstu said...

I don't think kooks on body boards or even mals can be used as a comparison to a sup, its like comparing comparing getting hit by a bicycle to a road train

Mate, getting hit by a 76kg guy on a 8'9" sup would have less kinetic energy than a 120kg guy on a 9'6" mal

weiry said...

surferstu said...

I don't think kooks on body boards or even mals can be used as a comparison to a sup, its like comparing comparing getting hit by a bicycle to a road train

Mate, getting hit by a 76kg guy on a 8'9" sup would have less kinetic energy than a 120kg guy on a 9'6" mal

True, I was really referring more to the boogie boards comment though.