I hope these guys didn't catch all the sets.. ! Doesn't look like they had much respect for the other guys in the line up - some guys need to understand that just because we can catch more waves than surfers - doesn't mean we should....

Oh I'm waiting to hear the arguments why these blokes shred and everybody in the world is wrong...oh and why pick on us blah blah blah.. Sorry fellas,this is the majority where I surf,except my local is a beachie and over chest high they all disappear

BenjiD said...
Check out the surfer sharing the wave with the sup'r at 2:29 who runs over some poor bastard trying to duck dive.

That's funny how you call it sharing...looked like the guy on the shorty gave it a nice smack to the lip and dickhead just ruined it for him....causing a bad situation all round

stm said..

Garethg said..

I hope these guys didn't catch all the sets.. ! Doesn't look like they had much respect for the other guys in the line up - some guys need to understand that just because we can catch more waves than surfers - doesn't mean we should....

This footage would have been taken over a few hours . Therefore , good on them .
They're not dropping in , just enjoying the fact of being able to get on a wave early .

By people that dont know them, having lunch or something??? Listen closely to the dialogue, it seems as the filmers are not connected to them.

The video doesn't show how the guys behave in between rides - if they are letting a few sets go every time, I'd say its all good. Another thing is that most of the waves ridden seem to be the wider ones, as there are heaps of shorties getting caught on pretty much every wave ridden by a SUP.

I agree there are some waves in this video which were way too wide for the shortboarders to catch, but the majority of waves could have been caught by the surfers. The guys on the SUp's were getting in early and paddling for every wave. Sitting down, and letting the occasional wave go by is the key.. Two of the SUP guys are pretty cooky ~I would have been petrified if I was a shortboarder with that guy on the white SUP coming towards me.

SUP's are not welcome at Ulu's, maybe this was the tipping point.

Your only fuelling the fire by suggesting these guys are in the wrong, they maybe or as suggested this footage is of course filmed over a longer period than appears, so of course it's focused on the standies. How many prones have dropped in on another or run over someone, we don't know as it wasn't filmed (here).

roggoodwin said...
Don't see the problem with what these guys were doing, only on one occasion was there a surfer on the inside of them and the guy pulled off immediately, and at no other time was a surfer paddling into any of the waves they caught, no surfers where in the right position. They could also handle their boards, I thought they did well..

Agreed.

Jeez, don't mention that the SUPs are out of line!



People might get hurt fee fees

Wanna be heros.

I bet they tried surfing it on a short board but couldn't hack it so they went out on their SUPs.

surferstu said..

What a circus no wonder Gerry Lopez snowboards instead of surfing these days

And stand up paddles

Despite the uncertainty about what happened the facts appear to be 1) at least three sups paddled out together and 2) one of them dropped in on a good surfer who then ran over someone either due to the sup being outside him or not and 3) at least 2 of the sups nearly ran a few people over by not being good enough to be out in a very crowded lineup ( red board ripped but still nearly collected a few kooks paddling through the zone).

All this has been filmed and posted and does sups no good. Doesn't matter what actually happened, all that matters is what it appears to show. Paddling out together simply antagonises other surfers who don't care how courteous you are, they just worry you'll be a pig like the last sup. Dropping in is just more conspicuous on a sup, and getting run over by a high volume board pushed by 4ft of whitewater puts the heebs up most people.

Put simply, it does us all no favours in the long run by three sups paddling out into such a crowded lineup, two of whom should not be out there at all.

roggoodwin said..

Don't see the problem with what these guys were doing, only on one occasion was there a surfer on the inside of them and the guy pulled off immediately, and at no other time was a surfer paddling into any of the waves they caught, no surfers where in the right position. They could also handle their boards, I thought they did well..

Were you watching the same video as me....I counted a few drop ins