firiebob said...

elmo said...

Nobody Wins

Ain't that the truth

What do you expect? I've got a 21Kg 3.6m indestructible board.

Mark i can understand what your wanting to point out in Big Big surf. (jaws) but AS if your going to sail(jaws) on the inside anyway looking for jumps.....

AND say you did line up a 80 foot jump ,The wave rider still has 40foot of wave face to avoid you before you orbit.

......again you can still straighten up and out run most waves (least prefered option ).........

........This occurs 99% of the time .... because youve miss timed your oppertunity to push off the face earlier /pump...etc etc to get around that person, or failed to see him at all (as in this clip) And or your skills /ability/ quality of the wave you are on, tells you,,, you wont make it so you,,,, bail / straighn or flick off.

SO even when some one is coming out ...you should look to find a way to time your wave ride and avoid a collision with someone plodding out or fanging out in the surf.

elmo said...

Theres lots of people who's famous last words were

"They were in the wrong, I Had the Right Of Way"


Avoid collisions at all costs

Nobody Wins


It furken hurts when you prang

end of sermon

He knows and I know, heed the sermon

user said...

Well there you have it.

Plenty of confusion and a bit of disagreement.

Hopefully some will learn from this.

You mean, "don't assume anything"?
Especially, "that guys going to miss me"?

> it is important to know the rules

What rules again? The fact that nobody is pointing to some Golden Book tells us there is no unique set of rules.

I for one will continue to pay attention to people coming out and downwind when I ride back to shore.

On the way out, I will continue to pay attention to windward as well as in front, of course. But there a limit to how much you can safely twist your head.

For those who blatantly disregard safety rules and fellow peers, I will don my cheapest gear and aim for them. I often do that on flat water, it's great fun and good use of freestyle.

Just wanna post that I'm a kiter and went out at Wello point on Sunday in a cool and gusty SW. It's the only place in Brissy that you can windsurf and kite in a SW. Needless to say it was like fleet St with heaps of kiters and windsurfers sharing a reasonably small space.

In the time that I was out, there was nothing but consideration to leave enough space to avoid collisions by all riders.