A rational response to outrageous drop-in?
How many surf fights y’seen live? As in, punches thrown, landed and so on.
One of the better ones I’ve seen was at Burleigh Heads. A local man dropped in on an out-of-towner, not so much a Val, more the Emerging Intermediate. The Gold Coast points will forgive a multitude of sins, technique wise, and even a surfer who has yet to master rudimentary turns can appear competent on the easy long walls.
The EI didn’t say a word. The local did a roundhouse cutback off the guy and they disappeared. A few seconds later the local surfaced holding a clump of the shrieking man’s bristly yellow hair in his fist.
You had to laugh, I suppose.
Yesterday, at Kirra, a couple of surfers went at it after the usual drop-in.
If you’ve ever chased a cyclone swell, you’ll know how difficult it is to get any sorta wave, let alone something that’s going to make the trip worth the time and shekels. So when you’ve waited two hours, manoeuvred yourself through the pack, negotiated the ledge and someone else is gobbling up your tube steak?
Well, it makes your blood boil don’t it.
And who can be expected to act rationally in this scenario?
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Tail-slung my board. – Rail to the temple; knocked out giant kook attacking me after dropping in on me at Coronado Shores shallows S.D. Circa 1975 *punched out another big ass kook at Windandsea impact zone after he took off on me; made eem cry, so I stopped
Highly doubtful on the Windansea fable.
You’re right. – boardslam was Coronado Shores; Windansea was just my fists and choke-eem-out *in the water after puto dropped in on me – he cried so I let him live 😇
Got me. – it was Coronado😝*turned out I knocked out my USD roommate Vince Dente-Cahill’s high school buddy. My board was destroyed by locals as the lifeguard truck pulled up. So I refused to pay his medical bill. **Vince R.I.P. about 25 years ago
It’s all coming back to me now. – I punched a local kook til he cried — in the water after he dropped in on me @WINDANSEA circa 1975 😝
C’mon this article needs more Nat Young, and more about that fight in the dunnies between who was it, Koby Abberton and some Hawaiian?
I’ve seen a number of good fights on Kaua’i. My favorite one was on the westside when a local went mental on somebody that dropped in and immediately kicked out, but his longboard went over the falls anyways. Big underwater wrestling match and punches followed by the local taking off his leash and trying to get it around the longboarders neck to strangle him while the guy paddled away shitting bricks. Longboarder could paddle faster than the local could swim with both hands above water holding the leash trying to loop it around the guys neck. Longboarder went straight in and ran away up the beach.
Another time a couple years ago, same spot, same thing with a different longboarder accidentally letting his board go over the falls in front of the guy after he kicked out cuz he didn’t think the local would make the section- some serious screaming and loud punches smacking the longboarder cheeks as soon as they both came up in the whitewash. Followed by longboarder pleading that it was an accident while swimming backwards frantically dragging his boards by the leash. Local still yelling and trying to get some more cracks in while screaming at him to get the fuck out of here. At this time a bunch of other locals all pointed towards the beachand the longboarder realized he was no longer wanted out there. Never seen the guy again out there, he was from the east side. I kind of knew the longboarder as I had done some work for him in the past, but he was clearly in the wrong for loosing his board in front of an exceptionally punchy and angry guy.
Oh well, one less longboarder out there now.
I was told first hand by a PV local that once when they were young-uns, some douche got taught a lesson by a crazy local. He apparently pushed some Dude off his board sitting out in the lineup….flipped the board….punched a fin out and bit into the rail through the glass lol.
Happens daily
I strongly support violence in surfing. Public stoning is ideal for drop in offenders however if not possible, they should be beaten close to death with whatever is closely available.
The only two surf fights I have seen happened at Lowers in the early nineties. Both times, there was a sort of confrontation in the water, which carried onto the beach. In both cases, it was a Hawaiian versus a Californian and the Hawaiian was all revved up and down to fight and the Californian semi hesitant but not wanting to lose face. Not surprisingly in both instances the Hawaiian kicked the shit out of the Californian, then proceeded to break the Californian’s board in half. I was a grom at the time, but it left an impression on me – namely, don’t talk crap to someone unless you are actually down to throw blows. Though people today seem softer than ever, the ones who are tough seem tougher than ever
I remember one more “fight” I saw at Backdoor twenty years ago. This generally well-respected but aggressive haole who had lived there for over twenty years was gettinng a bit too greedy and taking too many waves. So this notoriously heavy Kauai local got in his face and slapped him around a bit but nothing too bad. The haole did nothing- took his lickings and paddled in. I was amazed that he wasn’t fighting back. It made me wonder whether fighting back would have made the situation better or worse. I couldn’t help but think what a coward, but perhaps it was the right move.
Worse. Fighting back would have made it much much worse
Probably. A rich heritage of knuckleheads and mouthbreathers.
I have a 5-0 record! Five straight losses haha Now I just baffle them with bs until they just look at me as some weirdo.
i always thought a good way to get out of being beaten by some enraged local would be to start yelling some crazy stuff and then slaping myself around a bit for full effect
it works!
Sorry. But u don’t own the surf.
By far the best ‘surf-fight’ I witnessed was on the Goldie many years ago: three ‘locals’ – one a well know arsehole (cunt), and two mates, decided to pick a Japanese fella enjoying an after session beachside shower. Japanese fella went all-out Bruce Lee and destroyed all three in a blaze of elbows, snap-kicks and throat punches, lasting all of 20 seconds – collected his board, nodded knowingly (cheekily) at me, then walked off to enjoy the remainder of his day. In a word: awesome!
There’s that classic one of that overzealous surfer at dbah calling in the boog to the beach and subsequently getting his arse handed to him. It’s on YouTube somewhere
that one made me happy. Surfer is a well known flog
Go to France! It’s the original home of the water splasher!
You call that a fight? Impertinent Blondie would’ve given both those kooks dirty lickens’ while blindfolded and one hand tied behind her back.
you talking fighting or fucking?
We are in the Pacific Rim
Either way they’d be knocked senseless
This is, clearly, the famous BJJ’s blow called…
te karere
If anyone doubt this… asks Jor El Jitsu.
Idk what this means, but if you’re taking the piss outta JT, hehe me likey
Hahahahahahahah!!!!
Me really liked the piss taken out of JJ-JT, though he is a pretty easy target not that that will ever stop me from continuing to take the piss out of that cunt
and those 2 half punches in that video don’t count at all.
Yeah fuck you, yeah nah fuck YOU, yeah nah fuuuck you. Something like that I’m sure.
That’s it, lets find excuses to the pitiful attitude of some moron surfers that do nothing but deteriorate surfers’ image. Not surprised that BeachGrit approves this though
Piss off back to the inertia.
Why are you not surprised?
Tell us more ways we can deteriorate our image please
I’d just got back to the beach from the city one Sunday morning and was off my dial just sitting with my mate on the wall.
Surf was not bad .A guy on a mini Mal and a local left the water and proceeded to beat the absolute living shit out of each other for a very very long time. Serious shit which then left the sand and continued towards us on the grass.
My companion, a tiny little thing ,said she was gonna stop this, I said don’t do it you’re gonna get covered in blood but as they were now within metres of us she went over and did the old Come on guys stop. They pushed her away covered in blood.
I said fuck I told ya, Then horrified at her red stained outfit, she ran straight into the Shorey.
This fight was fucking brutal.
If it wasn’t on insta, it never happened.
2000 ad
you are learning CB.
And how did it end? Was there a surrender? Exhaustion? Shaking of hands? An embrace?
Exhaustion.
Eventually some other locals sorta stepped in, the mini mal guy went to his car.
They still swearing at each other. These guys were hard as. They both had hospital injuries.
Was quite sad all in all.
Sunday morning, lottsa people gawking but no heroes to stop it other than my brave little club kid.
No no, how did it end with you and your female friend?
Walked to my place contemplating the harsh world and ultraviolence we had witnessed.
I scrubbed her jacket clean
we had a shower together.
She let me do things to her I’d never done with a girl before
Hey Derek, isn’t it a bit 1964 that the QLD Premier is on the news telling people “don’t go outside, don’t go in the water, don’t go surfing”, when this cyclone is surely bringing about $50 million in tourism to the QLD economy?
It’s a fucking cash cow, she should be praying for cyclones