“Local surfers have a well-earned reputation for intimidating and belittling newcomers."
In case y’weren’t au fait with the scene at Fort Point, a novelty wave beneath San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, it has a cadre of locals former Surfer editor Steve Hawk describes simply as “dicks.”
This from a piece a few years back on Bloomberg,
Whatevs, ain’t in no hurry to surf a junky dirty water left.
Yesterday, one foil-boarder, using the tow-in method where a boat propels ’em into the waves, failed to get the memo, as they say in the classics.
After the leashless foil is washed onto the shoreline, it is attacked by an angry local who jerks a rock above his head multiple times to slay the damn thing.
The footage below was captured by Jon Solaga, a member of the Bay Area Kiteboarding page.
Good times.
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Now we have violence over garbage.
How much ya want to bet the boulder thrower lives in Mill Valley and drives an Audi A8..
Localism is the epitome of stupidity.
Surfed out there many times as an undergrad at Berkeley. Locals are indeed ignorant needle-dicks…..
Loves like that are just punk ass kooks trying to be cool. I grew up in Socal and would chase jack asses like that out of the water when they would start picking on the grind.
Hope he goes traveling and gets treated like that by locals so he knows how it feels. One other thought California has anti- localism laws for surfing where are the cops. I will concede though that a tow in at that place is really un- cool.
Who’d want to surf there anyway – full of sewage and dickheads!
One of these days, the locals will mess with the wrong guy and end up hospitalized. It is bound to happen.
Wrong site
Honestly really childish shit. Get over it bud, I know it’s hard to believe there’s more to water than just surfing.
Fuck foil boards near surfers, fuck surfers, fuck off my wave.
I cannot believe the collection of idiots who comment on this site. This is why surfing has such a bad name. The ocean is there for everyone to enjoy any way they want to. it doesn’t belong to you yo-yos.
I was hoping the gaybay surfer would smash his foot with the rock…
If he has to “pay up” we should start a go fund me for this hero
What a dickhead. No one has greater rights than anyone else to enter the water and surf no matter what they are riding. That guy is a bald-headed worthless twat.
I’d like to buy that guy a beer !
Bunch of losers. Get a life
Good to know some people are still teaching proper manners.
The foil board of Laird, Kai Lenny, etc. is a great idea based on the physics of planing vs de-planing. Totally cool invention of a genius – Laird Hamilton Problem is people are envious of genius. I hope someone teaches the rock-thrower a lesson of some time behind steel. Don’t mock what you don’t understand. The guy needs an education other than just how to be a local
The surfer taking off on a wave closest to the peak has priority just as in a contest especially if it’s a non-local trying to educate a dumber local. A total kook though actually might need some discipline. But breaking boards is just passe at this point. One problem kooks have though, is they show up with the wrong boards sometimes – too potato-chip, and this is partly due to not using the right local shapers. Some days require a fish or deep concave due to mushy waves. The kook might not realize this. So I’ll give the rock thrower his day to explain if it really was a kook clogging the lineup – hard to tell I wasn’t there. And just as in a contest, a surfer might already have priority. Non locals do need to defer to the best locals but if they really have the peak, they should drop in and prove themselves by streaking past a local. Then the local will be impressed. One of my favorite techniques, one I use at Golden West is to jump completely over the local, only problem is, my foot sometimes catches them in the eye.
During Hurricane Sandy, a 14 year old girl-longboarder took off on a wave and didn’t get enough speed, went off the lip and got launched – her board landed right on top of my head nose-first. She just didn’t get enough energy – needed more concave or just more talent or something. Be careful – you can’t pull a miracle without the right tools.
not condoning the antics with the board in the cove, but just explaining the dynamic at play. And to be clear, a foil board is very much dangerous leash or no leash in any crowded line up.
Looks like one of the apes from the beginning of “2001”.
That’s what I never understood about surfers. Skated for 25 years and it was a camaraderie, fuckin brotherhood that was sealed by hitting the pavement and having your palms & shins obliterated. We NEVER attacked the grom, but encouraged him to get up when he payed the pavement police. What’s up with the jock tuff guy attitude of local surfers. It isn’t your ocean “bro”… luckily I’ve always been surfing with chill locals and haven’t had to deal with this assholery. Shit is dated. Grow up. It’s not cool. Just makes you look bad. Take some cues from the skateboard community and make it…a community! I promise you will have a better day!
Waves are a scare resource, curbs and stairs are not
So that’s an excuse to act like a douchecanoe? Come to Oregon. Plenty of waves for everyone… But I bet it’s too cold for your blood…
Definitely not excusing, just explaining. Surfers are assholes, probably less so when waves are abundant but on the whole, we’re selfish, juvenile and territorial
Just don’t look at C side point. Ever, ever, ever, fucking ever.
A scarce resource? Bullshit. This is just a bunch of idiots trying to lay claim to a piece of the ocean.