"How do you look your wife in the eye if you've knocked a kid out just because you didn't want to wear a legrope?"
You don’t have to trawl too far into the BeachGrit archives to examine the ongoing debate about leashless longboarders in Byron Bay.
A couple of months back, an aged care worker and mother of a disabled kid was crippled after she got belted by an out-of-control surf pilot who then criticised her for damaging his board with her bone and tissue.
And this, from a little further back.
Now, following the near-death of former professional surfer Matthew Cassidy on the pretty white sand of Wategos Beach after he was belted by a leashless log, there have been renewed calls for hipsters to allow legropes into their retro fantasies.
“The Pass is full of kids, and I think there have been four incidents outside of mine in the last month or so,” Cassidy told ABC. “How do you look your wife in the eye if you’ve knocked a kid out just because you didn’t want to wear a legrope?”
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In a poignant message posted to Instagram Cassidy, who is forty-nine, writes,
Two days ago I nearly bled out on the beach and nearly lost my arm when someone dropped in on me out 2ft Watego’s without a legrope.
After an hour on the beach being held together by some absolutely legendary humans I was rushed via ambulance then helicopter to GC where I’m currently awaiting specialist advice.
I want to thank the following
* the people on the beach who followed my instructions on how to fashion a tourniquet and called 000 to get more expert advice. Without you I would have bled out in 5 mins. You somehow kept tourniquets in place for an hour. You saved my life.
* To the people who kept me conscious and focused, thank you. You saved my life.
* To the first responders, the emergency teams, the doctors, the nurses and the specialists, Thank you, you saved my life.
* To my friends who have gone above and beyond for me and my wife, Thank you. You are my life.
And, want a little twist of the ironic?
A legrope used as a tourniquet saved Cassidy’s life.
Glad he is going to be OK. That is a lot of damage for a WaveStorm to do to a person.
I’m more sick and tired off seeing chick mal riders simply end their ride by pin dropping off the side of their board and letting the board take the leg rope to its full extent , what the he’ll is with this fad ..dumb cunts.
again, pretzel logic!
‘Leave your bloody shoes outside, honey. Dinner in an hour.”
Getting hit by a lost longboard is like getting run over by a 2mph train. The problem is that most longboarders go leashless at the same spots as beginners, who are unable to avoid being run over by a 2mph train.
leash, no leash, leash vs 2mph train, no 2mph train, 2mph train. love the pretzel logic!
I looked my wife in the eye as she knocked out both our kids.
And they came out with leashes pre-installed!
Life is wonderful.
Is Longtom getting royalties every time you quote that Byron article?
makes no cents; common cents…
Clearly this logger didn’t yell “Timber!”
lol
followed by: “Shivver me crank!”
Ok
Almost decapitated by a loose longboard on a couple of occasions, so I avoid crowds and remain willing to threaten the longboard kooks that don’t wear leashes. The other solution, if there’s a crowd of these idiots, is to surreptitiously release some raw hamburger meat into the lineup, thereby soliciting the aid of the local enforcers.
“Don’t make me prick your deviated septum, punk!”
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Isn’t the issue the drop in?
Why is a pro surfer out at the pass ? Who is Matthew Cassidy ? More questions than answers BG
The only thing we know for sure is that he loves attention… from his instagram followers.
Surf Punk band name: Legrope Tourniquet.
Urchin Sepsis isn’t a bad one either.
I’d like to start a doom/stoner surf band called The Low Highs
somebody cued Traffic…High-heeled boyz…
The sooner someone sues the government agency/ agencies responsible for the surf for failing to provide a safe environment the better.
The government’s can’t continue to promote surfing as a sport without providing a safe surfing environment.
You could sue the individual involved in a civil suit but the millions payout will come from threatening to put government in court.
Your comment indicates you have a limited understanding of the legal system. Have a nice day!
Agree but my limited experience is just throw a big Net over as many people even vaguely associated and sue.
The government is the one with $$$ and for many, varied reasons could choose to just pay out and silence the matter.
I believe a precedent was set in court nearly twenty years ago concerning surfers at north narabeen.
A Colvin lawsuit may work but you can’t get blood out of a stone. Anything that is successful against a government agency willl be like winnning the lottery.
It’s going to happen, one day
Sue the remnant Hawaiians, as an entire ethnic group also for inventing the bloody sport. Something something ‘addictive’, something ‘dangerous unless experienced’ something something. Can’t fail.
Do Be silly, ethnic groups have no money.
You have to go after government agency or big business
focus on Peruvians + GWs, CB. Cocaine + Sharks.
Like I’ve said, the gov’t sustainability and community outreach director has already been named…and coming.
It was a chick who dropped in on the guy, when she pulled off the wave she let her board go and it speared him.
Had nothing to do with wearing a leg rope. The issue is people dropping in and not knowing how to surf.
Need some targeted shark attacks.
I was surf the pass regularly. I regularly have Surfers wearing leashes bail there boards and hit me because they are scared of duckdiving.
I have experienced many full grown adult men who think they rip on leashed shortboards not look where they are and let Thier board go into myself and others.
People wearing leashes are the problem 90% of the time. They think they have no responsibility at all because they have a leash on. They’re boards go fucken everywhere. A 6 foot leash easily stretches to 12 and a 10 foot leash easily stretches to 20.
So many kooks with leashes crashing into people cause they can’t fucking turn or read a wave.
If your scared of being hit by another surfboard why don’t you fuck off and surf one of the literally empty beach breaks that exist in the hour north and south of Byron.
Learn to read the ocean, the waves and the crowd and have some spacial awareness
Fuggenhell… punctuation and grammar, mate. Or is English your second language? In which case, me desculpe.
its “desculpe me” but point made.
both are correct, depending on which side of the Atlantic you’re on.
“desculpe-me”
You should get better quality legropes, They shouldn’t stretch to double the length in ordinary conditions.
I’m confident you would say you surf at an advanced level although other advanced surfers would say you surf like an advanced beginner.
So the humble leash has now manifested into a metaphorical straw man who’s grown an extra ten feet before teaming up with Surfline Man to inflict blunt force trauma on us all?
This post is part of the reason everyone hates leashless loggers even if they have control.
No one should be afraid of getting hit by a board, leash or no leash.
The question I have is- how many surfers in Byron get injured weekly by surfers bailing boards WITH leashes? From beginners to average joes- boards fly every which way out there it’s a nightmare.
we watch wipe-out reels with glee. or we used to…as background music, I suggest Herb & The Tijuana Brass…’Tijuana Taxi.”
if you have a leash on and hit someone…it’s called an accident!
If you lose your log and hit someone it’s not an accident, as, how do you explain not wearing a leash because it’s not cool.
I kid got hit in France quite a few years back by a guy on shortboard not wearing a leash , it was taken to a civil court where the surfer had to pay a 100 K Euros…..as he couldn’t explain to the judge why he wasn’t wearing a leash……
I snapped my leggy on a big day at burleigh few years ago, the beach was packed with kids, the feeling of dred whilst I was paddling in was sickening. Why anyone would deliberately want to put themselves in that position, is mind boggling.
Is there some logic missing here? If the collision was from a drop in a leash wouldn’t make a difference.
Leashless logger identified!