"The girl says her legrope broke but CLEARLY there is a massive issue in our town with people not wearing them."
The ongoing battle between VALS living the retro-nostalgia dream of riding leashless logs in crowded lineups and regular joes wanting to swish around on a few waves without being decapitated continues following the near-death of pro surfer Matt Cassidy at Wategos a few days back.
Cassidy, who is forty-nine, in his own words, “nearly bled out on the beach and nearly lost my arm when someone dropped in one me out two-foot Wategos 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.”
In a post yesterday, Cassidy gave an update on his condition, thrilled, obviously, surgeons weren’t forced to amputate his arm thanks to quick-thinking spectators using a legrope for a tourniquet.
“I am at home now and they’ve managed to save the arm. We aren’t sure of the extent of the injury long term but I’ll attack rehab the same way I do everything else. • With everything I’ve got. It’s an emotional time and I just want to take a second to address the girl involved in this horrible accident.
I hold you no bad will, I saw your face on the beach and I have no doubt you have learned a lesson. You have my total forgiveness and compassion as long as you practice safe surf etiquette for the rest of your surfing life.
I’d ask the community to do the same in regards to her but let’s continue the surf safety conversation this accident has started. We clearly need better education and management in the surf.
If three things can come out of this I’d wish they be these:
1. I get full use of my arm back so I can surf again.
2. That people look on the inside twice before even paddling for a wave. Kids look both ways before they even step onto a road to cross it, the surf should be no different.
3. As I’ve stated, I’ll accept that the girl says her legrope broke but CLEARLY there is a massive issue in our town with people not wearing them. Read the comments around my injury posts, there’s been a litany of injuries to children, wives, mothers, husbands, partners from people losing their boards because they are too egotistical to wear a safety device. Please let’s get this mandated and back it up with strong education.”
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Question: is it ever acceptable in these busy days to surf leashless and, further, what do you think goes through the mind of anyone taking a log to a crowded lineup sans leash?
Won’t help. Plus, no beaches in Vermont, only biatches like this one.
How dare you speak that way about the self proclaimed Gerry Lopez!
Me 2 bro!
Tin foil hat
Let’s call it what it is, day care.
No ettiquette or courtesy mentioned.
Used to be a simple rule around this , you did not get to surf at the peak until you had the skills to do it , you frothed around on the inside until you got good enough to move outside , if you kooked it you got sent back inside , now days every kook and kid pushed into waves thinks its a ok to paddle into the take off spot , it’s bullshit learners need to stay on the inside where they belong .
Let’s put that rule back into practice, and most of this shit will just go away.
I remember getting yelled at for even being on the inside and out of the way.
Go surf somewhere else other if your afraid of surf injuries. 100s of kilometres of empty beaches in the area.
We will never wear leashes
Clubbies don’t have leashes on nipper boards or surf skis
People throw footballs and frisbies at the beach which are untethered and can injur others also.
Matt Cassidy is a Gronk. Piss off
You lack logic and will one day realize this. You will also realize how dumb your comment is.
If you don’t know there were are unspoken rules in surfing then mate your a fucken KOOK.
I never would’ve expected this sort of response from a 3x World Champ Mick…you always soo chill. Maybe you could put your dog on a leash while your surfboarding and set better examples for others.
As if anyone really believes her leg rope broke.
Her invisible one at that…
Brutus. I love you. But chicks on longboards are the fleas on a dogs arse. They are at Torquay point. Inside reef possos (chicken reef) And tedcla there to lick there arse. Fucken embarrassed to see what surfing has become in Torquay. You used to be a kook at Winki you would be embarrassed or bashed. Now it’s the norm.
Blame all the cunts who developed warralully and armatrong creek. Kooks.
https://www.cdc.gov/parasit…
Chicks on mals. I’m a surfer I’m a legend. Go straight and don’t turn. Get in yours vans and fuck Off. your kooks. Do a roundhouse cutback Or at least hit the lip. Fuck I hate what surfing has become. Drive your van call yourself she he. Your still a kook
And I bet they all surf better then you do you fucking Gronk.
Go wank off to an old tracks mag you obselete wannabe
Ok Question for the Byron Wategos crew…….
How the fuck do you break a leash at Wategos?
More to the point, why would you just keep a grip on your board it’s not that fucken hard.
“I’m bleeding out, but people fashioned a tourniquet to my instructions and saved my life from an hour on the beach bleeding out and turns out everything is going to be fine but the girl that nearly killed my life needs to know better safety because IF her leash broke, and I didn’t see the leg rope meself, then I owe her a giant apology why was I surfing that kook break anyway I dunno but reckon if we had more safety lessons taught fewer people would die at the Pass thank you god almighty and the paramedics so I can pat me dog and kiss my wife and i’ll be at the pub this weekend with both arms i’m told as of now and after this life or death experience staring at the sun while my body goes cold i hold no grudge to the girl that hit me because my hope is that mankind will learn to buy leashes that work instead of Costco leg ropes that don’t work or so I’m told by the paramedics that saved my life today as I was bleeding out on the beach lucky I had a leash to secure my blood flow until the helicopter could medivac me out an hour later which would have been unlikely if my injury was a quarter degree more serious so to my wife, i love you and will see you after I visit the pub because all the boys are there and I have a great story to tell”
#Prosurferslivesarenoteasy
911
“but my phone is stuck on Instagram and I can’t get my password to work”
#crisis
my kid won’t call me back ethiere…late on rent!
How bad was the Classic today?
Why did they run?
The “webcast” was so poorly filmed.
the rinc is a highly protected jungle, also montecito!
It was a joke.
flush ’em out…
will just say whoever called the contest on this weekend has a bright future with JMD.
no mondos
cute girls today. all over. fuck the 10K run though, so many coppers
Finally, The Truth of surfing is exposed!
There it is, well said.
Kinda dramatic eh? Just read the post, fuck I hate IG.
We surfed without leash plugs as a sign of mastery.
Diff now, crowded.
But the leash unleashed chaos.
See what I did there?
I did! Slow work day, over here. Don’t think BG would be nearly as successful in a blue-collar world, and a labor force that’s not largely online. I also doubt anyone else scrolls to the bottom of the comments. Always a few hidden gems way down here, though.
You know I saw it …
The first leggies I saw as a grom growing up on the Goldy were a length of cloths line rope, a dog collar and a hole drilled in the fin. Death traps really! The old man busted me knockin one up and ripped it straight off……Sayin ” If you lose you’re board, you can think what you did wrong while you’re swimmin’ for it”….
Send em out at 8 foot Tallow’s without a leggie……
zactly, pay your penance.
My surfing mates and myself added the stretchy part of an occy strap to what you just described and thought we were cool.
Yep. just to get the fin to sink that bit deeper into the forehead when you pooped up…
There was plenty of gruesome injuries related to the early leg ropes.
I seem to remember a debate article in early TRACKS mag about the “for’s and against” the new leggie craze….
bungi cord leather strap were deadly
Way to capture the last month of BG. Bravo.
So you’re a moderator now? Dude, hook me up with some badges before the contest ends. Fucking Negs is holding out.
Your not badge worthy, badge VAl
Dude you got badges too!!! FUck.
I’ve got badges you only dream off😎
If I don’t win the 3 months on Kandui because Negs and apparently missing fins screwed me out of the grand prize I will file a formal protest.
No joke. Formal.
Write a letter even ?
Negs, throw the cunt a transition badge and valiant scorn too while your getting them out of the closet .
I had a much prize “ koby don’t hit me “ badge but lost it when I suggested negs old home was full of sheep ( in the living room).
Easy come, easy go
I need the Kandui trip.
You’re young, you can win next year.
Dude, I’m not a mod. Look for “badge boy” in a black circle–Pauly, KVF, Gorilla, Negs. Think that’s the team right now.
Secret club eh? fuckem.
KVF? Dude hook me up.
Gotta rethink everything again.
How did the ref’s fuck up tonights game so bad? Comeon, the SB you fuck up?
KVF hasn’t been around as much. I think all the candles and incense scared him away.
Badges? Badges?
We don’t need no stinking badges!
I’m going to Kandui on BG’s dime.
Get outta my way.
No, wrong anonymous punter. I was 2 yrs ago or so. Didn’t last long. Featured too many comments or something. Gorilla is your dealer now.
you fucking kidding me?
You’d have to ask the plumber why he took it away…but yeah, the usual suspects were complaining I was featuring too many comments. Hopefully they’re not so bitter and lame in real life as they are here.
Dude, sorry… yeah Neg’s runs a loose camp always looking to take time off and blame others.
I sense this trip dripping through my closed hands, victim to a plumbers whim. I thought we were cool. No.
Not going to lie, was a stressful few weeks with that next to my name. Pay wasn’t worth it at all.
Btw, what’s this contest? I want to sneak around the corner and break the winners ribbon.
Derek is paying for the badge winner to spend may through July at Kandui.
I can’t type enough comments to make up the lost ground.
Sonofabitch.
Punks give me pink glasses, fuck em.
first i’m hearing of this. you can have 3k of mine…?
Negs is hiding the grand prize so that he can pull an NFL and call a foul that ends the game in his favor.
Call it a honeymoon for his new bride.
Been suspecting this awhile.
Negs doesn’t surf. He just sold a dream home on a dream point that has like 4 surfers, so he can relocate inland.
You cunts are really trolling me tonight.
pay?
The esteem and good will of fellow commenters.
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Now stalking them on Insta, too. Wait, is that a mid-length? Haven’t you already compensated for the mid-life crisis with a younger lady?
One of the most highly regarded underground big wave Surfboard models in the game. Sold the Mid-length but kept the Younger Lady.
“That’s an old man board, Chandler, made for going straight.”
Exactly what I got it for.
good on you, you can tell the guy by the tools he carries.
If you’re at Cloudbreak and it starts to wind up over DOH, you’re gonna want a board to “level up”.
Fact that surfers don’t understand equipment over their everyday shortie is surreal.
Negs, I have two 6’8″s and a 7’2 just for one break north of me. My 6’2″s won’t do.
Had a 7.8 Campbell Brothers bonzer bottom back in the 90s for Humboldt. Loved it. Haven’t been in waves that big since, sadly.
Agree, very nice boards
If you surf open ocean and need to scour a big playing field under pressure, you need a gun…. step ups are for kooks.
Nothing like a mid length.
Nice gun…. when will it arrive?
Not by tomorrow when I might have a shot to use it.
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