Brutal surf fight goes viral, “One surfer broke his board, the other lost his teeth!”

Wild melee at Brazil beach rivals even the famous Smith-Goggans showdowns of yore!

How many surf fights y’seen live? As in, punches thrown, landed, carotid arteries squeezed, arms hyperextended and so on.

One of the better I’ve seen was at Burleigh Heads, a “gleaming right-breaking Australian point wave located on the subtropical Gold Coast of Queensland, set against a picturesque lava rock headland.”

A local surfer 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.

Across the Pacific and up the west coast at Silver Strand, a mile-long hit of sand with waves powered by an open water trench, locals created a fight club to avoid the indignity of trying to fight in the ocean. 

Punchy waves and punchy locals.

Fighting might be fun as hell, but it has its drawbacks.

Cops, litigation, prison etc.

Less so in Brazil, of course, where we find the protagonists of this surf fight.

A surfer is approached after his session by a man intent on violence, a surf fight where the advantage goes to the man who isn’t encumbered by a surfboard.

The surfer with the surfboard uses his encumbrance as his advantage in the surf fight. He  leads with a left jab and swings an effective right hook, his surfboard an extension of his fist.

Relative chaos ensues.

Comments swing both ways on the rights and wrongs of the case.

Bravo in surfing. That post surf vibe.

Skate culture=cool, friendly, inclusive
Surf culture=super duper gay

What a shame! These ain’t even surfers… a surfer is the one who sits on his board, he travels imagining how many nautical miles the wave he will take until it breaks on the stand!

It ain’t as bloody or as brutal as either of the Goggans-Smith showdowns, surf fights in all but medium, but it is equally pleasing to watch.

 

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