Rumor has it the major source of cheap import boards is setting up surf schools across U.S. coastlines for summer 2004. Supposedly many B-level pros are taking the money and related sales positions, and are attending training classes which feature both daytime “teaching” training and afternoon/evening sales and marketing seminars. They won’t, as of yet, have official uniforms, but you’ll be able to tell them when they come knocking. Check the website. Catch the fever. Long live the status quo! http://www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net/
So there will be more people in the water getting stoked and learning the joy of learning to surf - to others that will also mean crowds, competition for waves and more imported boards in the line up. So you will have to travel to more remote spots, surf colder water, get up earlier - sounds alright actually! And once those new surfers get more accomplished they will want custom boards or to build their own - sounds a lot like the status quo to me…
Thanks for the pop up link manson, don’t submit lame links. everyone, don’t click his surschool link, you will only get pop-up ads.
if you’re at a break they can’t handle. Case in point: a few years ago a lot of Japanese nationals started showing up at a certain Town break. Sometimes an extra six or eight, in a break that has trouble holding 20. But none of them would take off! I welcome these guys to come sit anyplace near the lineup, they’ll soon drift away to never-never land. In the meantime, I catch plenty waves 'cuz it looks crowded, and no one wants to go out; but few are actually riding. If they get in your way, snarl at 'em (I’m 80 pounds and a foot larger than most) and they will actively avoid you. We all had to start somewhere. Some of us will make boards for these people; some of them will become competent surfers. This arrogance against new surfers is distressing, to say the least. Why is it that “traffic” is always the other guy? Look in a mirror.
Hey knuckle heads, add a kite to that board and blaze away from the crowds. Then you won’t look like fools just sittin there in the water.
yeah—til leroy runs into you with that kite line and decapitates you --your sport is next on the current population explotion with water sports.
Okay, skip the link…it was intended to be counter-balancing humor.