======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) Date: 26 Apr 1997 17:16:59 GMT At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! I was bodyboarding in big Town surf for the first time in my life with some friends in college. Ala Moana Beach Park was running about 3-5' Haw'n, and perfect. I took off on a set wave when the snaps and Velcro on my shorts just ripped wide open! As I bounced down the face, my schlong flapped painfully across the Velcro edges. I bailed and got worked before any permanent damage was incurred. Don't know if anyone saw, but I was red-faced just the same. To this day, I prefer to wear Neoprene boardshorts, just in case. Aloha, sponge http://www.iav.com/~sponge/ ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Bob Barnett Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:35:10 -0700 I was bodysurfing at Makapuu when the crotch just ripped apart of my swimsuit. I walked off the beach , seemingly holding my salami. Went right to Reyn's in Kahala for new trunks-still holding my junior cyclops. The salesgirl was 19 with C cups. I married her! ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Gabe Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 13:47:07 -0700 Bob Barnett wrote: > > I was bodysurfing at Makapuu when the crotch just ripped apart of my > swimsuit. I walked off the beach , seemingly holding my salami. Went > right to Reyn's in Kahala for new trunks-still holding my junior > cyclops. The salesgirl was 19 with C cups. I married her! (laugh) I loved hearing that revelation... Mine was one time bodyboarding at County Line during some great surf. Water was unusually warm for LA so I was in trunks. One wave slapped me and I went under... when I came up I realized I was sans trunks...! I had to run with my board in front of me to grab my towel with the hoot and howls. Since that day I alway wear speedos under my trunks.... -- *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* "We are pushing the envelope of technology here! Does anyone have a letter opener?" Gabe Lopez scubapro@annex.com http://www.annex.com/glopez/ *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: "Bonzer" Date: 5 May 1997 17:55:33 GMT When I first started surfing, as a grown man, I was told that it was best to learn to switch foot. Well I did, I surfed backside both ways. Not very well at first, but not bad. One day just myself and a couple of other guys in the water and as I paddled back out, after the second decent, but opposite direction wave, one of the guys says "hey you goofy or what?" Well, I really didn't have the surf lingo down yet and replied, "yeah, I guess you been watching me surf huh? But I'll get the hang of it pretty soon. They all kind of looked at me funny and paddled off to another little reef. Does that qualify for this thread? Bonzerfoot ======== To: japbob@earthlink.net Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: "Alexander D. McLeod" Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 13:47:44 -0700 Bob Barnett wrote: > > I was bodysurfing at Makapuu when the crotch just ripped apart of my > swimsuit. I walked off the beach , seemingly holding my salami. Went > right to Reyn's in Kahala for new trunks-still holding my junior > cyclops. The salesgirl was 19 with C cups. I married her! Hey, its nice to read a happy ending to a story. Sandy ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Stephen Erickson Date: 28 Apr 1997 04:57:35 GMT In alt.surfing Bob Barnett wrote: > I was bodysurfing at Makapuu when the crotch just ripped apart of my > swimsuit. I walked off the beach , seemingly holding my salami. Went > right to Reyn's in Kahala for new trunks-still holding my junior > cyclops. The salesgirl was 19 with C cups. I married her! My most embarrassing moment: Around Christmas time, I took my longboard down to Taco Bells in Pacifica, on a day with STIFF offshore winds. Only a couple people in the water -- should have taken the hint. Instead, I suit up and carry my board, leash, and some wax down to the beach. I had recently cleaned up my board, so the leash wasn't attached. Put the board down on the beach, and as I'm wrapping the leash on my ankle, the board TAKES OFF and starts doing cartwheels down the rocky beach! I take chase, leash flapping behind me, and when the board comes back down to earth, I survey the damage: a 4" gash in one of the rails, and numerous scratches. Out of pure stubborness, I wax up my damaged board (making DAMN sure the board doesn't fly away again), paddle out, catch a few, then drive the board straight to SF Surf Shop for repairs. Although I felt like an idiot after it happened, I now feel good that my board has some battle scars. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: adam_eberbach@qmgate.corp.apple.com (Adam Eberbach) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 15:27:43 +1000 In article <5k1anv$fv$1@news.wco.com>, Stephen Erickson wrote: [snip] > beach, and as I'm wrapping the leash on my ankle, the board TAKES > OFF and starts doing cartwheels down the rocky beach! I take chase, [snip] > Out of pure stubborness, I wax up my damaged board (making DAMN > sure the board doesn't fly away again), paddle out, catch a few, > then drive the board straight to SF Surf Shop for repairs. Well what else could you do! If you hadn't got some wax and sand on the board you would have had to tell this story to the guys at the surf shop, right? :-) I haven't had my board blown away, but I have been blown over while carrying my board to the water, right in front of the Torquay S.L.S.C. clubhouse - at least it was a quiet day. Not too many people laughed. -- Adam Eberbach adam_eberbach@qmgate.corp.apple.com Newton Developer ceMis pty. ltd. 339 Coronation Dve, Milton QLD 4064 ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Johnny the Shu Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:06:33 -0700 Bob Barnett wrote: > > I was bodysurfing at Makapuu when the crotch just ripped apart of my > swimsuit. I walked off the beach , seemingly holding my salami. Went > right to Reyn's in Kahala for new trunks-still holding my junior > cyclops. The salesgirl was 19 with C cups. I married her! What's so embarrassing about that?!! Obviously, you impressed her. I wish all of my ripped crotch stories ended as good as yours... ;-) Johnny the Shu ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Foondoggy Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:43:44 +0100 Neal Miyake wrote: > > At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on > embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! > Yep, got one. May, 1968, Gilgo Beach, Long Island. My friends and I had shown up early to dawn patrol and beat the parking fee. I usually wore an old torn speedo under my wetsuit, but that day I'd forgotten it and just had a pair of old, holey, briefs. We went out and surfed for hours. By time I came in the whole beach was just full of weekend vacationers. Forgetting what I'd done, I was watching others ride as I peeled my wetsuit down around my ankles. I realized too late that not only was I not wearing my speedo, but the old elastic on my briefs was not strong enough to hold the weight of the water. Ouila!!! the briefs fell immediately to my ankles. I was standing not five feet from a family with all girls. I managed flash the whole lot of 'em before I dove for my towel to cover up. Considering how cold the water was, they didn't see much. -Foondoggy ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: zpjames@unl.ac.uk Date: 28 Apr 1997 14:44:38 GMT In article <33646340.6432@nist.gov>, Foondoggy writes: >Neal Miyake wrote: >> >> At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on >> embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! >> It was at La Santa Village. I'd just put my down my surfboard and was squatting down to do up the leash when the wind picked up my surfboard and smashed it into my face (I later found out it had broken my nose). Blood was pouring down my face and all over my wetsuit. Everybody had seen. I was pretty embarassed. The only thing that I could think of to do was to wipe up the blood and go in for a surf. James London Surf Club http://www.unl.ac.uk/surfing/lsc.html ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Fred Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 15:23:03 +0000 zpjames@unl.ac.uk wrote: > >> At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on > >> embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! Venice Beach...a typical busy weekend afternoon...totally stoked from a fantastic surf on a perfect spring day in SoCal...as usual, I took a shower at the pavillion, but totally forgot I was in a public place and pulled my springsuit down around my knees...AAHHHH!!! ...but this was Venice...I don't think anyone even noticed. :-) Fred TubeTime! - http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2303/TubeTime.html ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: gadgetpjt@aol.com (Gadget PJT) Date: 1 May 1997 12:40:56 GMT Kinda curious that surfers think that displaying the contents of your tackle box in public is embarrassing. From my experience, surfers worldwide are renowned for mooning and treating a public car-park like a locker-room. And a good thing too, it always amuses me to see non beach-regulars [ie tourists] wriggling and hopping around trying to get sand filled underwear on with a towel wrapped around their waist. --------------------------------------------------------------- Gadget [Bude, Cornwall, UK] email: gadgetpjt@aol.com "It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses." -- Mrs Patrick Cambell --------------------------------------------------------------- ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: rvrsurf@plinet.com (Larry K.) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:26:14 GMT As an inland kook who mainly lurks here, I have to admit to an embarrassing moment every time I go out (about every 5-10 years), but even I haven't topped my first time out. I was all of 14 in 1964, cooped up in Kentucky and yet stoked out of my mind. The good news was, mom & dad were up for a Florida vacation that summer. The bad news was they were insistent upon the Gulf coast. The best I could do was talk them into Sarasota which was the only Gulf city I could find in Surfer Magazine that had a surf shop at the time. Got down there, got the rental board and spent an entire day trying to stand up on 2-foot wind chop. Late in the afternoon, exhausted and well into a backside-third-degree-sunburn (still pearly white on the frontside), I'm standing in waist-deep water preparing once again to paddle back "out". Suddenly, something was moving *inside* my trunks. Now, I'm 14 and, of course, my little late-night partner in crime had been known to have something of a life of its own before, but never anything like *this*. I quickly grabbed the area of animation in a death grip and promptly heard a distinct crunching sound. I slowly rolled up the waist band of my genuine Jantzen surf trunks and viewed...... the bug-eyed remains of a small sunfish. It was 1964. Had the word "kook" not already existed.... Larry K. "Still expanding on the term from time-to-time" ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: ZSSC33B@prodigy.com (Mike Patrick) Date: 3 May 1997 06:54:50 GMT Hey Fred.... hhahahahahaha enuf said! Mikeee P ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: jessek@cdsnet.net (Jesse Kempa) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 02:12:30 GMT Seems the fact that the water was cold, and you know who decided to hide, made an embarrassing situation WORSE ;-) > Considering how cold the water was, they didn't >see much. > >-Foondoggy ********************************************* Jesse Kempa * Email: kempaj@oit.edu -OR- jessek@cdsnet.net* Web: http://home.cdsnet.net/~jessek/ * Web: http://internet.oit.osshe.edu/~kempaj/ * ********************************************* ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: majestic@nildram.co.uk (Mike MJ-12) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:56:43 GMT sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote: At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! Hmmm... Well when I was learning to surf back in 89 at Fistral I had to wear a wetsuit with "Learn to Surf Sponsored by Orangina" in huge orange & yellow day-glo letters all over it, & if that wasn't embarrising enough the board I used (which was owned by the teacher) broke into 3 pieces within 30 minutes of me being in the water, a huge freak wave just took my out & pinned me to the bottom, when I managed to drag myself onto the beach I had about 8 inches of board attached to the leash & a broken arm, the best bit was the fact that we had to cut the wetsuit up in order to get my busted arm out of it !!!! a day I will never forget thats for sure. . . . . . . . "The best way to predict the future is to invent it...." majestic@nildram.co.uk ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Tim Mason Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 00:36:51 -0400 > sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote: > > At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on > embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! > I would have to say it was on my first trip to Costa Rica in the early 90's, when we had a large group (10 people) making for a "Do it yourself crowd." Decided to take turns shooting photos on a good day at Playa Grande. As a good right pitched (just outside of me), three of my out-of-position buddies yelled the typical "grab it, Tim" (which I hated, since under the scrutiny of those guys I used to consistently blow late take-offs). Needless to say this was no exception. I spun and stood up, got clotheslined by the lip on my neck, and executed a perfect Mr. X cartwheel. Amongst the resounding laughter of the crew, the yell of "I got it!" from the guy with the camera was all I heard. I have to give myself a "10" for form on the cartwheel, as I looked back at the photo. A picture is worth a thousand words... Tim ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: surfer@mail.island.net (Surfing Vancouver Island) Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 17:23:08 GMT Tim Mason wrote: snip >perfect Mr. X cartwheel. Amongst the resounding laughter of the crew, >the yell of "I got it!" from the guy with the camera was all I heard. I >have to give myself a "10" for form on the cartwheel, as I looked back >at the photo. A picture is worth a thousand words... >Tim Where can we see this pic Tim? Cam ============================= http://www.island.net/~surfer/ Surfing Vancouver Island.... and other wet pursuits including windsurfing, sailing, scuba, kayaking, fishing and much more ======================================================================= ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: ZSSC33B@prodigy.com (Mike Patrick) Date: 3 May 1997 07:08:50 GMT >>>Tim Mason wrote: snip >perfect Mr. X cartwheel. Amongst the resounding laughter of the crew, >the yell of "I got it!" from the guy with the camera was all I heard. I >have to give myself a "10" for form on the cartwheel, as I looked back >at the photo. A picture is worth a thousand words... >Tim Where can we see this pic Tim? Cam ============================= Oh God, oh God ahahahahaa dude stop already you're killin me! hahaha I race motocross... back in 1984 during the Olympics was when I was in my prime and racing on a Honda Program... anyhow, this one day I was flying literally... it had been raining super bad and the races almost got called. Well in typical Florida fashion it had cleared up to a perfect sunny day... everything was just soaking wet though... On about the 2nd lap of my race, I can flying by the score ladies (about 5 in lounge chairs keeping track of numbers). Well just as I rounded the corner and caught 3rd, then 4th gear on my 250, I hit this nasty bunch of roots in the track. Well the bike starts shaking it's head like a dog with a snake and I can't hold onto the handlebars! hahaha it gets worse though as the throttle on the right hand side was wet enough from the rain that it pulled right off in my hand! hahah HORRORS... suddenly I'm holding onto nothing but the throttle and I'm stretching it outta shape, which is causing the throttle to be pegged WIDE OPEN! Well after the bike ran me over about 12 times (remember Evel Knievel and Ceasers Palace?) I got up, instantly realized that my nipple was nearly severed by the knobby tire and looked over to see ALL OF THE SCORE LADIES DOING THEIR OLYMPIC DUTY (remember it was an Olympic year) they were all holding up pieces of paper that said 9.8 9.9 10.0 etc... hahaha If I hadn't been seeing stars, tweety birds, and blue dots in front of my eyes I might have laughed... in retrospect it was not only one of the most painful things that ever happened to me, but it was one of the funniest! People here that saw that crash still talk about it! See as I was rolling on the ground I still had the death grip on that throttle which was pulling on it as it dragged me and holding it wide open... it wasn't a pretty site! ROFL Still have that ripped up jersey too with all the knobbie marks on it. I'll never forget the guy that came around behind me slowed down and watched the whole crash. The next lap when I was still trying to regroup and remember what planet I was on he gave me a big thumbs up and a "GREAT CRASH MAN!!!" I coulda killed him haha Point is, this crash became known as THE FLYING X because I landed on my head, then feet, then head then feet and each time I was doing the full extension despite the bike being all over me... Mikeee P ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: steve guay Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 16:14:44 +0000 Mike Patrick wrote: > > I kinda did this one to myself so... > > I was out surfing with a buddy named Tom Sharpe and the East Coaster that > was 'da man' before Kelly... Matt Kechele... well we are surfing at > Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach... actually a spot called Officers > Club. We are right in front of the clubs restraunt and well... all of a > sudden a lifeguard shows up and over a bull horn calls us in. We all go > in to see what is up and he ACTUALLY SAYS: " You have to move, because > you are messing up the view of the people eating in the Officers Club " > hahahaha we told him to hit the beach... he said he'd have us arrested, > we told him we never came out of the water and pointed out that we were > still about knee deep. > > Well we go out and start surfing again... here comes the MP's with bull > horn and 9mm's on their side... we salute them... one finger though LOL > > They can't do anything with us... it's chest high glass and a classic day > and WE AREN'T GOING IN!!! > > Well at one point I lived what was the bumper sticker of the day... I > drop in on a head high left right in front of the giant picture window, > my two buddies are way inside... I then as the bumper sticker said: > SURFED NAKED!!! ahahaha > > I dropped those baggies down and let em' drag on the leash... all they > saw was butt cause I was going left and am a goofy foot. I reconected in > the middle, hooked up with the inside and was headed towards shallow > waters. Well I can hear my buddies hooting and hollering and I just know > that there had to be one... just one cool young Fighter Pilot in there > eating dinner that was laughing his ass off! hahaha the rest of them are > still talking about those rude and nasty surfers they saw that epic day > 10 years ago... > > It was fun though! ROFL > > Mikeee P >>Last july ,big day with current running fast down the beach, really >>crowded beach. Surfed a couple of hours with a buddy until I was >>whipped and had drifted about a mile from our car. I waved to my >>friend I was heading in, and caught one to the beach. I stood on the >>beach in about ankle deep water, waiting on my buddy, and I believe >>I said the beach was really crowded . After a few minutes, a guy comes >>up to me and says," I don`t know if you realize this, but your ass is >>hanging out." Sure enough, I reach around and there`s nothing but >>crack from waist band to inseam. The adults took it pretty good, but >>I had a crowd of about 30-40 kids follow behind and heckle me for the >>better part of a mile. They let everybody know what was coming down >>the beach . ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: a149153@sh56.dseg.ti.com (Stewart Legler 952-5869) Date: 2 May 1997 14:40:57 GMT >At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on >embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! last weekend, out in the break, on a board, another surfer asked me "do you surf?" (i had to tell him i mostly sailboard) stewart ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: "john w." Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 21:37:00 GMT > Mike Patrick wrote: > > > > I kinda did this one to myself so... > > Well we go out and start surfing again... here comes the MP's with bull > > horn and 9mm's on their side... we salute them... one finger though LOL > > Well at one point I lived what was the bumper sticker of the day... I > > drop in on a head high left right in front of the giant picture window, > > my two buddies are way inside... I then as the bumper sticker said: > > SURFED NAKED!!! ahahaha > > It was fun though! ROFL > > > > Mikeee P This was hilarious and I hate to snip it, but I know all the Internet nerds will cringe if I don't. :-) My embarrassing surf experience has nothing to do with intentional or unintentianal mooning or flashing of spectators. It has to do with looking like the biggest kook in the lineup though. And as we know appearances are everything out there. ;-) I moved to NYC from San Francisco for a short period in 1991. The only board I took with me was this old 6-10 eggshape, really thick and yellowed, that I hoped would be good for mushy summer waves. I knew I'd only be there temporarily, and I didn't know how often I'd be surfing, so I stored my other board in SF. Anyway, my apartment was broken into (welcome to Manhattan), and no, they didn't take the board, but they took my damn wetsuit (and a Nikon camera, and gold watch from my ex-girlfriend). A wetsuit-thieving catburglar? That's just weird. Was he going to wear it as he robbed apartments, as some kind of nighttime camo? So this one weekend when I drove out to the Fire Island ferry with a friend, I had to rent a suit (it was now mid-October, not really trunks season anymore). I could not find a surf shop in Manhattan (surprise), but I found a place that rented 2-piece diving suits, and as desperate as I was at the moment, I rented one of those cumbersome straightjackets. We got out to Fire Island and the waves were sweet, not big, about 2-3 feet, but glassy, and nice shapes. There were a few kids out there ripping on the little waves. It was a warm day, and I decided to just wear the farmer john bottoms, and leave the constricting top onshore. I paddled the little log out and I felt like a such a geek. Here are these local kids with their high-performance shortboards and normal surfing wetsuits, slashing around, and here I am on this antique board wearing a the dorkiest wetsuit ever made. I was in my early 20s, but I felt like some kind of old Amish farmer who decides to take up surfing. It was embarrassing, but I still got up on this lumbering board on a few waves and made slo-mo turns and got some rides down the line. But it was an embarrassing equipment situation. That was a lot of words to tell a story that can't match the nudity posts, but it was my most embarrassing day in the water thus far, for what it's worth. That's excluding all the learning mishaps you go through, like paddling in front of the guy on the wave, and he has to bail, or doing ridiculous setups preparing to make the drop, and ending up flipping over the nose, or sliding down the board as you prepare to stand up, or making other novice mistakes. Most of those can be pretty embarrassing, too. Nice to slip into my 3/2 Hotline and paddle out on my 6-8 Xanadu, without the distraction of a fashion faux pas or kook-for-a-day rookie mistakes! --johnw johnw@cpg.com ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: the Sandman Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:53:27 -0700 I surfed a long-board yesterday... -- Mind expansion software for surfers http://www.whammer.com/ ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Michael Gemelli Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:12:22 EDT >At the expense of my own pride, I'd like to start a new thread on >embarrassing moments. Just let it all hang out, boys and girls! It was a nearly flat summer day in NJ (how rare) so I decided to try my hand at skimboarding, after getting some nice little skims across the shorebreak I figured I was ready for the big time, the next have that came I decided I'd let it take out my knees and I would flip and into the deeper water. Of course the beach in Avon was packed with people, I take off, sailing towards the little breaker, but just before I get there the board slows on some deeper water, my knees hit the wave, but not having enough speed I only make half-way through the flip and land in 2 inches of water squarely on the top of my head, all I thought of was Dennis Byrd (Jets player with Spinal damage) and I guess thats what everyone on the beach though too, as the lifeguard was trailed by about 40 onlookers coming to my rescue - I was fine, my neck just a little sore, but man was I embarrassed as the Lifeguard suggested I take a seat for a while and let the 10 year olds show me how it was done. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: keensurf@no.spam.cts.com (Thomas Keener) Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 08:28:39 GMT I'd been bodysurfing my local break for ~20 years already. I was an oldtimer, someone who knows the place like the back of his hand, yadda, yadda. We laugh at tourists' questions like, 'Are there any rocks out there?' The break is one of La Jolla's reefs. Of course there are rocks. Many of them have names. It was a fun day, 3-5'. I arrived and saw several friends in the water. I got suited up and clambered down to the waters edge. I waited for an incoming wave and dived in. Bonk! My forehead just lost an argument with a large piece of La Jolla real estate. Ow! Well, it was just a bruise so I swam out to the lineup anyway. The crew took one look at me and freaked. 'Jesus! What happened?' 'Err, unh, well...' 'You'd better get to the hospital!' 'No, it's OK.' 'No, it's not. Let's go.' So I went to the hospital and got 9 stitches, had the doc put waterproof bandages on it, and was back in the water in 2 hours. But for a _long_ time after that, guys would ask me, 'Are there any rocks out there?' -- TomK keensurf@cts.com ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: jb3207@eclipse.co.uk (Jason Barstow) Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 09:47:46 GMT keensurf@no.spam.cts.com (Thomas Keener) wrote: >It was a fun day, 3-5'. I've seen the term 'fun day' used before to describe less than large wave conditions. My thought is what is the converse? - If it's *not* fun when it's larger then why do you do it? Jason. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: keensurf@no.spam.cts.com (Thomas Keener) Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 08:42:33 GMT jb3207@eclipse.co.uk (Jason Barstow) wrote: >keensurf@cts.com (Thomas Keener) wrote: >>It was a fun day, 3-5'. >I've seen the term 'fun day' used before to describe less than large wave >conditions. My thought is what is the converse? - If it's *not* fun when >it's larger then why do you do it? Good question. A fun day is when there are plenty of waves with good shape, and a good ambience in the water. Size doesn't matter, but if it's big, other words seem more appropriate. If I really thought about all the days I've surfed crappy, inconsistant, 2' mush with a bunch of bozos, I'd probably switch to bowling. -- TomK keensurf@cts.com ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: ZSSC33B@prodigy.com (Mike Patrick) Date: 6 May 1997 09:59:53 GMT >>>>>It was a fun day, 3-5'. >I've seen the term 'fun day' used before to describe less than large wave >conditions. My thought is what is the converse? - If it's *not* fun when >it's larger then why do you do it? If you play any sport of 'any' sort... you will know that when a competitor gets going well... you get serious. It's still fun, but you are trying harder and attempting to do your best... A fun day is when the waves are clean (usually) and you are just playing and goofing off. Hopefully with your buddies... as soon as the waves start to get some punch, get some thickness, get some juice... well the tempo changes. It becomes more of a challenge. It's fun still, but it goes from play time, to much more serious. Thats the diff between a play-day and a serious day... both=fun, but one is more intense. Mikeee P ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: gadgetpjt@aol.com (Gadget PJT) Date: 5 May 1997 12:04:03 GMT jb3207@eclipse.co.uk (Jason Barstow) writes: > > It was a fun day, 3-5'. > > I've seen the term 'fun day' used before to describe less than large wave > conditions. My thought is what is the converse? It's a skate-shoe. :) - If it's *not* fun when > it's larger then why do you do it? Well if you think the adjective fun is appropriate to 35 footers closing-out across Waimea Bay, then I do not share your sense of humour. When it gets overhead, surfing [for me] turns from being a bit of light entertainment, to being a religious calling. Or summat. I have no spur To prick the side of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other. -- William Shakespeare [Macbeth, 1606] -- Gadget [Bude, Cornwall, UK] http://members.aol.com/gadgetpjt/home.htm [a rather dull homepage, don't bother] ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: Dennis Xifaras Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 17:24:24 -0700 Jason Barstow wrote: > > keensurf@no.spam.cts.com (Thomas Keener) wrote: > > >It was a fun day, 3-5'. > > I've seen the term 'fun day' used before to describe less than large wave > conditions. > In this case, it's a fun day as opposed to a serious day that's pushing 4-6'. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Surfing Experiences Thread From: keensurf@no.spam.cts.com (Thomas Keener) Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 08:44:19 GMT kithill@aol.com (KITHILL) wrote: >Gotta a couple. Ya got my vote for first _and_ second place. -- TomK keensurf@cts.com