JohnnoKeys said... I paddled out at the cove in Perth last Thursday lunch time on my sup and a surfer old dark guy about 55 year was arguing with another standup guy and yelling at him to leave the water ( that sup guy had been in line up 1 min and hadnt caught a wave ) also only 5-6 surfers out all gumbos apart from 2 average surfers including DICK head who was a very low skill surfer & waves glassy 1-2 ft . The old angry surfer paddled up to me and yelled at me to leave the area I had been 15m away from him and he paddles up to me. He kept yelling at me to leave area and I told he to go away - By the way I have surfed he for 30 years and live just up the 1km road and a local - this guy lives no where close to this spot and I heard lives in Bali - The Dick pulls my leg rope and I fall off into water and the dIck swims into my face at full speed and throws my paddle 10m away from me - I was a black belt in full contact Karate 20 years ago so felt no threat but was just laughing at the amazing stupidity of this poor old man pretending surfer - anyway as any defensive person would do - I put my hand out as he swam full speed at me and into my hand so I pushed he head under water for about 20 seconds and waited for he to stop swimming towards me as he did after losing his breath.
I am writing this as I personally was never scared for my own safety as I'm a past black belt in karate and could have easily on 5 or 6 times elbowed him in the face and instantly disabled him - BUT luckily for him I am a man of PEACE- But I am very worried this DICK will attack another rider who does not have my self defence skills and they could get badly hurt by this DICK and his his obvious thoughtless love of spearing surfboards in to other peoples faces.
PEACE to all
Johnnokeys
Seems like there are 2 sides to every story. A shortboarder I know told me a similar story last week. Gotta be the same drama, sounds too similar to be 2 separate incidents! Just for the record, he's not "dark", I think he's in his 40's roughly, not 55, & he's spent a lot of time supping himself, but prefers to ride a shortboard.
His version: sup-rider was sitting out the back, pinching waves off the shortboarders, shortboarder told him to f**k off, supper started belting him over the shoulder with his paddle (JohnnoKeys seems to have omitted that part...), then rest of the story sounds the same, i.e. supper pushing short boarder under water for 20 seconds (as someone else said, that's getting close to drowning), & short boarder belting supper with his board, dinging it in the process.
Don't know about JohnnoKeys holier-than-thou story. Not gaining himself too many friends describing the shortboarder" as a "poor old man pretending surfer.....about 55". Johnno, Ian Cairns is now 61, he's right into sup (if you don't know who he is, you haven't been surfing long), Tom Carroll's 52, possibly hottest supper in the world, & Gerry Lopez is 65, still ripping it up on sups and shortboards. Be careful who you call a "poor old man pretending surfer"
Black belt but valiantly restrained himself??
hmmm........
And as for Legion, who's only seen 4 proficient suppers........mate, you obviously don't get out much. Dave Muir, pro sup-rider, surfs often at South Cott reefies, & many of the local sup-riders are much more skilful surfers than your average short boarder at Seconds or long boarder at Isos. And Tom Carroll, has been seen out at Isos on a sup.
Any true aussie would tell you that the land,the water and every thing in them belongs to everyone so all you pack dogs out there just go chase a stick or somthing..
...Come and watch the mosh pit at Maroubra some day.Thats all,peace and love to all...
