Agent000 said...legion I am not trying to make you give up your surfing traditions and lore but your statment that "its just the way it is" and "its an australian wide standard" (except parts of queensland
) aint true, if only due to tourism and immigration, tell me honestly that you have never had someone give you that vaguely confused look after you state a wave size. besides that the surfing world is a lot bigger than just oz.
Only people confused are kooks.
Agent000 said...it may be the way it is for poeple like you and me that (sorry for the assumption about yourself) grew up with ASL telling us what was hot/not and that the north shore was mecca (ok I may live a little closer to your beach than the caymans
). but for the wider comunity (surfing and not ) it makes no sense (unless explained, which I would rather avoid, which is my only point).
I don't care what the wider community thinks. The wider Australian surfing community knows what's up. Except the kooks.
I have never known confusion amongst people who can surf. Not in this state anyway.
This thread topic comes up occasionally on different websites. There's no point arguing it, because you're not going to get experienced surfers who grew up with a particular system to suddenly go,
"You know what, you're right. I'm going to switch to wave face measurements all of a sudden."
It's like America holding on to Imperial measurements. We all know it doesn't make sense but you're not going to change it.
The other system makes sense - relative to 6' body size (i.e. waist high, head high, overhead, DOH, etc). But I generally use the "feet" measurement system with no confusion at all to other surfers.
