"When contacted today club president Greg Thompson didn’t do much to defend the accusation, but struggles to see what the fuss is about. “We’re just a bunch of normal surfers protecting our break. It’s the same everywhere else.”

Normal surfers????? WTF??? more like ABNORMAL ego maniacs!!!

Its the same every where else??? LMAO wake up Greg! No it is not! To be honest you guys who are soooooo in love with the spot need to wake up and stop trying to re-live that great session you had 30 years ago.


These sort of comments and attitude are the reasons why alot of people dont want anything to do with board riders clubs.

Your right Spot 1, a damn good laugh. A freakin joke actually.

You can have your "spot" - Kooks

(this response is not an attack on Spot1 however is directed at dickhead old angry doods who need to get out of Tworocks)

That'd be why there was a million people at durrs that weekend eh??

I'm galad ya said OLD dudes in Two Rocks Kearnsey, I was starting to get offended

I wonder how many non club members, who were there for a surf, would have just stood there if a "CLUBBIE" decided to get angry? You'de have to have big nuts to tell someone thier not allowed to paddle out

No place for that really on a PUBLIC beach

Some nice waves on the weekend, didnt surf it but had a look at it, I use it as an indicator for other spots

In regards to the spot, the boardriders club are the ones who negotiated with the Japanese owners of the access land and Wanneroo council to keep the break open. It was going to be closed, track dug up and bouldered off. Good luck making a new route in with the possibility of unexploded munitions.
The nice new limestone track and car-parks and associated fencing was negotiated and physically laboured on by the boardriders. which gives all the public and kooks access.
But most of the whiners about the boardriders wouldn't even know that access to the spot used to be limited to 4 wheelies and bush bashers, if they had the driving skills. So you young blokes with your shiny expensive two wheel drives with your boards bolted on should say thank you.
The boardriders also work with Coastcare and are involved with dune preservation at both Derr's and the Spot. If not for the boardriders there would be no top car park at the Spot as it would have crumbled into the ocean as a result of you eco friendly surfers traipsing up and down and getting out of your wetties on the dune.
They got the toilets and bins installed, which most of the ''visiting surfers'' still don't use so the boardriders end up cleaning up your ''crap'' sometimes literally.
Theres more that the club does but hopefully you get the point. Do your homework before you shoot your mouths off. And people are more than welcome at the Spot if they do the right thing in and out of the water otherwise you will be ''told'' about your bad manners. I like correcting peoples manners.

cRAZY Canuk said...

Doesn't matter what or where - violence (physical or verbal) has no place in society and only creates more violence.

Iron Buddha - thanks for pointing out what the local club has done to ensure access to the break so that they and joe public could still access it. It's always good to see people being pro active, any luck it might rub off on others.

Totally agree with you..we are all at times ''visitors'' at what some people believe is their home break. It might be down south,over east or overseas.
The trouble only starts when people fail to understand the meaning of words such as priority,snaking,line-up, respect and sharing.
At my last surf at the spot the first thing I saw as I paddled out through the channel was a blatant drop in which resulted in the aggrieved recipient of the burn try his hardest to spear the drop in in the back of his head with his flicked board.
Now these two blokes were ''new heads'' in the water so to speak and frankly both are probably in need of some serious ''tuning''
So maybe someone can answer this..in that situation what do you do? If you live locally and have surfed the break for the past 20 years know all the regular heads in the water do you just grin and say that's progress? or is it justified to chastise the two morons and say lift your game or paddle in?
No break should need local Sheriffs in the water but when people bring their 21st century plain ignorant bad manners into the ocean then I guess some people will take on that role.

IronBuddha said...
Totally agree with you..we are all at times ''visitors'' at what some people believe is their home break. It might be down south,over east or overseas.
The trouble only starts when people fail to understand the meaning of words such as priority,snaking,line-up, respect and sharing.
At my last surf at the spot the first thing I saw as I paddled out through the channel was a blatant drop in which resulted in the aggrieved recipient of the burn try his hardest to spear the drop in in the back of his head with his flicked board.
Now these two blokes were ''new heads'' in the water so to speak and frankly both are probably in need of some serious ''tuning''
So maybe someone can answer this..in that situation what do you do? If you live locally and have surfed the break for the past 20 years know all the regular heads in the water do you just grin and say that's progress? or is it justified to chastise the two morons and say lift your game or paddle in?
No break should need local Sheriffs in the water but when people bring their 21st century plain ignorant bad manners into the ocean then I guess some people will take on that role.

Living in Manly/Northern Beaches - I just grin and bear it

I was in Hawaii visiting familly last week and had the chance to go surfing. There was a local guy out there that was a total ass hat who thought it was his right to be the "sheriff" (he ended up droping in on me twice, yeah nice) was at the Wakiki main breack just out front of Dukes full of people learning and he took it upon himself to ruin peoples days (I ended up paddle just east to a better break). So it's not just the visitors that can have those kind of maners.

Luckly with blow in's is sooner or later they have to drive home.

cRAZY Canuk said...

IronBuddha said...
Totally agree with you..we are all at times ''visitors'' at what some people believe is their home break. It might be down south,over east or overseas.
The trouble only starts when people fail to understand the meaning of words such as priority,snaking,line-up, respect and sharing.
At my last surf at the spot the first thing I saw as I paddled out through the channel was a blatant drop in which resulted in the aggrieved recipient of the burn try his hardest to spear the drop in in the back of his head with his flicked board.
Now these two blokes were ''new heads'' in the water so to speak and frankly both are probably in need of some serious ''tuning''
So maybe someone can answer this..in that situation what do you do? If you live locally and have surfed the break for the past 20 years know all the regular heads in the water do you just grin and say that's progress? or is it justified to chastise the two morons and say lift your game or paddle in?
No break should need local Sheriffs in the water but when people bring their 21st century plain ignorant bad manners into the ocean then I guess some people will take on that role.

Living in Manly/Northern Beaches - I just grin and bear it

I was in Hawaii visiting familly last week and had the chance to go surfing. There was a local guy out there that was a total ass hat who thought it was his right to be the "sheriff" (he ended up droping in on me twice, yeah nice) was at the Wakiki main breack just out front of Dukes full of people learning and he took it upon himself to ruin peoples days (I ended up paddle just east to a better break). So it's not just the visitors that can have those kind of maners.

Luckly with blow in's is sooner or later they have to drive home.

So, lets have a look at this. -

Frothing grom takes off on the inside @ the spot as older local is out on the shoulder. Local then takes the next wave, oh no hang on he missed that one as well couldnt get in the right position.
So all of a sudden we have a slightly p!ssed local, then we have the senario of this happening to 3 or 4 other locals in the same day more than once.
My local is not local to where I live but I have surfed the break for 23 years so where do we sit with that?
Also just because you are a local, are you the better surfer?

cRAZY Canuk said...

There's no gimmie's in surfing - you miss the wave you go for tough tities get back in line. (had an issue with that on Monday at Collaroy)

And yes I am the best surfer at Manly - Just don't pinch me

I wouldnt want to wake you up mate

Surfing anywhere near a population has been cancelled.

Problem is you now have the whole crowd sitting too deep - trying to snake / take priority -and no one is making sections - so heaps of waves get blown. Or crew see that the guy is too deep and try and second guess the place to sit where the too deep guy will crash - and take off from there. Leading the guy that was too deep to believe that he was in the right spot and that the guy on the shoulder shut him down.

And the lucky fella that does thread one now cant take the natural line of the wave because of all the crew that wiped out from being to deep are now paddling for the shoulder and are in the face. Right where that top turn snap under the lip was going to happen.

Meanwhile the pack banks up at the peak because no one is catching any waves

Watched this scenario many times from the beach or in the water- its ridiculous.

I pretty much only surf Gnaraloo out of season now. Or go and chase weird uncrowded waves on my stand up. Thank god for wave sailing!

Yeah I find it funny that when it starts getting a bit bigger then 4ft clean and barreling, the crowds start to thin out. Surfed Burleigh last year at what I call 6ft clean with just me, a mate and one other dude out. Could not believe it! Here on the GC, you just have to wait till it's 6ft+ before you start getting reeeeeelll good waves!

^^^ yeah it is a bit, but on the upside, i used to be a real surf fanatic and since ive been getting outa the water in a worse mood than when i paddled out, ive cut back heaps, but ive found other sports and some of the best people ive ever met.
ive learnt theres more to recreation than surf surf surf and im better for it.

i still enjoy the waves, especially at size, but the more i have it to myself the better.
other sports i now do i prefer to enjoy with others. everyones different.

IronBuddha said...

cRAZY Canuk said...

Doesn't matter what or where - violence (physical or verbal) has no place in society and only creates more violence.

Iron Buddha - thanks for pointing out what the local club has done to ensure access to the break so that they and joe public could still access it. It's always good to see people being pro active, any luck it might rub off on others.

Totally agree with you..we are all at times ''visitors'' at what some people believe is their home break. It might be down south,over east or overseas.
The trouble only starts when people fail to understand the meaning of words such as priority,snaking,line-up, respect and sharing.
At my last surf at the spot the first thing I saw as I paddled out through the channel was a blatant drop in which resulted in the aggrieved recipient of the burn try his hardest to spear the drop in in the back of his head with his flicked board.
Now these two blokes were ''new heads'' in the water so to speak and frankly both are probably in need of some serious ''tuning''
So maybe someone can answer this..in that situation what do you do? If you live locally and have surfed the break for the past 20 years know all the regular heads in the water do you just grin and say that's progress? or is it justified to chastise the two morons and say lift your game or paddle in?
No break should need local Sheriffs in the water but when people bring their 21st century plain ignorant bad manners into the ocean then I guess some people will take on that role.

In that situation, I think you should thank all the people at the boardriders club for negotiating with the Japenese land owners and putting in that flash road so that the "public and kooks" now have access. (see your 1st post ironbuddha).

The "locals" at the spot are the worst people for snaking!!! Half of the faces I see there, most times i surf at the spot, have no problems with paddling straight back to the inside waiting for the next set.

Its the problem with a growing Perth population and also the popularity of surfing now going through the roof. People are all frustrated due to increase in crowds at our local breaks wich seemed like only a few years ago no-one else surfed at except for you and your mates.

It does suck but what can you do?? Personally I rarely surf weekends anymore and when I do its offshore in a boat or out of a 4WD somewhere without the hassle.

Thats my 2 cents

Locals at The Spot ???

Get over it boys. You are now well and truly part of Perth Suburbia.

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