shane durian said it right a kook is someone with no self awareness
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When to call someone a kook without being judgemental
- Thread starter Topazslider
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I think we can all agree that judging who’s the kook is one of the best ways to pass time in the lineup. It’s especially fun when we do it silently. All inside our fragile little minds...
I was thinking about getting gloves. Like the ones soccer goalies use, to help my gripyou should put some cut pieces of tail pad on the rails where hands go. The kicker on the back of the pad works best. That will definitely remove all kook from your game
He isn't in the air above the wave. I would have thought webbed gloves would have helped with that. I hope to do that someday.
Picture guy must be a kook like me. I wonder if his hands still slip off his surfboard
I was with my toddler today along the walking path that goes down to the beach, and I saw that guy again with his minimal with a tailpad so I asked him why he put a tailpad on his minimal, and he said for traction, no duh? He then asked me if I surf, and I said pretty much everyday in the summer. He nodded his head and walked away. Who knows, maybe the shop suggested the tailpad or he asked on Reddit under a post called "newbie advice"
He was probably thinking- "Summer....pffft...when it's small and warm and sunny and he thinks the girls are watching. Kook."
the terrible surfer whos out there every day is a bigger kook than the terrible surfer who goes once a week
“The way he humble brags through every interview, and reports from friends who have been surfing at spots in Indo when he and his crew have turned up, eg. shouting in the line-up: "THIS IS OUR OFFICE! WE'RE HERE TO GO TO WORK!"
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IMHO the biggest kooks are the ones who should know better, but choose to act like children in a candy store. Not the wide-eyed beginner, or the over-amped intermediate, it’s the ordained master who should know better and can’t control themselves. And put other people in jeopardy. Saw Gerry Lopez repeatedly stuff his own film crew at low-tide 8’ moneytrees. WTF. Peter McCabe wasn’t much better. Sounds like Billy Kemper is right up there. Emotional IQ of a 4 yr old.
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IMHO the biggest kooks are the ones who should know better, but choose to act like children in a candy store. Not the wide-eyed beginner, or the over-amped intermediate, it’s the ordained master who should know better and can’t control themselves. And put other people in jeopardy. Saw Gerry Lopez repeatedly stuff his own film crew at low-tide 8’ moneytrees. WTF. Peter McCabe wasn’t much better. Sounds like Billy Kemper is right up there. Emotional IQ of a 4 yr old.
It was a much smaller, much tighter world back in the day. You could be a local at one spot but knew all the locals at another spot. Mutual respect.
Now every transplanted idiot thinks they are eligible for a piece of the pie.
Now every transplanted idiot thinks they are eligible for a piece of the pie.
Of all the places in the world, I've run into that attitude at pismo beach peir more times than I can count. Twenty somethings with esteem surf shop stickers, worst.
Other day we are surfing a shallow reef with just me and my friend. A guy paddles out on a SUP and tries to take off from outside between my friend and myself.
We both just looked at him like he was the biggest kook ever for even considering it and he got the hint and moved on down and found somewhere else
We both just looked at him like he was the biggest kook ever for even considering it and he got the hint and moved on down and found somewhere else
Coming around a corner in the road 80 miles from the pavement and finding a Subaru dead in the water....