Oh.I ask because the way the term is thrown around it seems to simply mean anyone that you dislike.
So on the erBB “kook” is the same as “racist.”
Duly noted.
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Oh.I ask because the way the term is thrown around it seems to simply mean anyone that you dislike.
Your encroaching my safe space!Oh.
So on the erBB “kook” is the same as “racist.”
Duly noted.
I can't. Not even sure if it's true or if they were trolling.Out em. Not worth keeping the peace over.
Could be any one of us
This is rumored to be an erBBer.
Yes! difference between the beginner who fucks up owns it and listens to a more experienced surfer telling them what they did wrong and the entitled “fuck you you don’t own the ocean “ beginner kookIgnorance + Arrogance = Kook.
A beginner who is being respectful and doing their best is not a kook.
Someone who rips but acts like an entitled dickhead is a kook.
Yeah, but not so much really, right? Kook has evolved into a general derogatory term and divorced of any real meaning besides that, it seems, and the only real criteria is that someone pissed you off for some reason. It’s like calling someone a fucker. Is that really a bad thing? It’s actually saying that you may have a good sex life, like, “Don’t drop-in on me, dude who fucks.”
so like 85% of surfers are kooks.Dane Reynolds bottom lined It best... A kook is someone with a lack of self awareness.
not at my regular. The kooks go and That’s the problemA kook hesitates, pulls back, doesn't go
I read this somewhere years ago, maybe in Surfer Magazine or The History of Surfing, and I can't remember the exact details but some West coast mainland surfers went to Makaha in 1947 or so and lived out there in tents for a while. They learned the Hawaiian word for Sh!t - kūkae. They wound up back on the Mainland West coast at Trestles where they used to say "I've gotta take a kūkae" and then go out and squat amongst the pines. This became "I've gotta take a Kook" and then Kook was used to describe things which were Sh!t. So I do think that's true."Kook" is Hawaiian for "piece of sh!t"?
I love that if it's true.
Hey kook!
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I'd disagree with 1,2, 3 and 4. I can't remember ever seeing a kooky kneeboarder, and there are some SUP guys who shred. Look up "Jess Leedy SUP". Big beachbreak tubes. Going straight (not straight towards the beach) is fine if they're not out of control. The guy at the beginning of plasticbeartrand's Swarmi's video above who probably couldn't dodge someone on the shoulder if he had to is a kook.