drop ins

[ljw]

Despite all the talk about surf etiquette (ie. no dropping in) so many people seem to think it doesn't apply to them. Look at 90% of waves at Snapper, Dbah etc and there will be 2 to 5 people dropping in on each other. And its not like they are doing it by mistake.

Fair enough these places are super-crowded but each time I go there (which is hardly ever) I am amazed at what prcks so many people in the water are. Anyway, thats my winge for the week.

[slicktrigger]

Yeah but this will always happen at crowded spots. I love surfing at Burls, Snapper and Dbah but sometimes it just aint worth the hassle.
Some of the best sessions I have had have been at Double Island point, north of Noosa. it's quite a travel and the swell has to be perfect for it to break properly but this place boasts Australia's longest right hand break. And it is never crowded.
During Cylcone season, DI is mental.

[thermalben]

Is there much difference in being dropped in by a guy or a girl? I was dropped in on this afternoon at Miami by a rather attractive girl, but didn't say anything (I don't think she knew), but had it have been a guy, perhaps my reaction would have been different....

Hmmm... ;)

[ljw]

A girl (wearing the standard barely-there bikini) dropped in on my mate, and knew she was doing it. He called it and she ignored him so he surfed behind her calling out and then on the end of the wave abused the crp out of her. Good on him I reckon, doesn't matter who you are, dropping in is dropping in.

[slicktrigger]

If she's wearing a sexy g-banger and I get to surf behind her arse, I don't give a shit if she drops in or not. In fact, i think I'd prefer it.

[booya]

I hear a few guys say to me that you can break up the crowd at Snapper into 3 groups. The surfers that rip (1st group), the surfers that can surf OK but dont hassle (2nd group) and the 3rd group being the kooks which spreads into the second group.

I reckon the 1st group, are the ones that say this and are the prcks that drop in.

[mermaidb]

Yeh, give the G-bangers a go (in smaller surf only) as otherwise many wouldn't get a wave since they usually hang back a little in the line up and don't tend to move deep inside. And yeh, every now and then be generous and call em onto a wave. :lol: Karma will repay you.

And as for the blatant Drop In Artist .... "Sorry mate, I didn't see ya" .... well open your bloody eyes .... you idiot. :shock: How do YOU deal with these guys :?: :idea: Run em over, get aggressive, abuse them, thump them, order em out of the water ....

And what about the one where you hang back in the line up and let a few go and then the guy that just picked up one of the sets paddles back out just in time to sneak on your inside and take off again.
What do you do? Do you take off? Are you dropping in?

Oh yeh and what about the guy at Snapper that duck dives with his eyes shut and comes up underneath your board. What a tool!

:idea: It's about time a group of us banded together and applied some consistent rules and approach and had a word to those that blatently break them. Nothing like 10 guys in the line up telling you what to do. Either you'll get out or suffer the bad vibe and have a lowsy session.

What do ya think about all BurleighCammers agreeing to a code on joining and issuing a BurleighCam sticker to put on ya board so we can band together, say g'day in the line up and quietly, slowly and calmly sqash the undesirable element that think they are such shit hot surfers (in their own self opinionated view) that they can take every wave.

Anyone agree or got a better idea? :lol:

[slicktrigger]

Yep,

Burleighcam sticker is definitely a good idea. I like to know who I can trust out there.

[bigdan]

Well its pretty hard to fix up at the Goldie. The attitude was there when I was a kid 30 years ago.

Whats really bad is people from crowded places bring it with them when they are on holidays.
At Gnarloo/Bluff we can tell where someone is from 99% of the time by the way act. The person paddling inside (where you can't make it anyway), crumbling the lip over when you are 10ft behind the curtain, dropping in or "too cool" to respond to a g'day in the water is invariably from the crowded God Coast, Sydney, Perth. The Brazil nuts we don't count they seem incapable of thought. The younger Margs crew too seem to be adopting the habit. Crew from elsewhere are noticeably more mellow
Luckily when it gets to 8-10ft (WA size) these morons
A) Break all their boards
B) Hit the reef
C) Suddenly find excuses to not go out.

Unfortunately thats only a few times a year. The rest of the time they've spent thousands to get here only to spoil themselves and everyone elses fun and surf.

Hope you guys can sort it out over there. More importantly don't bring it to here, Indo or elsewhere. People find after the same crew has been in the camp for a month and had a party or two they all know each other, find it hard to drop in on someone who has laughed with them or got something for them in town for them.
Then everyone starts taking turns, knows who is capable of handling what wave and work out a shift and pecking order.
Then a new crew turn up or worse some sponsored fuckwits with cameras turn up and its on again. The end result are wasted waves, busted boards and heads.

The worst piss off is they expect first aid and telephone calls to the hospital etc from the locals for self inflicted injuries.

Anyway thats my bitch and hope you sort it out so I can come back to some old stamping grounds.

Big Dan from the Bluff.
(once a skinny grommet called Hong Kong at Kirra on a single fin)

[craig]

dropins everywhere at dbah yesterday..

[Benno777]

G'Day, an idea for dealing with morons who repeatedly drop in. Let em paddle in but hold on to their leggie (especially good at Snapper 8) ). Stee'ruth! what is the point of it all when agression is at the heart of your surfing?

[User01]

drop iners
like drop in and stuff.

Sometimes i like, dont like stuff like that. Its full like, shit and stuff.
it like makes me like angry and like stuff.

yeah dropp iners are like so gay and like stuff.
it like makes me like yeah full like angry and stuff seeing like stuff and like people and stuff drop in.

[yewwww!]

what the hell are u taking bout man?

im in for that burleigh cam sticker though. sounds hell, later

[xfactor]

the only way u'll survive others dropping in = carry a pocket knife in the surf with ya. just like in that movie point break. if someone pisses u off, smash'em :D

Ahhh the system works!

[Slick]

hey im a bodyboarder and i get dropped in on all the time, especially at burlz, but to combat the problem once they have dropped in on me i love taking off within 30cm of them an grabbin their leggie as they drop in, watchin them fall flat on their face at the bottom of the wave makes my day, expecially if i continue to make my drop and proceed to get barrelled of the hook!!! funnily enough after 2 or 3 pulls of the leggie i dont get dropped in on any more...

im up for that burleighcam sticcker too even tho im a bodyboarder

[Chicky]

Hey, i surf out burlz all the time. I hardly get dropped in on...maybe theres a reason for that... but most of the locals are good, they let me have the wave or they invite me onto em, except for a few. Its all the japs that drop in on ya, they shit me to tears. You cant say anythin to em either cause they dont understand ya...

[xfactor]

how many people are actually using burleighcam anyways? the crew is probably huge if we all had stickers.. lol

dropping in is a dangerous activity, but sometimes you have to do it when the crowd is fierce. snapper for example, you can't just not drop in, or you won't get a wave.

I usually get away from crowd and surf greenmount, beach breaks, and my own private spots that no-one ever goes to :) Gold coast is pretty big... should try to find a good sandbank on the open-stretches. since goldie hardly ever gets over 3-4ft most of the time, its not too hard to paddle out. palmy/miami/broady/poo-park.. all good spots!

btw. go the broncs! 20-10 to brissy at 5:20pm!! Yeah!

[the_chungs]

man i drop in on people all the time if i think there a kook or if they just dont look cool, you need to wear chungs in the surf to have my respect....

[zingomar]

when its really crowded on the points, it is hard to call it fun unless you are a super hottie. The gold Coast has miles of beach breaks that are uncrowded and even empty that are better than the average beach break I surf in Tassie. If its packed on the points walk away. Two to three waves per hour + dropins and stress is easily beaten by a swag of waves on the beaches.

[the_chungs]

:idea:

[yewwww!]

yeah same here, i find burls is the worst place for us boogers. i dont really surf it much any more but compared to TOS burls surfers dont know what "yep!, MINE!" means. i rekon we all hit up one of those stickers. yewwwww

[the_chungs]

i like boogers

[slicktrigger]

Hey Mr. Chung man,

You are not funny. Please piss off.

[SIMON]

I agree please go away and dont come back

[the_chungs]

sorry simple simon, no more drunken spammin i promise

[what_a_bogan]

hell ya man im up for a sticker on my board.... :lol:

[Ranga]

Yeah man a sticker seems a sic idea. i was at TOS the other day and you do get the odd drop ins. The ones i hate is when you call the surfer off and they keep going it shits me to tears. Even worse is when you paddle to get to that sic peak where no one is and some fool bodyboarder follows you and drops in on you. I thought us boogers stick together??

[betelnut]

there's a few excuses for a drop in that i think are legitimate:
-returning the favour
-taking off when some clown continually takes off way too far inside (often waving his arms and calling out ) and continually fails to make the section
-when somebody has blatantly snaked you
-when somebody has already had a wave and then paddles past you to sit on your inside (as displayed by the odd mal or two)
-when you have hemmoroids in your arse and you need a sharp fibreglass object rammed in it to push them back in.

otherwise it just stuffs it up for everyone. we've all copped it and it can just ruin your session. it's really a form of theft, like someone stealing money out of your wallet or stealing your car stereo. its a bad look, let's all just stop it.