Eye Safety

[Yonder_River]

I don't know much about surfing, but here's a freak story. I was friends with a girl who was surfing with a friend of hers down in Costa Rica. Her friend fell off his board and it ended up popping him in his eye. Severe damage to the point that his eyeball was almost coming out. After maxing out their credit cards, it took them three days to get him back to the states for decent healthcare. He ended up losing his eye. Rare, but I guess it happens.




edit: I just read the link in the original post. Guess it happens more than I thought!

[SkiTopanga]

I don't think of surfing as a high-impact sport...

It sound like you don't really know squat about surfing if you don't think it's a high impact sport, Sport.
Enough about about your f'n eye already.

[cj001f]

A blunt tipped board and some of those soft edged fins might be more useful for protecting your eye. I've been told by opthamologists I should start investing in eye protection while in the water (particularly the tropics) but I can't figure out which to buy.

I thought surf helmets were gay until I met someone who got his hair caught in a reef.

[willywhit]

safety never takes a holiday.
Getting smacked in the head hurts alot less with a helmet on.
ohhhhhhhh.......wise guy, eh ?

[jayfrizzo]

It sound like you don't really know squat about surfing if you don't think it's a high impact sport, Sport.

It sounds like that to you, because you're an ignorant douchebag.

I grew up sponging and surfing but was not terrifically into it. However my family is. My brother used to spend every winter in Escondito in the 70s and 80s and was semi-pro for CI back in the day. And I have family living in Costa Rica helping to actually grow surfing instead of being all territorial and douchy like you.

Surfing, while dangerous, is not an impact sport like football, basketball, or even ultimate frisbee. It just isn't -- look at the stats -- and no matter how elite or special you need to feel will change that.

J-

[cj001f]

helping to actually grow surfing instead of being all territorial and douchy like you.

I used to think you were OK. Now it's war.

the statistics for surfing are skewed by most surfers idea of surfing being paddling around on a veritable kayak in 2' rollers. This is indeed not an impact sport, except at malibu.

[Hayduke]

Just to add to the mix.....Shorey's my younger bro. He's never had a sesh longer than a couple'a hours and can't get out back if it's bigger than 4'. I've never seen him stand on a board (on water) for longer than 3 seconds. He is however, an accomplished internet surfer, so good in fact that repeated employers get totally jealous and fire him.

[jayfrizzo]

I used to think you were OK. Now it's war.

Heh, sorry sir. Not grow as in run a surfcamp for fatties like me. More grow as in increase the quality of surfing in general.

Though I do love fat camps.

J-

[SkiTopanga]

It sounds like that to you, because you're an ignorant douchebag.

That's douche bag, not douchebag, douche bag. Learn to spell before you call someone ignorant.

I grew up sponging and surfing but was not terrifically into it. However my family is. My brother used to spend every winter in Escondito in the 70s and 80s and was semi-pro for CI back in the day. And I have family living in Costa Rica helping to actually grow surfing instead of being all territorial and douchy like you.

So, you're a sponger. It shows. Maybe you should stick to the tea bag and someday work your way up to a soft top. That way you'll be safe and sound.

Surfing, while dangerous, is not an impact sport like football, basketball, or even ultimate frisbee. It just isn't -- look at the stats -- and no matter how elite or special you need to feel will change that.

Stat's? Uh, what stats? Because you say "it just isn't"? You still don't know squat and your argument is typically feminine. If you ever strap on the balls you were born with and drop into a wave that's anything overhead you'll experience an impact unlike any team sport can deliver.
J-

What a whiner.

[willywhit]

no matter how elite or special you need to feel will change that.

but isn't surfing " The Sport of Kings " ?

[SkiTopanga]

I think that traditionally speaking the sport of kings is horse racing.

[jayfrizzo]

Ooo, spelling smack. That's manly.

It sound like you don't really know squat...

It sound like you need to read up on your spelling stat's there, holmes.

I've been clobbered by 10-footers. Wouldn't go out now in something overhead. But my suckiness doesn't make you any less douchy (or is it douchey?).


J-

[SkiTopanga]

I've been clobbered by 10-footers.
J-

No doubt.
On a teabag everything looks like a 10 footer.

[willywhit]

Horse racing can't touch the Billabong pro at Teahupoo


Before contact with Cook's crew, Hawai'i was ruled by a code of kapu (taboos) which regulated almost everything: where to eat; how to grow food; how to predict weather; how to build a canoe; how to build a surfboard; how to predict when the surf would be good, or convince the Gods to make it good. Hawaiian society was distinctly stratified into royal and common classes, and these taboos extended into the surf zone. There were reefs and beaches where the ali'i (chiefs) surfed and reefs and beaches where the commoners surfed. Commoners generally rode waves on paipo (prone) and alaia (stand up) boards as long as 12 feet, while the ali'i rode waves on olo boards that were as long as 24 feet.


Dog don't surf

[jayfrizzo]

On a teabag everything looks like a 10 footer.

Your mom did say I was pretty tall.

At least that's what I think she said.

[SkiTopanga]

Your mom did say I was pretty tall.

At least that's what I think she said.

My Mom passed away so there ain't much action there.
But considering the source, you probably have a good time with dead ladies. Besides, dead chicks can't refuse a stud like you.
Maybe someday you'll snag a live one.

[willywhit]

do we need a thread for dead mother "jokes" ?
I remember the mother jokes back when I was 12, even then....LAME !

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp...58367&T=309409

[jayfrizzo]

Mom jokes have and always will rule.

Hey, Tampanga, "It’s just A.I. man. Don’t take it so personally."

[willywhit]

Putana means.........

[hop]

More grow as in increase the quality of surfing in general.

How do you increase the quality of surfing in general? Is it beach engineering to create better waves? Swell machines to stop those untimely flat spells? Is there a "skip-the-learning-curve-and-go-straight-to-ripping" drug in development?

[Toby]

Just to add to the mix.....Shorey's my younger bro. He's never had a sesh longer than a couple'a hours and can't get out back if it's bigger than 4'. I've never seen him stand on a board (on water) for longer than 3 seconds. He is however, an accomplished internet surfer, so good in fact that repeated employers get totally jealous and fire him.

This is one of the coolest burns I've ever seen on here

[Toby]

How do you increase the quality of surfing in general? Is it beach engineering to create better waves?

There's an artificial reef just down the road from me. I (and most of the general population) was skeptical at first. For the first year or so it didn't really work, but it gradually filled in with sand and/or growth and is a pretty decent wave now. They should've shaped it a bit differently though - it only ended up a right when it would've been so easy to make a decent right and left .

[SkiTopanga]

Hey, Tampanga, Don’t take it so personally.[/url]"

Take what so personally?

Whining from a one-eyed tea bagger?

[jayfrizzo]

Heh, good one. Better the bagger than the bagee I suppose.

Nice avatar. I don't think it counts as overhead if you're riding drop-knee, though.

[SkiTopanga]

Heh, good one. Better the bagger than the bagee I suppose.

Nice avatar. I don't think it counts as overhead if you're riding drop-knee, though.

What would you know about drop knee when you've never stood up?
Oh, I know...you spend a lot of time on your knee's.