Does anyone else find watching surfing boring?

[Biggun]

never having surfed Bells, but having seen the highlights of the 2012 contest (take off, cutback, cutback, closeout), i am pretty sure i wouldnt trade it for Ankas when it pumped last dec...

[Beanpole]

I hate watching guys pull moves that totally destroys the ride. I love looking at quad surfing and fish because they generally try to make the wave and fit there manouvres into the structure of the wave breaking. To me thats what surfing is all about.

[Yuke Hunt]

I hate watching guys pull moves that totally destroys the ride. I love looking at quad surfing and fish because they generally try to make the wave and fit there manouvres into the structure of the wave breaking. To me thats what surfing is all about.

I like fish too ... what your favourite ... tropical ... freshwater or fingers.

Not so sold on the idea that fin quantity equates to the style a wave is surfed in on ... on in ... on.

[chrisb]

......almost as good as watching porn.

Yes, but wouldn't you rather be doing it yourself instead of seeing someone else having all the fun

Paying to watch others surf, unless it's in waves way beyond your own ability, is like going to a restaurant, paying for a good meal then watching someone else eat it.

[Rustt]

......almost as good as watching porn.

Yes, but wouldn't you rather be doing it yourself instead of seeing someone else having all the fun

Paying to watch others surf, unless it's in waves way beyond your own ability, is like going to a restaurant, paying for a good meal then watching someone else eat it.

Yes ,and it makes you hungry

[mical]

Trestles was just > air reverse, finner, air reverse, air reverse ... yawn.

Mostly ugly surfing with the odd bit of magic.

I'll take fat bells over that any-day, and that's saying something.

Next up ... Brazil :?

[Beanpole]

I hate watching guys pull moves that totally destroys the ride. I love looking at quad surfing and fish because they generally try to make the wave and fit there manouvres into the structure of the wave breaking. To me thats what surfing is all about.

I like fish too ... what your favourite ... tropical ... freshwater or fingers.

Clowns

[Nick Carroll]

I find surfing itself quite boring.

[steve shearer]

I like it as much as anything else and probably a whole lot more than most.......as a function and expression of the human condition, it's as riveting as anything else to me.

Surfing trumps watching surfing but the two are far from mutually exclusive.

Sometime I just like to sit on the low tide rocks with my boy, watching the purple and green crabs scurry amongst the rocks while the local boys and visitors get tubed on the Point.
That is very fine.

[Lucky Al]

I find watching surfing through binoculars while wearing dark glasses, porkpie hat and fake moustache and hiding behind a rock or in a bush pretty interesting. As a function and expression of the human condition that is.

[Lucky Al]

Just kidding. I stayed up until 2am on Friday and Saturday nights to watch Trestles online. I just dig that shit. The commentary was as stupid and boring as ever, but I've come to accept it and even feel warm about it as I accept and feel warm about the stupid boring stories and remarks of my mother-in-law or grandma.

[steve shearer]

Good luck doing that in the tropics.
Once the sweat starts to flow those fake moustaches become very uncomfortable, but then again humans can starve themselves to death so it's only a small sacrifice.

[Lucky Al]

Watching Trestles I was fascinated by Ace Buchan's arms: they looked extremely long and thin to me. I'd always had this image in my head of Ace as a short-armed kind of fellow. At some point I also developed a morbid fascination with John Florence's forehand cutbacks: there's definitely something a little dispiriting and bewildering and wilting about them. They could use a little work. Dane was a joy to watch at all times, as was Gabriel Medina - except his backhand reentries which look like kids' stuff, fairy floss, especially in comparison with Occy's. Even looking through binoculars didn't change my impression there.

[Beanpole]

Really hate watching all those little mean hyperactive turns in the pocket on average waves that comps tend to encourage. Much prefer to see more thoughtfully placed larger turns.

[ajohnsen]

If I can't do it, I'll watch it any way I can get it. Videos. Stills. If I can't get them, I'll draw A-frames on my pencil case. When I was a kid, waterskiing on the Hawksebury River, I'd watch the tiny waves from the boats peel off on the shore and imagine a mouse or tiny version of me racing the section. Driving along the Pacific Highway, the old man swearing at the caravans, I'd mind-surf the cuttings in hills that formed perfect lefts (the rights go the wrong way).

Kodi Smit-McPhee might see dead people, I just see waves.

[Nick Carroll]

I've actually got into watching average surfers lately, specially in the v clean conditions we've been experiencing. Not because they're doing much right but because their wrestles with timing, weighting, angles, the board and the shape of the wave are really intriguing. You can almost see the thought bubbles forming for guys as they do something they think will turn out right and it goes wrong halfway through, like "Huh? Oh...shit." Every now and then a guy will sort of semi accidentally put himself into a perfect line and then you see a different thought bubble, like "Christ I dunno how I got here but I'm NOT MOVING TILL THIS IS OVER"

Surfing is fcuken hard and I love watching people wrestling with it like this, sometimes getting it but mostly not quite, and almost always good humoredly.

[spork]

You've just described me! The good thing about it though is that when you do get it right you're on a high all day.

[alakaboo]

You just described my surf this morning.
Was trying a few technical changes, I'm sure I would've been highly entertaining.
Fortunately I'm still a child in the surf, fcuk knows how you'd get good at surfing if you took it up late and take yourself seriously.

Haha, spork beat me to it