Would this, could this happen?

[steve shearer]

Same way it deals with every other common law sich.

If Macbank can prove the assault was intentional etc etc.

Doubt if a collision in the surf would do it.

But if Reggie speared his board and Nick Carroll coaching Jeffrey Macbank for a tidy per hour sum caught it on videotape......well that would be tendered evidence.
Or Reggie accosted him in the carpark...with witnesses.
U get the drift.
Thats happening now.

[daryl]

Well, yes.

Where's your USB packed full of class A musac

[oldman]

i'm assuming this isn't news to you Oldman, but State control normally extends out to 3nm, then it's federal.

Not across the detail alakaboo so happy to be informed.

Although state control may go out to 3 nm, what they can actually do out to 3nm would be very restricted, with a lot of it not tested in the courts.

The whole idea is so senseless, it may just happen.

[oldman]

Could there be a charge for assault caused by reckless surfing?

That is one can of worms with a label on it saying 'do not open'.

Perhaps it would be better to make sure that mac bank man was killed in the accident so that he can't lawyer up later.

[Nick Carroll]

NC when you say surfing needs to regulate it's popularity, or words to that effect, what exactly do you mean?

I'm not exactly sure. I think that until recently, generally speaking, surfing's handled its crowd thing in an interesting and quite effective way with the whole pecking order/hierarchy trip. There's always gonna be arguments here and there, there's always gonna be surfers heading up or down the order, yet within any typical lineup hierarchy, there is some order.

But that's all changed now, with the advent of crowds at some spots so intense that hierarchies break down and it's more or less every surfer for him/herself. That's where we've sorta lost our grip on our own surf zones, that's where the bad injuries are happening, that's where the legal minefield awaits. I don't have too many answers to that myself but I do reckon it's a bloody important discussion for the surf community to be having.

[steve shearer]

I remember having these moment of intense cognitive dissonance when IV'ing people for the other project.

Heads of Surfing Australia and Surfing QLD and they were proudly listing the achievements of "so and so many new surf schools, so and so many thousands of new surfers etc etc"

Meanwhile the people surfing the Superbank were reporting these Hobbesian sessions where chaos and violence were becoming norms.

Surfing as a concept is Resource limited .......obviously there is a carrying capacity beyond which anarchy becomes the norm.

[Lucky Al]

but what about all these waves that just keep coming steve?

[steve shearer]

yes, we raise our balding heads skywards and give thanks for them.

[Lucky Al]

balding heads? haha!

[steve shearer]

and while we are giving thanks we thank women who can love a balding head.
For that reason alone we sometimes suspend disbelief in Science and give ourselves over to fantasies of a higher power.

[sean doherty]

and while we are giving thanks we thank women who can love a balding head.
For that reason alone we sometimes suspend disbelief in Science and give ourselves over to fantasies of a higher power.

Amen to that.

[The Dan]

Wedge is locked out from 9-4 in cali except fr bodysurfers........

[oldman]

Doesn't stop them looking longingly over baldy's shoulder at the tousle haired warrior so full of life and virility.

And wishing they could run their fingers through his luxuriant, manly head, thinking, 'why, oh why can't I have a man like that?'

[steve shearer]

yeah, fortunately for us though most "tousle haired warriors" seem more interested in each other.

[daryl]

starfish

[Nappy]

Dosent work cause breaks are totally different depending on swell size tide ect. Take pipeline for exaample you might classify that as double diamond or whateva cause at 8-10 ft it would be.

Same break 2 days later at 1-3ft hawiian would be a 10 of hearts or something

[daryl]

Dosent work cause breaks are totally different depending on swell size tide ect. Take pipeline for exaample you might classify that as double diamond or whateva cause at 8-10 ft it would be.

Same break 2 days later at 1-3ft hawiian would be a 10 of hearts or something

and another, soft 8ft would not be black diamond