Dodging Kooks at Byron Bay
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Dodging Kooks at Byron Bay , this surfer has dodging kooks down to a fine art as he manoeuvres through the lineup and heads down the point ...
Byron Bay
The Pass
New South Wales
Surfing Australia 2023
![[UA] NAVI проти G2 Esports | Blast Premier Fall Final](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QWlIm4FGESQ/mqdefault.jpg)
The first kook dodger is an absolute shredder..keeping all that speed and still hitting the critical sections..
I agree. That first guy has mad skills.
Gotta be a local 👍🏻
the extra long carve around the longboarder...
Sardine surfing ! Yer good surfing dodging,, Respect , give everyone a wave 👋
Kook dodger sounds like a cool video game looks fun too
Beautiful conditions.
Great wave.
Nightmare lineup.
Truly a spiritual experience. If you want to go somewhere a little less crowded after a surf at BB I suggest going to Pitt Street Mall around midday.
Are there any birds there?
CHICKEN BURGAH?
Haven't seen Byron breaking well like that in many years, but I've never seen a crowd like that either, I miss the 80's.
I miss the 70's. That was the last time I surfed there.
@@amateurmakingmistakes That's the future, more people wanting the same experiences with limited space for the experience. Oh well.
And they're trying to double the population 🙄
The sand is definitely in this year. It’s stuffed though. People refusing to paddle to the spot wait their turn and commit. The just sit right down the lineup and make every wave an obstacle course.
Na, 60's was good there
That’s just ridiculous. I wouldn’t even bother going out. 🤦🏼
I've been there was fine and just like that , the locals have the take off dialed , but still empty shoulders if have patience, I surfed away from main crowds
Byron is such a knob magnet.
It certainly is - been like that for yrs
Too many dirty unemployed hippies so every day is like a weekend
bellends!
@@howie6666you mean the rich private school kids pretending to be hippies?
Visited once. Noosa to somewhere south of Lennox is kinda crowded and so many good surfers. I figured you would have to hunt out good beachies to avoid going mad. Good luck
Lol, mid 70’s I quit my job and lived in a tent at Clark’s Beach Caravan Park, surfed it most days by myself most early mornings. 🤣
@@paulmolles4445 definitely mate, I can remember being happy when someone else paddled out, so you weren’t surfing alone.
You can still do that in many surf spots in Australia, is just that Byron and Coolangatta are the most popular at the moment and those two spots have AMAZING waves, but where I live is not warm but I can still surf really good waves just my husband and me☺
@@catalinagomez924 don't you dare say where you live!
@@jackdrury18 Hahahaha! This place will never be a surf heaven bc the waves are beach breaks and very inconsistent but they are still great fun when you ride them....... Somewhere in East Gippsland 🤭🤭
Yeah but now you’re old and prolly gonna kick the bucket soon and we’ll still be sarfing
Full of dudes from the gold coast who’ve spent the last six months telling tourists to F off lol.
The good Old days at the bay have definitely gone.
I don't go near the place anymore. Unfortunately due to the internet and guide books so many great breaks are being ruined by the crowds.
The bay back In the seventies, eighties and nineties was a totally different laid back place. Now it's full of the pretentious brigade that move to beautiful places, bring Thier city b.s along and turn it into the place they came from. I've seen it happen in many a beautiful little Hamlet during my life.
You mean people keep having babies and the population keeps growing 😭 cry me an ocean
And I had the 60's ... declared surfing too crowed early 70's ... 😂
I grew up surfing and actually got pretty good when I was young. Then moved to the Midwest for 25 years. I still love surfing more than anything even though I can't even pop up anymore. When I get the chance to take a vacation and paddle out, I tell the guys around me that I'm a kook and I won't get in anyone's way or take any wave they want... Actually works out well that way because they typically cheer for me and give me a wave every once in a while after just sitting out there and letting everyone take whatever they want... Kinda funny how I went from a kook, to a local, then back to a kook... At least I know the etiquette out there. I think that's the biggest obstacle
Shut up
Agree. Approximately the same profile here and my tactic is the same in the line up here in Reunion island. Cheers !
They probably see that you're actually a good surfer once you stand up.
That’s how it should be but when there are 50 kooks not a lot of them are going to be standing on a wave
I’m in the same boat. Live in Montana now. Except I just take any wave that comes because where I surf, there is zero etiquette anymore (WA and OR coast).
Everyone goes for every wave, nobody cares anymore whose turn it is. Free for all.
Holy kooks, batman.... beautiful water 2:10
Fun, I can`t wait...my new life goal is to learn to do this. and do it!
Here I am in WA south west with a clean break all to myself. Only thing I have to dodge this time of year is the sharks. 😮
Where? The jetty is packed lately (Westport)
Beginners do have a right to learn, but don’t set up camp in the middle of a busy road with heavy traffic. They could go down the beach and take off on crumbly closeouts and it would be no different than them taking off and going straight at the Pass.
Beginner kids yes. Adult learners can suck it.
If they take the time to learn etiquette first and stay the fuck out of everyone’s way, don’t drop in on people go straight then yeet their board into someone’s face sure fine, they can earn their place eventually, if they break the cardinal sins or paddle into the pit they can fuck off forever though. Period. Full stop. Kids are fine, kids should learn.
Agree completely. How adult learners don't have the common sense not to go to the most crowded spots in the area to learn is beyond me.
@@SwordAndFern-mw3ke Couldn't agree more with this comment. These "tourist breaks" always turn into a shit show under 3 feet. Locals usually only go out 6 foot plus. Having said that if you paddle into the pit at any city break around the country you're going to have a bad day.
All they do is soak in the water then go home and tell everyone how they shread.
Boy, that looks like about as much fun as the IRT NYC Subway at rush hour -
He just dominates the whole beach. Super impressive and stylish 🤙🍻
Locals only by the looks, no fisty cuffs YET 😂😂❤
WTF, no one paddles wide these days. There must be a million bucks worth of board shorts and other accessories in the water. This is the hell like scenario the Hippies warned about, a plague of Hipsters.
....Brilliant ride considering the roadblocks, geez, Louise ! PHK these incompetent 'ner do wells that don't consider anyone but themselves!!!!! You did wonderfully at remaining NEUTRAL!!!!!....
The go sea kayak getting involved in the first clip had me laughing! Brasss was dodging everyone and oldmate’s grandma on that wave 😂
Why I hate most surfers and now surfkite, prone surf and wing foil for peace and quiet while still have fun ripping at non crowded spots.
The camaraderie is shit in the surfing world unless your either hyper level, famous or in a tight bikini. Everyone is a kook to everyone.
99% of comments here illustrates that.
Thats just nuts!
Great quality video mate, watching on my new 15" MacBook Air. Keep em coming...
Third person he gets, gets it. Love it.
i remember standing on the takeoff rock waiting for waves then jumping in and catching sets back in '70s. And with flippers on (kneeboarder)
dont they have some little shorebreak somewhere else to learn???
I dont know whats worse in Byron.... The people on the shore or off the shore.... Its a tie. Neither can out do each other....
That lineup is bananas.
that place looks wonderful
Yeah kulapamha dude,Just watching this guy, I want to learn surfing .
🏄 🏄 🏄
Who would even surf in that shit hole with so many people out?
Looks like the pass is approaching superbank crowd levels..
F*ck me, what a circus
Is it even fun being out in a lineup like this?
Looks like a Seal colony.. Great White’s Favorite Breakfast 😮
Legend has it hes STILL peddling back out
Love it that shortboarders are getting all the waves.
This is what you get if you're not out there on dawn patrol.
hardcore kook lineup
King of the kook dodgers.
These breaks aren’t fun if you’re not a local. Fortunately we’ve plenty of breaks around the country if you’re adventurous ❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hahah the bucket throw 🤌🤌🤌🤌
I rode a borrowed Mal at a little river outlet bank adjacent to Suffolk Caravan Park decades ago. Mal's were not cool back then so I had it to enjoy the 2-3' waves to myself.
I saw the beginning like 5 times 😂. We always need to paddle to the withe water
And I thought snapper and rainbow got busy!!!😱
I don't know why everyone is whineing.
It was exactly like that when I lived there in the 80's.
Peeling long rights, lovely sandy beach, warm water and sunshine. What do you expect.
Give the beginners a break.
Everyone was a "kook" at 1 stage or another.
BS. I surfed it hundreds of times from 85 to 90 and there was never anything even close to that. So many afternoons with only 2 or 3 guys sitting at the top. There's well over 100 people in the water here. You are clearly trippin mate.
They just need things explained to them.
#3 paddle inside, not for the shoulder!
Rider has priority.
Begginers should go surf somewere else, pretty simple.
2 or 3 guys at the top was in about '65 or maybe full moon surfing. I'll say it again. Beginner's can go where ever they like and I could walk on water in the 80's there were so many people out there. I heard Nat Young say in the 80's when he got out of the water at the pass say. "Fucken hell that's crowded".
@@olddog_newtricks_ Can you explain what paddle inside not for the shoulder means? kook noob here and I hate that I'm often in the way. To be fair, my local spot generally doesn't break like this. its a lot of waves in a lot of different directions. But I surfed another spot a bit further away and there was more of a consistent break. I'm just taking a guess here, but does it mean you paddle to where the break starts? seems like if you did that, whomever catches the wave would already be off to the side and I wouldn't be in the way.
😂the theme at Byron for the past 20 years. I just Ollie over those mofos now.
should be like a dream to surf that 40 years ago
The Pass is extremely popular with the tourists. Usually too busy to go out, but nice sandy pools on the beach and amazing sunsets
Well I'm glad they are all there. Means it is uncrowded somewhere else.
Avoid this place like the plague, you are bound to get a longboard to the head because some hippy decided to paddle out without a leg rope.
Drone camera's are fantastic.
Classic, it's happening the world over. I ask them" so you started surfing during COVID?
Lmao tell me about it.
Amazing how this guy dodged all those people. That was like an obstacle course. Serious skills there.
Thank god I'm heading to WA...
That was Kook-tacular !! 🤩
Nobody seems to give a shit about clearing out to the side to paddle out!
HELL in the PARADISE !
This is crazy😮
So I suppose this is the part where you tell me it's locals only and I should go back to Utah?
Serious barnyard action, but I can see why that’s a beautiful place
Wow that’s very sad. Surfed Byron about 17 years ago and it was nowhere near that crowded ! Depressing seeing it ruined.
lol now they crying there’s too many people there, they victims of their own success
@@bigding4507 to many knobs and hipsters the place is fucked , I never go there !
So my daughter asked me if corned beef had any corn in it today. I told her that back in the 19th century - a very kooky time in the world, that they had kooky names and ideas for a lot of things and corned beef is probably a left over of one of those things -
from the age of kooks, which was just a few of decades before modern surfing started taking form...
One interesting thing about that time period, when modern surfing began, is that surfers began to do things and approach interesting situations in a non kooky way, which was quite innovative... The thing was though, because surfers spent so much time surfing, that the idea of not being a kook only reached a limited number of people and so much of the presurfing kookyness remained part of society as a whole.
Now, because it went the way it did, we have kooks today
I remember learning how to not run over people when I was a kook. Literally sit on the board and stopped cause idk how to turn 😂. But I learned how not to be in people’s way the first thing. I think it’s important
Nice! Everyone was a kook at some point ✌🏼
That's how I feel driving on the highway.
I would never go out there with that many sitting inside. You'd have to be a pretty good shredder to avoid hitting the beginners that are oblivious to what is going on around them and to extending courtesy to the more experienced.
Buts it's just such a coooool place maan
there's about 85 people who are damn lucky this guy knows how to steer the ship or they'd have gotten foam sandwiches for lunch
GOOD SKILLS .
Byron is the capital of Kooksville
I grew up in Byron in the seventies. No kooks around then
Good memories, but no 23 year old babes for ya now… Ah, the cost of those empty lineup memories is steep, eh?
Cleanlines wow I lived there shaping boards in the 80’s and I never witnessed Byron as it is now
The water is so clear, but There's a lot of trash. Ugh
Look as f_cking overcrowded as any surf spot in Siargao island. Philippines is a nightmare, when it comes to surfing too
Can I assume the “locals only” paint job has long since worn off or been removed?
Still there 😂
I was down there a few days ago and yep, still there.
There’s also one at Cabarita!
It's still there as of Jan 2024. Did the aborigines write it? If not do, "the locals" not get the irony of writing it?
@@rorygrant4824 I always wonder if the “locals” get the irony whenever they surf any other breaks, or god forbid, try travelling…
Are the Kooks or floating chicanes??? And this is why I take holidays in February
This spot is an absolute nigthmare of frustration
Went there 20 yrs ago had dreads. Got called a try hard cause I wore shoes
There are 12K beaches in Australia. I know they are not all great surfing beaches. But maybe find one that doesn't attract beginners and tourists. Is that too simplistic?
Is just that most of those surf spots are not that instagramable or warm😉
Shhhhh its out secret!
Yeah mate, great advice...I'll just drive five hours North from my home break to catch a Sunday morning wave
@@kamiruDesigns Byron Bay is probably 5 hours north of your home break, it is overrated and overun by tourists. There are heaps of quieter surf beaches near Byron Bay (Lennox Head) and all up and down the east coast. If you were Australian you would know that. Mate. 😄
@@kamiruDesigns sorry I'm confused. There are 'hundreds' of surf breaks within 5 hours of this break. Don't get me wrong. I love watching the sheep graze at Byron Bay.
Kooks (definition): Beginner surf boarders (getting into the pro surfers line)?
Byron was a good place thirty years ago.
There's a wave under there somewhere
What’s up with all the barno’s floating on the shoulder?
Similar to our area Crescent Head to Pt Plomer. People who are just learning to stand up paddling out at Points via encouragement from others (mainly tourist facilitator's) is now the norm. Some of these learner's have 3 or 4 boards and discuss fins, rails, rocker, thickness etc ... does my head in!
This is the same the world over sadly, even in colder climes.
And on a good day (in the week) you can surf Supers at J-Bay all alone.
And you’re so good right ?
I’m in Massachusetts and it’s like this on a 30 degree day in December now lol. Definitely a global phenomenon. It was 2 foot and closing out last weekend, couldn’t even get into the parking lot and there was snow on the ground. 5-10 years ago you would be the only person out there and people would think you were from outer space for surfing in that cold
I have not surfed with a double digit crowd in months, its not the same world over. (and not i'm not going to shittier spots on bad condictions,) @@ajj4483
Last time I was in Byron, I gave The Pass a pass...
Thats just crazy!! hahaha What a lineup 🤐
@ 1:02 -- it almost looks like an army of ants in the water.
It looks like Hell in Heaven
I wonder what percentage of the crowd doesn't catch a single wave.
Surfing is the only sport I have come across where violence breaks out for the tiniest reasons. I was body boarding right at the very end of a quiet beach on NSW south coast and right at the very end of the surf zone. Probably past the drop out zone. The surf was maybe 3ft and not many guys out. A local surfed right over to me, fired his long board at me, cutting my cheek pretty bad. I gave him a mouthful.
I went to the car park straight after that.
While I was trying to stop my cheek from bleeding 3 guys(including cheek cutter) approached me and started to assault me. Full disclosure I have boxed for 10 years and trained longer. I had to put them all on their asses before the situation calmed down.
Several onlookers suggested I press charges, but the very emotional state of the guys now showed that enough had been done IMO.
Boxers would never attack someone like that and we literally fight for sport. Sort this schoolboy crap out idiots. Someone is gonna get hurt.
we were all kooks at one point.
gotta snap on fools tell them move
that looked absolutely fucking painful
First kook dodger was giving out free facials.
i love your vid keep it up😆🤩
Thanks mate , we need a decent swell to hit again, hopefully soon 🤙🏻
Fools love company.
Wow. And, I thought Malibu was bad.
Might pick up nits, in that environment.
Even without the kooks the lineup looked really crowded. Kooks just made it worse.
Damn the whole line up is stretched out the whole wave. If I surfed here. They would call me the kook killa
I hate it when you've been waiting out the back and get the wave of the day and then you have to spend the whole ride dodging the imbeciles who were all sitting way to far on the inside...
Hordes of numbnutsall sitting in /paddling right into the take off zone FFS. I would find somewhere to surf.