So, I think they are going to have to change the name of international surf day to, international you can’t surf because there are too many people in the way day.
Now I don’t get mad and yell and people because I know or at least assume that we are all there to have a good time. But boy did this evening test my limits. Two times I collided with people!
First time a guy decided he was gonna go in front of me. I had already gotten in several pumps and had a lot of speed, so when it looked clear as day that he was headed straight to the beach I decided I could just do a floater on the foamball he made when dropping in and fly around him back to the rest of the lined up right. NOPE! He lost his balance right as I was going up to pass him and came way back up the face with no speed right in front of me. All I could do was prepare for impact. Luckily all equipment involved was spared. He was a nice guy and apparently had no idea what was going on.
Take two. As I was speeding down the line on a left which had a rare air section for the day, I watched a kid stand up. He then decided to come right, which was at me. When he saw me he looked like he was going to pull straight and I’d still be able to hit the ramp. Then at the last second he kind of turned up the face and leaned back like he was going to shoot his board over the back/at my face! I decided to not put my face in front of his dagger…wait, I mean board, and jumped the other way, which turned into a sort of top buckle macho man randy savage body slam on the poor kid. Luckily enough all equipment was spared again.
After that I was kind of over trying to predict the unpredictable and biked back to the palace. Here’s a few pictures before the mayhem.
Happy surf day everyone. I hope yours was less eventful than mine!