I shot these pics on a nice sunny day on the east side. I estimated there were about 2,000 surfers in the water. After doing some calculations I figure there was about a 2:1 local-to-kook ratio. Now I have to question the local-ness of those locals who were willing to go out there with 1,999 others and surf the same wave. Even if you are that good you have to assume you'd be dodging kooks left and right. The most core locals don't like doing that. They want to focus their energy shredding waves, not surfing over the backs of kooks!
Maybe these guys should have upped their kook deterring skills. Barked louder, mad-dogged harder, waxed windshields, uh, more. I don't know. They should have done something!
Even though the waves were pumping (again), these locals have a lesson to learn: if you plan on ripping waves really hard, you have to take the crowd factor into consideration. Crowd surfing isn't for hard core central coast locals...it's for kooks!!!
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