Hi all,guys stopped at a beach today after work just for a swim,what i found puzzling
was a council sign prohibiting SUP,it was bracketed with the usual no camping,or dogs etc.allowed on beach sign.Is this common or a rarity ? or are the SUP just getting singled out ? Anyway what was amusing was that every other form of water sport was operating in the area,board riders,sailboarders and kitesurfers yet no SUP, i guess the signed worked.
Gerroa beach opposite the shop near caravan park,this comes under kiama council who are known for being d*%ks.
I'd say more likely some local with a professional sign writing business being a dick. Take a photo and post it up.
We saw this sign at Gerroa a few weeks back, it's a fake as a bit of a joke from some of the local Mal crew.
It was very well done, and very convincing it was almost real. On the water there the crew are pretty reasonable and happy to say g'day.
Any sign at gerroa about no sups would be taking the p1ss, I've been surfing, kiting & suping there for years with little issue. The regular sup numbers have taken off in the last few months no doubt, but that's how it is? Most of them are local long boarders finding how much fun sup it is 
Also have mates in Kiama council who sup so I'm pretty sure I'd have heard something, get out and enjoy it.
I experienced SUPs banned at some breaks along the Californian coast. I had a run in with a life guard who was threatening me with a fine if I entered the water with my SUP. The signs stated "No Stand Up Paddling". So I told him I was going to surf without my paddle and prone surf with my board (heaps more dangerous, there was only one other person in the water). Nothing he could do as I wasn't stand up paddling. It's good to be a smartass aussie!
I must admit its not an area i frequent,i spoke to a mate who lives and sups down that way and he is also of the opinion some one is taking the piss...he also mentioned that some surf school operator's think they have sole rights to that part of the beach...with a name like 'seven mile beach' you would think there would be room for every body!
No one should be telling us where or when we can surf anywhere IMO.
We have equal rights to any stretch of water as do shortboarders, longboarders and anyone else who wants to have a crack.
If anyone put a sign up where I was SUP'n I'd be throwing a towel over the sign and telling them to bugger off.
Bloody nanny state or what ?
How could they enforce that? You could kneel and paddle, then when you catch a wave and stand up then you're not paddling, so for the whole time you could be on a SUP board with a SUP paddle but NEVER be Stand Up Paddling.
Ditching the paddle and using the board was a good idea - no paddle - no arguement.
This reminds me of the first time I skied at Blue Cow. There was a big sign 'No Snowboards'. Now 90% of their business is snowboards (& the sign is gone).
We're setting the trend Bros!
Up the coast from Gerroa at the farm their were a few no sup stickers added to the local surfing signage ... but that wasnt by the council ...
They have disappeared now... and i counted 7 able seaman out there today.
Please find attached photograph of SUP sign, Seven Mile Beach.
1st April 2013.
Geoff
The 'no sup' signs are stickers! Professionally done and with any cursory glance look exactly like the other council screwed In signs.
Well done to the maker but totally bogus, word is they were not put there by local Mal crew but blow in Sydney long boarders. 
You know the type too cool for school single fin log riders that never wear a leg rope no matter how crowded?????
I heard Doggie & Legion are selling these 'No Sup' stickers on the Internet. By all accounts, making a small fortune.
Www.doggieandlegionhatesupers.com
^^^^^pffft one has not not got the brain capacity to come up with an idea like that
Hey Appsy,
Sandon Point has always had local ism issues and I think the south coast in general havn,t really grasped the whole SUP concept as yet ,I paddled at Corrimal Bombie (got smashed waves coming from every direction) the other day and got the same treatment by a yokel that I probably surfed with his father and one of my mates bonked his mother.
I think give it time and we will be more accepted, if we can do the right thing and not try and catch every wave, promote a good vibe, get away from the crowd if possible.
Pete probably had one good point that some inexperienced sups are causing animosities by wave hogging and dropping in but that happens every where on every break by all sorts of water craft but because we are above the water and very visual we standout. 
Any days like that Sunday coming up I,m keen to surf the lefts give me a yell,I,m also keen to give North gong bombie a go.
Red
Hi all, I live at the beach in question it has been placed at the entrance to part of the beach that is used by the local surf school, they flag about 300 metres of the beach, during lessons, it can still be used by anyone who is in CONTROL of their surf craft whilst the surf school is in operation. Concerns were raised that totally obese, accounts, lawyers (you know the type they also by Harley's and black Nazi second world war type helmets, get their bike exhausts modified to be super extra loud with no baffles, and cruise the streets thinking their oh so totally hip and cool) and generally other fat SUP gumbies were using their craft in the surf school zone whilst lessons were in operation, these uncoordinated fat fools were out of control and a menace to the safety to the (sometimes extremely hot) backpapker crowd out in the water. Hence they had to be banned, these idiots can still use any other part of the beach, get in everyone else's way, jump off their craft when heading straight towards you, and act like selfish hero's wanting every wave, just cause they can, I could too if I owned the QE2 instead of a surfboard! So better get used to it, there needs to be areas made safe from SUP obese fools and one can see just like jet ski's they should be banned.
Yep - I'm a fat sup kook and although I rarely sup near surfers and prefer to find quiet secluded breaks, I did jump off my board a couple of weeks ago - only to save a booger (adult) from being smashed by it. After catching, then backing off the 2 previous waves (after I had bailed knowing that he had gone for them), he decided to then go for one after it had sectioned and cut in under my feet from the inside the wash whilst I was on the drop. I jumped off the back, grabbed my leggy, got dragged a few metres & copped my own board to the head - 7 stitches in my cheek for the effort. Had I been a better surfer, I might have avoided the situation without injury - hindsight is a great thing.
