Sometimes its hard to pick a local.
Was surfing a well known SW spot once with a reasonable crowd. A couple of guys acted like and looked like crusty old locals. Kept coming back to the inside.
I gave them respect and didnt push them for the set waves.
At the end I talked to one and he let it slip him and his mate were from Rockingham and were blow ins like me.
Talking about wanting to kick myself as I had been way to nice.
I watched my daughter look at a bloke on the inside of her as she promptly paddled in and droped in on him. The lesson learned was for me. I appoligised on her behalf and after the surf we all had a little reminder of the rules. I find myself concentrating on showing them how to surf finding them waves and making sure they hold onto their boards. As they improve the rules and etiquette have to come in. I supose we all have a role to play. I surf the same spots all the time. Never considered myself a local.
I am learning and some of this is bewildering.
First thing is I can't believe noobs would fk it up for others. I stay in the sh!t and pick up the whitewater on my mal just to get standing up and learn that before I paddle onto green waves, and even then away from everyone else. Dunno why anyone would do different but anyway...
Next thing that I don't get is that sign. All makes sense bar number 2 - right of way. It says the outside person has ROW, then it says the one on the inside has ROW? Huh?
Then Beastsurf seems to say that his gal should not have picked up a wave that a dude on the inside was going for. Doesn't first on it have ROW so if she paddled onto it out the back all those peeps inside have to leave her to it??
Sorry man but the dude she dropped in on was up and riding. It was only a small wave and it was at the end of his ride. It was blaytent but the dude was cool. My daughter is only ten. It did make me realise that it is my responsability to teach her.
Sorry I assumed if he was inside then he was not up yet. Cool.
I am a bit slow... 
learning to surf at 39 should indicate that anyway lol
learning to surf at 39 should indicate that anyway lol
... you may have seen him..
What about if the kooks want to sit way out on the shoulder and you want to take off deeper to get barreled
Does that mean you have to drift in the channel until they butcher a couple of smokers
Even though you have grown up at a place and they have just arrived and are still relatively learners
Your reasoning sounds good in a perfect world JB but not in reality
I just find its worse at my 'local' spots, than I've found with the infamous brazilnuts or locals in Bali...
thats scarey
,,, and if there hasn't been a wave for a week or two , and a 2ft swell comes in , every deperado shredder in the state comes out.. its pretty sad.
