[Closed] Surfing rules - explain please

Someone pooped in the water

Or jaws

Fistral gets a bit rippy when the tide comes in.

They can't force you to leave the water and I've surfed it red flagged plenty of times. Basically if you do, your on your own.

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Someone pooped in the water

Na, more likely that the Sea weed

I believe pooing in the water is a current craze for stag and hen do's in foreign resorts (and probably Butlins too), and is known as 'logging'. Not from first hand experience I should add - my stag do finished in Jesters, where such a thing would never happen, oh no.

Major fail. Newquay is reknowed for it's angsty lifeguards. To be fair they do try thier best, but face snotty tourists and groms out for a paddle.

Best avoid the place IMO.

Surfing rules - explain please

Just the one:

Not local? Go home!

Not local? Go home!

Everybody who's been there more than five minutes is a local in Newquay....

They ran at me yelling a while back - I presumed it was because I was super badass. Did I miss something then?

Did I miss something then?

Wetsuit on back to front?

Much nicer further north. I'm not a "strong" swimmer so when they say out, I get out. Lifers I've come across over the last 4 years down there have all been excellent but do get moody when joe public ignore them, and joe public are very easy to spot, especially the ones in just shorts 😯

my stag do finished in Jesters, where such a thing would never happen, oh no.

Sorry to have to break this to you, but The Palace of Dreams has seen more than a few turds!

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Well I had to google it and looky here!

CFH - I'm just getting a strong and confident denial formally recorded early doors 🙂

And, before anyone says otherwise, Clowns is a wine bar. That's wine bar, not vomit strewn shithole of a drinking den.

Fistral is annoying for a number of reasons - one of which is the fact that the lifeguards make CONSTANT "announcements" reminding people to either keep between, or get out from between the flags.

Fair enough, they have a job to do - no criticism of them from me.

But there are plenty of other good/better beaches down that way, that don't have somebody yelling incomprehensible (but loud) instructions through a distorted bullhorn every 20 seconds. So if you can adhere to the rules without constant reminders, my advice would be to go somewhere a bit more peaceful instead.

Try Watergate Bay instead.

Have been there many times

"Pssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh kellyslater sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhsssssssssssssss wafflewaffle redandyellowflags.Thangyou"

Crantocks my favourite, lovely beach.

+1 for Watergate Bay. And try the beach hut or the phoenix for food.

Fistral gets a bit rippy when the tide comes in.

and stop rhyming off all these place names from my childhood or I shall have to go back*. ALready had FB peeps posting pics of dam building at porth beach all last week.

*and it always pisses down when I go to cornwall 😈

Sorry to have to break this to you, but The Palace of Dreams has seen more than a few turds!

And, before anyone says otherwise, Clowns is a wine bar. That's wine bar, not vomit strewn shithole of a drinking den.

CFH I've had more than my fair share of Juicy Lucys in Clowns before the rest of the evening disappeared into incoherence and somehow finished in Jesters. Ahhh, student days.

I think Fistral's an exception rather than the rule, safe to assume that everyone is a tourist and has no idea what they (or the tide) are doing.

thisisnotaspoon has it during hire shop hours it's a mess locals generally surf early, late or elsewhere unless there's enough size to leave tourist types trapped in white water.

once its overhead it tends to clear the line up out.

unless its really long gaps between sets. I remember surfing a big day at fistral once, nervously hopping shoulders waiting for a set wave and some lad on a foamie, wetsuit and trainers on paddled past...

Never liked surfing Fistral. Absolute zoo. Body surfing the shore dump at high tide on a good swell is lots of fun.

The life guards are a pain, but then they are doing a job. Namely keeping the dumb tourists out of danger. Some blame should also lie with the hire shops. They are happy to take the tourist money but then don't take any reasponsiblity to instruct the hirers in how to behave or whether they have the ability. If they did though the dumb tourists would ignore it anyway.

Longboarding at Crantock on a high tide in the river mouth or Watergate for more space. Much prefer North Devon, the Gower or Pembroke.

Never surfed Fistral, my personal fave break is Sennen or Gwithian. Perranporth or Porthtowan are nice beaches with beach front bars too boot. 😉

They are generally trying to keep surfers and swimmers separate and swimmers between the red/yellow flags.

The lifeguards seem much more angsty around Newquay (and I include Watergate and Crantock in that as well)than elsewhere where they only seem to intervene where there seems to be a risk. I guess its the hordes around Newquay that's the problem so it makes it difficult to monitor what's going on

French lifeguards are the best - they pretty much never red flag the beach - although they are police and can fine you 50 euros if you don't listen to them, but are also really friendly. I've surfed with a couple between their shifts, nice guys, but then a full gendarme salary to be lifeguard and I'd be relaxed