The San Diego Union-Tribune has again jumped in on the SUP vs. surfers story with a piece on what’s going on in the water in Cardiff, California.
But the temptation to grab the wave is almost irresistible when one has such an overwhelming advantage, said Scott Bass, a former professional surfer, author and filmmaker who helped popularize stand-up paddle surfing at Cardiff Reef. “The animosity out there is pretty thick and it’s understandable,” said Bass, editor of Surfer magazine’s Web site. “And it’s because, no matter how hard we try to share, we’re almost always catching another wave.”
There’s much back and forth between the stand-ups and the shortboarders, but we keep coming back to the same question: aren’t the janitors supposed to clean up after the party is over?
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
