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October 8, 2006 (Sunday)
Post-session
Smaller and sloppy. Very east-y. Had a few semi-decent rides.
So I'm at the A-framer with one other person. It sucks, but we make the best of it. At about midway through the session, I hear a girl yelling at the Right-hander, which is the next break over. I see her and another guy off their boards, and the girl is holding her head. I guess they collided and she got hurt. It's not too crowded over there, perhaps 6-8 people. She's yelling a lot.
Then near the end of the session, the person that's out with me gets pounded by a smallish set-wave as she's sitting right in the pit, and she gets drilled into the reef. She says she hit her head and her arm is injured. She goes in immediately.
I was going in anyway, and I'm waiting for a decent last one. Soon thereafter, I hear yelling and harsh-sounding language coming from the Right-hander. I look to see some guys off their boards with arms flailing making big splashes. Seems they are throwing punches. It's suddenly gotten crowded there with at least a dozen people. Then I see one of the guys paddling away on his board while pushing someone else's board ahead of him. I guess he's forcibly taking the board.
Just then a nice wave comes to me, and I ride it in and then bellyboard to the beach. The entire time, I'm watching the guy with the hijacked board and his buddy quickly paddle in, and the guy without a board trying to swim/walk over the shallow reef shelf chasing after them.
I want to get a close look at the guys because I'm extremely curious to know who's involved. Are they regulars? Do I know/recognize them? Are they going to fight on the beach?
The two guys reach shore just before me and scramble up the hill presumably to their car. They don't bother to shower. When they are the closest to me, I can't make out their faces, and they don't look familiar. The guy swimming in is now walking as fast as he can with abandon over the reef. I've crawled and walk over that reef many times before, and I can tell you it's certain he's got lacerations all over the bottoms of his feet. I don't recognize that guy, either.
That woman who was at the A-framer with me is at the showers, and she has abrasions on her arm and back. She's okay. The guy without the board ran up to the cars but he didn't recover his board. The two guys were gone.
Posted at 12:45 PM