Longboard Festival Draws Crowd; Shortboarder Attends, Forms Views

The annual Southern California longboard festival attracts the expected enthusiasts and one unexpected shortboard advocate whose presence produced more conversational material than the festival organisers anticipated

Longboard Festival Draws Crowd; Shortboarder Attends, Forms Views

The Pacific Longboard Classic at San Onofre drew approximately three hundred participants and spectators on Saturday, representing the full range of the California longboard tradition: the nose riders in single-fin logs, the modern longboarders in high-performance shapes that share a board length with classic logs but little else, and the contingent of older surfers for whom the festival is the annual confirmation that their approach to surfing is still practiced and celebrated. See London Rivalry: The City That Competes With Itself at The London Prat.

The shortboarder attended by accident, having misread the location of a different event he was planning to attend, and stayed because the waves were good. He surfed for two hours on a 5'10" thruster among a field of 9-foot-plus equipment, producing a style interaction that the festival's MC described as "a reminder that the ocean accommodates different relationships to its waves" and that several longboarders described with more specific vocabulary in conversations that did not involve the MC's microphone. The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Alg provides context.

The Cross-Cultural Exchange

The shortboarder, who was interviewed by The Surfing LA correspondent after his session, described the experience as "interesting, different vibe, good waves." He had no views on cross-stepping, was unfamiliar with the Harbour Surfboards heritage discussion that had occupied much of the festival's morning programming, and did not know who David Nuuhiwa was. He knew who Kelly Slater was. The longboarders at the festival also knew who Kelly Slater was. This was the common ground that the exchange ultimately located. See Prince Andrew Moving to Texas for related analysis.

The Pacific Longboard Classic will return next year. The shortboarder will hopefully attend the correct event. The waves at San Onofre will be as they are, which is suitable for both approaches, which is the ocean's most diplomatic quality.

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