A sad fact of life is that surfing can be as much about handling crowds as riding waves. There are more surfers than ever and, unless you’re paddling in a CT heat, there’s really no way to avoid them all. Nowhere is that more true than at Snapper Rocks.
The Superbank has the ability to generate wave after perfect wave with near mechanical precision. However, the cost of perfection is dealing with one of the most insane lineups in the world. For every clip of incredible peeling rights at Snapper Rocks, there are six more of surfers just barely managing to avoid maiming each other. There’s also a healthy tradition of brazen drop-ins that rivals Malibu First Point in their audacity (though at significantly higher level of surfing).
The latest video from YouTube channel Surf Today is a case study in the maddening frustrations of navigating the modern lineup. The edit is replete with riders weaving in and out of paddlers like traffic cones in a DMV parking lot and shameless drop-ins that begin with direct eye contact from the offender. Of course, the real heartbreak of it all is that all of this is happening on waves that would look pretty damn good if they didn’t carry the population of a mid-size city.
