{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["335752", "20655", "The Death of Surfing", 31, "Spiral Bee", "Jan 21, 2025", "2025-01-20T23:26:48-0500", "@TudorsCooter\n I want to thank you for introducing the term \"kook collectives\" to my life, lol.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI share some of your concerns, especially around overexposure of spots and the reduction of a sense of discovery and adventure (an issue that surfing shares with many other activities this day and age).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut then also I recognize my experiences may be very different. I'm in New England for starters - our surfing ecosystem is different.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowding can be an issue in 3-mil season, but when the hooded suits come out of the closet, much less so.  Also, the foamies stick to certain beaches, and Surfline cams are only trained on a handful of spots.  Plenty left elsewhere.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt those beginner-friendly beaches, my experience has been that the folks flailing on the soft tops are actually pretty well versed in etiquette. It must be a standard part of whatever surf class they've taken. The few times I've been dropped in on they took my feedback fine.  Maybe I've just been fortunate?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFinally, I don't love \nyour\n \n@kcl\n 's zip code suggestion!  This too may be informed by where I live.  If zip code determined access, most of the good spots around here would be accessible only to rich white guys.  Don't get me wrong: some of my best friends are rich white guys ;-) but I'm pretty sure we can respect the locals without that level of exclusion (not that you were intending it).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInteresting thread, lots to ponder."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["335752"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7076800011418527, "license": "Public Domain"}