Despite recent events, like surfing’s inclusion in the 2020 Olympics, most hardly understand our sport. That goes double, apparently, for one fearless reporter in the town of Skegness on the northeastern coast of the UK.
In the video above a reporter from BBC Look North narrates as he hopes to speak with a local surfer, later determined to be a man named Danny Louth, who’s decided to paddle out on a decent-looking day. Based on the narration, it sounds as though the Coast Guard is hoping to tell Danny to stop surfing. The rationale is pretty unclear.
“The sound of the waves crashing is something to wonder at, really,” says the reporter as he pans the camera to the beach, producing some three-to-four-foot waves.
The reporter then encounters Louth about five minutes in and convinces him to give a quick interview. “Are you an experienced surfer,” he asks. To which Louth replies he’s been surfing for ten years.
“There will be people who will be saying that this is completely a daft thing to be doing, Danny,” says the reporter.
“I suppose it is if you don’t know what you’re doing,” says Louth, without skipping a beat.
And for those who think that getting into trouble with the law on a firing day at your local is exclusive to those who live across the pond, think again. Remember when some New York surfers were fined during the Hermine swell?
