Newbie......

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Hammer

However, if, after 3 years all you can do is sit on the beach and tell newbie surfers how to shoot the curl and cut a wave and sound like an expert, and all those newbies say, "Wow, he really knows his shit," but when you get on the board all you can do is wobble and wave your arms and look like an idiot, you're still a FUCKING NEWBIE!

Actually, in the jargon of surfing (going way back) that makes you a HoDad, not a newbie. A HoDad s someone who has been around long enough to know what to do but is still very poor at the execution of it. A Newie would be someone that was new to the sport. A newbie that picks it up pretty quickly is still a newbie.

as in: "Hey, that kid is pretty good for a newbie."

But a newbies still tends to make newbie mistakes, picking the wrong wave sometimes, eating it in a pearl dive, whatever.

In this industry, as in all businesses, there are those that will make it as a business owner, those that will attempt it as a business owner and not make it, those that will always be an employee (and that is not meant as an insult, some people are quite happy not having the responsibility of ownership) and thse that hang around on the fringe.

To make money the qualifier of newbieism is wrong (imho) because of the shit you see every day in this industry. You see brand new newbies that can come in looking like they walk the walk and talk the talk, go to a couple of shows, establish themselves on the boards as a bro and then start ripping people off left and right. Are they making money, hell yes, are they still newbies, hell yes and they are making a big newbie mistake is shitting on the community that welcomed them. Unfortunately in this industry, as in many others (look at hollywood especially) you can do that shit and your only punishment is you have to go buy a fucking camera for someone.