Why is it that some surfers have no respect for bodyboarders?

Question

I don't mean the tourist with the wal-mart boogieboard going straight with the whitewash kind of bodybording.

Answer 1

why don't body borders respect surfers?  respect is earned with respect

Answer 2

Beacuse all you little shark buiscuits keep munching all of the good swells,  which our beach hardly ever gets, and it's not fair.

Answer 3

some surfers have no respect for them because they often get in the way. also, usually people start out boogie/body boarding before they move to surfing, so they may consider them slightly below them in a way. i have a lot of respect for them, because they are absolutely amazing, and i was boogie/body boarder before i learned to surf. you dont need a surfboard under your feet to have an extreme time in the water.

Answer 4

I think that surfers don't like body boarders for 2 reasons.  Surfers want to catch the waves, and body boarders are just more competition.  Surfers want to surf a wave, or at least see what could have been by watching someone else catch it.  This is why some shortboarders also hate on longboarders.  Also, bodyboarding is usually a sport that you try as a kid, then move to surfing.  This doesn't mean that it isn't as good, its just that it causes the sport to carry a little bit of a childishness to it.

Answer 5

because they get in the way, like today actually

Answer 6

Surfers need more room to work with and once committed to a ride its up to the body boarder to give way,,like shipping channels,,larger vessels have the right away..

Answer 7

They don't see it as a real sport, but a cop-out. Surfing's the real thing and it's a waste of waves to just belly-ride them on a biscuit. Now, I don't care who rides what, this is just the general idea, and opinions, they're like a**holes, everybody has one......

Answer 8

Because they are like a freaking plague of sponges.  

they are always in your way.

Answer 9

Because they were there first .

Answer 10

because surfing is harder and needs more room.. body boarders could go bodyboard in their bath tubs and leave the waves for surfers.. no offense =)

Answer 11

casue surfing is the real thing, and body boarders get in our way and it gets us really pissed off also bodyboarders r dumb