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Surfing’s Dark Side on the North Shore | The New York Times

A gang of surfers called the Wolfpak police the break at Oahu’s famous Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Hawaii.

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fla playa says:

All hot spots are like this. At Venice Inlet there was most definitely a pecking order. Biggest kahuna at the prime break and all the rest fighting over scraps. It's human nature.. I'm 230 lbs 6'4" and I would get a rotation going for everyone and if someone didn't like that it would go down.. All about spreading peace and waves but it has to be enforced to happen.

The LongRanger says:

The North Shore ISIS. Typical "tribal" thug mentality. Cultural hasbeens going nowhere in the fast lane.

George Lyden says:

Many local people in Hawaii are very poor and incredibly ignorant. They can barely read,write or even speak English.They are like many ghetto blacks here on the mainland. Same culture.Same attitude.Poor+ Ignorant= Angry.

sanchez12344321 says:

khala Alexander and the wolf pack are, and always will be, bullying asshole who pick on the weak.

John Morgan says:

fred rit its these wanna be hawaiians who weren't born there who been there since the late fifties and sixties. There new hawaiians. Some mainland Americans don't want to go hawaii anymore because of these new hawaiians put an act on

Brook G says:

Tribal, territorial behavior is the norm in surfing everywhere but these "Hawaiians" play the persecuted culture card to justify levels of violence I have yet to see anywhere else. The motivation is simply personal gratification. More waves. More chicks. Claiming to police Pipe to keep others safe? Come on bra.

Jim “Rascal” Crow says:

A bunch of children.

Ryan Smith says:

Kala is a punk. They are violent. And they NEVER fight alone. They're like dogs. Ironic that they call themselves the "wolfpak." Hawaiians and Vietnamese have a lot in common.

If you doubt me…go down to Kalakaua on a Friday night. Watch ppl like Alexander picking fights with tourists.

unclesamtookmymoney says:

Are the locals on the government teat? How do they surf all day and eat? Must be a lavish welfare system over there. They seem well fed.

John Morgan says:

the hawaiians should be left alone you don't need someone on the islands since the 1960s telling these hawaiians what to do.

Bodyboarding Today says:

Double barrels!
Party Wave!
Surfing is our culture, we should celebrate past present and future!
Alo'Ha!

surfcrazy1 says:

Wolfpack?…. Hahahahahahaha!

John Morgan says:

In other islands around the world you don't hear of locals bashing visitors up its money for there country but in hawaii you hear these want to be locals making trouble these want to be locals aren't even born there there the ones authorities should be looking into my decendent on my grandfathers side move there in the late 1830s

Walnut7Man555 says:

This locals only crap is BS

John Sharkey says:

Eh… Hawaiians are super peaceful.. the iced out hawaiians on the other hand… will want to "scrap" ;pp

Invisible Armour Anti Bullet Systems says:

This clearly has always been a racist issue. No one has ever come out to explain it that way. The Aussies, Mainlanders, etc. do not have a Hawaii North Shore of their own. So they came to the North Shore to use it for self promotion without ever inviting the Hawaiian. The history will show that Eddie Aikau was a positive advocate for Hawaiians to surf competitively and out perform the Haole, i.e. non local. The Hawaiian or Hawaiian bred local always out performed the non locals in the surf. However, the commercialisation of surfing influenced the score cards to show indifference to the Hawaiian, i.e. local. The tuff part for the sport of surfing is that it has never been about which competitor crosses the finish line first. It has always been left to other peoples opinion and perhaps influence to judge accordingly.

The one part of this video I am sadly ashamed about is the fight scene in the water. To fight and strike another person in the water could kill that person or injure them so bad, they could drown. It is not the way of a waterman to do that ever. The beach is where you resolve your issue.

I was also very disturbed that Kala was not aware that lack of self control and use of violence to hurt these visiting surfers is forever in the minds of the local youth on the North Shore and the youth of the surf community in that it is the wrong thing to do.

Kala would have garnered more respect to have pointed that guy off the beach. Ran him out of there instead of beating up the kid. I hope that Kala (and others who have followed him) has expressed his remorse and more importantly we can accept his remorse. The example of violence in those situations works against the locals and is a deterrent to all their efforts of wanting to be acknowledged with respect.

Good Luck to the North Shore and all it harbours.

Medium Rick says:

Respect is a two-way street. The concept of "respect" in misused by some locals in the same manner that inner-city gang members misuse it. The truth is, many "locals" show very little respect for anyone other than their own bros. Their reference to "give respect, get respect" is hollow and is lacks any credibility based on their own behavior. Apologies to the few locals who can understand what mutual respect actually means.

Confuzus says:

EVERYTHING about the New York Times is dark. I think they should go surfing at Pipeline.

roflmows says:

great, that's what hawaii needs…MORE gangs.

Picos Palas says:

Lol, these guys calling other people aggressive, sure buddy.

adam bamf says:

the over their ability remark always gets me.

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