Just general surfing stuff

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Nick Carroll]

Odd guy, a bit aspergers-y.

Haha ... ya think so.

He's either an Aspy or from another planet ... the scene where he's playing the keyboards while they're trying to record audio, is straight out of the Aspergers handbook. Fantastic stuff.

And the lines he draws with a surfboard are quite different to most others ... better different.

If Kelly is the King ... then Tommy is the master of the universe.

No you fcuken kneeboarder. Buggs Arico is a bit Aspergers-y.

[Lucky Al]

High praise indeed!

[foamy]

Lucky Al is the Buggs Arico of Vietnam

Please don't say that

It wasn’t meant as a jibe, Al. If Tom reckons Buggs is cool, that’s good enough for me
And there was the whimsy in the vid

[steve shearer]

Al is in better shape.

[Lucky Al]

It has just occurred to me that Rip Curl must be doing quite well now. Here in Thailand "surf" fashion is getting huge (along with learning to surf (hey the activity itself!) and "surf/skate"). Imagine if in China and India it gets huge too. Those fat-cat rag merchants must be rubbing their palms and snorting their powder faces off in high glee!

[Lucky Al]

This is pretty funny:

About Rip Curl
Rip Curl is a company for, and about, the crew on The Search. The products we make, the events we run, the riders we support and the people we reach globally, are all part of the Search that Rip Curl is on.

https://www.ripcurl.com/us/explore/about.html

[Lucky Al]

[Lucky Al]

poor tom

[godsavetheking]

you getting some of this North Atlantic action Godsave?

It’s gonna be five stars on Monday steve. Five stars!

Surf forecast dot com is giving us red exclamation marks! 9000 kilojoules, man. To think they used to mutter about narrow swell windows

[steve shearer]

don't drown.


bit worried about yr surf fitness.

[Beanpole]

whoa.

I want to go there for 3 months and get freaky.

You are freaky.....you freaky goat herding bus driving survivalist surf journo, you.

[alakaboo]

That looks like a really dumb place to build

I agree. But the angle of the beach suggests that the wave exposure wouldn't be angled directly at the resort. And it does appear to be a reflective beach, ie steep and less susceptible to erosion.
I'd be more worried about flooding/water from the landward side, which is what I think you're seeing on those pics.

And the potential port development:
https://www.savethewaves.org/250000-pet ... ta-conejo/

[offshore1]

Do you think it might be headed this way, Legion?







An Bang Beach, Hoi An - November 2020: https://m.infonet.vietnamnet.vn/doi-son ... 69711.html

How close is this to your place Al?

[Yuke Hunt]

Odd guy, a bit aspergers-y.

Haha ... ya think so.

He's either an Aspy or from another planet ... the scene where he's playing the keyboards while they're trying to record audio, is straight out of the Aspergers handbook. Fantastic stuff.

And the lines he draws with a surfboard are quite different to most others ... better different.

If Kelly is the King ... then Tommy is the master of the universe.

No you fcuken kneeboarder. Buggs Arico is a bit Aspergers-y.

Its okay you over compensating small person, I'll happily stand by my comments about Curren being on the spectrum ... on the Buggs Arico front, I don't have an opinion, nor do I care.

Maybe you should consider being somewhat more precise when dishing out random opinions ... confusion may have got us here, but it won't get us back out.

[Beanpole]

Steady on, Yuke. Didn't read it that way.
I never really liked Currens style when he was on the tour. Sort of low set with a wide stance and stumpy legs.
Now though I love watching his free surfing. Makes every other old pro look like a try hard. Also intriguing choices of surf craft and a wry sense of irony in his relationship with the surf industry. He may be an insufferable Cnut for all I know or a fantastic guy but he seems to deal with it on his own terms.

[Yuke Hunt]

I never really liked Currens style when he was on the tour.

Really ?

[Nick Carroll]

Odd guy, a bit aspergers-y.

Haha ... ya think so.

He's either an Aspy or from another planet ... the scene where he's playing the keyboards while they're trying to record audio, is straight out of the Aspergers handbook. Fantastic stuff.

And the lines he draws with a surfboard are quite different to most others ... better different.

If Kelly is the King ... then Tommy is the master of the universe.

No you fcuken kneeboarder. Buggs Arico is a bit Aspergers-y.

Its okay you over compensating small person, I'll happily stand by my comments about Curren being on the spectrum ... on the Buggs Arico front, I don't have an opinion, nor do I care.

Maybe you should consider being somewhat more precise when dishing out random opinions ... confusion may have got us here, but it won't get us back out.

I guess the advantage I have here is knowing both of the people in question, one for about five years or so and the other since he was 14, so it's not exactly random

If you're judging Curren's place on the autism spectrum by seeing five or ten seconds of a heavily edited surf clip, that's pretty random!