Just general surfing stuff
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
There's a little nugget in an otherwise fairly uninteresting piece with Jay Leno in an old episode of Top Gear where he says that the arrival of the automobile saved the horse, shifting it from hard worked transport vehicle to leisure accessory in half a generation. Maybe the wave pool will do the same thing. Maybe professional surfing will, in time, fully decouple from surfing and the idea of a two-week jamboree taking over some of the world's most iconic waves will be but an absurd distant memory. That the arbiter of quality ocean surfing will no longer be hardwired to the skills of thirty small Brazilians and a couple of Americans. That the surfboard itself, freed from the long shadow of the professional circuit, will bulge and bloom in unimagined directions. That the Dionysian hand jive will become a thing and nobody will be laughing anymore. That ocean surfing will become a mellow sanctuary for low intermediates, a place to whoop and hoot and high-five and party wave with impunity. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
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Not a bad dream Godsave....I'd say low intermediates are already taking over and any single one of them within a day can get a ten second tube-ride at Kelly's tub if they stump the cash.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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I'm just getting to this podcast with Nick in it.
He's really very entertaining and has a much more mellifluous speaking voice than Californians.
https://beachgrit.com/2018/09/listen-ma ... ook-a-nap/
He's really very entertaining and has a much more mellifluous speaking voice than Californians.
https://beachgrit.com/2018/09/listen-ma ... ook-a-nap/
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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Steve trying to make amends.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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I listened to that and it became clear very quickly that Nick and I could become the best of friends in real life.steve shearer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:29 pmI'm just getting to this podcast with Nick in it.
He's really very entertaining and has a much more mellifluous speaking voice than Californians.
https://beachgrit.com/2018/09/listen-ma ... ook-a-nap/
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#brinebrothersDrailed wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:53 pmI listened to that and it became clear very quickly that Nick and I could become the best of friends in real life.steve shearer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:29 pmI'm just getting to this podcast with Nick in it.
He's really very entertaining and has a much more mellifluous speaking voice than Californians.
https://beachgrit.com/2018/09/listen-ma ... ook-a-nap/
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Just a bit confused as to who's who in that snap.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Check the banner ad that came up above the Lemoore article
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You know that’s not quite true SS. The pros fluffed that wave countless times, missed the barrel, overshot the barrel, rarely got deep enough to disappear. Most Leaner-Intermediates would be left in the mush of the tub, wondering what happened.steve shearer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:19 pmNot a bad dream Godsave....I'd say low intermediates are already taking over and any single one of them within a day can get a ten second tube-ride at Kelly's tub if they stump the cash.
Except Seabass. He fcuking slotted it
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Top 3 past their best before date, fun parks.
Gumbuya Park
Wobby's World
The ranch
Gumbuya Park
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Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:46 pmWhy the fcuk do you reckon I went there? First pool CT since Allentown.
Here's some reporting I did
https://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/25 ... at-lemoore
https://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/25 ... at-lemoore
https://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/25 ... at-lemoore
https://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/25 ... l-reports-
from-the-scene-at-lemoore
I thought it had promise but surprise surprise.
Erase.
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Not on my watch cnut.godsavethequeen wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:14 pmThere's a little nugget in an otherwise fairly uninteresting piece with Jay Leno in an old episode of Top Gear where he says that the arrival of the automobile saved the horse, shifting it from hard worked transport vehicle to leisure accessory in half a generation. Maybe the wave pool will do the same thing. Maybe professional surfing will, in time, fully decouple from surfing and the idea of a two-week jamboree taking over some of the world's most iconic waves will be but an absurd distant memory. That the arbiter of quality ocean surfing will no longer be hardwired to the skills of thirty small Brazilians and a couple of Americans. That the surfboard itself, freed from the long shadow of the professional circuit, will bulge and bloom in unimagined directions. That the Dionysian hand jive will become a thing and nobody will be laughing anymore. That ocean surfing will become a mellow sanctuary for low intermediates, a place to whoop and hoot and high-five and party wave with impunity. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
I'm gonna make sure I fcuk this whole thing up forever, for everyone except Filipe Toledo.
ps you used the word "nugget", I take this to be a subliminal message that this low intermediate paradise will be equipped with McCoy Tuflites.
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well the truth is that's not a fair comparison, everyone has a mellifluous speaking voice compared with Californians.steve shearer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:29 pmI'm just getting to this podcast with Nick in it.
He's really very entertaining and has a much more mellifluous speaking voice than Californians.
https://beachgrit.com/2018/09/listen-ma ... ook-a-nap/
man I am absolutely fcuked after five days of that place. No wave riding, swimming in a huge pond full of shit, and dehydrating half to death amid a sea of white VIPs. Like I thought it was summer here, and all the VIPs's skins looked as if they hadn't seen sun in years.
Facebookers I guess.
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i love it that you're fucked up from 5 days at lemoore. if you weren't suffering there'd be no point in writing.
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You're absolutely right crabmeat.
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Did you get to surf the wave itself?
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Not this time. I didn't want a bar of it frankly. Don't really wanna surf it again at all.
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