And Huntington Beach rejoices.
Five-thousand people flocked to Huntington Beach, home to underaged drinking and What Youth‘s Travis Ferre, in order to witness history. Brett Simpson and sixty-five of his closest friends jammed themselves on a 42 ft 1,300 lb Nev surfboard and rode straight into infamy. The most people ever to surf a wave!
The total shattered the previous record set in Queensland, Australia where a mere forty-seven people surfed a wave for ten seconds. How did Nev feel about being a turncoat? “It’s all about fun. Surfing is fun, here we are just emulating surfing on a grand scale,” he told the Orange County Register. “This is the heart of surfing, globally. Everyone known in professional surfing has made their mark in Huntington Beach.” Sorry Queensland!
As the board was pulled out to sea by a PWC people were scared and nervous but once whipped in everyone was thrilled! The surfers bent their knees and nobody fell off as they shredded for twelve seconds. Sorry Queensland!
At the end, Huntington Beach’s mayor said, in regards to the board which will be housed permanently in the Surfing Museum, “This is the new statue of stoke in surfing.” and maybe continued, “Come to Huntington for the statue of stoke but stay for the underaged drinking and Travis Ferre.
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Looks like Ian ‘Kanga’ Cairns calmly standing in the middle.
How the fuck did this work? The waves were so small that day. I don’t understand the physics behind it all.
How many selfie-sticks can you fit on a stupid -over-sized surfboard? Fuck surfing sucks.
USA! USA! USA!
Agreed. Surfing is shit.
I’ve lived in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach and their are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more underaged shitshows at Sharkys on any given Friday than in HB..
Not to mention at a What Youth party. But that’s technically Costa Mesa I guess.