Outside Magazine, from Santa Fe, dreams of Olympic inclusion. Yuck!
Outside Magazine, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, loves to wade into the surf like all inland peoples do. They love the wash of saltwater on their sunburned skins! They love being beachy! They love feeling the sand between their toes and their Teva sandals! And today they published a treatise on why surfing should be included in the Olympics (read here).
The author argued, I think (I’m drunk!) that surfing should be in the Olympics because Samsung sponsors the WSL for some totally sham amount that Paul Speaker has made up (don’t forget that Kelly Slater earns lots more than 20 mil a year) and that Go-Pro’s kook founder Nick Woodman surfs and Go-Pro is worth billions but mostly because high quality artificial waves are a distinct possibility.
Have you ever seen one (an honest quality artificial wave not a Paul Speaker or Nick Woodman)? Me neither. But Outside‘s author ends his passionate bit by writing:
“Why not give the thousands of talented young surfers with Olympic dreams the chance to express their art form, be it in salt or chlorinated water?”
Viva Rick Kane! Viva New Mexico!
(PS. The maligned surf legend is none other than Matt Warshaw. I think. I’m drunk!)
Kelly Slater launches Outerknown and Instagram melts down.
Kelly Slater and team officially launched OuterKnown today and bravo to them and let us celebrate! Outerknown, according to the website:
… explores the relationship between function, style and sustainability. As designers, it challenges us to build better, more sustainable products. As producers, it asks us to lift the lid on our supply chain, bringing the consumer along on our journey to transparency. As storytellers, it enables perpetual evolution of our brand vision. As athletes and performers, it pushes us to formerly impossible levels. As global citizens, it offers the opportunity to observe this multi-cultural world we live in and bring together seemingly unconnected people and ideas for the purpose of discovering the next Outerknown.
Kelly announced via Instagram and the people went crazy with celebration!
“How can you sell something called the ‘Vagabond Cargo’ for $195? You know what vagabond means, right?”
“No one is going to buy a $120 shirt.”
“Way above my pay grade. Holy shit.”
“Nope. Keeping my dollars.”
“RIP OFF!!!!!!!! Good luck selling this overpriced crap.”
“I can use $100 to better someone’s life rather than blow it on a tshirt.”
“Outerknown? More like Outofmypricerange.”
And, come now, people. Why so sour? I will admit that to buy expensive just to look expensive is very very un-chic. The boys with designer scoop necked Ts at the bar are silly, they just don’t know it yet. “Updated Pauly Ds” as my wonderful friend calls them. Clothes, in fact, that say “look at me” are not good. But quality costs money. Fit costs money. Proper drape costs money. Sustainability costs money. Part of the reason this globe is sinking into a warmed abyss is because cheap consumer goods.
I really and truly hate defending the expensive t-shirt because it has become such a “thing” but you all made me do it.
Overzealous juvie white chases seagulls, gets sand under his girth, faces slow death…
In a reverse of the usual situation where a human being enters the great white’s lair and is thus eatenalive or de-legged, and the world is thereupon lectured about the foolishness of anyone being in the ocean, a great white has ventured too far into the human’s domain and…what…
…we revive the animal and send him back into the drink!
Witnesses say the seven-foot juvenile white got stuck near South Beach in Chatham, Massachusetts, as the tide went out. The shark was tagged by a state shark scientist.
Watch the video…jab…jab…jab!
It’s the third white shark tagged off Chatham this year.
Is any further evidence of the ultra-evolved nature of man now necessary?
Baby white is sure lucky he didn’t bump into Tennessee gal Veronica-Pooh Nash Poleate whose homespun common sense electrified the world a few days ago (12 million views).
In response to a mess of shark attacks in North Carolina, straight talking Ronnie said, “The shark has the right to eat you up when you get in his house. Use some common sense if you are going to the beach. Go to the… beach. You watch the ocean from a distance.”
But what happens when the shark comes into the man’s house? We don’t “ate him up.”
A new TV show seeks to find the next international surfing star!
Do you look at Kelly Slater and say, “Pssssssht. I can do that.” Do you watch Brett Simpson paddle out for his heats and think, “What makes him so special?” Do you sit at home wondering why you are not sponsored by RVCA or at the very least Hurley?
Well, your questions are answered and your problems are solved!
“The award-winning producers of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ are casting the best surfers from around the world to compete for a grand prize on a brand new TV show on a major cable network.On this exciting new series, competitors will face thrilling challenges both on the water and off, tackling monster waves and surprise tests of skill, balance, strategy, innovation, commitment, speed and power – all for a chance to win a grand prize!It doesn’t matter if you’re a competitive or recreational surfer. As long as you’ve got what it takes to compete against the best and prove your skills on national television, then we want to hear from you.”
Yes. It is real. Send an email to [email protected] if you are totally deluded and/or like to be a laughingstock and/or have mild retardation and/or really have somehow fallen through the cracks like Chippa Wilson. Don’t delay, do it today!
P.S. It might not seem real because they have a gmail address but, ummm, yeah. It is.
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Heat six, round three, and infernal nuisance Adriano de Souza beat Dane Reynolds for the first time in six meets. Caught by the incubus!
And Medina strips the saloon, Alejo lashes the wheel, Reynolds goes home to Sammy Boo…
Hey presto! Despite everything, despite a weak little swell hugging the Jeffreys Bay reef, despite the ocean appearing, at times, as bare as an egg, the third round of the J-Bay Open was a notch above the usual.
Kelly Slater, who is roughly the same age as Kolohe Andino’s father Dino, was mechanical in his defeat of the boy, offering no mercy in waves that should’ve, by rights, suited the frontside fin throws of the 21 year old. Certainly not a man whose next milestone birthday is 50.
And what a squawking Kolohe made when he lost! His head sunk forward in wretchedness, he wrung his hands, he whimpered and then… pop! pop! pop!… his fist found the deck of his surfboard.
Gabriel Medina raped our attention with two backside air reverses on the one wave, the second a very grand sight.
That little wild pigeon, Filipe, tried to emulate Gabriel’s two pack when he nailed two alley-oops on the same wave. What might Alejo do to respond? But for all Filipe’s calculated abandon, it was a set wave, impressively cut apart by Alejo, that froze the heat, one judge even awarding it a 10.
Young turkey Filipe was amiable in the loss, hugging his fellow Brazilian, knowing, I suppose, that he has Trestles, Hossegor and Portugal to sprinkle his gold dust and win an unlikely world title.
That infernal nuisance Adriano de Souza beat Dane Reynolds for the first time in six heats. Blown clean away! Dane with his downy round face and general energeticalness and Adriano, that mite with the impish erect body, heavy dark eyebrows, big head-top and a receding chin. He has really beautiful lips, I’ll admit, so beautiful they look as if they were sculptured.
Michel Bourez and Bede Durbidge are two surfers who aren’t entirely dissimilar. They finished their heat with fifteen and a half-ish points apiece, Michel advancing by virtue of a higher scoring wave.
Don’t wanna go heat by heat? Jump into the minute-long highlights here! And don’t miss heat three of round four: Mick Fanning, Gabriel Medina and Kelly Slater. What a sight that’s going to be!
J-Bay Open Round 3 Results:Heat 1: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 15.50 def. Owen Wright (AUS) 15.40
