Josh Enslin enters the Guinness Book of World Records!
Do you remember the bro, “Everyday” Dale Webster, who surfed 14,641 days in a row with a minimum of three waves per day? 40 whole years? It is an ironman streak that will surely never be broken, or even approached, but like, ugh, right? Sometimes the ocean is just an ugly tub and it is a great pleasure not to step foot in it. I tip my imaginary cap to him while at the same time surf checking and then going home.
Yesterday, another record was broken. South African Josh Enslin surfed on South Africa’s eastern cape for 30 hours and 11 minutes catching 466 waves. The previous record of 29 hours and 27 minutes had been set by American Ben Shaw.
“The toughest part for me was the 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. stretch. Conditions were freezing, fatigue had set in, and my body was freezing,” Josh told Billabong, one of his partners. “The waves had picked up as well, so I was duck diving all the time.”
And good on him too but that sounds awful. God awful.
Well now he is in the Guinness Book of World Records alongside Dale Webster. If you were going to try and break a record which would it be? I am going for Snarkily Dismissing Other’s Accomplishments Every Single Day Over the Course of a Life.
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Pretty sure this happened 2 months ago….http://stabmag.com/a-30-hour-and-1…
Ya I refreshed the homepage thinkin it was a glitch
Even the sharks thought this was too sad.
Id be lucky to surf for 30 hours a year.
Maximum amount of shame experienced during a single session
Hyperbole and inane, pointless extremes, that’s why I surf.
I think I could go for Most Attempts at Landing a Surfing Aerial But Not Succeeding
I should modify to say “Never” instead of just “Not”
I like where your head’s at here.