Episode six of the series License to Chill! Hawaiian Hurricanes!
Maybe we’re overdoing the Mason Ho thing on BeachGrit. Do you think?
In our defence, or at least mine, the chief impression I get is that Mason occupies a role as surfing’s poet laureate. We need him to protect us, and in some cases free us, from the seriousness that swells our game.
And this series, made by Lost Surfboards, a sponsor of BeachGrit, and whom we adore and did so even before they agreed to pay us a small stipend, is the best surf web series I’ve ever become acquainted with.
Sure, some episodes are stronger than others, but as a momentary respite from work, the jerkiness of love and relationships, whatever it is that grinding you down, it is without equal. Better than Coke, Acapulco or Fleetword Mac, as the slogan goes.
This episode, number six of eight, was filmed a little under two years ago when Hurricane Iselle belted Hawaii’s Big Island. Strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall there. Two-hundred k’s an hour wind. Flooding. A hell of a thing.
For Mason Ho, and pals, on Oahu’s North Shore, however, it stirred up dormant reefs that wedge and double-up and perform all sorts of calisthenics.
now that Ando and Dane won’t play they’re left with Mikey Wright, JOB, Rasta, and Mason for team anti-jock
there are no holes and the people that think you’re in one would never let you out anyway
Dude is the best, bringing a whole new funk to the game. Just having fun surfing weird / sketchy spots, doing his own thing and totally ripping. Doesn’t seem to give a shit about image which is refreshing. Way more relatable than double overhead death tubes.
Remember that board-game Chutes and Ladders? Its a good euphemism for our delicate footing on the BG comment section
Haha are commenters on the ladder? Isn’t this just an anonymous way to stir shit?
His airs are crazy vertical
Mason make’s me look forward to getting in the water. I’d rather BG endorse him than Julian… Julian reminds me of work and how shit it is.
Can commenters suffer from over-exposure?
asking for Wiggs.
Oi, I have been far less prolific lately.
Most of the wedges are very shallow and break like that a handful of times a year, if at all.
What about the waves?
That wedge at the beginning looks fun as shit.