A day in the life of the dazzling 13-year-old from Maui!
Watching a youth in his late teens bang off jump after jump is something which you might give or take. Seeing a couple of kids, only just turned twelve and thirteen, operate a surfboard with this sort of dexterity, however, is a… wonder.
The Maui surfer Eli Hanneman, who is thirteen, appears in this excellent, if simple, day-in-the-life short. Eli describes his day as blocks of two three-hour surfs, with a midday nap, or one five-hour session, where he practises the manoeuvres he wishes to have perfected by the time he hits the tour in four or five years.
Making a fine cameo is the half-Australian, half-Indonesian boy Bronson Meidy, who was born and raised in the surf ghetto of Lakey Peak only twelve years ago.
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O to be 13 again. Zero responsibility, zero bills, zero effort. There was that one blight, zero vagina in my case. Others were lucky enough to dip a finger here and there, but not me.
Does it still make you sad, the empty memory?
Overwhelmingly so, although not as sad as my failure to bed an ebony chick.
As in, never? Or just as a teen?
As in never. I’m married now with a couple kids, but I always wanted to get down with a colorful lady. Never did have the chance.
As disappointed as you must be, can you imagine your wife’s pain, if she, too, didn’t get to experience a similar delight? Wait, are we witnessing the genesis of a swinging couple here?
I did marry a preachers daughter!