Tow surfing may have just been re-invented! Let's celebrate!
Tow surfing is super out. Right? Like, yuck. Like, frowny-face. Like, girlfriend please. Much of it, I would imagine, is Laird Hamilton’s fault. Right? Like, that guy. Like, lame. Like, OMG was totally last decade.
But man and ski carried so much promise! We were going to ride 100 ft waves! We were going to be super prog and shreddy even on mutants! We were going to force the earth to submit to our will!
And then it all disappeared. Or mostly disappeared.
It seems as if the craftiness, and steel backbone, of the big wave surfer is being respected very much more than simply letting go of a rope, whenever there is an option these days. Take for example Maui’s Jaws. Tow was the only show five years ago. Now it is paddle.
Also I think that having noisy, exhaust spewing beasts in our pristine environment roils even the hardest spirit. It’s not right. It’s not natural.
But now look at this new thing, out today. Look at this man being towed across an open bay (lake?) by a drone. Could this a re-imagining of the Strapped Generation? Could this help us to ride 100 ft waves without filling the air with smoke and noise?
Does Laird Hamilton watch this footage and think, “Oh. My. God.”
Even more, though, just picture taking your new tow drone out on a small day at your local. SUPs would cower in your wake and if they dared paddle on you might get decapitated.
The joy!
The sheer joy!
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“For when you can’t be a cunt on the golf course.”
That looks lame/fun.
Dorks in America are using drones to spin around on lakes while innocent people in Pakistan are being blown the fuck up by drone missles meant for total kooks. Grass is definitely greener in USA.
Isn’t it more “drone wakeboarding?” Although, there’s not really even a wake involved. “Standing On A Wakeboard While Getting Pulled Along By A Remote Control Helicopter” has a nice enough ring to it.
Laird Hamilton watches footage and thinks “Oh. My. Laird.”
This is Laird’s(tm) world and we’re all just living in it
The dream BeachGrit headline: “Drone Surfer Attacked By Great White Shark!!”
Can you make this happen for us? Please?
trust me, if I could, I would.
Blood Feud!
One skankhunt cutty would stop that thing in midair and slam that toy in to the water. My cutbacks are powerless as well.