Today's Los Angeles Times celebrates an awkward pose. A suable offense? Let's discuss!
Do you think you look tres amazing when you surf? Knees bent just so? Torso in the ideal state between rigid and flexible? Eyes laser focused on the section you are about to decimate?
But have you ever seen how you really look?
Oh the initial shock can be disastrous! Rear end flying like a flag! Back rounded like a hillock!
Over ten years ago I went on a surf adventure to Yemen with two marvelous friends. It was grand in every single way until I returned home, the slides were developed and I saw myself drunkenly groping the waves.
The horror almost put me off surfing forever.
So let us take this unnamed surfer seen in today’s Los Angeles Times (pictured above). The story is about a surf resort in Nicaragua selling a surf package in honor of Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer. Let’s read a touch?
If you’re of a certain age, it seems like only yesterday that the iconic surf film “The Endless Summer” was released to rave reviews. But it’s been half a century since filmmaker Bruce Brown followed Robert August and Mike Hynson on their wave-chasing surfing trip around the globe.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the documentary’s nationwide release, Nicaragua’s Mukul Beach, Golf & Spa is working with travel outfitter Tropicsurfto offer special surf safaris in 4x4s, with each surfing tour tailored to fit the skill level and physical conditions of participants so they can catch that perfect wave.
It all seems very fine but what if you were this unnamed surfer caught in an embarrassing pose used to illustrate?
He may be very skilled and the photographer snapped at just the wrong moment and did not have the wherewithal to know good from awkward surfing. Or the photographer may have had a vendetta against and wanted to shame him in 1/4 page color. Or the surfer might not have been as good as he thought he was.
Whatever the case, would you sue a publication for printing a poo-stance photo of you or would you celebrate your everyman appeal, shouting “Free Adriano de Souza!” to the heavens?
By all indicators in this picture, this guy will be stoked someone got a picture of him actually getting to his feet.
Was this for an Indonesian travel advertisement?
I remember when a bunch of pro football players showed up at my local with photogs from a current affairs news program. Something about “awesome footy players ripping up the waves in their downtime” or some bullshit. Only prob was they were all massive fuckin kooks and struggled to get any watchable footage and when the promo ad ran later that week the editors had spliced in footage of me surfing instead!!! Haha. I was like a minor celebrity stunt double with my 5 minutes of fame…
Haha was this when that faggot Daisy Thomas went surfing? He sucked balls. More recently Paddy Dangerfield demonstrated that he is a fucken kook too.
Na it was West Coast circa 2006 premiership team. Don’t know why, but footy players generally seem to suck at surfing haha
wrist watch on leading hand is also gross.
The watch should be on his leading hand you kook. If you’re righthanded u usually wear ya watch on your left hand. And usually surf natural… so wtf are you doing??
I wear a Rolex around my nutsack to provide balance.
fark i’ve been doing it all wrong. where should my gopro go boss?
How are you supposed watch your rip curl watch speed info like that?
Surfing with hands in semi-fists is also a crime. Poor fella.
the NYT is obsessed with surfing in nica. this has been the 3rd article in past year abut this. i can only imagine a contributor, who is both a hipster faggot, and can barely surf.
Burn the photographers house down.
Neg’s?
Mmmm I can see you on my phone but not on my computer…. will look into it. Cheers
Everything in order this morning..yesterday at time of previous post’s no comments were showing on all posts. Afraid Lewis Samuel’s had party and everyone bailed out!
Feel like I just walked out of a bathroom during a party and everybody left went somewhere else.
Hello!
I would tell people who tried to make fun, “It’s functional! Don’t be jealous because I rip.” Meanwhile, I would be plotting the death of the photographer for doing me dirty like this. This was snapped just after he came flying out of the barrel and letting go of his rail… More embarrassing is that he’s on a Firewire…
” hey photog guy wanna go to costa rica? There’s this really cool bridge called ‘tarcoles’ I want you to shoot!”
Great just what nica needs, more donkeys.
Are you the 42nd skank hunter, a 42 year old skank hunter or a skank hunter born in 1942?
There are 41 other skankhunters..
Make that 43: you’re an inspiration!!
There are plenty o’ skanks and there’s no bag limit or season.
I’d rather surf with donkeys than donkey fuckers ala Israelies.
I’ll yell you what I have a new list it’s cool to hate Brazil (jeah!) but Venezuelan’s are getting to isreal levels in Costa my last trip we had to take them to escondida and we let that infamous coral head sort em out. Kind of felt bad, guy ended up in puntareanas hospital with a punctured lung, but i at least it stopped him and his girlfriend from the bangfest i had to listen too for a month. Brought me a hot Caribbean hookey in when he came out the hospital, paybacks a bitch.
See the problem here is not the stance itself but the wave. If this guy pictured above was inside a 10 ft slab at chopes the stance would be just fine.
I would show this photo to a girl and then sleep with her then her mum.