A New Zealand psychologist seeks to discover cure for surf rage. Come be surprised by his (wrong) analysis!
Do you get surf raged? When you are out in the lineup and about to take off of a beaut but there is someone there, taking off too and in front of you but not looking back? Do you ride up behind him and scream…
…FUCK YOU!
In to his ear? And shoot your board at the back of his head? Or do you let it go because there is always another?
If you are the former then a New Zealand PhD is going to solve your problems! Let’s read about him?
An academic study into surf rage will likely find it’s motivated by water safety than bad blood, one of New Zealand’s top surfers says.
Raglan resident and former national champ Daniel Kereopa said fist fights weren’t a big problem here and most local surfers were out to inform rather than fight.
“Seventy per cent of the surfers out there don’t really know how to surf that well and they’re actually putting themselves in danger. They surf waves beyond their ability or get themselves into bad positions,” he said.
“The locals are the ones who surf here most often so they understand the dangers, so what it boils down to in the end is water safety.
And do you agree that the cause of surf rage is likely water safety? I am no PhD but think that the cause is that surfers are buttheads. And selfishness. And too many people too few waves. Etc.
I jest, I jest, and I only jest.
I was up in Indo last year and there was a Kiws guy there who shall be nameless. He was doing turtle research for his Masters Degree at Otago. it seemed to involve a huge amount of surfing, and very little time doing anything turtle related.
I’ll have you know that surf tourism saved the Balinese from extinction.
It’s a more honest scam than, say, saving souls through surfing.
Another delightful caption. That sort of attention to detail will get you noticed by powerful readers/Speakers.
Sort of, Daniel Kereopa isn’t the PhD guy, he was just asked to comment – wrongly as it turned out. But something else the article said was that the research dude was going to test whether learning about Maori carving and culture would help cure surf rage. This is an excellent idea, Maoris being renowned for their peacefulness.
I’m told that the revised project suggests “learning about Maori carving and culture after joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.”
Have you ever been to a Christian Surfers event? It always pumps. So maybe not such a bad idea.
Dude: “I surf for Jesus. It’s like being sponsored.”
[Skulls a beer, puts arm around chick’s waist]
Dude: “Did you know that Genesis 2:25 states that “man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed…”
Chick [cites John 15:7-8]: “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
[Dude takes chick back to his ute, Luke 2:16 “and they went with haste”]
[Chick emerges from Ute only to enact Samuel 1:10]: “She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.”
I like that they have a ute. Every surfer should have one.
Absolutely.
https://youtu.be/Hu8tX2BAD1k
More bogan, less Brooklyn!
An academic study of surfing is almost as paradoxical as a surfing study of academia.
i like the latter
It’s really kind of heroic… Thank You for saving us (from lowering your wave count)!
Since I would want the person who cut me off to drown, be maimed by a rabid seal, or get decapitated by the lip or my surfboard, I would say my surf rage has absolutely nothing to do with concerns over water safety. That’s just a guess, though…
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Oh I think I’m going to get this….
Seems like this PhD is opening a Pandora’s box. There’s a lot of different rages out there these days. Perhaps its always about safety. Or, that’s what they’ll start telling the judge.
The shit you can get a PhD for in NZ and Australia is pretty ridiculous.
Anyone want to propose a doctoral project studying the effects of mental retardation in WSL leadership? I think Waikato or Otago will have us.
Otago was so amazing that I don’t really remember my 4 years there.
Burn any couches?
yes – many thanks for the drunken flashback!
I wasn’t hating the player, just the game.
Just wait till Kelly gets his honorary PhD in something – will happen – prob from a NZ uni now for sure
Shit, after Bob Dylan got the Nobel Prize for literature, I’d imagine Kelly is already shortlisted for next year’s Nobes in econ for single-handedly keeping the WSL afloat.
Slag Kelly but don’t slag Bob!
Yeah, cuz he’s the Petrarch of our times…