Would you risk radiation poisoning for a few empty waves? Why not!
We chat here so often about surfing and the increasing variety of obstacle one must hurdle in order to do. Sharks everywhere, SUPers riding guillotines, crowds, The Brazilian Storm, etc. etc. And we discuss because the only thing we have to fear is fear itself! If we look these various conflagrations, directly, then we’ll truly know their heat doesn’t even come close to matching the flames burning in our own hearts!
We love surfing! It’s anti-depressive and nothing but nothing will stand in our way!
Except maybe a massive nuclear meltdown spilling directly into the lineup!
Of course you remember 2011’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The Japanese facility perched right the Pacific coast not three hours north of Tokyo melted straight down after the Tohoku earthquake.
A whole town decimated. Finished. Abandoned still and the scientists tell us poisoned for centuries to come.
Except surfers don’t care! The flames in our own hearts licks eats nuclear waste for breakfast before slapping its lip! NextShark, an online magazine focusing on Asian youth, has a fascinating piece of photojournalism on Japanese surfers who brave growing extra limbs.
The photographer, Eric Lafforgue, declares, “The surfers say their passion is bigger than the risks and the truth will not be known for 20 years.”
In 20 years who do you think will win, surfers or radiation?
I say surfers! It’s the anti-depressive answer!
In 20 years the truth gonna hit them like a big ol’ sack of radioactive shit. Sad face
Not a very flattering picture of you there in the middle, Chas.
But the cut of his trunks is sublime.