From your pals at BeachGrit!
What a year we’ve had! Some couldn’t wait for 2016 to end, citing political depression, a popular celebrity culling, war, famine, refugee crises, etc.
But at BeachGrit it was so wonderfully anti-depressive! What were some of your favorite moments?
When a boy got attacked while wearing a Sharkbanz bracelet?
Dane Reynolds telling The Inertia that it sux?
Cori Schumacher and Rory Parker’s thrilling chat?
Matt Warshaw’s inclusion into The New Yorker?
Kelly Slater singing like an angel?
WSL CEO Paul Speaker admitting that his activity of choice is skiing backwards?
The great Brad Gerlach diagraming the most secret turn in the world?
Advice on how to love a red haired surfer?
How Adriano de Souza almost single-handedly killed claims?
When WSL CEO Paul Speaker allegedly looked down at his phone and said, “That fucking BeachGrit…” ?
I could go on all morning and promise 2017 will bring even more joy.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sincerely.
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Please to credit my artwork tho. Not trying to go all rory up in here. okthxbai
I liked the ongoing mockery of WSL CEO Paul Speaker, clearly a man who detests being mocked, I mean it is never pleasant but to be mocked by Chas is to be Touched by an Angel, really.
For me it was Mr Parker’s departure. I couldn’t take another year of sexual depravity, liberal propaganda, and bragging about his cash cow wife supporting his uselessness.
2016 , the rise of the white is right ,and has all the might , heard that Rory is actually getting a makeover , and becoming a Mexican , because any white is rite organization , should have one , in case of any maunuel labor , especially the digging up of old stories , and or walls or moats!
i think maybe the jordy photo for this is my favorite moment. really, there isn’t a favorite, but i do find it a usually a refreshing change here from the earnest take- it -all -kind- of -too- seriously, often bland stuff from other surf sites. i like the endora vibe for most part, except those times when it just veers into crotchety bitchity too purposefully, gratuituously looking down your snoot. i may be the only one that liked the cori podcast, but i did, and i also liked some of rory’s moments of wonder, like after being in a total cranky whiny vibe, then suddenly getting caught up in the excitement of finn m’s surfing. love the comments-is heartening to see how many people really care about the sport and each other and about having fun with it all.
2016 claimed both rory parkers
YIKE
Well played.
The last two lines from your piece about Steph Gilmore hanging out with Miley Cyrus and throwing cupcakes:
“It was, anyhow, at this point where I interjected to ask, ‘Was it sexy?’
That, I’m afraid, was also unclear.”
I giggled like an idiot for five minutes.