Episode one: how to build a surfboard that flies!
One month ago, BeachGrit stole away to Mexico, near enough to Guadalajara in Jalisco on the mainland there, with a very specific idea. To determine if it was possible to teach a girl to ride out of a full-roter air (a 540 to the skate and snow jocks), if you had the best air surfer in the world, which is Filipe Toledo, doin’ the tutoring.
“Women’s surfing fascinates me. When it’s good it draws blood. Carissa Moore’s slices, Lakey Peterson’s grab-rail tail throws, the impeccable style of Stephanie Gilmore. It’s damn rich.
But does it strike you as odd, as it does me, that there ain’t a gal on tour who has an air-reverse on tap? Silvana Lima showed promise and disappeared (back this year on tour). Even half-way good twelve-year-old boys can throw ‘em as an afterthought on a weak end section.
“So why not the girls?”
Along with another coach, Huntington Beach’s Brett Simpson, and iPads with the Hurley Surf Coach app, and GoPros affixed hither and yon, and patrolling the sky, we had four days to coach, and coax, Santa Babs’ Lakey Peterson into the biggest huck ever by a girl.
Did it work? Did she orbit the Pacific?
How about we take you on what is referred to as a… journey.
We made a four-part series on the process. Part one, below, is the construction of a board that goes pop.
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Haha so Derek, which of her sponsors that doesn’t advertise here made you change the title image?
what was it? I got here late..
Probably the very same air from another angle-I believe they call it… upskirting ??
How about a series to determine if it is possible to teach a BG commenter to ride out of a full-roter air?
honestly think the chances are the same as lakey’s
Since Hurley backed this project, is one of the BG fruits (looking at you chas and derek) going to do the hurley surf coach deal? Just like Morgan!?
Cant be Chas as his style was criticised to the shit, and Derek’s got too much on (Necro still doing coin?) maybe Mike or Sabre could do it!!
And Mike is a little shredder! Tiny, but built, like Filipe if he was made of sugar and caught in the rain.
I would love to! But Morgan did it so well mine would be but a poor facsimile
Since when does BG stick to the fax, even poor ones?
Wait, wait, wait…Do you mean to tell me that Hurley wasn’t “stoked” on the crotch-shot frame grab you used as a header?
I couldn’t believe no one was swinging at that softball…
Did it pop?
That image was shit. Glad it’s gone.
How to Build a Board that Flies:
Step 1 – Make a surfboard.
Step 2 – Give it to Mason Ho.
okay! that was good, nerdy fun! thanks 🙂
a 15 second perusal of the comments saved untold wasted time… very nice feature .
Maybe when “professional” women surfers can consistently complete aerial maneuvers that men did in the 1990’s, we’ll sit through this ..
Plz invest in some lav mics. Also, if I have to watch 4 of these and she doesn’t even stick one I’m gonna have bluer balls than when Alana did playboy (when they still showed tits) without getting nood.
I heard “butter” and “pop”, but who cares, Walt Dickerson was on Vibraphone.
isn’t the reason girls can’t do airs similar to why they can’t dunk a basketball? plenty of high school players from 5’9″ to 6’0” can dunk but even the best women professionals can’t. finally one came along recently who is 6’8″ but the point is explosiveness, fast-twitch muscles. am i wrong?
The real question is, what is she doing out of the kitchen?*
*This joke was made in honour of IWD today, in rememberance of fallen times. Social justice warriors, breathe…
You’re prolly trolling but… I’d actually be interested for some sort of surf nerd to get all physiological on just how much force it takes to make a surf board go up in the air. I’m gona guess it’s actually not that much in the grand scheme of things. I mean, I can get my board pretty far up there — it’s just you know not knowing what the hell to do when I get there and not really wanting to waste limited waves in crowded lineups trying to figure it out.
this is beachgrit so definitely not applying much deep thought to this question, but if it doesn’t take much explosive force to get one’s board high up in the air, then… i can’t do airs myself and i don’t want to blow waves trying either, but i’m not a professional surfer. and in high school i could dunk. sometimes.
ha ha what i thought this was the place for super deep thinking 😀
The grit is slow as balls, and i can just feel all the shady companies hacking my info while I’m here cause my mac starts getting hot as shit and the fan has to come on. Only on the grit. This was a pretty solid idea however, and i look forward to the day when my computer will load the fucking videos.
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