What's your special secret?
Howdy,
I’m a youngish man who enjoys a little BeachGrit now and then and I thought I might offer up my inconsequential two cents.
I’m a lifelong surfer from the east coast of the USA, probably not any good, but I’ve had and do have my moments and I feel like intellectually I’m decently invested.
After much internal deliberation and consideration, I have decided, much to my distress, that I love The Inertia… fuck. It is to me an essential cog in the gears that churns out the addicted and devoted, the jaded and enlightened, the modern decent son of a bitch.
Riding waves has been and continues to be the source of most of my satisfaction and conflict for a long time now. Listening and reading about Chas’ stance on The Inertia (see, “I want to sink that piece of shit!“) has got me thinking again about the industry and the idea of surfing and how it reflects on riding across waves.
After much internal deliberation and consideration, I have decided, much to my distress, that I love The Inertia… fuck.
It is to me an essential cog in the gears that churns out the addicted and devoted, the jaded and enlightened, the modern decent son of a bitch. The Inertia is almost a sort of purgatory for the hopeful masses of shit-stroking, Wavestorming yuppies, the pathetic responsible goo we were all molded from.
It’s like the choice of cups from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Amid all the articles about nutritional guides to boost your paddling and the list of the five best SUPs to really shred, there is a faint and haunting message…”this is all bullshit, but keep digging and it’s kinda worth it in the end.”
That sight is a beautiful trap for partially initiated, the half-assing yuppie that loves his tan, the inland kook all adorned in his dime store puka shell. The content pumped out of that website daily is filled with the thickest turds that truly only someone who is totally and completely committed could and want to keep themselves from drowning in that light beershits of a swamp.
The strong survive to another equally bullshit filled world of what surfing really truly is, its nuances and its importance. The rest get Laird, volume calculators and boardshort guides. Those who save themselves get Litmus, Surfers Journal, Tom Curran, and told to beat it on the North Shore.
We need The Inertia more than it needs us and we probably need ourselves even less!
Also, I’m not quite sure what Chas would do without it.
Don’t have much time now–but–I think the Inertia’s real mission is to try and ‘cash in on surfing’–more web hits equals more $$–so they try to keep their readers in ‘their place’–to make them feel that they are not good enough to really enjoy surfing yet. I believe they want to keep their readers feeling inferior (so the readers keep coming back to the Inertia for a little false pep talk in their next post). — Instead of telling the readers the truth–that whatever their skill level is–just paddle out and catch some waves–have some fun–and you’ll be a success as a surfer.. ..
I hate the inertia.
But BeachGrit, in a different kind of way, doesnt rise much above the Inertia.
In what way?
low brow and just like the US Surf Mags spent a lot of time using kind of incomprehensible prose saying little, in addition they used incomprehensible fonts to expand on that same goal.
Although you do have some good articles where the above does not apply, the whole vibe here your creating seems very crude and unintelligible to some great degree…and the pictures dont make up for what the verbiage lacks!
Some strange betting habits there. I’ll bet that sharksttack575 is a weirdo.
Any guesses as to how many people are buried in that guys back yard?
‘We need “5 ways to rent the van life for your next road trip” more than it needs us.’
Amen. Real talk right there.
I one up ‘The Van Life’ story with ‘Colorado River Shaper Zack Hughes Talks River Surfing and A Brand New Board Sport’. I won’t bring up the ones about how good the ukelele feels, the importance of changing the Spicolli stereotype or the one about happily wearing foot muffins in Tahiti. By God! We do need these more than they need us.
You guys are rough! Lol, probably well deserved, but I totally agree that no human should ever be subjected to the swill churned out on the inertia. I guess the joke was that maybe it serves a purpose in acting as quicksand to keep the yuppies circulating in their own bullshit rather than mucking up our fun. If that makes any sense🤠🤙
M888888888 if you gotta eggsplain it in the comments something went wrong
Agreed!
I admire your optimism fellow, but this isn’t some exclusive club. We’re all just a pack of cunts! Negatron laughs at autistic kids!
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He laughs at ’em? So spitting was going too far?
Too far! And no tarring and feathering either.
where does one get a puka shell necklace these days??
amazon, brah
Walgreens drug stores in the US, right next to the $12 boogie board and confederate flag beach towel
I’ll bet this guy doesn’t have a wetsuit tan line, or a defend Hawaii t shirt and he doesn’t surf Cloudy and he probably surfs waves that girls like Felicity Palmeteer surf!!
can we actually throw grenades at this guy?
May be more fun to Order MC to affix his bayonet and charge
Is Hillary running web security here? ‘Cause I think Beach Grit just got hacked.
Did we just travel back in time to October 2016, to a high school in rural Georgia? (The political jokes are sooooooo old, and at this point, juvenile)
That would be great for my bank balance. I’m going to tell my past self not to bet so heavily on Kelly Slater winning Snapper and Fiji.
I just watched that Proximity movie by Taylor Steele; very good flick, and slater was ripping but he’s starting to look old. (And sorry for being grumpy about politics; I’m just so tired of hearing about it when we should be focusing on other things, like education and the environment).
Jesus fucking Christ. Hard to get more Inertia-y than spelling Tom Curren incorrectly
What on God’s green earth is this?
I believe “this” might be that Satan to which Morgan was referring. On God’s green earth. God, Satan, and Chas Smith, and likely Chas’ Porsche. Our Chas, stuck in the middle of a Good vs. Evil Blood Feud.
A turd that needs to be sunk?
One of those floaters, that despite repeated flushings, pops back up in the dunny, mocking you…
This is when you charge US$50 for aspiring surf writers the opportunity to post an article on the Grit. Unedited
They only charged me $40. Bro deal
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I believe those were the Shah’s exact words around the time the Ayatollah showed up…
I am an Inertia virgin. I barely use the internet and really don’t give a fuck anyway. I can’t get enough about Laird though so maybe…
I’ve alway thought of the the Inertia and Beachgrit to be quite alike America and Australia respectively. The Inertia over thinks and generally over romances an otherwise completely pointless pastime, whereas the Grit just says what it’s thinking laced with a healthy dose of sarcasm.
You misspelled “cynicism” at the end, there.
Hey! I know this guy!
You sure you wanna admit that?
did he finish High School?
Bullshit. It’s a pretend ‘connection’ to surfing through a reality that is turgid beyond the abilities of those who read it to understand the point. It offers a link to the sup/mal rider to pretend we are all one happy family of ocean loving, latte sipping cool cats. When the truth is most of us don’t like each other.
It’s the real fake news.
I’m changing my Disqus name to Ocean Loving Latte Sipping Cool Cat
beach grit went from totally sheik to totally geek.
Man, J-Bay can’t come soon enough…
u string enough of these one – hits together ,, and you got a ‘Grit article , Karl….