Huntington Beach seeks to smash the previous paddle out record!
Oh I’ve written about paddle outs before, here, though I can’t recall if we have come to a consensus on their relative merit. Like, do you want a paddle out when you die? How many people? Will I be invited? What sort of board should I bring?
While you are deciding, Huntington Beach today is attempting to host a Guinness World Record paddle out today at the pier to honor International Surfing Day even though it is dumb and already past. It is also to thank the International Olympic Organization for including surfing in the Olympics. It is also to show the International Olympic Organization that lots of people in southern California like to paddle surfboards (even though StabStitch says surfing is dead here for the foreseeable future). It is also to tell Los Angeles that if the city snags the 2024 Games it should hold its surfing in Huntington Beach.
The “Circle of Honor” paddle out is hoping to attract 500 surfers.
But real quick, if Los Angeles snags the 2024 Games where should the surfing be held? Certainly not Huntington. But where? Trestles? Malibu? Maverick? Botany Bay?
Read more about the “Circle of Honor” here and you can go and report if you live in Huntington.
Also, have you decided yet what sort of board I should bring to your paddle out?
🙏🙏🤙RIP
Is this a future Olympic surfing event?
Oh and no paddle out. Just wrap me in plastic and flush me down the toilet. Take your 2nd finest boogeyboard out for a whip in knee high on shore slop as commemoration.
2024 to be held at Mavs with hector santo-whatever for the win
The LA Olympic surfing will be held in Lemoore, California.
by the way imagine how shit a paddle-out in a wave pool would be. “Let us make a Circle!” “Ouch! Fuck! I bumped into the plow!”
hahaha
http://www.grindtv.com/surf…
the barns pulled it off!
I want to join the paddle out but I need my Defend Hawaii T shirt on! Have BG started producing these yet?
Goddamn right I want a paddle-out. Here’s how it works. The memorial is scheduled for 6 months after my untimely demise, in a variety of drug fuelled orgy accidents, so as to allow the BG commentariat to convene conveniently. (Considerate to the very end). Chas, Derek, and Michael organise a stellar cast, including themselves to wax eloquent. Nick Carroll, longtom and The Dead Whale at Trestles, although not on the speakers list, feel compelled to, making heart rending statements on my character.
As the flowers are thrown and the minutes silence starts, my carcass* is released and rises to the surface from a box hidden under the ceremony. Simultaneously, Laird paddles in with a squadron of women paddle boarders, (all looking a bit grumpy), which sets in motion the Ballina Battalion of flying great white sharks. Oh, the carnage and lack of humanity. Now that’s a memorial you’ll never be able to forget you bastards.
*Said carcass will be in a very poor condition as it has been donated to science and most likely will have been used and abused by scores of medical students.
Like Jeffrey Dahmer abused, or Ed Gein abused?
I don’t know Ed Gein, but I think medical students are closer to J. Dahmer.
Gein was the inspiration for Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I believe he made everything from skin clothing to lampshades. Gnarly
As someone in the process of setting up a business based on the creative use of discards, I applauded his creativity, if not his methodology.
There’s some creepy documentaries on it. Check it out on you tube. Did you know that in the Wild Western days of the U.S. people used their victims ballsacks as coin purses?
Ha! Knew a guy who would would pull his uncircumcised knob skin over a roll of 20c pieces and dole them out as a party trick. Hence his nickname “The Conducter”. Went on to repress state and country in rugby union.
That’s fuckin classic! “Make it rain on dem hoes”
Can you get the Aids by holding hands?
No, but you can get the gay.
good luck “Surf City” hahahaha Jack O’Neill’s paddle out will undoubtedly smash
An inflatable SUP seems like an appropriate craft for this event.
World record circle jerk!
I thought a paddle out was to honor the death of big surf names.
Today I saw a 12yo, 70 kilos boy with a shirt thay said “Surfing is Cool.”
This paddle out could be to honor the death of surfing as a whole.
Rather than a traditional paddle-out I want my unconceived descendants spreading my ashes without announcement on the surfers (or olympic athletes) below the pier.
I’d be terrified of a paddle out as well: too many variables. If no one shows up your legacy would be mocked, if the waves sucked people would be bitter, if it was firing people would be rushing to finish so they could score.