Should a new craze be sweeping the surf world?
If you listened to the latest Grit! podcast (Do now here! It is noted not surf journalist J.P. Currie approved!) you know my position on the shaka. I find it a wonderful bond that ties all surfers together and should be used by us regularly and exclusively. Oh sure it is uncomfortable when you first start but that’s what irony is for. Toss ironically until it becomes second nature.
I also broadcasted my position on the pocket shaka or the “poka” which is used by Zach Weisberg of Venice-adjacent’s favorite longboard skateboard website The Inertia.
If memory serves I called it, “A pathetic attempt to be both edgy and impossibly short at the same time…”
Or something.
But now I’m rethinking. Should we be doing this every time we put our hands in our impossibly small pockets?
Is the poka a buy or is it a sell?
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I wonder if weissturd rips. I bet he does kindof rip, but in a fucking lame ass way. I bet he does a lot of chop hops
i never talk shit in the water, but when I do I throw Shaka
What about those forearm fins? Where can I buy those
Man…
To do this shit you need… baggy pants! Or Indian pants!!!
Ops…
Zach’ next move!!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
But how would the articles get out?
Hahahahahahahahaha cracking here!!!!
Places I just don’t wanna go, Pappas.
I bet Zach Weisberg’s mom knocks the crust off his PB&J’s every morning.
He should see a doctor about those growths on his arm.
Who’s the guy in the brown hoodie? He’s seems to be the only one who would rather not closet shaka and instead return to the comfort of his desk and his world of Java and Python.
Over/under that he has flip flops on in both of the photos?
Zack Weisberg looks like a Nickleback fan dressed up for a night out at a “fancy” bar that serves michelob ultra rather than Yuengling.
I would suggest that the mega-shaka is the more egregious of the three, the mini shaka should only be used in libraries and church, and the pocket shaka isn’t really a thing.
zack exemplifies what it means to be a dookie.
Yeah he looks like one of Jordys heaps for sure
See also: any shaka ever.
How the hell do you get six of the biggest dorks ever assembled in one room to synchronise a move like that? Is there an agency that specialises in this?
That’s NOT a shaka. A shaka is a gesture of friendship, love, fellowship, or the like. Sticking your hands in your pockets and allowing a couple of fingers to not be included doesn’t say any of that.
From his new rap album…
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
The poka makes pant pockets feel awkwardly slutty.
In my new quest to do the opposite of ‘what would zach do?’, I’m now bringing back the three-fingered salute. I’ve been called a misogynist 6 times and have been given 3 phone numbers.
Ha!
Is that like Pocket Pool?
All good for Weisberg, his gold is hung around his neck
He’s an Olympian?
Mr Fanning would disagree?