New Kai Lenny film says maybe yes!
Kai Lenny’s new film Paradigm Lost drops onto Red Bull’s website on October 2, less than one week away, and are you excited? Did you feast your eyes on the trailer all 4K and Red Bully? It certainly is richly colored and the full range of Kai’s many talents are on display.
He is uniquely gifted no doubt.
And while I very much hope the film is a success let us use it, for one quick moment, to discuss the idea of relativism because who don’t like an 8th grade philosophy discussion first thing in the morning?
At the beginning of the trailer for the film a voice says:
“Surfing is not relegated to the shoreline. It’s not just a breaking wave over reef. It’s anything that brings you into that moment when you’re completely there and truly alive.”
And is this true for our current time? Oh I know that “surfing” has been used for sometime in conjunction with sleeping on people’s couches, being on the internet, etc. but do our dictionaries now really read:
Surfing: Anything that brings you into that moment when you’re completely there and truly alive?
Is going to the strip club and getting bottle service and many lap dances surfing?
What about chicken fighting?
Do you think Donald J. Trump would be angry at this new turn if he caught wind of it? Do you think he would take to his red Bully Pulpit and decry the ambiguity of language? Would he scream that we’re all too politically correct to call “surfing” an activity done on waves while riding a foam and fiberglass surfboard that has either three or four fins and a pointy nose?
Has our culture slipped far down the hole to hell that cultural warriors have been warning about for 50 years?
I’ll answer for Jerry Falwell Jr.
Probably.
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Serfing is what you do under ones lordship
Surfing means whatever your heart desires.*
*As long as what your heart desires is riding traditional surfboard in naturally formed waves.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, just because Kai Lenny can do it, doesn’t mean you should.
I guess if the word “fucking” gets bastardized and misused why should the word for the next best thing, “surfing” best exempt? What’s next, ruining the word “eating”?
The life of a surfer is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Hobbes nailed it. Fucking surfing.
Sleeping on other’s couches is mooching…searching data on the internet is research…surfing is riding the surf…FUCK! WHAT IS HARD ABOUT THAT?
Please read the article slowly.
“When you get to hang out with people who think freely and differently it allows you to see things from a different perspective ” Kai Lenny. I’m sure growing up on the intellectual paradise known as Maui has sharpened his razor wit. It would be great if we didn’t have to listen to pseudo philosophical rambling from a paid professional board rider. Sounds like he has been listening to Alan Watts on YouTube. Kalamazoo Kalama needs to give it a rest as well. He’s lost with out his leader Laird…
Kai Lenny is quickly Lairding out.
as would we all, if we had even a shred of his surfing ability. search your heart, you know it to be true.
He is a terminally boring little bastard, though.
I tried to listen to a podcast interview with him once. When I say “tried” it’s because I never made it anywhere near the end. He made being really really good at watersports sound like the dullest existence a human being could ever suffer.
I was on Namotu with him once. He kept asking everyone if they wanted to watch his video and when the response was lukewarm, he put it on anyway and watched by himself at the end of the bar, while the rest of us did skulldrags and partied on the other end. True story.
That does not surprise me, not one little bit.
To be a Laird, you gotta be yoked.
http://www.urbandictionary….
(‘yoked’ because I think it’s funny word, defined because I’m not sure it’s in common usage in the U.S. anymore, much less elsewhere)
you’re damn right it’s still in use. i use it every monday, wed, friday when i tell everyone about my gym workout.
The current term-of-art with the youths is “brolic.”
when this stuff comes out it kinda makes me happy that WSL won’t let Red Bull play
In twenty years Red Bull will sponsor a one off radical surfing contest that will be held in an actual ocean.
some dystopian future Road Warrior contest with a car chase that ends at the “end of the road” and they’re forced to surf maxing Teahupoo
After twenty years of wave pools Huntington will be considered extreme.
“surfing is what you do while you’re waiting for the next liquidity event.”
-A serious businessperson.
“Surfing is not reaching your full potential.”
-Aristotle
The answers to all such questions are in the not yet ancient potus twitter scrolls
I’m currently surfing my nostril hoping to make contact with a booger boarder. I’ve never felt so alive. So there.
“It’s anything that brings you into that moment when you’re completely there and truly alive.”
I’m sorry – when exactly is this moment not happening?
The ever talented Kai Lenny as his alter-ego Tyga,will explain it to you https://youtu.be/vPFB0rM1Xxk
When you are commenting on an article online whilst watching a French spy drama and waiting for your washing to finish so you can hang it out before you go to bed.
I almost brought my girlfriend to ‘surfing’ once.
I brought my girlfriend to “surfing” once. I forgot to tell her about the part where you don’t throw the board at the wave. It looked like she refused to cook eggs for a while.
I’m really confused.
That’s a Once Were Warriors reference: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Oh.
I did that. My girlfriend didn’t appreciate me giving three to the beach every heat of the round.
With me she went to take off but I snaked her and pulled into a close out then had a nap.