"Blind stitch, hollow fiber, double glue..."
I had a long discussion with wonderful friend David Lee Scales, just the other day, about wetsuits. Hollow fiber, seamless, zipperless, wetsuits. Carbon woven, heat sealed, thermonuclear wetsuits. Psychofreak, psycho one, psycho tech wetsuits. And I thought, on my drive home, “You know, we really don’t think about wetsuits enough. They are surfing’s unsung hero. Our Stephen Breyers. Our Tenzig Norgays. Our Georg Konrad Morgens.”
Without wetsuits surfing would be, for most of us, an uncomfortable pastime during most of the year. We take for granted that we can surf in any temperature water thanks to 3/2, 4/3, straight 5 wetsuits. We don’t even think about being warm or warm-ish when we surf.
A fantastic product by any account. Maybe even more important than wax. Definitely more important than leg ropes.
Yet still unsung.
Until now.
Mic drop.
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Great video!! This makes me feel like wearing a wetsuit is a good thing.
What you don’t know is this music video is the group Cruzmatik & MC BUELL is the OWNER / CEO of his own wetsuit company Buell Wetsuits ( @buellsurf ) a company he started in his garage in Santa Cruz these are 3 life long friends & Buell came to them with his song / idea about his brand featuring some of the best surfers on the planet – what CEO has EVER done this – I’ll wait 🤔
best surf video I have ever seen , the surfing was mind bogling!
Haha easy “Brutus” this is a music video directed by someone who has done videos for Chris Brown, Ice Cube, Wiz Khalifa etc the actual surf video with his team riders comes out in 2weeks I hope your mind can take it 🤦🏻♂️🤙🏼
Off topic … what’s with the Hotnife Vaper ad? Click baited, says it’s cannibus oil? Does that mean I’m gonna get feckin’ high or not?
Without any question
Yes Zach it may very well, best ask mumsies first.
Another wetsuit rap video exists: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
This one’s way better
Santa Barbara is weird.
Where ya been, Trogan?
This is Santa Cruz, not SB. So weirder I suppose.
Oh thank god. I saw a bunch of SB kids with those suits recently. They weren’t weird, but that video was. I don’t know Santa Cruz from a hole in the wall, but I guess it’s nice there was no meth in the video.
Surely this presents a great opportunity to create a listicle on hip hops greatest songs about surfing, or maybe surfing’s best hip hop songs (I’m sure you can figure the best angle).
Surely this one is in the top 5…
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Kolohe raps???
Number 1 for sure. Although I was wondering if it was a Stab / Oakley content marketing play.
After watching this I feel way better about my overall life choices.
yuh yuh yuh yuh yuh yuh, blind stich, huh, hollow fiber, naw, double glue, damn, purple syrup, what.
been meaning to ask you, Chas, were you on mtv reality show in the early 90’s and go by the name ‘Puck’?
I wish! Didn’t he just die?
Can’t get any more unsung than Hugh Bradner, the pencil necked geek who invented the wetsuit. His name appears on no logo, no billboard and to my knowledge no one has even written a blues song about his sad story. Let alone a rap song. Maybe Jack Johnson can spare three terrible chords for this over due project.
“….three terrible chords…” thank you, sincerely, the Mississippi Delta.
The black man created it, the white man sold it and Jack Johnson fucking well murdered it. Terrible.
Once upon a time James Taylor, Michael Franks and Jack Johnson were sitting around a campfire. And then the murders began.
I’m guessing you mean Franti? Unless there’s another faux Cat Stevens out there.
Nope Michael Franks it is….Popsicle Toes… the perfect segue to Bubbly Toes. In the soundtrack of my dystopian hellscape.
There’s another one? Fuck.
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Mind blown!