Surfing is an art not a sport!
Oh boy. This has all caught me, and I hate to admit this, but more or less unprepared. Like, a bit flat footed. Maybe like if I’m not careful history will look back on this moment and criticize me the same way it does World War I generals. The whole “lions lead by donkeys” business.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
And let’s rewind very quickly. If you have followed along here at all during in the past few years and/or listened to me jabber across from David Lee Scales on the Grit! podcast and/or read the just released Cocaine + Surfing (buy here!) then you know my feelings on surfing as a “sport.” It ain’t one. Oh sure I love competitive professional surfing as much as the next man (unless the next man happens to be Dave Prodan) but I have also always felt that “sport” just doesn’t capture the essence.
Not that surfing is spiritual (ha!) or anything it’s just… I don’t know a dirty though very fun addiction we all suffer. So I go around banging my drum calling for honesty and an embrace of our demons and full scale war on the machinations of those who dare try and turn riding waves into something bland and systematic. I holler for World Surf League heads and Rip Curl hides and… you get it, right? You understand. Right?
I’m for you. For The People™.
Well, I didn’t even know this BUT apparently right now is the USA Surfing Championships at one-time WSL stop Lower Trestles. A sign has been put up reading Welcome to the 2018 USA Surfing Championships though yesterday that sign was defaced.
A brave vandal scrawled “nature” at the top and then “Surfing is an art not a sport” over the entire thing.
Oh boy. The resistance is here and I am totally unprepared. Aside from my talking points I haven’t yet figured out my costume. I was thinking something along the General Butt Naked line (remember him from Liberia?) but there are lots of other good options out there.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Any ideas? Also, does anyone know where the resistance is meeting?
Gene Gene made a machine
And Joe Joe made it go
Art Art blew a fart
And blew the whole damn thing apart
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Yawn this has already been done ,Curren , WLynch , Rasta etc , you have already been put in check-mate , most recently by lopez patagonia at the surfing central wave ranch.
Good angle but you need to work harder.
Facebook?? Fuck that corporate giant, I’m going to watch on google. Viva le Revolution!
The resistance is meeting in Byron.
Something like this?
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the Resistance is meeting on Facebook during the Jbay contest….
But no-one will watch. Unless it is the minister for propaganda putting her fins in backwards.
i’ll shake and throw the artisanal molotov cocktails.
how many surfers watch and love figure skating? no? only difference between that and pro surfing is that surfers don’t (yet) choreograph their routines to music or get judged (officially) on their costumes.
(but lets be honest, isn’t that the same as boardshorts companies sponsoring surfers?)
Sure, but to be fair, skaters aren’t contending with Teahupou.
Off to buy a gun and a frock now.
I’ll aim for cross-dressing cannibal, but don’t be disappointed if you get another Colonel Klinger.
It’s a good idea and really feel like we’re circling in on the costume of The Resistance.
Well there’s a precedent, isn’t there: Sydney bathing costume protests. Braveheart. The list goes on.
Surely Waxer should be our* role model here.
*The Peoples. (Bugger, new/old technology and I don’t know how to trademark this thing. It doesn’t even have auto-correct…)
I had the same problem and just capitalized both The and People!
You, my friend, are a solutions People. The Revolution is on like Donkey Kong!
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Oh yes. Oh thank you.
Do it for The People! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
That’s it, I quit. Reached my zenith. All downhill from here..
Amazing! I’ve got 30 bucks for that T-shirt as soon as you point me where to buy it.
I am still trying to find the chapter in “The Anarchist’s Cookbook” on creating social upheaval through the medium of screen printed T-shirts ?