What did he know and when did he know it?
If there is one thing I am proud of with my work here at BeachGrit it is that I let no dead horse go unkicked. If I see a dead horse, anywhere at anytime, that even only tangentially relates to surfing I will gird my loins, steel my spine and begin kicking. Kicking. Kicking. Kicking. Without care for my own safety or well-being. I will kick that dead horse when filled with energy. I will kick that dead horse when overcome with exhaustion. I will kick that dead horse then I will kick that dead horse again.
So let’s chat a little more about the incident currently rocking our surf world! If you have missed any of the action catch up here and here but, basically, we were introduced to the World Surf League’s Chief Commercial Officer over the weekend. Beth Greves was captured on video enjoying a wonderful surf on a longer surfboard. It was a sunny day, perfect for The Sport of Kings, and Beth was dressed appropriately for it in a forrest green rash guard with floral sleeves and matching floral bottoms.
One other small detail, the fins of her longer surfboard were put in backwards.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjjcwmjlAC2/?taken-by=ryzphoto
Now, a funny moment for all of us and we chuckled along but the more I watched the video the more I was struck by its composition. You can watch above once again but let’s go over some of the play by play.
The piece begins with Beth standing there facing away from the camera and toward a handsome, taller, dark-haired man taking a picture with of her backward fin setup with his phone. They both laugh at someone off screen and then he motions with his hand and face, very exaggeratedly, that her fins should be pointing the other direction. Beth plays along, motioning with her own hands and trying to explain something.
Cut to black.
And something about it feels so… staged. A good many of you wondered this same thing in the comments and I have, for you, poured over every frame. Second by second. Trying to see if it is a set-up for another WSL spoof ad. You remember those right? I can’t find them currently but remember wigs and jokes etc. Anyhow, if it is a spoof then boy oh boy they got us all good. The best mass prank in surf history wouldn’t you agree?
I am 98% convinced, though, that it is not a prank because there appears to be genuine bafflement on Beth’s face right before the cut to black but I need to know more about the handsome, taller, dark-haired man taking the picture and exaggeratedly explaining. What did he know and when did he know it?
I’d also like to see his photo. I think that is important for us and our investigation. Or at least for me and my dead horse kicking. Does anyone know him? Do you?
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If Rasta did it half you monkeys would be switching your fins as i type.
@disqus_nEmZsdyY0S:disqus – do you think that someone who does not know which way fins face would actually have the know how to put them in herself? Someone set her up then filmed it.
Please tell us that Greg and Laird are friends. A Period Gate x Kook Gate would be something special.
Very good point but then what could it be dangling and spinning from the tail? Mystery.
The instructions for use of the fins?
The Onion won the day.
Investigate Chas! We want answers!
https://instagram.com/p/Bjq…
Dave Prodan where are you Beth is now taking her last gasps, give Chas an interview and turn it into kooky cool or watch her drown
Backside invert
Frontside indy
Continue kicking but maybe explore another angle? Perhaps, the price tag still attached to leash plug bit. Begs the question, first board & surf attempt ever?
“We”?
He’s touring Europe and using a weird Chinese insty.
https://www.pintaram.com/u/…
He thinks he can escape Eddie’s wrath in Venice adjacent Italy.
She’s got you; hook, line, and sinker.
And me. She’s a kook!
And a savvy marketing, troll genius.
But still a kook!
Ah…. but IS she.
I like to wear rolled-up shopping bags on my head as I walk into the supermarket with the kids because it makes them squirm with embarrassment at kooky old Dad.
Doesn’t mean I actually think this is go-to fashion item for daily use.
She’s trolling / trawling.
Im totally with you. She has so perfectly manipulated us, that we think we’re the kook!
Good hire WSL!
Or not.
Quite the smokescreen while they sort out the proper media strategy for JJF’s injury. The picture waiting to be placed in the MRI machine was a nice touch.
Didn’t even read the story, because I’m wondering why the fuck this is being reported on when JJF is off having an MRI on his knee
Nah, mate, he’s gone sailing.
Rod Stewart or Christopher Cross?
Brian Wilson. Sail on?
Dude, do you even soft rock? TOTALLY Different song title you kook!!!
Putting my fins in switch
On his knee? It’s a banjo.
He’s come from Alabama. Don’t cry for him, Suzanna.
I think Ross/John may be playing us like a stradivarius.
If only Laird would chime in on the matter.
This is still very good and I think at least two more articles before a sign from Dusty Payne to let you know it’s time to stop.
Did you see that there’s a Dusty Payne profile movie? What a mysterious world we live in.
He doesn’t want to be recognized, it’s obvious, he’s wearing a wig.
A Wig? Which one?
Dantes? Or the real Wiggoly’s Paddling Style?
Like a suit of clothes, Manhunter style? How horrible.
A jumper in Bali?
maybe for sun? idk.
He was the outcast on the Jetstar flight not wearing thongs and a singlet, which also meant he didn’t have do drink 10 beers to stay warm.
Next article can be about how long her leash string is. That thing definitely pulling through the tail on first bail.
Plus it’s a thruster longboard…I think we’ve got an ironclad case for kookdom here!
Kind of like a jet powered scooter
It’s a swing tag, she’s got her new leggie [“leash” in ‘merican] under her arm.
Whoa! “Swing Tag”
Check you out with your product labeling nomenclature.
youre right
Her rig looks pretty good for how old she is.
Chas gets his kicks from being a beat writer.
Beat a dead horse writer
Yeah, that’s what my joke was alluding to.
Who’s filming the two of them? A WSL co conspirator, I’ll be bound. Why am I talking like a pirate?