But we need to help!
The best part of surfing in the Olympics is that no one at the executive or coaching level has been accused of having sex with a fourteen-year-old. The second best part of surfing in the Olympics is the reintroduction of wonderful friends from the past. Of course you already know that Bede “The White Fijian” Durbidge is coaching Australia’s team and someone fun must be coaching the U.S. team. Neco Padaratz? Are you involved with the Brazilian team per chance?
Ben Bourgeois is coaching the Jamaican team and I can’t think of a cooler fit. Benny B, you recall, is a stylish surfer from Florida. He came up for a few professional cups of coffee but I have heard one of his greatest skills is finding secret yet amazing waves in the Caribbean and surfing them like no one else. Multiple respected surf photographers have told me that Ben is the best they’ve ever seen and I believe.
The Jamaican team is then very lucky. Will they make the cut? Ben says yes.
“I think the chances of us qualifying for the inaugural participation of surfing at the Olympics Games are good. I think we can do it especially that there are some smaller events leading up to it that the surfers can really gain some experience from. But we have to get the right equipment and it is difficult to get equipment down to the island.”
Is it illegal to sponsor a surf team? What could be cooler than sponsoring the Jamaican one? The number of wonderful collaborations I’m thinking up sitting here, stone cold sober, right now… ooooee! The possibilities are endless.
Get me… which shaper would be best here? Which shaper would shine in black, yellow and green? I’m gonna think and you’re gonna think and then we’re gonna get him on the phone.
Don’t worry, Ben Bourgeois. We’ll sort this out.
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Call them now mate.
You can’t have 2 EU passports if you’re a EU citizen. It’s been refused multiple times to my german, greek and french families. You have to choose between the two.
Needless to say that if you’re Australian or American, that doesn’t apply to you.
Same as the residency: fiscally speaking, you can reside in only 1 of the EU country during a given fiscal year, no matter how many residency papers you hold.
It’d be real stupid to pay double taxes, wouldn’t it?
Also residing in Switzerland at the moment for work… Counting the days until I return to my Landes beachies
Chas…your a funny and litig laughs can be discovered reading your daily spam…
But the “sex with 14 year old” is not funny and just not cool.
Take a step back on this one and cool your own runnings
Wow ! A member of the Swiss ( avant ) Guard . Another feather in your cap and you may end up surfing for the Holy See . I taught surfing for a week and was forced to make a choice. Give up surf instructing or give up surfing . Chose surfing over watching !
Good for you darling . I currently have French and German Residence . Took me 20 years to get the French one and one marriage to get the German one .
You can’t have 2 EU passports in Europe.
I take it that you’re residing in France now?
French surfer in Switzerland here.
Living in Germany on an Australian Passport but a 10 year long stay visa for France and a renewable long stay visa in Germany after getting married in Denmark ( They cut through red tape and accept official papers in 5 European Languages ). I hope that sounds complicated because I spent 25 years playing the land surveyor K from Kafka’s “ Le Chateau “ !
You’re australian, not a EU citizen so of course you can have several EU residencies, but only one fiscal one. The french administration are a pain in the ass.
In 1993 I was in the French Consular in Sydney and met a young artist who was in a similar situation applying for a 12 month visa and she informed me that “ The British invented Bureaucracy and the French perfected it “ ?
That’s nicely put!
…ok, what’s the story here?
How did you end up with a Swiss passport? Please write an Autobiography .
see above
Silly me .Thought she was surfing (?) for the Swiss but as a point scorer she may have been judging ?
I don’t mind the thought of Gally as US coach one bit
😉
I think Weedmaps would be a pointless experience. Coals to to Newcastle, as they say.
Were there any other members?
Ben Bourgeious, as you may not recall, is not a surfer from Florida. But who cares Florida, East Coast it’s all the same if it’s not Southern California.
Exactly. Who gives a shit!
Cheer up camper. We care. Sean Volland is wasting his talent not being a kook like the rest of us here on Beach Grit. Much more entertaining than Ben. Ben Marcus. Not Coach Ben.
Florida is the final place in this world I wish to visit.
Joey Buran, you lunatic!
His whole life has been a preparation for this moment.
His whole life and eternal life ?
It’s a small world after all ? A French American is coaching Jamaica and that most famous of all Football playing Jamaicans ( Bob Marley also loved his football ) Usain Bolt is playing football for Umina ( ok Central Coast Mariners ) .
Hurley could outfit them with some Bob Sleds.
He is peerless among his piers ?
He’d make a great litre for this grassroots movement.