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I’m just gonna keep riffing here because it’s Thursday and Thursday is for lovers. But real quick, how many photos of yourself surfing do you have? I’m talking in any form. Printed photo, digital photo, that digital frame that used to be available for purchase that would scroll through digital photos, magazine layouts, magazine posters, just regular posters, etc.
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51+
Now, of course this question comes up due the World Surf League President of Content, Media and WSL Studios’ elect’s prodigious Instagram feed featuring 51++++ of him SUPing both with and without paddle which makes me laugh heartily. But maybe I shouldn’t be laughing. Maybe I should be taking notes and/or having someone take photos because I have 3 shots of myself surfing and have to use the same ones every time I post a story that somehow relates to me surfing which is thankfully not often.
Should I have more?
How many do you have?
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Too many — most that I hate and none that I like.
He’s certainly tireless — the full-on primary school principal type in and outside of surfing (supportive, approachable, always with some sage advice). As I watched him receive an award back in June for his lifetime of efforts in promoting South Island surfing it dawned on me that he is, and always has been the school principal of the South Island scene.
Every once in a while there’ll be a photog on the beach snapping away and every time I get out of the water, I sort of assume they’ll tell me they got some good shots of me if I wanna buy ’em. That’s happened exactly once and I felt like a million bucks.
This is an interesting question. To me it’s not so much about the number of photos you have of yourself surfing, as it is about the number of photos of yourself surfing that you feel compelled to post on Instagram, or Facebook, or whatever your choice of social media may be. Like many others, or if we’re being honest here, everyone who has ever surfed, I am 100% guilty of liking seeing pictures of myself surfing. Unfortunately, I rarely like what I see, kind of like hearing my own voice on a tape recorder. I mean, who hasn’t thought they we’re ripping, “wow I can still surf, I’m actually not as far gone as I thought”, and then you see a picture or video and you’re like “oh shit, that wasn’t the wave I was talking about”. Unfortunately, that’s absolutely the wave you were talking about. Go ahead and raise your hand and claim guilty everyone.
So I go back to the question, how many pics of yourself do you post on social media? For me it’s been exactly 2, and both were more about the “moment in time” than they were about me crushing it (which I wasn’t). Pics in my house of surfing? Zero.
Definitely! I’m going a bit overboard and doing an external, an old HDD, and an online service.
No! But that board was old enough to wear one.
Sideburns?
Mmmm, maybe. I’ve always had some formation of facial hair since I could grow it…
As good as none. But a fuck load of classic arguments to get them.
3 max. The world has changed though, I probably took 20 shots and video of my son’s first surf.
Fucken helicopter parent.
Jeez Im enjoying these comments!
Go the Grit!
Handful plus or less a finger or two. A sequence exists of descent pig dog riding a board my son and I shaped together. An image from the sequence was chosen for a regional magazine and when they found out I wasn’t from that state it got cut.. I’m pretty content with half a baker’s dozen. Taken a few images that have been published too.
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Zero
When Chas mentions surfing pictures I can’t help but picture Major Ghamdan wading out into the line-up to show Chas polaroids of Major Ghamdan’s previous night’s sweat panted conquest.
Well 51+ but when I look at any of them, I think more about the photographer. Is that weird?
I think just as many portraits, although this may be accidental given your proximity to various nymphets. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
You ain’t seen nothin yet.
Beach Grit. Where egomaniacs go to get egomanicured.
As the ad said: “Lego of my ego!”
2-3 of me riding a foamie as a kid. Rifled through album of early ments trip – every photo was a wave or someone else on a wave – like I wasn’t even there!!!
I will admit to a few skateboarding photos (no, I didn’t ask for them to be taken).
But since this is BeachGrit and not PavementGrit, they don’t count and my kook status remains pure and unblemished.
Not many, but I’m also not employed by the WSL.
Dawn patrol, fog, crowded line ups, black wetsuits/white boards, point breaks, and savage localism aren’t the best for photo ops.
Maybe I’ve been doing it wrong my whole life
he had me at “I’ve been afraid of the ocean my whole life”
A friend’s wife once put photos of him surfing up on Insta with captions like “Go… Great wave” “Wow” etc.