Or is it?
The sun has just poked its head into Cairo’s hazy sky and my eyes are burning red. 20-odd hour flights are hell on the eyes, skin, etc. but it’s what we suffer, no? The best surf is always a 20-odd hour flight away unless you happen to live in Australia and then it is very close but America and Europe are far.
There is no real winning, only 20-odd hour flights at every turn.
I’ve got a job to do here, anyhow, and have to get out amongst it but before I do can we talk about surf shaming? I stopped by the Surfrider Foundation on my way to the airport yesterday to chat with David Lee Scales about all manner of thing but also about the World Surf League President of Content, Media and WSL Studios-elect Mr. Erik “Elo” Logan.
He is going to get on a 20-odd hour flight soon, for Fiji, and he is very excited but do you what? It seemed there, on his Instagram feed, that he felt surfing’s collective sigh and dropped the paddle.
Can you believe? Can you even believe? Is there someone installed, or almost installed, in Santa Monica’s High Castle who listens to our pleas?
Just think of the power! Think of all we can accomplish by employing the tool of shame!
Oh.
I just went back to his Instagram feed and see that he has picked up the paddle once again and is running down the line of the World Surf League’s other favorite. A walled closeout.
Damn it. We were close but maybe there is a crack?
You can listen about surf shaming, Joe Rogan, wedding rings and…. jet-lag is really clouding my memory but it is for certain our best one yet.
Effective.
Poor Tom! The things an ex pro needs to do to “stay in the game” They look like pigeons eating from wsl’s hand… I´m sure they miss ASP party league!
There’s NO WAY that post-departure email came from BFB.
I see that DLS found a new adjective. “Banger” clips, “Banger” interviews etc etc. Now if you want to define this traditionally, it happens to be a type of sausage. However for the street smart types like myself, I would refer you to urban dictionary’s most popular definition of: “If a Song is extremely tight or just unbelievably awesome. It is a banger”
Worst episode yet guys, you need to get over this WSL beef and get back to talking about surfing. No one wants to listen to Chas bagging out ELo.
As shit as Joe Rogan and Kelly was, still more entertaining than this ep.
Also your attack on Beth as funny as it was, was personal.
Sounds like The Inertia would be a better site for you.
Ah I’m talking bout a podcast, never been on the inertia and definitely don’t come to beach grit to read Chas’s articles
You’re a pussy
Pretty self absorbed aren’t you guys? The only people you affect with this National Enquirer/People Magazine surf page are drunk Australians.
The pool really is out of this world. Beyond reality etc.
Does this mean Nick Carroll is joining bro on that tour? Will we get an interview with E-lo that way – major tool, small tool, new WSL legend?????
Why someone hasn’t kicked that little prick up the arse is one of lifes minor mysteries
worst wave in the known world.
Pismo might take that honor.
Pismo has something. Try shapeless sandbar crap for miles in either direction with any swell over 2 feet. I’ll take Pismo pier weakass rights and lefts almost anytime.
Thanks for the Poo sandwich recipe.
No worries, shit waves make ya stronger or some other garbage, right?
9.6′ high performance.
Direct.
Hi mommy
It would shame us all into submission if he spent his 21 days training like a muthafuka with, I dunno, Shane Dorian (random name) or some other badass and starting to learn to paddle (prone) into the big stuff, take the beatings and come out smiling. Talk about ‘conquering fears.’
The bummer for all on here is that Kalama’s probably put him on some heavier stuff than a lot on this board have seen. He’s gone to Fiji a ton of times with him. But the local dude that shoots him stays in Manhattan or wherever.
Also, not to defend, but to explain a bit. His social media has sold a ton of boards for the Infinity guys to other corporate weekenders and I’m pretty sure he owns part of that shop he always tags. Sure, does it come off a bit narcissistic? Yeah. But like it or not, he’s an influencer and he’s got a stake in a local shop so it’s no different than any other shop. Their market? The smart one, older folks with money. (Actually, the same one Kelly is after,)
Personally, should he work for the WSL? No, I think he does way better work for/with Oprah. But I hope he’s self aware enough to figure that out soon and just go back to being an executive who surfs. That’s a way cooler story than the WSL guy who rides a SUP. (Full disclosure, I’m one of the former, and twice a year paddle the latter.)
But on the positive side, I’m sure he cares way more about the 100,000 people in the Midwest who think he’s a badass than the 500 in the surf world who think he’s a tool. Which would you take if in both scenarios you could surf the same waves and live the same life? Easy choice for anyone who truly doesn’t GAF.
Hell, if you think about it, he’s almost the C-level exec version of Bobby Martinez. If he really cared what people thought he’d be sitting inside on a 5’10” thruster on those 2’ days like every other angry shortboarder in LA. He will take a ration of shit here but almost any of you would take his life in 2 seconds. All you gotta do is not read the comments. Ain’t that the secret to everything?
As a believer in the sanctity of human life I would not take his life ( in 2 seconds ) .
As a surfer I would not take his life .( give up 40 years of joy to become an adult learner sweeper , no thanks )
Hopefully could aspire to better things than being a Television Executive from Oklahoma ? ( They are usually not very nice people ? )
Maybe he means we would take his life. As in extinguish. Kaput.
This is what I was alluding to .
Subtlety is lost on me.
I would only take his life in some very extreme circumstances. Like for example, if we’d just been on a surf trip to Waco and on the drive home we got lost on a desert back road and the car broke down and caught on fire and we didn’t have any shelter or ways of calling for help and he got sick from a brain eating amoeba and there was a pack of wolves baying for our blood and he was begging for a mercy clipping.
Oddly specific flex, but ok.
Fuck him and his shop then.. fuck the selling of it all!! Can’t we have one fucking thing that is just enjoyed on a semi organic level. faaarrrrkkk!! and Fuck Elo.. If he owns the shop then he should do it on the shop page and thinking of that.. fuck shops who only sell, sell, tag, tag, tag, put cams on the best waves.. I am thinking about a book called “Fuck you and your…”
You’re grossly underestimating the number of people in the surf world who think he’s a tool. The true number is much closer to 550.
Well technically that’s only a thirdly grossly underestimating. Which in surf terms, (given the inability to correctly size waves), is pretty good.
You win this one with that comment. And note that I agree that he shouldn’t be doing this gig.
WSL is awesome! High performance longboards are fantastic! SUPs are things from god!
What about the public shaming of Tom Carroll in that insta post? Who will defend poor Tom?
Tom Carroll is safely beyond reproach. Perhaps the greatest example of power and grace ever. But your right… he should maybe change his name and go into hiding after this atrocity.
Don’t be too hasty! If a pic of Erik in Action in Fiji appears here, it will probably be the work of our favourite little hobgoblin.
The thought of that cheeky bugger having his photo taken by the 1991 PIPE MASTER!!! does my head in.
Super annoying that this guy sucks at surfing, and has paid paid zero dues, and constantly posts surf photos as if he’s a ripper, and is Dave Kalama this and Tom Carroll that. Hope at some point somewhere a reality check is waiting to happen, but probably he never surfs anywhere the bubble might burst.
2ft Swimming Pools is a mighty beast and could soon humble even this fearless gladiator.
Its like playing guitar for a week and jamming with god damn Hendrix.
That’s probably just how he likes it.
I have very many thoughts and extensive notes on Kelly x Joe Rogan. I would say it’s up there with surfing’s most embarrassing forays into pop culture ever. Right alongside Jimmy Slade wrestling with the octopus or Cameron Diaz saying Kelly had a breadstick cock.
give us a thousand of your best JP.
hey, if it is a big breadstick, I would take that as a description of my little guy
Because of its muscular tissue, the vagina has the ability to expand and contract, like a balloon, allowing a baby to pass through during childbirth, or adjusting to fit snugly around a tampon, a finger or any size penis.
Thanks jim..
One size fits all (bread sticks ) .
ahahahahahahahahahaha thanks i just snorted espresso all over but that was legit
I hope I will not be found guilty of cultural appropriation and was just having a chuckle that I have possibly learnt something about the female reproductive organs having spent the last 8 years living with a Gynecologist .(# science )
The audience awaits. Give me some of that old-dog woof.
99% of me doesn’t give a fuck why you’re flown to Cairo – the other 1% is halfway interested and you give us Capn homo ?
Faarrkk – cmon Chas. If you’re going to post something – at least give us the the gritty stuff.
#beachsilt