The flip side of good fortune!
Of course you know that Erik Logan, the World Surf League’s President-elect of Content, Media and WSL Studios, is in Fiji right now with surfing great Tom Carroll at, I believe, something called #kalamakamp. He was very excited for the trip, as anyone would be, and spent the last month preparing and training at Manhattan Beach, California while taking us along for the ride on his now famous Instagram account.
But you know how difficult surf trips can be. You book weeks out, maybe even months, during windows that typically have swell, cross your fingers and hope beyond hope that your guess is correct. Many times it is not and you must suffer the vainglories of surfing very small waves or very bad waves.
Well, this is Erik Logan’s year and just look at that wave up there. Just look at surfing great Tom Carroll putting it all on the line.
The image alone gives my heart palpitations and I cannot even imagine being in the water with such oceanic fury. Cannot even imagine sitting in the channel but, then again, I haven’t been preparing and training either.
Do you think that Erik was thrilled by the extreme size? Would you be?
Well, I am certain we will find out soon. Stay tuned!
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The surf industry elite use the business for the sole purpose of
funding trips to Tavi, Cocaine and hookers. It’s always been this way
and it will always be this way.
you
Tbh I don’t remember much about his etiquette in the water. I did feel bad for him sitting in the boat, staring longingly while we tore up Cloudbreak though.
“All these questions and more, on next week’s episode of The Grit™; where we catch up with investigative surf journalist and cocaine bon vivant Chas Smith to connect the dots on this and everything WSL©
and now back to you in the studio, Dez.”
and paddle gloves.
Sometimes Instagram and having a personal photographer can bite you in the arse.
Yeah, I am pretty certain he will be taking a pass on that. I think it’s the clothes that give it away? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only reason people ride those hideous laird SUPS is because they are scared as fuck of sharks and dont want to get eaten. Pussies.
So last year I did a trip to Fiji… stayed on the main island and boated to Tavvy every day, as many people do nowadays. One day, this really over-enthusiastic American dude rolls up to the boat launch, carrying what I originally thought was the landing pontoon for a small sea plane, but later learned was his SUP + paddle. The cringe among the other people already on the boat was audible.
This dude was a paying customer too, so we had to suck it up and leave pumping 8ft Cloudbreak (too big for SUP man) in our wake with only the GOAT and a few others on it, to go surf Namotu lefts for an hour. Tavarua has a rule that boats can’t leave their surfers unattended (ie. you all have to surf the same spot).
The following realization has just slapped me in the face like a 20 kilo Mahi: WAS SUP MAN ERIK LOGAN??? Was this the very same trip that Oprah reckons he found himself on? Did I meet the President-elect in the flesh?
All these questions and more, on next week’s episode of The Grit™; where we catch up with investigative surf journalist and cocaine bon vivant Chas Smith to connect the dots on this and everything WSL©
and now back to you in the studio, Dez.
why didn’t you wimps stick up for yourselves and insist that the SUPer cant come?
because you are useing him as an excuse for why you all chickened out at tavarua
Oprah has alot to answer for
you are talking paddles right?
Don’t flatter yourself! Ben plays in the Premier League. He perfected his annoy game when it was still a respected art form and famous person X would invite him to their parties so he could annoy their friends with double spacing.
In all seriousness Elo, stay within your limits, be safe.
Or on second thought, fuck that, go scare yourself, get held down, get dragged on the reef. Most of the rest of us have taken the occasional heavy wave beating since grade school. It’s a right of passage, and besides, Dave Kalama’s certainly not gonna let you drown – lucky you! Most of the rest of us did our first real scares alone in the cold. Life is short and swells are fleeting, and you and I are old, and we’re not getting younger.
Most of the rest of us have experienced the miracle inside a freight training barrel. You should too. It’s a risk well worth the fear and well worth the pain. You got a golden chance to stick it in a solid barrel and see how it goes. Make it or not, you’re gonna learn a dozen things about surfing and the ocean and yourself you couldn’t have possibly known before you sacked up and pointed it with your heart in your throat. Tick-tock motherfucker, you live once and owe it to yourself to get after it!
Good luck Erik, see you on the other side.
this comment is heavier than any wave i’ve seen in the last 5 years on the east coast.
Namotu will be spotless after a week of frenzied sweeping #kalamakamp
Are you still being a digital nomad?
Me?
Oui
Out of the Middle East but now in LA so yes!
Wonder how well his 9’6” high performance longboard #hpl will go out there?
If he opts for tow-in will he still hold a paddle?
surfed restaurants, for sure.
Maybe even just ate in a restaurant?
Close enough to claim it.
#5coursesgettingbarrelledinmytummy
I bet he claimed he left his paddle at home