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Do you recall some… I don’t know… six months ago (?) when the World Surf League, based in Santa Monica, California but represented globally through a series of pay-to-play pimp schemes rolled out their comedy show Get Sent! inspired by Instagram bloopers?
I barely do either and thought they cancelled it though a quick search reveals it is still alive. I wrote a little something uninspired and embarrassing about it then (read here) but was quickly reprimanded by none other than Chris Cote who informed me that the principals “Chad” and “JT” were genuinely funny.
A quick Google search revealed that Chris was totally right. Chad and JT are actually hilarious playing surf schlock to a non-surf audience.
But their meme show falls flat and why? Even with the power of millions of World Surf League Instagram fans it has failed to garner more than 8000 followers and how?
Well, I’ll tell you. Our surfing world, with everything it encompasses, is difficult/impossible to satirize back to a surf audience because everything we do is inherently satirical. From waxing surfboards to putting on black pantsuits to getting furious at men and women, in their black pantsuits, trying to dance next to us in the ocean while dolphins look on, chuckling.
Surfing is ridiculous and I think most surfers, or at least most surfers who have accidentally gone all in on an OK hobby (me, you, every person here) recognizes it as such. Fun, of course, but ridiculous. Very much like Alec Baldwin playing Donald J. Trump. It’s fine, I guess, but Trump does Trump so so much better. It is why @KookOfTheDay @KookSlams etc. work brilliantly. They simply hold a mirror up and allow us to laugh at ourselves instead of attempting some sort of heavy-handed schtick.
Or to laugh with Erik Logan.
Can any comedy bit outshine the World Surf League’s President-elect of Content, Media and WSL Studios shredding an @infinity_sup, wearing @outerknown 4-way boardies by @kellyslater whilst on his month long Fijian vacation?
No.
It’s as funny as it gets. Funnier than me, you, every person here because Elo is also holding a giant paddle.
Ha!
Can’t even read it with all that damn hashtaggin
I fucking hate surfers
SUP = crutch for weak surfers…
It really is so funny that he tags all products used and does so many hashtags.
It is funny that he wants people to see those pics of himself supping
So, to be a social media executive, all you gotta do is be a huge overly excited dork that hashtags all kinds of dumb n dorky phrases and marketing shit. Hmm, it’s like selling your soul to the devil. “But shootsthen, look at the money he makes and places he gets to go!” He can shove that kook money up his dorky ass. Man, that was uncharacteristicly harsh; I didn’t mean that. Maybe WSL should think about hiring a new social media executive with the mandate to “rip kooks a new one.” Thatd be way more fun than watching a SUP kook blab about nonsense and his surf shorts.
Does he always do a half turn and use his paddle to make a splash? #throwingbuckets
Is that waist high half-snap Instagram from Elo the best shot from his trip to Fiji during a huge swell??? What the fuck bro?! I wasted an entire rousing pep talk last week on how you owed it to yourself to steer that barge into a fat gas chamber and come out a surfer, and instead you SUPed on the wrong side of the island?
For shame! If you’re still over there Erik stop fucking around and go pack a big barrel for fucksake
Fuck No ! Keep them well away. #poolssupforeva
They call him “Wrap around Elo”
Reach-around Elo?
it was a really good pep talk, too. It definitely made me want to go do something stupid on a surfboard.
This is a total letdown.
Let’s hope to God he’s not there next Wednesday.
Is it Big Wednesday ? Again ?
“ ELo(pez) was as good as they said he was .
And so were we . “ ???
I’m afraid you grossly overestimated him.
Let’s face it, its a step behind kneeboarding.
Just couldn’t pull off the standing up freely.
Weak minds
#brutal
The T-shirt lets you know he surfs but his heart and sole and most likely attitude tellz u he SUPz #foilingisasbadifnotworsedependsonpaddleornopaddle
His soles?
Have they some SUP accessory tool built into them?
That’s plain ornery !
I’m just chaffing him.
You could have called him an R Soul ?
Is that like an R.Kelly?
R we talking about R . Kelly .
The Jimmy Slade from the Tele ?
“I believe I can fly” and other hideous auditory ruminations.
Yep they certainly didn’t break the budget on screenwriting. A bit of boob here a bit of lycra there and someone swimming with an oversized banana and KaaaaChing ?
R we talking about R . Kelly .
The Jimmy Slade from the Telly ?
I’m not going to correct it
Please don’t!!!
This is why Socrates never bothered to change his thongs because he believed that the Sole was eternal ?
Funny thing the SUP. When Dave Kalama is doing inter-island crossings or some other crazy shit it’s kinda cool. A middle aged mom doing yoga, yuk. Reminds me of the windsurfing craze from the 80’s.
Funnily enough, Kalama had his big sausage fingers all in about that as well.
You study his big hands?
To be fair, I’m basing it solely on his big fat neck. Perhaps he has lithe young fingers, like an Asian cello player?
Its the rollerblading of surfing.
I reckon the scootering.
Scooters are all the easy parts of BMX and skating combined.
The trade off:
looking/ acting like a dork
You take that right back, middle-aged moms doing yoga are all I got
best fad ever
Told you he was gonna slay ‘Pools.
I had such hopes for something heroic, but you’re right, people always let you down
Let us assume that ELo is somewhat cunning if not intelligent and as an adult learner has learnt from John John Florence not to release footage of any value on Instagram ! Waiting for his signature movie to come out, currently with the working title “From Zero to Infinity “ ,The story of a surfer’s journey from Oklahoma to Outerknown and all the Oprah stuff we’ve come to love in between, as Erik , after intensive training in Fiji , gives himself a wildcard to the Pipeline Masters and puts to bed any similarities with backward fins Beth to bed at Backdoor ? ( paddle sold separately ) Note : All Hawaiian edits of Erik have been filmed at GOAT Island during the Hawaiian summer months .
At this point in my burgeoning professional surfing career, I am simply jealous of Eric’s water time, full stop.
I don’t care if he’s riding an giant inflatable cartoon cock, repeatedly going over the falls, backwards, holding a rubber chicken.
To be fair, he’d look a lot better holding a giant inflatable cartoon cock while bumming a rubber chicken.
SUP’s need to ensure they visibly display their disabled stickers on their boards or the ridicule will never end. Poor bastards.
That’s what the little paddle is for. It’s their crutch.
Hey, Wiggs is that dogman cunt still terrorising Torquay?
Super solid day at Swimming Pools. NEVERS
ELO: #suplife
LIFE: You’re a cunt.
He says, patting his hair in a ladylike manner…