Outrage is a complicated business.
Today has been a very important day in surf assault history, threatening to eclipse Stab magazine’s Ashton Goggans’ brave run to the police and also even Jordon Montgomery’s braver run to the police. You are well aware of the situation that occurred by now but in case you are not let us sally forth to Venice Beach, California where…
The waves were horrible and dumb. A Brazilian man, Wagner Lima, who owns Brazilian Surf Club, was out amongst it as was a Senegalese Olympic hopeful, on whom NBC was shooting a profile, and her host Danielle Lyons. Also shooting photos from the pier was Rhonda Harper, the owner of Black Girls Surf.
Ms. Lyons paddled for a wave, Mr. Wagner dropped in, faded behind her and pulled her leash, Ms. Harper captured every motion in crystal clear frame by detail.
But wait! Should we look at one of the crystal clear frame by details? (I clearly meant frame by frame but can you forgive one misstep in this bang-bang-bang story day?)
And…… there! There it is!
Is Danielle Lyons’ 10 ft leash actually to blame?
It certainly appears that the 10 ft leash, drifting 1.2 kilometers behind her wrapped around poor Mr. Wagner Lima’s board. Oh how horrible are those damned longboard leashes and especially the ones that have been subject to multiple wipeouts. I actually don’t know but Ashton Goggans does. He longboards proficiently though I imagine falls enough to stretch out his 9’0 leashes to a full 4.5 kilometers because he is brave.
It does not excuse the extra pull but… it might. I mean, if someone drifted their 3.2 kilometer leash over my board I’d be pretty annoyed too. Especially if it was Ashton’s.
More as the story develops!
I think Surfers have the tendency to forget, while scrolling through their Insta feeds likely filled with their favorite surfers and friends photos of that one “Perfect air” they got in indo. That surfing started out as and will always be a SUB-CULTURE as in there are literally billions of people around the world who don’t surf, who either don’t care about surfing or don’t live close enough to a coastline with consistent waves because either they don’t want to or it’s financially impossible. Also it’s most likely financially impossible for them to travel to exotic locations to surf (No, it’s not normal to go to Bali a few times a year for most people) Hate to loosely quote F.Scott but “Remember whenever you feel like criticizing anyone that not everyone has had the advantages you have” This lady probably created this group not out of racist tendencies but as a way for her & girls like her to find other weirdos like her. Black Girls who surf…is definitely something unusual in an already unusual subculture of attractive white men who travel the world in search of waves. There’s a subconscious comfort in seeing people who look like like you do what you love. I can assure you as a black woman, that its not something to become wildly popular among the african community believe me I know. Majority of us don’t like getting our hair wet because we paid too much to get it done and it’s usually a weave or a wig fellas. We just got our lashes done and will be in fear of those getting washed off. When we go to the beach it’s probably right before the sunset because we don’t like being hot and its statistically proven most of us haven’t bothered even learning to swim. I know I haven’t. I do wish this lady would stop making a big deal over what was probably a perceived slight. It was most like a misunderstanding but black people are always worried about someone being “racist” towards them when 99% of the time people treat you a certain way not because you’re black but because you’re acting like an idiot or doing something rachet. I’d like to tell her that. I’m a black surf fan have been since I was in 5th grade and I think watching surfing is the coolest thing ever. Hate to see people creating needless drama on both sides. Let’s keep it positive people. This is Beach Grit after all.
Same Honestly
After this fiasco this woman and anyone paddling out with her should be blocked from catching waves everywhere they go. Please you entitled kook, find a new hobby. Surfing doesn’t need people like you.
Charlie (Gabs) is behind that Braz Surf ‘coo trying to terrorize American women.
You mean Europeans invading North America 300 odd years ago?
I keep it easy by answering everyone and everyone to your questions of offence.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Beach Grit Goes to Bat for Brazilian Snake with Fragile Masculinity…because they can get no fucking comment from BGS. Way to milk this one boys!
Let’s say you’re right and the leash was caught underneath his surfboard. His leash wouldn’t have gotten caught underneath his surfboard if he had respected basic surf etiquette, priority. Surf etiquette 101 – Respect priority. Whoever is up first and closest to the peak has priority. He’s a surf instructor, he should’ve known better. Danielle had priority when he decided to drop in on her. In my opinion it was sexism. Let him try to grab another man’s leash and see what happens. He would be in for an ass beating. Women are targeted because we’re not strong enough to fight back. Why give this guy a pass? He’s a bully. Why should women be the victims of this bully?
Why?
Because surfing lineups are controlled by a bully culture and hierarchy. It’s simple.
A leash pull? That’s the tiniest of digressions I have witnessed over the years.
everyone in this story is insufferable….including the guy who never stops talking about arse-ton groggins
Nah, I saw the pics. It was wrapped around his board true, but he yanked that mofo. And he should not have been in that position in the first place for the leash to get wrapped around his board, it was clearly her wave.
If I were the judge – I think she should get a free kick to his nuts.
Entitled?
What~cha mean by that, Meee~ster Wibble?
The fact that a person, other than your~self, want~sta ride a board that might be kinda fun for the conditions present? Or just like the kinda flow a l/b might provide? Hmmmm. Btw, last time I rode a l/b was in the late ’70’s, a dude, thru the local West~Side of L.A. newspaper, The Evening Outlook, gave me an ol’ Dave Sweet l/b for free, all because I called him up after he had posted it, it’s free, in The Bargain Box. (Wish I still had that l/b, now that Dave is gone, his son Greg would get a kick outta seein’ ol’ RW ridin’ switchie~foot at ‘Sunslop’ with him, hahaha) Went tandemin’ a few times too with my lil’ sis’ Teresa at The VBW, some of ya mighta seen a bikini pic of her here that I once posted…
Some of ya who post here are finda kunny!
Any of ya kooks here ever been hit by a stray, run~away board? They can hurt. Enough to make a fella, even a surfer girl, have to go to the ER! Leashes, especially on heavier long~boards, are happenin’, helpin’, ya know. to keep a us short~boarders safer. Right? Hmmmm…
Wait, so a lady who is hoping to be in the Olympics, got her leash pulled on a 6″ wave in Venice Beach, by a Brazzo who owns a surf school, and this is the #1 trending story in surf? I may be in the market for a new hobby. Anyone have any suggestions?
Auto-erotic asphyxiation?
I’m way ahead of the curve on this one. Been into cranking it out with a belt around my neck since Clinton was in office….
Nothing beats a good asphyxiwank!
How far have you pushed it? Have you come to, Superman pyjamas soaked to hell?
I saw David carrodine last time.
It’s news because she had high quality photos documenting the violation from beginning to end. It also brings up the subject of woman getting bullied out in the lineup. Blocking, snaking, pulling on our leashes. If men that see that kind of thing going on don’t step up and stop it what are we supposed to do? We’re not strong enough to beat his ass. So hence it appears that the “wave police” has been called in to deal with it. I’m not in favor of the “wave police” but it’s not my call. She has to do what’s best for her.
Who the fuck upvoted this? You have to be kidding me.
This isn’t the only run in he’s had with other surfers. The locals at Venice hate this bitch. He’s lucky he hasn’t been bitch slapped by one of them.
Judge Judy perhaps?
Questions to be asked by the judge.
1. Why are you longboarding with a leash? A known no no among Surfers.
2. Mr. Lima were you tow Surfing?
3. To Miss Lyon’s, what was your wave count before the incident, for the previous 30 minutes?
4. To both parties, Do you have a permit to surf? If so whom issedi it?
5. To both parties, how long have you been surfing? If under 10 years is a response… judge should respond…you aren’t a surfer.
6. To both parties, why are you Surfing such a shitting wave?
Judges response after hearing all comments. “Get these kooks out of my Court Room. And if I see either of you again in my Court Room again I will confine you both to a day with Ben Marcus”.
You’re cute.
Hi Charles,
Let’s get hypo~thetical, ok?
Especially so, as I’m not a Brazzo, but an ooold surfer, from Venice, from Thee VBW.
If ya came to Venice to try + ride a wave before say, ya had a meetin’ with some~one here in The City,
and I tried to snake ya, (even though you were closer to The Peak+up 1st), but I couldn’t catch the wave in time so I had to wait for you to pass me by, but I finally stood up and then yanked your leash hard because it was in my way, or I, bein’ an og local, just did not like you bein’ out here, and ah then, ah, you fell, are you gonna come after me like ya did when Ashton G, (a dude whom I’ve never met nor seen surfin’, btw) was baggin’ on ya? Just a lil’ curious, what would ol’ Chas, (some dude who can not surf too good after alllll these years of tryin’, a dude originally from Oregon, but now claimin’ The O.C. + to rep~resent modern~day Southern California surfin’ after 20 years of surf writin’), do??? Just hypo~speakin’, ya know? Hmmmm…
Who cares
Totally off the subject but I think I’ve worked out how to win the Surfers Poll !
a)Be dead .
b)old or injured so basically not surfing much .
c)looking after a baby so not surfing too much
d)or have your arm detached by a large fish .
While trying to avoid a) and d) I am definitely working Adriano style on b) and c) now if I can just get myself a US Passport I reckon I am a chance ? Kanoa can you lend me yours up until Tokyo 2020 ?
Damn, this gem is hidden way too far below the raging inferno for it to receive its dues! Kudos!!!
Thanks JP. Imagine you just one your 7th world title and you get beat by a girl that one won heat ( ok it was the heat to win ) in 7 years . I hope you’re ok after yesterday’s bungled buzzer beater beating at Sunset .
I haven’t yet watched my BBB@S (I’m going to catch the reply at my leisure), but you can rest assured that I’ll cock up a pressure situation 9 times out of 10. I keep teasing y’all with the odd miracle impossible heat win so you continue to hold out hope for me, just for kicks…
If you copy and paste your comment at a more strategic moment under a new thread I won’t tell a soul…
Thanks bru .
Rhonda Harper, scam artist extrordanaire, has hit the jackpot of her career with this one.
So unfortunate.
BSM “Black Surfers Matter”
Not racist!
Waiting for the Mark Knight drawing.
She should take the Tiki necklace off…that shit is just plain bad luck.
New Pre Pipe project for the kids . Today we will begin workshopping our latest future oeuvre majeure in toy room no 1 . A synthesis of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries …………….probably not very relevant to this article ?So sad to bad .Danielle will be played by a multilingual giant stuffed panda with lines in Wolof , French and Californian English dressed in an O’Neill Psycho while a photo of Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, MD will play Wagner .