The journey to nowhere continues!
For the past two days, the world has stood still while various theories have been tossed around for a leash-pull incident at Venice Beach, California.
You first read about it, here, BREAKING: “WORLD’S LAMEST SURF ASSAULT” CHALLENGED BY “AGGRESSIVE LEASH PULL INCIDENT” IN VENICE!, enjoyed the brief but to-the-point response in BLACK GIRLS SURF’S RHONDA HARPER: “I’M GOING TO TELL BEACHGRIT, NO FUCKING COMMENT!” and, yesterday, the reveal that maybe the leash-puller had been unfairly set upon in BUT WAIT: DID A POOR BRAZILIAN MAN GET PILLORIED FOR MERELY REMOVING A LEASH FROM HIS SURFBOARD’S NOSE?
Today, in an exclusive from a BeachGrit reader in Venice, the tableau is filled in just a little more.
His email reads:
Rhonda Harper, Danielle Lyons, and Khadija Sambe show up at the Venice Pier to meet with a crew from NBC.
Once there, the group of women became “bossy”, “territorial” , “acting like they run the place”, “telling other surfers they can’t surf here because they are going to film”. They were snaking several other surfers repeatedly. (This is coming from several surfers questioned about that day, all were asked separately about what happened and all were saying the same things.)
Wagner Lima, noticing the film crew, went up and asked who they were filming. “The pro surfer out there,” he was told by the cameraperson. Being told she was a pro surfer and with her own camera crew, Lima watched to check out her surfing. Not impressed with her level of surfing, Lima laughed it off as being a “joke”, which he told the camera person. (This is coming from Lima.)
Lima then hits the water to surf. Once in, he starts getting the same treatment the other surfers were getting from the women. Getting snaked too. After putting up with it for awhile, the wave with the leash pull happens.
Lima mentions how her leash went around his board, so he yanked it.
He attempt to say sorry right after, but she wasn’t having it.
They all go on about there day, Lima leaves the water, gets smoothie, does some business. He sees the women again in the parking lot and goes up to them to apologize again. He gets cursed out and sprayed head-to-toe with water from the women’s rinse kit.
Soon after is when Harper starts her ruthless online vendetta against Lima. She shows up at the Venice Pier the next day and tells Lima she is going to ruin him. (This comes from Lima.)
Apparently, Harper is infamous in Southern California for showing up to surf spots with her group and acting like they run the place. (This also comes from surfers that said they recognized who she was and know how she acts. There’s even comments on surf forums about her. Her personal Facebook page is filled with posts she made showing anger towards men, white people and the surf industry in general.)
Harper’s vendetta against Lima included contacting a fairly new website called Seamaven, which had previously wrote up a little story on Harper. The person behind the website Molly Lockwood ends up writing a blog post titled “Surf School Owner Spends Free Time Harassing Black Surfer At Venice Beach”.
Either Lockwood may have been been feed false info about the incident from Harper, or she just used race-baiting to push her own agenda. (This is just going off her story and her replies to anyone not agreeing with her. She refuses to accept the fact that her story is filled with inaccuracies. For F’s sake, she stated the wrong day of the week it happened) and stereotypes.
To sum it all up: these women showed up to a new surf spot, tried to run the place, started snaking all the other surfers, then one of them got snaked and Rick Cane’d.
What troubles me about the event, and it should you too, is the notion of a ‘rinse kit’.
Have you ever heard of such a thing?
When did they enter common parlance and usage?
And, do people actually walk into a store and buy or does it come in the complete adult learner package?
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That’s the funniest shit I’ve ever heard because first of all, you don’t even have all the footage that they filmed from multiple angles that shows the conditions before he decided to purposely drop in on her.
Check it out. It was so fucking crowded that Wagner Lima had to line up right beside her. Apparently, after learning why NBC was filming, Lima laughed and asked “Is that a joke? They don’t know anything about surfing.”
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Well, let’s see now, who doesn’t know anything about surfing? Wagner Lima was still on his belly when Danielle Lyons was already up and riding the wave before he pulled her leash. Lyons had priority. If Lima was so frustrated catching 1-2 foot mush on his shortboard, maybe he should’ve gone back to his van and get one of his softies out.
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Grow the fuck up and stop blaming others with all your lame excuses. No, she wasn’t snaking him. No, she wasn’t hogging the waves. No, she’s not a kook.
Is there any chance this woman makes the Olympics? If so, I am way more concerned about Olympic surfing than I was previously. What professional level surfer couldn’t hold their own at Venice? Shouldn’t that be part of the qualification requirements?
I remember my mom having a “rinse kit” in the shower – it smelled funny.
When they show up at your break… “snake em”, drop in on em en mass effectively “stuffing em” into the white water!
They’ll leave!
Which pet does it best, Sal or Free Raimana?
Funnily enough they seemed to have named themselves after the Ramstein US Air Force Base in South Western Germany which serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa and also for NATO Allied Air Command.
Originally named Ramstein Airshow after the Ramstein airshow disaster. Got popular and dropped the airshow bit, in favour of Rammstein (Rammed Stone) gate hardware
So there is a link ? Thanks for the additional information Superworm .
It’s 1am here and I just stopped working and my brain is fried and I just need a little Scottsandiego style comment binge before I sleep it’s cathartic or venting or something lol. But I googled there is a link lol
She was wrong boarding. I knew it.
First Aid Kit?
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You’ll be glad you’ve got that rinse kit once you’ve pearled though.
Surfing brings out the worst egos in society…..”check me out I surf” POS. This is why surfing less quality wave locations, always makes for a better session.
Try surfing Swami’s on a 5′-8′ swell… great wave but every fucking pro from Santa Barbara South is killing it!…not.
Yeah, the general level of surfing at Swami’s is abysmal. You’d think they’d all be happier at Turtles actually catching a lot of waves.
I hear you there. Swami’s is a zoo house.
I can only imagine the Olympic athlete mini documentary that will be made containing this bullshit.
This is the only America I know.
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This is the highest concentration of bunched panties I’ve ever encountered in my twenty one years on this earth. Surfing is politique, motherfuckers! Get used to it. Sincere thanks to the gentlemen at Beach Grit for the coverage.
Well the plus side is you’ve got a lot of growing up to do.
You might start by brushing up on your definition of “politique”.
French for “politics.”
Not exactly, no.
But thanks for confirming the ignorance of your youth.
Incidentally, I don’t think much of your blog. And The Inertia already did that.
Perhaps this might help da Maven?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
“one of a group of French moderates in the 16th century religious conflicts holding national unity of greater importance than the absolute predominance of a single sect and advocating religious toleration as the policy of the government”
But god-fucking-dammit Chazzles! How dare you criticise or undermine the right of an American to misuse a foreign word to make their position in an argument sound more clevererer!
If only Sea Maven’s progenitors had been more careful using French Letters ?
Check out the French Film “ La Reine Margot “partly filmed in Bordeaux to get a feel for this period leading up to the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre .
Halting the sex oui-oui?
Post modern adoption at its finest
Hey Chazz! Just read your story in TSJ. Spot on and good shit brother!
Thanks a lot, mate. It was nice to see something with paper and ink for a change. Been a while! And I do adore that mag.
I’m embarrassed for you. Impressive feat.
Perhaps you might expand on the surfing is politique line. Confused me too.
Can we get a SeaMaven X BG collab article / boardshorts to sort this out please?
The Olympian Struggle continues . A few words from Pierre de Coubertin , the Baron who founded the Modern Olympic Movement .
L’important dans la vie ce n’est point le triomphe, mais le combat, l’essentiel ce n’est pas d’avoir vaincu mais de s’être bien battu.
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
More important than the struggle was the importance of restricting the competitors to Amateur status ensuring that only those from a privileged background could complete! There was a good book on Duke recently that goes into it in detail!
Thanks jimmy . Was just hoping the girls were embracing the struggle .
It is offensive that you assume we are all mother fuckers.
Alanis is Canadian though? now I am so confused – why bring canada into this?
Because. It’s our Huawei or the highway.
Ironic came out 23 years ago and I’d still sing along if heard it today.
I’m such a Dad now it’s heavy. Time flies
So just as suspected. Using race/sex/discrimination as a vehicle for self promotion and an excuse for behaving like an arsehole.
Olympic athlete mini documentary coming soon.
I actually can’t work out which of all the parties involved you’re referring to! Ummm derek???
Happens to a white man: not a hate crime. Happens to a colored person or woman: hate crime. P.s. hate crimes are just regular crimes with extra penalties for assumed and unprovable motivations; essentially, hate speech/crime legislation is thought policing.
Exactly. The whole notion of a ‘hate crime’ is absurd: I hit you from behind and run away laughing. Charge: assault and battery. I hit you from behind and run away laughing and yell ‘dumb…..(fill in the blank for non-white race pejorative or sexual preference pejorative and hate crime gets added. So then the dude in the first example didn’t commit his crime from hate? Thought police indeed.
If anyone wears a flat-brim meshback cap I consider that a HAT CRIME.
I could be wrong here, but I believe Utah is the place to go if you are into hate crimes, not going to try and explain it cos I will just fuck it up. but in short, it is basically unenforceable.
Exactly…..only caucasian men don’t receive Affirmative Action university admissions, scholarships and government or privately mandated hiring. This makes us the only ones not in the government’s pocket. Only men are required by law to register for Selective Service or become felons, be fined and lose voting rights. This means the our female voting majority has power over the government, but with no responsibility. Thus, the anti-white-male paradigm in which we find ourselves. I’ll hyperlink my YouTube channel, in case you’re interested.
“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
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forgotten_furyan ):
If that had of happened to me as a kid that leash pull was the nicest thing anyone ever did for me.
It meant they were paying attention to you!
I know, right?!
I am so glad you “broke” this story. (Dredged it out the gutter of the internet) Shaking with glee in fact. I have been introduced to so many new ideas, race baiting, feminism, vaginal rinse kits. A veritable cornucopia of new ideas. But the bright light that makes all of these new discoveries pale into insignificance is Sea Maven (magazine.com) I, like you, asumed a maven was another word for a vagina. I imagined it to be a particularly noxious version, hidden between the unshaven thighs of a particularly mean feminist. An unshaven maven if you will. Not so. Apparently it means “expert or conniseur”. And sea maven (magazine.com) is the future of surfing.
Read with me if you will.
Sea Maven is a California-based news website and literary journal. We cast off in 2018 to give surf culture a voice that is polished and progressive.
By way of long-form journalism, photography, literature, and art, we explore stories of people whose lives revolve around the oceans, and the greater systems affecting those relationships. Collectively, we redefine the narrative of surfing to create a more aware and forward-thinking world.
This is NOT satire. These fuckers genuinely believe they are going to change the world and make some money with this shit “journalism and art”. How many Inertias can California support? How much money do adult learners have left to spend after purchasing a high flex wetsuit, Devon fucking Howard midlength and a rinse kit? Surely some must go to gluten free save-the-world coffee and a bit for goat yoga, Apple accessories and kale. Is there some trustfund money left to PayPal a five bucks to the unshaven maven(magazine.com) crowdfund? (I humbly await your enlightenment as I am not an American and am constantly amazed by your culture)
It’s a whole chapter in my magnificent upcoming bestseller, “Century of Kooks”
“Century of Kooks” and it’s not a culture….It’s “Cloning” is what surfing in America is all about…..
Oh no. It’s a culture all right. Surfing was not always this kooky ya know. Surfing was not always Adult Learners and rinse kits, and surf/yoga retreats in pretty countries recovering from terrible civil wars, and tens of millions of dollars being spent on Wave Pools, and victims, and play-acting at being from the early 1970s, and Vanlyfe, and Old Guys Rule stickers, and toxic bohemia, and farcical intersectionality crash landing beat-ups featuring some of the most privileged people on Earth. No, this is a special time, and what’s more, I do not think you can blame professional surfing for any of it. No, this is quite the opposite, this is what happens when you turn surfing over to people who cannot fucking surf and aren’t really interested in it at all, but who want instead to put it on, like a garment.
I just can’t see it getting any better from here.
So you think she’s at peak climax, maybe we should kick out?
Some of us might have to…
TOXIC BOHEMIA!! I love that.
Aren’t ALL bohemian idylls toxic (or at least not paradisaical) for someone?
Who washes up or makes food etc ?
You can blame old mate internet.
Its 5% handy
95%shit you didn’t need to know
bullshit.
http://www.tntmagazine.com/…
OK then
I blame you f
This. You just summed up all my feelings toward surfing lately. I still surf, but I feel so far removed from it and the only thing I own that can remotely connect me to surfing is a board and wettie. I hope the whole fucken ‘surf industry’ goes bankrupt and disappears.
I am a surfer but i do not do surfing. The truth sold as a lie for a bag of silver coins.
There was an article in a major online Oz paper recently that we’re in an era of “believing” more than ever.
It was referring to the current trend of record sized tech valuations on no product no revenue. Believing everything Elon says will come true. Endless progress etc.
That we’ve lost all scepticism.
Surfing is no different at the moment, the belief in the success of so many wave pool ‘technologies’ (no product no revenue) and this unending growth and prosperity.
The tide will turn
You’re entering the realm of Inter-subjectivity. Suggest you read Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens , A Brief History of Mankind “ .
Fuck Nick I am going to buy your new book for “ play acting at being from the early 1970s “ . It was way more like The Club than Don’s Party from my preadolescent memories of the time . Definitely more Safari Suit than Hawaiian Shirt ?
hallelujah brother Carroll, preach!
NC, I can write you an intro if you can afford to lower yourself to voice of the common man.
Slow clapping followed by standing salute
Was it Mickey Dora who said ” I’m only a surfer when I’m at the beach!”?
“put it on, like a garment”
This absolutely describes our culture, presently. It’s why there’s virtue signaling and “woke”-ness. People don’t actually contemplate virtue in an effort to actually become virtuous, they want to put in on as an accessory their “authenticity”®.
People don’t actually contemplate virtue in an effort to actually become
virtuous, they want to put in on as an accessory their “authenticity”®. That’s a good one.
Yes, you are totally right.
Who ISN’T the victim here?
I demand you find a non victim.
Surfing as a collective community is the victim here. What sport is this “Olympian” training for? I’m lost..
You can get help for capital blindness
The camera man?
He was as much the victim as anyone. He had to watch it all unfold in real time.
At least he was compensated.
Profiting from crime?
Disqus?
This is becoming beyond LAME. Getting your leash pulled is rite of passage.
No its not. And just think, there was a wonderful time in surfing’s history when there were no leashes, and if you lost your board, you had to pay your dues and swim for it.
As a grom I was buried in the sand and pissed on and spat on during a teams titles event at Burleigh on a Saturday morning. And still surfed in the comp. Just a normal weekend then. Bad time to be a kid, not like today. I could go full Sleepers any day.
You guys are arguing about how many sugars in your coffee to me.
You lucky Bastard . Spat on by the Romans …….
No it is an extremely dangerous thing to do. Had she been a lesser-skilled kook, she could have knocked her teeth out!
Can’t wait til the Inertia writes about Beachgrit starting race riots and being the divisive Fox News of surf sites.
All the inertia had to see was the leash of a black woman in the hand of a sorta white looking man. After their collective climax, they farted out an article and took a nap.