Get ready for a spike in popularity!
Do you remember when rap music became very naughty in the late 1980s with mothers and preachers and Al’s wife Tipper Gore freaking out and forcing those black and white parental advisory stickers onto tape and compact disc cases? I do and how much more attractive did they make that music? How much more desirable?
I’ll tell you. So much! I don’t know that Ice-T would have had a career if it wasn’t for the parental advisory sticker and I fear the same sort of thing may happen to foil surfboards.
You know the ones. Surfboards and now standup paddleboards too that have been retrofitted with a guillotine. I always assumed they would be virtually impossible to ride by the average adult learner, even below average adult re-learners like me, so didn’t really worry.
Didn’t really worry until Bondi beach, Australia’s most popular, went and banned them. And let’s read about it.
A renowned Sydney beach has banned a popular surf trend amid claims it is too dangerous.
Waverley City Council moved to outlaw foil surfing at Bondi Beach in Sydney’s east as it was ‘too dangerous’ in crowded waters, Daily Telegraph reported.
‘Due to their high speed and the metal-like keel that raises it out of the water… lifeguards have determined it was too dangerous to allow these boards,’ a council spokesperson said.
Foil surfing involves the use of a board fitted with an aerodynamic hyrdofoil.
The conspicuously longer fin suspends the board way above the surface of the water and lends greater speed.
Surfers can use the aerodynamically superior board to catch waves in flat seas or trail the back of a boat.
Professional surfer James Casey has hit back against claims the boards pose a danger.
He said the boards were safe in the hands of a seasoned surfer.
‘You can’t just grab one and try to go and catch waves.
‘It is hard.’
Etc.
And now, like Ice-T, I fear these things might take off. The allure of bucking the law. The scent of danger. The scent of danger and decapitated heads floating in the lineup.
Damn it.
There’s gonna be lots more foilboards.
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I’m cool with that, the only people that surf Bondi are Ahmed, Mustafa and Ali … it’s not a surf destination for those of us that know how to read a swell chart
James Casey… many don’t know how to avoid a surfer on a wave, let alone a maniac desperate for a lump of flattish water … plus Casey sells his skills for $100 per hour attempting to teach kooks, per his website… check out how many times the so-called “seasoned surfer” fall off in the video… plus how fast the foil is going in flattish water where other surfers are paddling out, where kooks are floundering or where were old farts are having a rest… well done Waverley Council
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Ice-T should cheer the fuck up.
1. He’s fucking loaded
2. He doesn’t surf. What does he have to be grumpy about?
Ice T my tried to steal my date at a reggae sunsplash at wild rivers. Now foils are trying to steal our waves, illuminati shit.
Bondi’s Body Count
Back in the Scum Valley days
Would turn Ice T’s head
This deep cut is clearly under-appreciated, as it sits below a soul-less cut n paste, but might be your best work yet.
“LITERALLY SAMURAI SWORDS!!!”
Seems an expensive way of making these things.
Cleaner cuts tho
Sharks are stoked.
They love being sashimi’d by kooks ‘ey
Plenty of low skill level, wealthy 35+ year olds having a crack here… amongst kids and foamies all going straight…
These fuckheads wear helmets for their own sake… but the boards go everywhere because they suck. Should at least dish out helmets to the rest of the beach
And guns and ammo . Incoming Foil ……. KaBOOM !
Pull
I think I preferred it when surfers smoked foils ….They were often to stoned to get in the water to annoy those that were not stoned ?
An “aerodynamic hyrdofoil”, yeah that sounds like Daily Telegraph reporting all right
It’s GREASED LIGHTENING!!!
Holy fuck hahahahaha.
It’s aerodynamically superior! But…but it’s under the FUCKEN WATER!
Mate I’m going to read way more books this year and get off the internet. I can’t live this life with shit like that going unnoticed. The Daily Fucking Telegraph.
call GW for his opinion ….
Laird, tired of the injustice and “bullshit,” releases his first studio rap album…
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Laird’s evil creations may possibly be reaching in to the realm of another Mad American Scientist Thomas Midgley whose two most famous inventions are both now banned because they are dangerous for the world environment: the use of lead in petrol (gasoline) and the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigerators.
Ego driven creation
Goes without saying, but I’d also like to hear more about the well-connected cabal of bodysurfers trying to ban all finned boards, softies included, from the beach. Derek?
Dangerous? Fucken lethal the ones I saw at Noosa during the last swell. Struggling to catch/ride waves in amongst crowds at the end of National Park.
I’d like a few more councils to take note.
if anywhere in the world should be encouraging the use of foiling its Bondi.
Interesting means of lineup cleansing