"I'm coming for you Gabriel Medina!"
British race car driver Lewis Hamilton is one of the world’s most compelling stars. He is handsome, wealthy, popular and just won the second of back to back Formula One championships. So what do you get for the boy who has everything?
But a freezing cold, murkily grey day at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Lemoore, California of course!
The GP Fan website GPFans writes:
Hamilton regularly seeks out other ways to raise his adrenaline when F1 shuts down, having previously shared clips of himself racing motorbikes and other machinery.
However, it spears the Brit might have a new passion after trying out surfing seemingly for the first time recently.
With record-breaking 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater as his teacher, Hamilton had a head start on most beginners, and images and a clip shared on the F1 star’s social media would suggest that Hamilton got to grips with it quickly enough.
Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun added:
Donning a wet suit and taking to his board, Hamilton was taught a number of tricks by the American legend, before gliding at ease on his own.
The five-time F1 world champ uploaded a video of himself surfing on a glum and gloomy day in California, showing himself perfectly executing tube riding.
Kelly Slater is teaching the entire world to surf and teaching them to surf in the most unpleasant surroundings ever dreamed. Do you think their personal training will stick or do you think surfing will forever be associated with cow and industrial fog in their minds?
Either way, it’s a win.
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“The affirmative action route” ….entirely accurate, or merit based?
I agree with you, both, SCG and SSD!
He got barrelled. How infuriating..
Hilo Hattie?
You oughta go for a lil drive with one SSD. You might change your mind.
Far out I love F1. And surfing, but this is less than the sum of its parts.
Why do I get the feeling LH snowboards or skateboards or something?
No way a complete learner with no previous experience on boards could do that.
Even that pop was too clean to believe.
Hard to say, but he’s in the top .01% of freaks so maybe. Also, a relatively static environment which he can break as is wont to do.
Exactely CB!
His stance, approach, position in the board backside and frontside, even in a almost static wave… steady, and going from standing to positioning for the tube…
A zero learner, first timer, can’t do that so easily.
One thing is clear, he has balance for sports in general
Saw the phrase ‘spears the Brit’. Decided to dive in. Realized this article had nothing to do with Britney Spears. Broke the FUCK out
O.K., you guys are all talking about that other shit, with the guy hitting the other (weakly) (that’s the yellow beanie jokes, right? I don’t care about you {FEAR song} enough to re-read this shit. But wait a minute. Yeah, this guy’s adrenaline meter is pegged at 95-100 for a good part of the year racing, but imagine getting covered up like that on your first day! What a fucking buzz that must have been. I was already surfing a month with great coaches when I got my first “tube” (little cover-up by today’s standards) but I can still see it like it was yesterday! And that was 1972! FFS! This must be like skydiving for people who never surfed. Shit, Imma go bodysurfing tomorrow if the wind is still junk just to get a vision…
Waitagoddamnminutehere…Fourteen and Saffron aren’t prozzies that the singer peed on with his “electric banana”?
Maybe you should try some new moves honey.
Barrel-riding never gets old, but when my back is feeling good, I try a respectable punt every now and then. Even though I’m almost 55. lol. But it’s more about making previously unmakeable sections nowadays… Pro-tip: charging big waves? Do some yoga. Don’t be like me and fuck up your back. Look at Gerry Lopez.
55 hey, mmm id think about staying on the rail now.
im over it! im over kelly slater and his exclusive surf club teasing like the same semi-hot girl in a party who flirts with me… only to leave me with blue balls and watching porn that leads to self loathe.
True to taste, kellys wave machine is contributing to every surfers low self esteem.
Have you thought about taking precautions against Blue Balling by launching a pre-party pre-emptive wank ?
Is that what they call the pre-game warm up?
A bit like the old Roy Masters slap up sessions during the Fibros versus the Silvertails era of rugby league but with the naughty bits .
James old chap… I haven’t the foggiest idea what you’re talking about.
But I love you for it anyway.
Thanks CB , a true kindred spirit .Roy Masters ,a talented journalist and brother of Chris ,coached in the late 70s the Wests Magpie in western Sydney ( the fibros) and would have his players before the match with the Manly sea eagles ( the silvertails ) use class politics and violence having his players in groups of two slap each other on the face until they were mad as hell and were not going to take loosing as an option . A bit like the Monty python’s Fish slapping sketch on Amphetamines ….
Call all hippies boring old farts and set light to them ! Sorry LGR , born too late to be a hippy ( no regrets ) and too early to be a hipster ( beanies in Florida ? ) . I lived for 20 years further north in The Medoc but life is stranger than fiction and am currently in surf purgatory in Northern Germany waiting to move back to the NSW’s South Coast . The Basque Country is incredibly beautiful and they love their culture and language and drinking , singing and Rugby . I loved visiting but it was a bit too crowded surfwise for my liking .
I’m originally from Sydney the home of underworld character Abe Saffron . I was doing a job and the carpark attendant said “Look at that car with the AS number plates .Abe fucking Saffron’s “ .
Looks a bit like a jockey ?
LGR let it go and switch over into MELLOW YELLOW …….
The question: “What was Mellow Yellow?”
When the song was released in 1966, everyone was convinced that it referred to a rumor that smoking banana peels would get a person high. (It doesn’t work.) Donovan said that was never the case.
“I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow yellow,” he said. “Really, you know the ‘electric banana’ was right in there and gave it away. And that’s what the song’s about.”
Hey don’t be bringing Donovan into this cluster fuck beanie bonanza…. Donovan’s legendary sounds like “Season of the Witch” make for the best surf music ever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Well he had those nice flaired pants like that other surfing Donovan Frankenstein so it all makes sense ……? Is there room on the broom for a Donovan like me ……
I once owned a 1974 VW Passat hatchback. It’s official colour, etched into a small lead plate under the bonnet, was ‘mellow yellow’. It was a really terrible, rust-bitten jalopy whose engine blew on its first serious sojourn to get some waves in Kalbarri, 600km north of Perth. Passat sounds a little like Asshat. That car deserved a beanie.
Just be careful your head doesn’t catch alight . Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus in 1669, in Hamburg, Germany, preparing it from urine. (Urine naturally contains considerable quantities of dissolved phosphates.)
Royalties please…
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Louis XIV . The Sun King ….. ZOOM !!!
is yellow the new black? does my high-vis vest count? I am suddenly back in the game or is it just hats?
Agree about the technology taking away from the sport, Fisci was Alonso’s team mate, in a great car, Alonso destroyed him, which surprised me, I had always rated him highly, and as a Jordan fan, I always rooted for him! I was in Italy on holidays in September, saw Eddie Irvine on the street in Milan – he looked the picture of good health – it was Milan fashion week, I’m sure he had a few wild nights with some models!