Do you hate the ocean upon your body?
It is a serious question, one that I ponder regularly though not in an overtly sexual way. And what is your post-surf cleansing routine? I ask because I just watched a little YouTube advertisement featuring professional surfer Sage Erickson in the shower (below). Oh not in an overtly sexual way either, of course, but scrubbing with a new bath product called Art of Sport which is being marketed toward athletes or those who consider themselves athletic.
We know surfers are neither and Sage lathers up after boxing, apparently, but what do you do after surfing?
Are you one of those sorts that cannot wait to rinse ocean salts and/or wetsuit urine from your skin? Do you vigorously soap and shampoo? And if you shampoo to you also condition, blow-dry and apply gel or a clay-based hair product?
Do you bring a rinse kit down to the beach and drown those ocean salts and/or wetsuit urine right away?
Me?
Oh, I love the feeling of ocean salts and/or wetsuit urine and never rinse after a surf and also never shower. I will continue to not shower too, imagining that the natural minerals form a protective barrier against odor.
I don’t think the Art of Sport will sponsor me but should they sponsor you?
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*So now I am Dubai curious.
*This joke has been used before, but I believe it qualifies as recycling.
So does Yeezy.
Standby. There will be another religious experience in about 8 hours. (Or less, if it’s a good one).
Got any polly waffles
I stay salty and do not rinse if I surf before work mainly due to lack of facilities and laziness to bring a rinse kit. On weekends I take a shower after not for cleansing but mostly to get warmed from the cold ass San Diego water.
Haha, I’m glad you like it!
: ) this is also cool
I don’t get the not shower thing!? I respect your choice of not cleaning yourself! But mate you most smell some how and that a sing of not being educated and think about the others that most spend time next you. You can use all the cologne you want but mate, you most smell and a smelly person it is difficult for to cope with specially for working matters! Yes, I love the salty feeling on my sink since I’m a little boy! The urine part is disgusting but I pee in my wettie like everybody else! Love to do it! I admit! It is like the hot fluid warming up my freezing body! But for Crist sake it is fucking pee not mineral water from a géiser ! It is Not nice to leave on your body you most rinse your body and wettie! Maybe you like golden showers and that’s another thing! In conclusion I love the ocean and the feel it give to my skin! Mate I shower from two to three times a day. I love the feeling of being fresh and it is totally uncool to be smelly or I’m just a weirdo that like to smell li clean fresh soap!
I hope it’s just zinc
I like suckin titties but thats cool
O que?
Wait, the guy in Louis Vuitton loafers is trying to pander to dirtbag surfers? Fuck you Chas lol. At least elo owns his character. You left Oregon a long time ago. Stop trying to convince us you’re hard core. It’s embarrassing and off brand with your salmon pants and white convertibles.
So now we’re supposed to divide into castes by whether or not we rinse off? If so, those guys on Kook of the Day at the mini mart in wetsuits are the most core MF’s ever. You heard it boys, suit up at home and wear ‘em til you’re yeasty if you want to be a real surfer (I mean, why stop with not rinsing?) If anyone questions the stench of piss, mildew and, ass just dismiss them assuming they read the inertia and can’t understand real surfing. I’ve given this way too much energy. Are you refreshing the ads while I type you bastards?
(Went back and edited this to add a missing Oxford comma for fear that if I left it out you’d ask me to be a contributor.)
Jeezo Ashton, isn’t having your own website to ruin enough?
Dats a weird name
Tighten it up a bit
Zach Weisberg tightened up his shaka by going full Poka.
Lol
Don’t get it.?
I think SharkAndClickBait is Zach Weisberg trolling BG. Telling Zach to tighten it up is like telling him to tighten up his shaka game. The result is preposterous.
Yeah too many words not enough insults or bad language.
I’d give him 2 outta 10
Still don’t know who he is but
If I was Zach, I’d have gotten a “contributor” to do it for free.
THink fast, type fast. But you’re spot on.
You can have this one.
Hey chad
You look like Frankensteins bulimic daughter.!
Great work! It’s admirable how you’re spending your time on the interwebs
“It’s not just soap. It’s all natural profit and marketing hype.”
There: fixed it for ya.
I need to come to one of your prayer meetings.
#fuckingstarvingafterlunch
#oldsaladsucks.
If I ever surfed a wave pool, which I don’t ever plan on doing, that’s the one time I would definetley take a good long shower, probably with a lot of disinfectent…
Chas, remember when David Lee told us he hadn’t washed his hair in five years? And we upon that thick glorious mop with the respect it deserved. The ocean is wonderful.
Does that mean I’ll get all my hair back?
Feb 15th will officially be 4 years (for your EOS entry). And thank you for the rightful reverence.
You got a good head for podcasts davey!
Next level Scott! I was thinking a simple silicon-based lotion next to the shampoo and conditioner pumps, but that’s why you’re the boss I suppose
my mom got one a them rinse boxes for when her dogs get all muddy those things are sick dont hate
but yeah who the fuck showers anymore its 2019 fool
Awesome.
I want a lift to the beach with you.
BTW. I’m puzzled as to the environment in which that camo might be useful.
Well dudes, guess I gotta put my 2 cents in with some of these bizzaro answers. Pretty much never ever rinse or shower after a surf, I like taking home some of the ocean with me also. And I tell my kids if there’s not at least a little sand in the car, we’re probably doing something wrong, I like a little beach sand in the car, van, also.
“bizzaro answers.” ???
This ain’t Quora, buddy.
OK Chas, honest answer please: is this article a cover for income-generating market research, or just a “what-the-fuck-am-I-going-to-write-today”?
(no judgement either way)
Read Nicks reply below this one.
Huh?
Probly his missus wrote dat one