So long Jordy Smith....
As children we were promised radical progression for our futures. We were promised hoverboards, flying cars, next-gen supersonic transportation, practical blood substitutes, big houses on mars, pet dolphins that could speak English and triple backflips in surfing. You know what we were given?
This.
It’s bullshit but we may still get triple backflips in surfing by 2020 or at least switch stance surfing across the board.
How do I know? Tucked into today’s important piece on beach re-colonization, astutely pointed out by Jimmy the Saint, we get an inside view at the Olympic hopeful from Senegal Khadouj Sambe’s training routine and let’s examine together.
Her coach, Rhonda Harper, prefers to train her on the world famous straighthanders of Santa Monica and during an interview with National Public Radio let slip a performance expectation.
After Sambe paddles out she doesn’t jump right into the fray of surfers catching waves. When she finally does, she rides it smoothly, causing Harper to thrust her fist in the air and declare, “Yes! That was good.”
Harper also has a critique of her surfer. “She didn’t switch stance,” Harper says. Something to work on, the coach notes.
Well my goodness. If switch stance is an expectation will Jordy Smith, Julian Wilson, etc. be made redundant and left out altogether? It might be a little sad but… triple backflips. It will be worth it for triple backflips.
Nah, you just got confused with all that footage of him riding those finless things. Even he doesn’t know which way he’s going half the time.
Ask Matt (Warshaw) ,maybe he can help.
Oh shit, imagine the furore when Senegal falls to make the Olympics
I will be a dark day for all . Strangely enough former French Pro surfer Didier Peter , a 4 time European Champion , and now talented coach was not only born in Senegal but grew up surfing there and would seem like someone who might be able to help or at least give some advice to emerging talent from the ex French Colony ?
does he have his own security detail follow him down the beach? surely someone with an entourage is more qualified for the job than someone who actually knows something bout surfing. its the olympics for fuck sake
5 ring circus ? Her and 4 other arseholes …?
I think Jeff Clarke was a goofyfoot but changed stance for Mavericks!
I read that also, true..
Though not in the same league as Pat or Tom , Ry Craike’s Dad suggested to his young son to switch stances and become a goofy as the local reef points in his area were predominantly shallow heavy lefts .
I just pray they understand the importance of creativity and glamour in the costumes.
Don’t forget the music!
This is the modern surf coach
Me thinks that JJF found the substitute to Ross Williams, for the trail to the olympic gold…
Comicbook Girls Goes Black Surf to coach USA team!
My artistic / creative side is particularly impressed by the pastel shades displayed on our cheater fiving protagonist but my grumpy old local soul just wants that lip to clamp down on his back with great vengeance and furious anger , leaving him to walk bow legged for a few weeks like a heavily pregnant woman , ripe to pop .( In the classic backside lip line floater to flats to grand ecart ( splits )to lip on the back to hello abductors )
This is the proudest moment of my life*
*wipes a tear from his eye
Go, you good thing !
Go !
Saint Jimmy he became .Canonized for his work in Delivering the Surfing World from Snakes both in and out of the water ….. ( Just have to wait till ya dead brother jimmy )