You’ll find yourself cheering for complete strangers!
Do you have surf tank fatigue yet? Wavegarden, Surf Ranch, American Waves Machines, Waco, Lemoore, Spain, Palm Beach, Kelly Slater, Palm Springs, Tokyo, WSL, Barton Lynch, Mark Occhilupo, perpetual motion machine, Mad Max, pump house, Yo-Yo Ma?
Are you completely exhausted?
Well you shouldn’t be because these phenomenal monuments to Kelly Slater will soon usher in an era of peace and prosperity such as the world has never experienced before and in this age of wild, out of control surf rage.
How?
Oh. Let’s turn to German action sport something ISPO who interviewed John Luff, the founder and president of surfparkcentral.com who said:
Surf parks are a driving force for social interaction and community building. Perhaps one of the biggest differences between artificial waves and surfing in the ocean is the mentality in the water. It is a big difference to know that you are going to surf a wave for sure while paddling out. When people are no longer competing, positioning, and in some cases fighting for waves, the entire dynamic in the lineup changes for the better. You’ll find yourself cheering for complete strangers – a rare phenomenon in most crowded natural surfspots around the world today.
And now we sing.
Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings. The world for once in perfect harmony with all its living things.
Etc.
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I think the brain eating amoebas will help to calm people down.
On a side note – you guys have a serious problem with ads (Wallmart now, what comes next) when you open BG on a phone. Renders BG unreadable.
Driving force!
Where’s the out of control surf rage you are talking about?
The grumpy salty dude will always be grumpy and salty, no matter if he’s in the ocean or in a wave pool.
There’s something about surfing that’s different from skateboarding. You can share a ramp, but not your wave. Not in the ocean and certainly not in a wave pool. No amount of happy lenses will ever change that. Peace.
Mate I’ve never surfed in a wave pool, but if i did , I’d continue to be grumpy and salty.
Mi Hermano, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Communities form around surf spots, not around payper-wave entertainment complexes.
Surf parks have walls to keep the less fortunate and down trodden out of their utopia. One wonders if it wasn’t for these walls would Mr Luff’s utopia exist.
they have walls to keep well heeled inside where they can safely interbreed like a good old fashioned aristocracy. bring them on.
So long as peeps are sitting on the inside to pick up the omnipresent scraps, all is well. I’d say that’d be a cheap way to dabble.
VAL #1 “Hey, you take the next one, I figure you paid for it too, we should share”
VAL #2 “naw you go man”
BG commenter “out of my way cunts”
I am sure paying big $ to surf in a tub will bring out the best in all of us.
https://youtu.be/vo9AH4vG2wA
lets tap the chinese market…..
That virus happened in Waco and the red haired fellow who was in charge quit. Send in the robots.
This one’s for Jimmy the St.
Just as the leg rope
Enabled the rise of kooks
So too will The Pool
Write a book, homie — I’ll buy it!
My attention span
Can only be sustained for
Minutes not for months
How good is Dont Fear the Reaper?
Its like they were a different band on all their other shit.
Cities on Flame. Come on Ric, that’s just lazy.
That’ll teach me to say something nice.
How about this other masterpiece..
Now I’m confused. We were talking BOC earlier? God I’m old.
Nah, just well executed songs.
Needs more cowbell
Mississippi Queen is the only song that doesn’t need more cowbell.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I know what you mean
Needs more reaper.
I don’t know Chas.
I have every confidence that testosterone and human nature will find a way to fuck this up.
There WILL be açai bowls slapped in dark, shady corners.
There will be swinging and tussling on the unforgiving concrete.
Surfing will remain true to its roots. I am sure.
Glass firmly half full. Good work
Is açai only açai when it comes in a polished coconut shell?
It has become symbolic, I think.
Any hand carried foodstuff or drink will do.
I’m going to play it extremely conservative and traditional, and insist that only açai bowls may be knocked from hands to initiate beef.
Anything else merely makes a mockery of deeply held, ancient cultural beliefs.
it isn’t real a açai bowl until it is in the hands of a native Hawaiian or knocked from your hands by a Hawaiian local or someone who has the backing of a Hawaiian local. up until that point it is just a bowl of food and should be sold to tourists as “potential açai bowl”
Average people will be blocked on Instagram by M Rod. Brazilians will be the cornerstone of douchery we know so well.
The future looks bright.
Benny violence?
I always cheer for strangers to get first place at my local. “In the first place, you need to fuck off!”
Will we adopt the mannerisms of skateboarders? Or snowboarders?
Or those dudes who ride their bmx at the skatepark?
Skating ugly used to earn you some smack talk! Deservedly! I know! My puny 3 inch airs! Yuck! And I couldn’t tuck my knees to save my life.
However, I predict these lame pool feebs won’t be able to detect good style if it smacked ‘em in the kisser.
Sigh!
“My name is John Luff and I’m full of shit”
VAL #1
Like taking a shower with a raincoat on.
Oh wait..that saying is for rubbers. My bad.
Sounds right tho