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From the dare-to-dream department: Santa Cruz surfer wants to build life-sized replica of Mavericks!

Wanna get close to a Mav's set without losing your head?

A Santa Cruz surfer and skate park builder wants to promote “ocean awareness” by building a life-sized replica of dirty ol Mavs and sticking it on the benchlands above Half Moon Bay airport.

Zach Wormhoudt, who is 49 and finished fifteenth on the WSL’s Pretty Big Wave Tour in 2013, taking a ninth in that year’s Mavericks Invitational, knows the joint.

“Constructed of concrete panels this interactive sculpture will include portals that can be accessed deep in the wave to provide a first-hand view of what it’s like to ride a wave at Mavs,” writes Wormhoudt, who has been building skate parks for twenty years and, therefore, has the skill and tools to realise his fantastic dream.

“These are some quick sketch ideas for this. Most people will laugh and say why this is not possible, but for anyone who is interested, hit me up.”

Wild, yes?

Tell me you wouldn’t get a kick from walking around and examining a frozen twenty-five foot wave without the spectre of getting your head blown from your shoulders or your air bags filled with Pacific Ocean.

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channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

Sounds like a closet cyclist, denying his passion.

dickie toledo
dickie toledo
7 years ago

i like to wash my car windows when i’m near cyclist.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
7 years ago

Art imitating the WSL.

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
7 years ago

Sounds like you would get a job though FP.

Toin coss
Toin coss
7 years ago

Also.. Imagine whirled peas

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago

Thanks SSD

SectionSB
SectionSB
7 years ago

Arent there holgrams for that sort of thing? Run ads on it too.

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago

surely the only worthy story is that bicko is back. I expect a feature about how he escaped his captors and then crawled 700 miles through hostile territory.

Party Pete
Party Pete
7 years ago

Might be skatable too

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
7 years ago

suggest it to the chinese. they will pour it tomorrow.

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago
Reply to  DrunkenAngel

Only if you tell them there’s an original famous one elsewhere.

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

I don’t think it’s very a realistic / believable image; that cop isn’t in the midst of killing a random person with dark skin.

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

Partial lyrics for ‘The Tenth Sock’
For LemonNextToPie (and Will Smith)

Based on an original concept by Mariano Landa
Screenplay by Walt Disney

——————-
Wanksock terminator
Tougher than an elevator
Cum-stain Bio-resin
Blowin’ up the deviators

New technology
Bionic sex-weewee
Slap yo Açai
Shits on epox-ee! {done in a children’s teasing way a la Beasties}

The tenth sock is comin’
So are you
In fact that’s how it came about:
Stuck like glue

To wall to the ceiling
Now to four ounce and six
Pearly laminating eco-resin
old dogs new tricks

Business or sports
You know it’s all barrel
It’s in your own hands
Says the guru Nick Carroll

{musical stuff in here. eventually breaking it down-tempo}

{rhyme now slows/stretches out.
Imperious lazy delivery like Roots Manoeuvre.}

Born from humble beginnings,
Off the bedroom floor
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)

Now im-preg-nated,
With surfing’s fyu-chor
{future mispronounced to rhyme}
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)

Mosta my league never passed the test,
But I did more.
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)

Swaylocks all blowin up
glassing socks behind closed doors
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)

———

Sorry can’t think of anything else.
Brain mush. Tough week.

Mariano Landa
Mariano Landa
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Hahaha, the Swaylocks reference is classic…God knows mosta those mad-hatters only know the intimacy of cotton-poly blends.

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

‘Pearly laminating eco-resin’

Brilliant, just brilliant. I’ll work on giving this a early Beastie’s feel.

Thank you, will get to work post haste.

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

Please upload some audio once finished!

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Oh sure. Given how kind the commentariot are to first time publishers of art.

gallo de la noche
gallo de la noche
7 years ago

I think its rad! I’d drive up and stair at it while fighting the urge to run up and down it like a kid and imagine that I’m on a 9’0 rhino chaser .

Party Pete
Party Pete
7 years ago

I’d drive up it and do a flip off the lip in my car

Eddie Haiku
Eddie Haiku
7 years ago

Kelly to announce
Scale replica of Lemoore
Made from Purps bottles!

Professor Ski Lodge
Professor Ski Lodge
7 years ago

Fucking love the idea. Brilliant.

Jordy's pout
Jordy's pout
7 years ago

“These are some quick sketch ideas for this. Most people will laugh and say why this is not possible, but for anyone who is interested, hit me up.”

MaxNeoprene
MaxNeoprene
7 years ago

That wall’s only 8 feet Hawaiian. Would be rad though on a Segway. On meth….Santa Cruz style

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  MaxNeoprene

Meth(O.D.) Air ?

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

Good to have you back (side).

Er…
Maybe that doesn’t sound right.

Uh…

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Sounds right to me

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

As a fan of surfing play on words I won’t take it as an affront (side ).

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

I think you all need to cutback on surfing puns.

Bushman
Bushman
7 years ago

Zach build it over the hill in the Silicone Valley and just turn it up to max and level the worthless computer economy….. Good riddance!

Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
7 years ago

Let’s promote “ocean awareness” by pouring a load of concrete unnecessarily….

Bushman
Bushman
7 years ago

Shhhhh…the fucking surf industry is just loaded with Hippocrates!

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
7 years ago
Reply to  Bushman

What? Doctors?

Ricoimmo
Ricoimmo
7 years ago

first, do no SUPs

MaxNeoprene
MaxNeoprene
7 years ago

Let’s be unfunny and state the obvious poindexter

Wilbur
Wilbur
7 years ago

Why not make it out of snapped WaveStorms?

Waterman of the year
Waterman of the year
7 years ago

I’d get a kick out of that 25ft wave obliterating that Fat Cop

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
7 years ago

Well, if you’d get a kick out of that, you might get a kick out of this.

https://www.youtube.com/wat…


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