It's the new the new capoeira!
It is well established fact that vulnerable adult learners are the future of our grand Pastime of Kings. The World Surf League is geared toward their embrace. Rip Curl produces its complete line of outerwear exclusively for them. Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch.
But what does the adult learner really think? What goes on in his mind besides #blurrV2 and #liveyourpassion? What does she feel whilst sitting astride a 9’2 SurtTech?
Thankfully we have People magazine and let’s get to know one-time Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester. Let’s discover what she loves most about surfing so BeachGrit can become a more welcoming environment.
The Single Parents star, 32, said that surfing is one of the new things she’s recently tried.
“Last year, I took up personal training. My husband also taught me how to surf, and in the last year, I got really into it,” Meester tells SHAPE for their April cover. “For the last six months, surfing has pretty much been my main form of exercise.”
Now the former Gossip Girl star is fully addicted to hanging ten, and not just for the workout.
“I have found that when I don’t have a physical result in mind when I’m exercising — it’s not just about getting sore or getting abs or burning fat — I feel much more confident,” she says. “I’m working on a skill, and that is so fulfilling to me. Plus, being in the ocean is such a spiritual experience that you forget you’re getting a real workout.”
So mostly exercise, skill practice and spirituality.
Is surfing a martial art?
The new capoeira? the old tai chi?
Noted.
Love the new O’Neil line for the Women’s Tour!
lucky she has a strong teacher https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I don’t disagree, but The Jam weren’t really archetypically “80’s” in style, though their late work was produced in the 80’s.
In hindsight and just amongst friends – Sade ? [ok, ok …not a band]
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It’s official then. Surfing is cool again. Adult learn to surfers can teach me to surf. I love it when they offer tips.
The comment section here on BG is about all we have left in the Resistance…
Or maybe when in Vienna?
ha ha oh shit, you people will see boobs everywhere!!!
Mass schedule for beatus Mariano Landa’s spiritual surfing regimen:
1. Arrive at beach in the dark. First thermos hymn. Self-flagellation via lack of sleep.
2. Take a dump on the rocks because bathrooms are locked or doubling as a hobo dormitory. Try to walk really far into the dunes, but usually not. Second thermos hymn.
3. Hand sanitizer. Prepare the Camel Turkish Royal hosts.
4. Chain cigs until you can actually see the surf. Incense abounds. Place them in the donation bin.
5. Vibe anyone else parking near me. Peace be with YOU.
6. Go surf like a true intermediate (make your grab but throw it away even if makeable, etc.). Reflect on your sins.
7. Pater nosters. Third thermos hymn.
8. Further dissemination of incense and mystical experience via caffeine and nicotine consumption. Aspire to sainthood.
9. Remind yourself to keep your kids away from the VALs cuz they’re the real pedos at this church.
All I know this east coast nonsense with 5mil boots and gloves+endless duckdives is a hell of a workout, still beats running barely.
So does Leighton Meester paddle out in the attire from the picture
Is this Rip Curls new summer range
Talk about a distraction to take your eyes off the next set
The VALs are getting sneaky
Has an adult learner really surfed if they don’t post about it on Instagram? (She hasn’t).
returned from val utopia (tamarindo) and happy to report that the surf stoked val is not only thriving but supporting an entire town based off of vals.
Anything at Playa Grande?
yeah, only place that had solid surf.
Ya surfing helps on banging multiple cunts daily!
So is the good karma of ocean time, and picking some trash up off the beach as we head back to the car, offset by hanging out at Beach Grit?
Yes.
oh shit.
How much worse, then, Jen See, if you write for BG!
Jen See is the most incorrigible out of all of us. She’s makes Derek Rielly look like an overeager social justice warrior by comparison.
😇😇
Careful, Leighton, you might want to ease off before getting carried away and accidentally turning into a stoked muscleperson (like hardcore surfer, Ronnie Coleman, below)… https://uploads.disquscdn.c… *
*Should you want to read it correctly, this comment is to be accompanied by Alphaville’s “Sounds Like a Melody”
P.S. Feel free to file this under “KVF’s Stupidest (Lamest) Comment Ever Made on BG”
Yeah, maybe not your best work, but the Alphaville pull was awesome – only us Grumpy Old Locals would even know who they are.
I heard they are going to be the band of choice for the German Surf Team at the Olympics in Tokyo. Because they will be…
Karl, I was happily ignorant of Alphaville, but out of curiosity did the goog thing in my quest for enlightenment…
I was sorry I did.
I am not sure they ever sang any of their songs live. The true version of a digital band.
Ha, I really think I prefer Milli Vanilli.