My, how times have changed!
Once upon a time surfers were outcasts, deadbeats, ne’rdowells, trouble-niks and their sworn natural enemies were jocks. Big, strapping, buzz-cut’d, part of the system, man. For years and years these two groups fought a asymmetric war. Not asymmetric like modern surfboards, no. Asymmetric in that jocks had muscles and strength so that the surfers, skinny and addled, could not go mano-a-mano with any hope of success. The surfer would rather attempt to make the jock feel lame.
My how times have changed.
For now it is the mighty jock who has been shunned by society. The once-proud football player maligned. His game criticized as “retard-making.” His way of life erased and the once lowly surfer raised up and seated upon the throne of “things parents want their kids to do.”
Let us now read about the sad fate of 11-man, or real, football at Malibu High School.
It’s clear that surfing — not football — has become the more attractive sports option to Malibu students. The school has a surfing team that’s more than twice the size of the football team.
“We’re on the coast, so it only makes sense,” (one time Malibu High football coach) Lawson said. “The whole demographics of football and all the concussion concerns have changed things. Going eight-man football is better than dropping football.”
High school participation in 11-man football declined for the second consecutive year nationwide in 2017, according to the annual survey by the National Federation of State High School Assns. The decline was 21,465 out of more than one million participants. Football is still the No. 1 participatory sport by a wide margin, but signs of trouble can’t be ignored.
Practice rules have changed to include less hitting, which might reduce concussions. But there’s a lot more to be done. There are so many sports options to have fun. Football can’t rely on the past. Coaches must innovate and lead.
And these are the days of our lives.
context is missing here. It’s not as much of a money issue as a football participation issue. My high school was in their conference and moved to 8 man football because its easier to field a team with less players. They weren’t competitive in 11 man anymore so they followed the small school trend in LA to move to 8 man football
Either way, concussions via both activities are a natural and free trip if done correctly.
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Cool!, let me know what you think, he’s on a trajectory for sure! My favorite book he did was Captain Zero, but Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? is so fricken well done, and came along at just the perfect time for me; it really cuts through the BS life can deal ya!
Is that the place with a good wave at top, a decent 2nd one down, and mixed stuff through down to the cove?
I remember first seeing it on a cold miserable SB summer day, flat dreary yuck a good south running though….. We pulled over at the overlook and kind of freaked out…blue water, shallow shelf with unridden zippers over it!!! Parking was an interesting deal, they dont like surfers there, but I had the clue to the safe park zone…
We later walked up the path from the beach to the gates to try and check it out. Pretty weird, ultimate trust funder land, (like where I Ilive now) some of the guys looked like they were born there and never left. (older dudes couldnt surf but the rats at the top enforced a no cord rule and were a real pain) I never surfed that part, its an awesome wave, but the 2nd wave down is ok in spots…and that nice wind all day. Havnt been down in years, I was glad at least it did not burn down last year.
wow, Sean Penn is capable of some real next level douche-bagery! I read a n Allan Weisbecker article a couple years ago about his meeting with Penn about a movie deal. After Penn options his book, he the blows him of, no apology, then shows up super late; he’s totally arrogant and more concerned with his food choices than the meeting. Eventually Penn wishes “something worse than death” on him. Read the full deal at http://www.banditobooks.com
Fuck football:
I was approx 15, being forced to partake in flag-football for PE. Some massive meat-head jock probably 3 time my weight decided to ‘stick’ the ‘fucken haole’. I temporarily had my right shoulder dislocated and was left almost passing out with pain, gasping and grey against the chain-link fence nearby. The school football coach and PE teacher was unsympathetic and seemed grimly delighted that one of his star linebackers had put down whitey when given a chance. No repercussions were coming except to me should I have reported anything amiss.
Fuck football.
All aboard!
We are doomed even further if it’s legalised here.
‘People on ‘ludes, should not drive.”
you saying Kenny G sits at home and plays his own records?
Fuck high school surf teams
better than groups of vans, SUPs or foils.
There’s a plague of them on our end of the coast. You have to know which mornings are which to avoid the buggers. On the other hand, their coaches do tell them to give way to us crusty older types, so it isn’t as bad as it could be. A short guttural growl is generally all that is needed to get them to pull their heads in. For what it’s worth, at least there are still kids getting into the waves.
Bet they use to kill Compton’s team before the guys transgender into surfing.
It’s a topsy turvy world these days.. When I was a grom, me and my crew were hated by the jocks and fought them (varying degrees of success) regularly. Listening to metal and punk and stealing their chicks at parties didn’t endear ourselves to them either. My nephews are now both footy players AND surfers, plus they do fucken MMA. Alpha kids. I don’t know if I like it, but 16 year old me wants to kick their ass and steal their girls.
Adult me is probably just bitter they are in the surf stealing my waves!
It’s up to all of us to act as depraved as possible to re-tarnish our positive image, cones in the car park, beach turds, nude runs and bring back the weird characters of our locales, where are all the mumbly beard men of yesteryear who made ocean visitors usher their offspring back to the safety of their vehicles and vamos. The crowds are really getting next level and all of them are squeaky clean fit.
Amen, brother.
Doing my best still lurking in the bushes. Montecito is a weird place, moved here in ’78 the uberrich are nuts, the uber poor (me)are too.
And the surf moved to somewhere else it seems.
The old surf leaving routine 😔
You sir, are a born leader. Inspirational stuff!
I do my best.
Well I watched the latest iteration of ‘No Connest’ to get more dirt on the Goggle. And were there riches to be mined! Part of it involved attending a game of ‘real’ footy with Torquay Tigers vs. a local rival with too many vowels for anyone to pronounce. The key bit of info got from this section was that the footy crowd now has the characters surfing is missing. Bunch of drunks with a streaker entertaining the crowd.
Key points regarding Goggle mining.
Firstly, he kicks like a 10 year old girl* and is wary of random footies arriving while interviewing. Soft.
Secondly, he has an anchor tattoo. Perhaps in an attempt to jaunty up his nautical image with the beanie/unrolled condom on his head. But always makes me think of what it rhymes with.
Thirdly, had to turn the sound off in order to avoid having to listen to him.
And fourthly, the moment I enjoyed most was him nose-diving.
*Not kicking like a 10 year old girl is bad if you are a 10 year old girl. But as a bearded man trying to prove your manliness and ability to hang with the real men of surfing, not so much.
Not to mention the fuckheads blowing up spots, I’ve offered a few choice words to crew coming here and mouthing off, and the local dude making a cameo in the video has been bringing friends over after being nice to him so that’s it, everyone is a wanker until proven otherwise.
Yeah, thought that was a bit, ummm, VAL.
The guy narrating the Steph video was unfuckingbearable, I presume it was him too.