Cultural appropriation at its most bald-faced!
The World Surf League’s paid post advertising the upcoming Freshwater Pro has been playing non-stop in my Instagram feed and I now hate Jack White. Or, not Jack White per se. That was a mean statement and over the top. Rather I hate The Raconteurs. The song used to advertise the Freshwater Pro is obnoxious and it makes me recall how I’d never really liked a The Raconteurs song while liking very many from Jack himself or Jack paired with Meg.
Anyhow, the comments on the paid post are very funny with 7 in 10 cursing the World Surf League for cancelling Trestles and/or Cloudbreak and/or Mundaka. One, in particular, snagged my attention. It was not mean or hateful but wise and interesting.
@no_ocean_required tagged both the League and Kelly Slater asking, “As this is freshwater event, how about a freshwater wildcard from the Great Lakes?”
And as far as cultural appropriation goes, I believe @no_ocean_required makes a fine point.
We are all evolved, aren’t we? And especially Kelly Slater. Evolved to the point of shunning the shaka on the grounds of cultural appropriation and I think it is only right for him to listen here. Oh, of course he should look beyond the Great Lakes to Munich’s river surfers and other tidal bore surfers and should probably open it up to wake surfers as well, seeing that loud machines create both wake surfer waves and Surf Ranch ones too.
A fine point entirely. I’d be more interested tuning into the Freshwater Pro Freshwater Trials than the main event.
But what about you?
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I’m a dad, so, dad jokes n all
The Lady of the Lake is impressed and invites you to the round table and don’t forget to pick up your sword , Excalibur along the way ….https://youtu.be/a3LpQfMXmeg
My vote is for the guy Burton Hathaway… the most stoked surfer you’ll ever see…
Well Kaipo definitely reads BeachGrit because he basically just said what LT wrote yesterday about Brazil now being a heavy water spot, enhanced by moving the event date later into Brazil’s winter. Maybe LT can also convince the judges to score properly?
Lakey Peterson was born for this
A real life Rick Kane. I can hardly wait.
A real life Chicken Joe!
r a d i c a l
Yes – fucking great point I think the best ripper from Munch river should be given wildcard as well because that was prob the basis for every pool in existence no?
Um, what?
Maybe river waves gave us the idea of the Flowrider, but the Zambezi River was probably far more inspirational. Several examples of wavepools pre-date the riding of the Eisbach (notably, one opened in Munich in 1929). The foil-based tech probably all owes it’s existence to the experiments of Greg Webber & co and their fishing trawler experiments. The Eisbach has pretty much fuck-all to do with current wave pools.
yeah good points I didn’t really want to write more as was thinking the Pororoca in Brazil and others but was too lazy – thanks for helping
Pottz is a fuck wit.
Why what has he done to you?
That’s almost a marriage proposal from Wiggs
EQUAL BY NATURE
Wouldn’t Cheyne Magnusson be considered a freshwater pro surfer these days? He’d probably be a giant killer.
If the red head is a freshie , could his brother Clay Marzo take the lake ?
Hell yeah take the lake like a baker can bake a cake.
You are a true social justice warrior.
Fresh contest thread, sil’vout plait?
S’il te plaît is much more , left wing and informal .