The man for our time!
And how many drowning children have you ever saved, Mr. and Mrs. Judgmental? Six? Nine? Zero? Me? Oh, I’ve rescued zero which makes me exactly half the man of our World Surf League President of Content, Media, Etc. Erik “ELo” Logan who rescued two over the weekend.
This heroic bit of good news comes via a friend who sent a screen grab from the Nextdoor app which bills itself as the “private social network for your neighborhood.” Since I don’t live in Manhattan Beach, California I am not invited to see but we have the beginning of the saga and let us read together from surf photographer Dave Weldon’s account.
“Howdy all, while doing my Sunday morning surfing photography at El Porto, I realized that surfer Erik Logan of Manhattan Beach spotted two kids that had been swept far out from where they started in shallow water. Erik quickly paddled over to the two and got them onto his board. Lifeguard Chris Maloney spotted the activity as he was passing nearby in his vehicle and dashed into the water with his rescue…
And that’s where the screenshot ends but we must assume that everyone is safe and happy and all thanks to our Mr. President.
Now, do you feel bad for making fun of his SUP? The only sort of board that doubles as a boat hearty enough to float drowning children high above the water’s grabby hands?
You should.
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Likely only slightly. Very slightly.
The Carroll’s will love him a SUP rider amateur clubbie and comp head the perfect mix
he is a paddleboarder. thats why the wsl judging is f@cked up.
Kids probably tried to off themselves when they saw ELO and his paddling sweeping their way. I would
Come on up SSD, the beer is cold, the weed is purple and there are empty waves which considering the state of LA south to Mejico….. ?????? “It’s my last stop on the golden coast” and I agree with Huell Howser.
I go every year since ’89 for extended fun and yes, I would move. Challenge is, I would have to make money a different way. May retire unless I run to beat Trump. Man would I love some campaign money…. boat trips for geo political strategy, Tavarua (emptied of course) for domestic policy think tanks, If you can’t figure out your military strategies at Kandui, then where?….. etc.
Are you the same Hippy I ran into in Fitzroy back in 2005?
Then we got to know each other from postsurf.
And a meal at Tip Top in Carlsbad after a mediocre surf at Palomar Airport rd.
Mike??
What up K? How are you doing bro? You have my email….
Hope life is freed up now amigo… lets go.
Or go comment on the grit.
Dunno SSD, just got home from a biz trip to Chicago. Surfline did tell me it was flat all last week on Lake Michigan.
Foggy this morning, will look at the tide push in a few…
Well, according to the Chas Smith School of Mathematical Equations, I’m two and a half times the man ELo is. Although to be fair, the clubbies took credit for one event. Sure, I was the one pulling the sinking kid up by the hair as he slipped under the water, no longer trying to swim back up, but hey, you take what credit you can.
Chas’ theory that
Zero is half of two is
Quite the maths breakthrough!
Nextdoor is like the Facebook for people who are too old and dumb to use Facebook (unbelievable as it seems). I saw a post once of some old person shouting out to the ether: “I need an Uber for Saturday…”
nextdoor + leucadia speed bumps = a stupendous read
Oh, Leucadia..I knew it well..
It’s been sad to witness it’s demise..
Have some patience everyone, they’re just getting photo clearance from the parents/guardians since they are minors.
No way this happened, and was witnessed by a photographer?!? ELO wouldda instagramed the shit out of it.
Make fun of the white kids all you want, but we know it ain’t them wearing jeans to the beach.
This just in…. ELO is now mentoring the kids on how to survive and surf Mavericks.
He’s got a lot learn before he devolves into a true corelord grumpy local who lets them drown because they ”shouldn’t have been swimming near the rip” and ”dont swim in the ocean if you can’t handle a few laps”
Blinded by his teeth.
He should have apologized.
SUP struck.
Who does “My Sunday morning surfing photography at El Porto” ?!
WTF!
Oh, maybe it’s Elo’s Guy?
I saved a duck from a pond once(oxymoron) I literally saw the mom ditch this little one as it crossed the road with a bunch of them and this one and a bro/sis turned around when they saw a car.. the mom kept going. a week later one of them was dead because of a fucking string from a ballon wrapped itself around its head/mouth, so I caught the other one and took it to a rescue farm.. it lived a happy life and flew away. see, I aint all that bad and I didn’t need no stinking freight tanker to save em. Plus, I am not sure I would save you guys if you had boards on your car?
conspiracy theory hour with the foot of slater: He paid those two kids 5 bucks each and said “go flail out there and make it look like your drowning”
Strange days . We have seen him captured in action every time he stands up but bizarrely no images of ELo playing Jimmy Slade ? Is it truly possible that MEDIA MAN forgot to press the SAVE button ….. ?
spread the word it was an INSIDE JOB!
And he would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddlesome kids and middle-aged men!
We could get John John Florence to play Shaggy but it’s probably going to cost us a fortune in Scooby Snacks ?
agreed, full investigation is needed. what do they say? learn from history before it repeats itself? we must learn from the gossip girl episode where Tripp paid a guy to “drown” so he could save him and win some election. I love a scandal.
It’s BAYWATCH’s home and no lifeguards??
Ban all SUPs* except for life saving!
*single use plastics