Watch: Self-aware VAL film warms hearts and soothes frazzled nerves!

How to Learn How to Surf!

I don’t think that VALs are Enemies of the People, per se, but usually the VAL lack of self-awareness makes for rough exchanges in the water and/or on land. Lack of self-awareness is a nasty bit of business wherever it’s found. I was standing in a crosswalk a few days ago, for example, with the crosswalk light blinking, waiting to guide my daughter across when a car blazed right through. Of course I kicked his door as hard as I could sending him to a screeching stop. He stuck his blubbery head out the window, shouting “Do you have a problem?” I shouted back many swears that HE broke cherished crosswalk RULES at which point he angrily squealed away.

The man in the car was not necessarily a VAL but his attitude was metaphorical. VALs heedlessly break our cherished rules then don’t care. They don’t know not to care and don’t care to learn etc.

Which is what makes contemporary artist Tom Sachs’ movie How to Learn How to Surf so pleasant. It is not a movie about how to learn to surf or how to surf but how to learn how to surf.

Very self aware.

Enjoy.

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Dion's Xanax
Dion's Xanax
7 years ago

What does the V stand for again?
Vagina adult learners?

Abscessed Llama
Abscessed Llama
7 years ago

Wish ” i ” was doing it for the likes..

Stu Azole
Stu Azole
7 years ago

I wish Willie Morris was still alive – he’d set you straight on Vals.

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago

at first glance I thought it was a one minute video on how to surf and was shocked that I had wasted countless hours and endured all manner unnecessary burns, bites, rashes, flushing, brain freezes, stitches, sea ulcers and the involuntary discharge of water from my nose when ever I was trying get smelly fingers. thank fuck it is only the trailer. for second there I thought I had wasted half my life.

Some Guy
Some Guy
7 years ago

Can anyone name anything music related or non that is as bad as Lenny Kravitz?

Dung beetle
Dung beetle
7 years ago
Reply to  Some Guy

His daughter and that michelob ad?

Some Guy
Some Guy
7 years ago
Reply to  Dung beetle

Wait a minute…that is his daughter? The one with the contrived hipster finger tatts that look like dirt while she’s tapping on the bottle and whispering some garbage about nothing? Every time that thing comes on I hit mute and turn away out of fear I’ll put my fist thru screen. That is the worst thing ever created and now makes total sense it involves the Kravitz name…

Dung beetle
Dung beetle
7 years ago
Reply to  Some Guy

God it’s the fucking worst right?! Yeah word has it it’s her although I haven’t fact checked that since it makes my hatred that much better even thinking she’s a kravitz.

Some Guy
Some Guy
7 years ago
Reply to  Dung beetle

All of the WSL spots are bad. I used to think the old Corona one was the worst but dirty finger Kravitz daughter is by far the most egregious and hate worthy.

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago
Reply to  Some Guy

milli vanilli?

Some Guy
Some Guy
7 years ago
Reply to  Phat-wan kerr

Good try but nowhere near as bad. They’re low hanging fruit w the whole lip synch thing and they were quickly written off. They’re like Insane Clown Posse or something…a caricature impossible to take seriously. Kravitz fancies himself a soulful guy and takes himself seriously when in reality his music is the most manufactured soulless bland garbage ever made. He is the worst musician in the history of music. This is a fact that cannot be refuted.

DavidC
DavidC
7 years ago

Off subject Chas – recently listened to your Lipped podcast interview – dang it was good!

Krill
Krill
7 years ago

Fuck these cunts

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
7 years ago

Haha VALS
HAHAHAHA
Its as funny as an episode of big bang theory
Give it up champ.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
7 years ago

Does Val Kilmer fancy taking up the sport? A match made in heaven.

Ricky Spanish
Ricky Spanish
7 years ago

I disagree, VALS are the enemy. Perhaps the worst we have ever faced, and that includes SUPs, foils, kayaks, goat boats, bodyboards, entitled groms, and lifeguards.

John Wayne
John Wayne
7 years ago
Reply to  Ricky Spanish

just because of their shear numbers?

madmaxmedia
madmaxmedia
7 years ago
Reply to  John Wayne

Yes you can’t get them out of the water- when you run over them they deform but are relatively elastic so quickly return back to original shape. Their Wavestorms too.

RS
RS
7 years ago

I want to know the number of pedestrians killed yearly due to the “pedestrians have the right of way” rule. I routinely see people cross the street without looking because they expect cars to stop.

John Wayne
John Wayne
7 years ago
Reply to  RS

Lifetime odds of death in United States for a Pedestrian Incidentis 1 in 556. Gun Assaultis 1 in 285 and drowning 1 in 1,117.

V3 Rocket
V3 Rocket
7 years ago

Will this overpopulation lead to a mass extinction one day? If I find a colony of VALs washed up on the high tide mark, should I bury them? Or will that attract sharks later?

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  V3 Rocket

If I were you Matt I would take a lesson from the Nights Watch and Burn them , in the case they are reawakening and turn into white (nose) walkers ……

madmaxmedia
madmaxmedia
7 years ago
Reply to  V3 Rocket

Just don’t feed them, they will lose their natural inborn fear of other people in the water.

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago
Reply to  V3 Rocket

its best to leave them there. it scares the others away.

Otto
Otto
7 years ago
Chas Smith
Chas Smith
7 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Oh yes. Oh oh yes.

Otto
Otto
7 years ago
Reply to  Chas Smith

It’s like Laserium at Griffith Observatory, but pedestrian.

astro
astro
7 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Wow, that’s insane.

Wiggolly's Paddling Style
Wiggolly's Paddling Style
7 years ago

I’d kick your fucken head in if you kicked my car door. I reckon you’re one of those absolute cunts who presses the button when there are no cars coming and then crosses. Wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve sat at the red light head butting the steering wheel over those gimp cunts.

Return of the Samsung Board
Return of the Samsung Board
7 years ago

I don’t want to add up the time spent sitting at a red light that doesn’t need to be red in my life

Chas Smith
Chas Smith
7 years ago

That’ll do any man mad. I made it my mission to speed through those pointless reds and then I did it right in front of a cop who laughed at my stupidity but still wrote me a ticket.

Wiggolly's Paddling Style
Wiggolly's Paddling Style
7 years ago
Reply to  Chas Smith

Interesting how one behaves when the shoe is on the other foot. What if it had been your car door? Think of the panel beater. For fuck sake why will nobody think of the panel beater?

astro
astro
7 years ago

Fucken panel beaters ! Those robbing cunts are worse than plumbers.

Wiggolly's Paddling Style
Wiggolly's Paddling Style
7 years ago
Reply to  astro

Since when is $799 an unreasonable price for spending 30 seconds tapping a little dent out of low tensile Indian made steel with a rubber mallet? You drongo. Shouldn’t have stacked your car then should ya!? Hahahaha

Return of the Samsung Board
Return of the Samsung Board
7 years ago

THEY USE MAGNETS BRO

Wiggolly's Paddling Style
Wiggolly's Paddling Style
7 years ago

Fuck me. Maybe the dint doctor isn’t as qualified as I had assumed. He didn’t have any magnets.

Return of the Samsung Board
Return of the Samsung Board
7 years ago

Bout time to have a word mate

Krill
Krill
7 years ago

That’s classic arse covering mate.No recourse, he was fixing a dint, not a dent.

Chas Smith
Chas Smith
7 years ago

I keep the panel beater in business!

John Wayne
John Wayne
7 years ago

One of the glorious things about living in the Police state of NSW is that you could turn left on a red light. These are now being phased out and it annoys the hell out of me. I can only imagine what WPD is feeling about this.

@surfads
@surfads
7 years ago
Reply to  John Wayne

Between this and keeping the right hand turn arrow red (instead of switching off after an appropriate time) they’ve completely killed most intersections. Fuck da police!

SoCalGary
SoCalGary
7 years ago
Reply to  John Wayne

Wow, you all drive on the wrong side of the road AND now I learn that you allow left turns on a red light – do you even need to make a stop first? Oh the humanity. I suppose you think that just because you paddled first / stood up first it’s your wave?

Chas Smith
Chas Smith
7 years ago

Oh it’d be such a wonderful exchange and would keep the citizens tittering for weeks!

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago

what are your thoughts about pedestrian crossings at round abouts ? especially those with bus stops beside them.

velobwoy
velobwoy
7 years ago

Crosswalk guy – that really frosts me. Now I hate VALS even more.


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