The new BeachGrit way!
And my goodness gracious if I haven’t been on a grouchy tear these past few days, hollering from my soapbox, kicking at DJ Steve Aoki’s cultural value, smirking at Kelly Slater’s fashion choices. A real Grumpy Gus but do you ever see those Good News websites? Ones that try and counter the dark, negative tone of today by only pushing out heart-warming stories? I have never been to one but Good News content regularly peppers my every day Internet consumption. Paid posts for: “Woman adopts fifteen pets after wildfires.” “Man builds gender-less treehouse for neighborhood kids.” That sort of business.
This morning I got to thinking that BeachGrit should include more Good News and, thankfully, there’s a wonderful story about two pro juniors who were waiting for their heat to begin at the Belmar Pro in New Jersey when they saw three teenage girls struggling in a rip current. What do you think they did? Hollered about VAL life? Screamed that DJ Steve Aoki hasn’t been meaningful for years? Yelled about midget tuxedo surfing vests and why the girls didn’t have them on?
Surprisingly no and let us turn to NJ.com for the answer:
Without thinking twice, the New Jersey native Cole Deveney and his friend, Logan Hayes, swam past the jetty to the next beach, aiding the lifeguards in bringing the girls to safety, a NJ Advance Media photographer who was there to photograph the competition said.
The three girls were safe, albeit traumatized. The lifeguards helped them back to shore on their surfboards, the photographer said.
Even after saving the group of teens and helping lifeguards back to safety, Deveney and Hayes went back to compete in their heat.
What upstanding young men, demonstrating the new BeachGrit way (replacing fun-making, naughty-talking, beating a story to death, purposefully injecting high levels of shark paranoia into the mainstream population etc. for a happy few moments).
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good stuff… Cole’s dad T.R. is a longtime Manasquan Inlet First Peak O.G. (which for us Jersey clowns in our bubble is a big deal)… plenty of respect and press back in the day for dad… BUT, it’s the son who gets his name in Beach Grit… score one for junior…
I can’t believe I could not see the blinding obvious. Thanks VONR.
Wouldn’t it be a trans-gender tree house, seeing as trees have both male and female parts?
I mean, you can’t call it a non-gendered, safe space if it’s built from materials that perpetuate hetero-normative gender stereotypes.
Some trees / plants have singular gender, some both.
I just finished stage 1 of our tree house last weekend.
How odd you bring this up, Chas.
You hiding in my trash cans?
Spying on me?
“bins”
you are in Australia CB.
I was trying to communicate to the US.
I felt the word selection lent itself to more comedy.
I’d like to know their motivation. Genuine altruism, or ‘maybe I can get a phone number’?
“three teenage girls” :: assuming these were younger chaps, there’s no way their dicks would have let the lasses drown. young dicks and dicks in general, rightly, get blamed for a lot in this world. it’s good to see their powers used for good, for once.
Finally a Beachgrit story I can show my girlfriend!
…(replacing fun-making, naughty-talking, beating a story to death, purposefully injecting high levels of shark paranoia into the mainstream population etc. for a happy few moments.
Don’t you dare!!
For experienced water persons, “saving” people from the ocean is like opening the door for old people, it’s an act of common decency, not a newsworthy headline.
Agree, what else they gonna do? Paddle in and go home because the screaming has ruined the salty feng shui?
shitty feng shui can usually be fixed by putting a beer in front of me.
yep pulled a guy and gal from a rip 100 metres offshore at Berawa – Bali, 2 weeks ago. in some locations is a standard daily event
Yeah, that being sober thing is over rated.
Welcome back.
Once again the well-deserved reputation of surfers gets tarnished by acts of kindness.
groms will be groms.
NJ represent!