It's the thankful season!
It is the official start of the holiday season here in the United States of America as today is Thanksgiving. Oh, you know how thankful I am for all of you, for the lives we share, laughs we have, love we spread. BeachGrit‘s anti-depressive community, I feel, has taken the wonderful Live, Laugh, Love motto shared by middle-class caucasian housewives and really taken it to the next level.
Here, we celebrate the wonders of surfing wherever they are found… from the craggly-tooth’d mouths of man-eating Great White sharks to Kelly Slater’s war with flat-earthers to a young British boy born with less than 3% of his brain who has grown most of it back thanks, in large part, to our water dance.
But let’s learn where and how. Let’s witness the miracle.
If doctors told you to terminate your pregnancy not once but five times, you might take them at their word.
But when Shelley and Rob Wall were advised to have an abortion after finding out that their baby had “no brain”, they stuck to their guns.
And six years on, their son Noah has defied the odds — by “growing” a brain.
The Sun reports that the plucky youngster appeared on Good Morning Britain with his parents to share his extraordinary story, which Richard Madley called “a miracle”.
Despite his parents being told that there was no chance of his survival, Noah has totally exceeded all expectations.
Before Noah was born, doctors doubted he’d survive.
Mr and Mrs Wall have dedicated their time to his brain development and have taken him to Australia to a radical brain training centre.
Here, he has learned how to sit up unaided and even managed to go surfing.
Noah now wants to learn to walk and wants to continue learning how to surf and even start skiing.
The treatment that Noah’s been having in Australia is called “neurophysics” — a mixture of physiotherapy and cognitive exercises.
You and I can believe of course. Our brains and our hearts have grown thanks to surfing.
Thanks to each other.
Enjoy your turkey dinners, American brothers. Australian brothers, enjoy your neurophysics, New Zealander brothers, enjoy living in Middle-Earth and Scottish brother enjoy an extra two drams of Glenfiddich 1955.
Live, Laugh, Love, Surf!
You don’t need a brain to enjoy surfing.
Evidence shows it may even help.
I had a read less flattering for surfers. He “..managed to go surfing. Noah now wants to learn to walk..”. Takeaway: even with not enough brain for walking upright, you can still be a surfer.
When we going to get a comment on the abomination that is stabs ‘the pick up’. Might be a new low for surf media.
you can probably comment over there.
as evidenced by the number of geniuses we have on WSL
My ‘deck turkey’ in Middle-Earth https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Where do furries come into it?!?!?
Horrible freaks.
One of the first groups that will go into the pit of sharks when I become king.
Who’d have known that surfing is actually a science now! Instead of thinking righto, off for a surf, I’m going to start thinking, alrighty then, off to the lab. Good on his olds for seeing it through.
You got me in at “less than 2% brain” and then you clarified at less than 3% seriously – that extra clickbait headline was very clever!!!
Some people who know me would posit that extra 2% is more than I have.
This made me think of the Scarecrow from wizard of Oz. I actually used to sing that to myself on a loop after doing something dumbass.. so I posit the same about myself as it’s now stuck in my head again.
C’mon pal from knowing ya a little, I would at least give you 5-10% capacity gotta talk yourself up a little
You are a very generous friend.
I still get Thanksgiving and Halloween mixed up. The pic below is a tribute to Bicko’s comments from 9 months ago. Thanks Jordy’s Pout.
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Ça t’étonne….. encore !
crispy abs.
Let’s us hope it does not , by the miraculous properties of Cranberries , become a Zombie . I’d hate to be chased through the streets by a headless turkey with tits …..
I feel there’s a joke about the Cranberries song “Zombie” that needs to be made here somewhere…
I am slightly aroused.
That poor little guy
Will now get invited to
Smile at the Surf Ranch
https://beachgrit.com/2019/…
Daww…. a heartwarming story!
Have a great Thanksgiving, Chas & BG staff.
That’s very sneaky of you Chas, and very inclusive. Some may read this article, and cry “What! No Great Whites today?!” But you sir are very sneaky.
Happy Angstgiving Australian brothers. Here’s a Noah story for you! Dig in and take a bite.
Thank God for Noahs Arc…ing up . Saved us from the deluge , told the WSL to get fucked and creating synapses through surfing .happy thanksgiving 02 ….
*.please note that no sharks or turkeys were culled , stuffed , killed accidentally , or eaten during the creative process of this comment
We think we’re core lords. Noah leads from the front. Frontal cortex. As core lord as it gets.
And speaking of Noah’s Arc, I wonder how he got the Great White Sharks onboard.
The big question …. How do you save a fish from a flood ?
Ask a hooker in fishnets?
Chick Bait …..?
John the Even Anglerist.
In the shoes of the fisherman ….. leaving a Mark, on the Mat , with Luke warm water on the way to the John .
Here’s one: what do you call two blokes standing on either side of a window?
Jamie and Liam O’Brien ….. ?
https://youtu.be/fefFuEEo3gM
Curt’n’Rod