If you were literally fearless, what is the first thing you'd do?
Climate change has been good to Hawaii, much to Greta Thunberg’s chagrin, or at least good to Hawaii’s big wave cowpeople. The men and women who bravely, boldly saddle up, as it were, and ride giant, massive, terrifying beasts whilst dodging the insidious cookie cutter shark.
An extraordinarily large swell hit Maui’s famed Peahi toward the end of last week. Another is on its way and Hawaii’s leading news source, Hawaii News Now, is there covering all the action. Shall we read, together, first hand?
Big-wave surfer Billy Kemper is not afraid of anything.
That was especially the case after the four-time Jaws champion took on enormous barrels at Peahi on Maui on Thursday.
In an Instagram video, he described the experience as riding the “wave of my life.”
Very scary but not to Billy Kemper who isn’t afraid of anything.
Not waves nor flat tires on the freeway nor Coronavirus nor period dramas nor Sense and Sensibility nor neighbors who eat PCP nor an overheated economy spinning into massive inflation nor the new aluminum tariff nor bed bugs biting nor six hour layovers nor one lost AirPod nor anything.
If you were literally fearless, what is the first thing you’d do?
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Let’s get down to brass tacks. When are we going to start ranking the WSL women according to hotness?
Aussie day is fuken sick mate.
https://youtu.be/9MCv6Kuh9is
needs more didgeridoo
There’s no bottom end on a phone recording.
Believe me the guy was laying down some heavy bass!
More cowbell..
If Billy Kemper was really fearless he would have dodged that barrel.
He took the safe route.
I agree wholeheartedly. The fearless ride would have required a tow in.
Synthesize illicit drugs and test them on myself. Make a salad out of jimsonweed
Breaking Salad
The real Devil’s Lettuce! You ever know anybody who did some, Scott? Some friends of mine did and they lost their minds for days. Wandering around OB, they fit right in with the dirtbag crowd at the wall.
Hell no! I’ve heard horror stories about it, one being a friend cousins friend type of thing cutting off his own dick, another more believable one was just that it was like the worst trip imaginable and very unpleasant. I’m all set with that shit!
Yeah, I have heard about some people going blind from it. If you have ever read the books of Carlos Casteñeda- The Teachings of Don Juan, (I think that’s the title) they are really good. I read some when I was into psychedelics. They are about a Mexican professor or anthropologist who learns from a Native American Indian about the sacred plants and how the Indians used them. Peyote, mushrooms, datura(Jimpson weed), and San Pedro cactus I think are the ones. But I remember the Datura chapters because it grows wild all over San Diego and the Southwest and has slightly different subspecies that differ. Even popular Angels Trumpet tree in gardens is related (South American specie) and they are all extremely psychedelic, leaves, flowers, roots, seeds. But I do remember reading that with datura, if you see red, that is good. If you see nothing but black, that is bad and the plant does not like you and you may never regain your vision again.
Shit is gnarly. I can enjoy some shrooms if they’re the fun, laughter kind but don’t want shit that’s scary.
The trumpet plant in South America is the one the make scopolamine out of and that shit that a hooker will spike your drink or blow in your face and you’ll be under a sort of hypnosis. There’s those videos about people willingly emptying their bank account or their apartment of everything to the criminals after getting dosed by that stuff.
file for divorce.
So true! Hardest ledge I’ve ever looked over. I’ve pulled out so many times now sitting on the shoulder defeated and wind has switched don’t know if I can catch one to the beach.
Phatty bowling a 10/10 on this one.