Better to die on your feet etc.
Gotta love a man who ain’t afraid to put his head above the parapet.
Don Abadie is a forty-eight-year-old surfer, and jiujitsu expert as it happens, who took his fourteen-foot Caribe out to four-to-six-foot Lowers this morning, along with a pal, to circumvent the no-surfing law shutting down beaches across California.
Didn’t turn out real well.
Abadie caught one wave, and missed another, before a set shook his little inflatable off its anchorage and sent it into the rocks.
While that was happening, rangers, guns drawn, were on the beach.
Abadie, who shreds by all accounts on his little five-four Timmy Patterson twinnies, says he and his pal James Brent Jnr’s plan to chase empty, pumping Lowers, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, was a “spur of the moment decision.”
In an interview with Johnathan Wayne Freeman on Instagram Live a few minutes ago, Abadie said he figured the law extended only to the high-tide line and that by boating in, and not touching the beach, everything was cool.
“They (the rangers) let us know the ground rules. Once a beach is shut down, everything is shut down,” he said. “Regardless if you’re in the lineup or on the beach. It’s all the same.”
His boat was dragged across the rocks and it was later towed back to the dock by BoatUS.
Abadie lost his only set of car keys (“My car’s still at the dock”), an iPad (“I figured I could check work from out there”), a new phone; his buddy lost his keys etc.
No tickets were issued nor arrests made.
“We were cool to them so they were cool to us,” he said.
The guy looks like a gym teacher who lifeguards at Ponto in the summer. At least he tried….
his story doesn’t jive with the full 40 minute video
that was, the worst interview I have ever seen. I had no clue who JWF was before this but I now have a strong desire to punch him in the face. What a colossal kook. Why does surfing attract so many of these “characters”? In skateboarding this guy would be completely ostracized.
So JWF is what you get when you mix up a cocktail of crack, meth and california?
So Obama’s healthcare architect is saying lockdown could be 18 months! Now I’m guessing May 1 Trump says open for business. But, states being somewhat autonomous (Federalism) can say no to that and if that state has a Dem governor (CA), might decide to stay closed longer. And God forbid he takes direction from this guy, 18 months. Progressive minded surfers who like to actually surf are going to have make some business decisions on what they really believe and who to support.
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Great, we get to hang here by our short hairs until the California Governor Gavin Knowsless can make the call. How he can stand and talk for 15 minutes and say nothing is mind blowing. A true skill for any politician.
And Zeke Emanuel is a dipshit of the highest order. Pay no attention.
Wait, when did BG become a place for partisan fuckwit politics? Fuck you and your bullshit post. This is a surf (sort of) website. Keep your partisan political bullshit to sites that are for that type of mongering. I am no Dem but come on asshole, your one sided comments are fucking lame.
One sided? Zeke Emmanuel made one of the most dangerous, ridiculous statements in history Tuesday morning. 12 to 18 months shelter in place what a fucking globalist, deep state kook. Someone that makes that statement WANTS to see the world economy crumble.
If you only have one hook down and the wind or current shift you’re fucked esp moored just outside the lineup. Depending on the bottom you also gotta use the right kind of anchor – either a plow or reef. You can’t use a reef on the sand or you’ll just drag away. Best to double up and hook from both fore and aft. Then you gotta properly set the hook by backing up on the bow till it’s set pa`a. The length and scope of the line is critical too. It’s too easy to rush a bad hook set when you’re anxious to hit the surf …
And lots of chain for anchoring in swell.
Bruce anchors are key in California. As long as you have a bit of chain your are good, no need to set too hard. They key is knowing where to drop as opposed to how. If your boat gets swamped by a set you fucked up and doesn’t matter how much chain, line, type of anchor, or setting the thing.
In one hour the Gorillaz new song with the one and only Peter Hook on bass will air on YouTube!
Here it is https://youtu.be/PKXloFW_ZCA
Such a recognizable Peter Hook b-line. I definitely fall into the “Damon Albarn is a genius” camp. This song only reinforces that belief. A bit of sunshine during gloomy times.
100 percent with ya! what makes damon albarn even more impressive to me is that he’s technically not that great a musician or singer, but he more than makes up for it with imagination, taste, charisma and ability to put cool shit together
Derek And Chas Nat Fyfe the Brownlow medalist Australian rules football league has just brought surfing into disrepute in Western Australia!!!! Help!! Please guide us as to how to navigate through this time when the public will turn on us. How dare this kook do this? Stick to the footy field Nat Fyfe.
I can only imagine the utter mental despair hitting the San Clamente surf community. Must be a prescription/therapist heaven. Studies will be done, books written. Stay at home mom’s, home schooled ripper’s, live at home: driftwood crafting, golf cart driving over sponsored 25 year olds. You think they no the meaning of No? No you can’t go surf! The irony.. Surrounding communities must be hearing distant high pitched…
“You hear that?”
“wwwhat!”
“Listen. THAT!”
“Sound of distant ocean waves breaking…”
“No Bro! The higher endless noise above the ocean’s rhythm.”
“Oh That!”
“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I have a shit memory but is Don the same guy that had the axe to grind in the uproar over the Laguna beach kid who got smacked or dunked at salt creek with psycho mom a while back? If so, I’d suggest a decade of anonymity. If not, carry on.
Fark, I was trying to remember why I had heard this guys name before. He’s definitely the guy that was having a go at that kid, I believe his name is London Almeida. Punky ass little fucker that was causing havoc at Salt Creek and the Laguna area. That douchebag Kanga and the little shits mommy always come to his defense and blame everyone else for his lack of proper upbringing and severe lack of surf etiquette. I figure once the kid turns 18 and continues on with that shit attitude of elitism he will get his ass kicked real quick and nothing mommy or Ian can do. BTW, dont follow Cairns lead, if I recall correctly he was frequently close to getting his fucking as whooped in da ‘aina many times.
#waterman
Don! what were you thinking? an iPad?
22k for a zodiac??? I smell an insurance job.
silly don paid about 20k too much
Took his iPad to check work? Seriously? He couldn’t ditch the electronic leash for this otherwise totally awesome adventure? Definitely give him credit for going for it and not being afraid to go public after the whole fiasco.
Just wait until fully waterproof phones become standard issue. It’s going to be hell. I might just retreat into voluntary lockdown at that point.
No excuses to ignore people anymore! I try to make it a habit to be flakey and hard to get a hold of so people come to expect it. There’s plenty of upside to modern cell phones but I often yearn for the good old days of land lines and an answering machine. Hell, pre answering machine days were even better.
Bruh if ya don’t have a twin SIM burner than ya blowing it..
Good call! I had a business cell phone and a friends and family phone but of some imbecile gave out my private number and compromised it
Who would down vote you on this? Somebody who actually is an imbecile and took offense to that word???
For years I used to have a permanent pager and a never ending string of cloned cell phones back when that was a thing.
Not sure. “VONR” would be my first guess. I don’t know who he is or what his problem is but he seems keen on attacking me personally on shit I post. Guys a fuckin dickhead
Does pert lips maketh a short memory?
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Already witnessed an older woman on a longboard fielding a call on her Apple Watch… wait until the tweens can tiktok live from the lineup. Can’t wait!
Took his iPad but left the big anchor at home?
Clearly he’s not thinking rationally! Only set of keys on the unattended dinghy was another lapse of common sense.
Beach Quit
Boatguy needed Raimana coaching from the ski. Go go go go !!!! Hit it !!! One more. https://www.facebook.com/su…
Jonathan Wayne Freeman is insufferable.
A grown man chasing ambulances is never a good look.
Loathe to be a stickler for logistics but technically how would one chase an ambulance if they’re the paramedic inside the ambulance?
Who is he?
Yeah I’d never heard of him til yesterday. Even his triple barrel name is annoying (no offence to you, JW)
Thanks – no offence taken. Just did some googyling on him – can not believe I wasted my time doing that.
I think he is the King of The Wankers?
Some San Clemente guy that makes Instagram clips aimed at surf related humor but often misses the mark
“often” was a very generous word choice.
This is Chas’s side gig?
Fuck me I made it through maybe 30 seconds of that dipshit at the beginning before I had to remove myself in order to not destroy my phone
We need the Illusion to step in here.
cant watch any of his shit
I enjoy JWF. This one wasn’t a great look for him though.
Yeah what was his problem?