Surfing is not a crime.
Since the day of its creation, the outside world has distrusted skaters and entirely loathed the act of skateboarding itself, deeming it illegal on most streets and sidewalks.
As if that wasn’t enough, with time came evolved means to stopping skaters dead in their tracks; be it fines, arrests, skate stoppers, security guards, iconic spots destroyed daily, occasional hero-syndromed citizens, just to name a few.
All the while surfers got to pursue their board sport entirely uninterrupted or at least until now.
If there’s one good side to this, worldwide draconian lockdown on our favorite pastime it’s that surfers and skaters may now have a tighter bond and something to drain a few tins over. Namely, a blatant disrespect for any law officer/overly concerned citizen or sign telling us we can’t ride our chosen crafts freely.
Who knows, maybe this signals the beginning of a decline in surfings wall of positive noise, as one by one surfers around the world start taking a page out of skaters book.
Saying fuck you to who ever wants to stop us and going for broke anyways.
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yes.
Surfin.’ – with mah sehelf *mostly & forever
Email and Instagram message Kevin Faulconer – Nathan Fletcher – all these politicians till they lift the ban on surfing alone – ARE YOU KDDING ME? FUCK EVERYONE!!!! I hate you all and everyone else until this is fixed – fuck you – fuck them – fuck the VALS – I don’t give a shit – I fucking run over VALS for a living – this is BULLSHITE
Kevin Faulconer loves beach bans, fucker ruined it for so many generations with the booze ban
So what, cant surf for a month – good to take up some other hobbies, stay fit etc. Surfing is currently a crime in NZ but its only temporary and there are loads of other things we are allowed to do like run up and down big fuck off hills. Waves are always pumping in where I live down south so no worries can just get my fix when this lockdown
virus fucks off. People are making huge sacrifices to try and beat the virus so the least we can do is not surf for a month-ish to play our part. People in Wellington NZ are probably thinking “situation no change, i dont get to surf anything more than knee high close outs for months on end normally anyway”. Poor bastards, hang in there haha
That’s it? What most anyone has been writing in the comments gets a first article from this guy, and about as long? Well written– better than all the Matt George stuff put together–but as short as the coffee table leaped over by Chas.
Sexual favors?
Do some skaters tell other skaters they should definitely not skate when they are told not to, because that would be selfish and would ruin it for everyone else? Please say they do.
Curren encouraged Occy to skate. Then he did. And they did. And it was awesome.
When skating was a crime and we all wanted to rebel it wasn’t going to potentially risk the lives of thousands of people. How, when the world is trying to be responsible in stopping the spread of coronavirus, can idiots like Jordan Wilk write articles like this? Disgraceful!
Skaters don’t want surfers to become like skaters
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Even Metal Elvis’ cat gotta shit.
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Surfers have always been much softer than their concrete riding brethren.
do skaters slash tires and break car windows or threaten to kill you if you are not local?
RIP ValiantScorn, Stab commenter circa 2014 to 2018.
Thats normally inbred hillbillys who happen to surf and never travelled more than 20 miles from where they were born.
Burnside in the early 90’s, sure.
yeah meth sucks.
The original Gen X’er!
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Rediscover your Rebel Yell and open your Eyes Without A Face
Sang karaoke “Rebel Yell” with Billy Idol at a mansion party. I’d like to think that that being my best karaoke performance EVER had nothing to do with the artist singing along while standing next to me.
Playboy Mansion?
No. A record company executive. Just as big as the Playboy Mansion, but less taste, more gaudy. Less nymphomaniacs in the pool, more water nymphs around the pool.
Damn. Guess we otto been there.
Ha!
Billy’s cool, right?
did very well in real estate
Fuck yeah! Super nice guy!
Didn’t hesitate one second when I grabbed the mic and asked him to join me.
Did he have GHB?
Ha! Nah, he helped me slay the bottle of Maker’s Mark I was lugging around.
Makers Mark! A favorite of mine
My favourite story about Billy Idol was from when the Cure were touring with him. Robert Smith goes into the toilet backstage and finds Billie shagging a groupie. So what does Robert do? He pisses on Billie. The Cure are kicked off the tour
That’s golden!!
“With a rebel yell…” I’ll still surf, surf, surf.
Do you have permission to use this photo?
Softly lit Billy Idol?
Karen
Lol
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I’m totally gonna try this next time I get threatened with copyright violations
Relax, they don’t make any money such that tracing for profits would be pointless.