#HomeBreakChallenge
Do you recall, just a few short months ago, when the phrase “safe space” entered the English lexicon and meant, “Places created for individuals who feel marginalized to come together to communicate regarding their experiences with marginalization” where no violence, harassment, hate speech were tolerated?
A golden era but too soon eclipsed by the current definition of “safe space” which means, “Places where no other dirty human beings are allowed with their various novel coughs, sneezes, yuck, yuck.”
Well, the two safe spaces have recently merged and shall we read about a very wonderful new surfing and yoga retreat that you can attend from the clean comfort of your very own home?
It’d be violent, harassing, hateful to keep it from you.
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m polishing my surfing “pop up” technique under the instructor’s watchful gaze. I lie prone, elbows in, chest raised and push off the balls of my feet, jumping into a wobbly high crouch. It’s not the most graceful move, but coach Rachel shouts encouragement at my efforts.
I’m on a “retreat” with Soul & Surf, which runs yoga and surfing holidays in Portugal, India and Sri Lanka, but this weekend we’re not in an exotic location by the sea. I’m trying out its new Soul & Surf Pause – a two-day “virtual holiday” with the action taking place in my living room via Zoom.
“We wanted to recreate the elements of a retreat with us – and stay connected while we can’t travel,” said co-founder Ed Templeton. “There’s the yoga and surfing, but that sense of community too.”
Boom.
A new golden era and one that VALs, WSLers, The Inertia should embrace with pasty but toned arms.
The ocean is deadly. It has Coronavirus and will continue to have it. Plus sharks.
No more surfing.
Ever.
Perpetual #HomeBreakChallenge.
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She needs some BG shark soap bombs sprinkled around the floor to up the intensity level to a 10.
I’m not convinced, it all looks off to me. Pillow placement is poor, back leg is way out of position…who the fuck puts a chair at the bottom of a set of stairs?
Pretty sure you open that stairwell cupboard, and find a bunch of dead fucking bodies piled high
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Any chance we could get a safe space from those Metallica ads?
Maybe put the pillow in front so the fins don’t get snapped?
Decent body. Pale white obviously
What’s the optimal set up for the lounge room? Fcs or Futures? Or maybe finless like Derek Hynd?
At least it is a shit board.
I’m still poking around.
No need to reinvent the wheel here.
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Awww I remember VALs!
This seems something Daniel Duane might be interested in, a self proclaimed Val himself…..
Will there be an increase or decrease in VALs after the poxalypse? It could go either way. Obviously we all hope that they lose whatever inspiration they had. But this morning down the beach there was a large increase in the number of floundering mal riders. Seems like they have come out of the woodwork after a few days of not so many…
An excellent question Lemon. I for one thought this would be the end of the VAL, and part of me holds on to that thought – the VAL, financially shattered after the COVocalypse, will have to go back to work for years, destroying their cheesy dreams of an eat-pray-surf experience in, I dunno, Bali? But another part of me knows that even if the VAL as a type is vanquished, another form of the underlying archetype will soon burst forth, enthusiastically doing pop up training in a London apartment at the prompting of another Rachel, before heading off on the new Local surf trip – ten days in Newquay with a side trip to Wales.
I’d like to think it would be vanquished too. Although somehow the market/model selling a 2hr ‘surf’ lesson (with entitlement at no extra cost) hadn’t seem to have expired before the COVoca-poxalypse.
It’s interesting to me, that at the local, those who complain loudest about the numbers in the water, are also those who are riding either the cheap pop-outs, or flared models of the ‘super-shapers’. Meanwhile, there are hardly any local board manufacturers left in Noosa, who aren’t specialising in retro fish, mid-lengths or longboards. They might make ashort board as a custom occasionally. But it sure ain’t there main source of income…
She should head straight to the Severn… she got the stance wired.
Increase for sure. Iso has got a lot of ppl back into it around here and this whole ‘wellness’ thing isn’t going away
100 % SA !
Wellness is here to stay. Fucken hoss here in nz even called her last budget a “wellness budget”.
The term is out there in the mainstream.
I think Nick is far too optimistic about Vals. They ain’t going anywhere and after a while they’ll mutate into something we’re all too familiar with. The “Self appointed New entitled local.”
Surely not the Ed Templeton? Surely!
Had the same question, got scared, so checked out the site… Not the skater. This Ed’s from the UK.
I’m relieved!
What is this “surfing” thing of which you speak?