Grotesque!
Progression often flourishes in troubled times. When life is good, things move under the weight of their existing momentum. No change. No shift. Just same, same, same. Pain and hardship nourish innovation though. Fertilize it. Is it any coincidence that fertilizer is, in fact, shit?
No.
And in these shitty times, World Surf League CEO Erik Logan just threw out everything he had seen, heard, and pioneered a never-before-witnessed tube stance at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch.
Should we watch?
What do you think? Functional, practical, efficient or an abomination to everything surfing means?
David Lee Scales and I discussed this morning alongside welcome guest Travis Ferré.
Travis, as you must recall, stuck to his principles and has refused to surf Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch.
He also felt Logan made a complete mockery of everything we love.
Me?
I found the barrel hideously wonderful. Grotesque in the 18th century art sort of way, though, after watching it multiple times don’t know that it can be classified as “complete.” Logan torqued his body into a position that made it impossible to get to his feet after blasting out into the cow scented air.
Doesn’t one have to be able to stand in order for a barrel to count?
We also discussed Inherent Bummer’s wonderful new surf film Surf Film (watch here), getting strong via sewage and other flotsam plus jetsam.
Feel free to listen here but don’t feel obliged.
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I’d claim it!
Kalani Robb has to be on the Ultimate Surfer, I would throw Dingo and Bruce in the house too, along with Wesley Dantes. How about Jersey’s finest? Ben Gravy!
Travis Ferre stuck to his principal and refused to surf the tank? Well done!!
PS. —-Yes, it seems there may will be some who will not bend there knee to the seduction of technology, who hold onto their roots, and still find solace and real waves–in the Free God given Ocean. Maybe, there may still be–some soul surfers left out there after all………..
It’d help if the article explained who this Travis fairy actually is though…
Haha, whoever he is– he stuck to his principals………
Knee-Lo
Never
Emotionally
back knee dropped, nice line, grabbed the wall and stalled in the most critical section. came out a little stuck in his stance but who hasn’t? i thought it quite ELOquent.
More pitted than some of the other well known peripherals
If he had actually made a barrel and came out standing up, why not post that one, this might have been his best wave of the day. That being said, just getting tubed, doesn’t make someone a surfer…….
if you actually had a relevant comment to make, why not post that one?
Fucken hell, celebrating kookdom ….
Oh, and fuck Travis.
that wasnt a claim that was a “thumbs up im okay!”
Chas, get up to LA
More reports from Hell!!
Just makes me hate that place even more!
Not necessarily the wave, but mainly the people that surf it..
If he uses the same stance on a SUP, holding his paddle, at manhattan beach, and made it out of a barrel I’d burn every surfboard I own and give up
Things getting bad now
Just sounds like white noise
anyone got a link of someone noseriding on a singlefin criss cross apple sauce indian style?
I’ll listen to it later
When tha ABC has finished with your weekly brainwash
Sorry missed that was enjoying a nice show on nitv. Apparently the gov over in wa thought it would be nice if they let Isis blow up evidence of a 46,000 year old civilisation… oops my bad, it was rio tinto.
Yes it helped feed and clothe many people… Very sad
Youre almost certainly a shareholder, naughty naughty!!
I’m actually not, i divested my super from anything polluting or socially questionable about 10 years ago.
What a lotta hot air!
not everyone is a selfish cubt who follows the alan jones mantra….i mean most are, but not all.
Thanks for saving the world
Yay
no. the right are clearly saving the world. bastions of calm, joyful freedom.
Is that a trick comment?
no. johnson, scomo, bolsonaro and trump are just the people you want in charge. all of em wonderful and something you should be proud of. white proud of.
You forgot xixi
Although honk Kong dreams of trumpy
Xi Dada. The king of kings. Chinese Castro.
Speechless…
still better than your hunched over tube stance, chaz. you surf like someone who started when they were 32
And he’s now 33? That’s harsh
if chaz is 33 he on that fresno meth. dude looks hagard. like kathy griffin fucked george greenough’s feet.
Brah , how many people have broken bones at da pool #core
7, i think
Painful as it was to watch…does he now have a higher barrel make count on that left than Felipe Toledo?
Travis tries so fucking hard, and apparently he’s a “like” abuser. Here’s an idea! A three way podcast with Scales, Travy, and Ceej called “Like, Surfing!” where they get together and end up discussing three different topics about surfing but pretend like they’re talking about the same subject. Excerpt from the first show…
Scales: So, like, how we’re going to do this is we’re going to discuss like surf news… what’s like happening in the industry, Tour competition, or like whatever.
Trav: Whhoooa, like that’s not like my vibe at all. Like, I don’t care about surf news. I am going to try to make this cooler, like surfers are supposed to be, like you know? Like, we don’t need to like try hard… I mean, we have to try at all times, but like make it seem like we’re not. And I know Dane.
Ceej: Yeah, cool, so this one time, like at a time when Damo and I were fighting like a lot, I went to Nicaragua, on like a trip with like Drew Courtney, he was super pissed at Lewy… anyway, and like, one day like the surf wasn’t that great, so me and Drew decided to just like cruise around the resort, like Nicaragua was not super trendy back then… so we like go out and we’re walking to the beach and we’re captured by like these weird guerrilla guys and they throw us in like this Jeep… or something like that, and they are like driving us deep into the jungle, so then I like nudged Courtney and give him this like look like “I’m gonna take care of this.” So then I ask these like guerrilla guys in broken Spanish “do you guys love God?” They don’t answer, and then I ask if they know we’re pro surfers, and like one guy goes to us in like broken English like, “Why you think we take you?” Then we get to this like big bonfire and have a party, like for us! Like, that’s crazy surf news that never has like been told before, like ever. God blessed us to see like these people with so much like stoke for surf. It was like amazing.
You deserve an upvote just for the effort you went to in writing that. Nice…with my attention span it will take me 3 goes to read it through, but read it I shall
yeah… I didn’t finish reading this but it seemed funny. I probably would have laughed if i did read all of it
Like
Benjamin Button!
Lots of fertilizer been spread around the world right now…too much for this little mushroom I am sorry to say
Got to stop watching the news I think