Mystery: Why do celebrities prefer and enjoy the worst surfboards ever made?

Thick n mean!

Celebrities are often lacking much, empathy, sense, the right time to make and distribute videos claiming responsibility for racism…

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTO5XElLpY/

…but one thing they do have is money.

In many cases they have much money and so it regularly surprises me, shocks me even, so see them in “celebrities gone surfing” features carrying such hideous surfboards.

What the hell is King Leonidas carrying here?

He could afford anything and he chooses that? A board with rails so thick they could be officially classified as retarded.

And what about his friend Legolas?

Why?

Why the rail thickness?

I could go on and on posting picture after picture but you know what I’m on about so help me figure it out, please.

Love,

Chas Smith

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Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

They get their big macs half price, so that won’t happen

Billy  Crystalmethodman
Billy Crystalmethodman
6 years ago

When Gerard Butler was in Santa Cruz filming “Chasing Mavericks” he would hit the town and fuck anything that moved, if she had a purse and a pulse it was on, you could be out on a date, he would hit on your date no problem. Gerard ran through the town.. ps Gerard did get mopped up by a proper rogue set wave while filming, then went on some talk show and claimed he caught 2 waves..

Trev
Trev
6 years ago

Hhhmmm, let’s see some pics/vid of you “ripping” on the mid length before you throw stones.

The never ending twenty
The never ending twenty
6 years ago

blame Laird

Chuck Dukowski
Chuck Dukowski
6 years ago

The word celebrity… Throw a Cook on TV and make the dreaded ‘Celebrity Chef’. Throw a D-grade actor on any surfboard and your got a turd… Floating.

Pauly Matt War-Shore
Pauly Matt War-Shore
6 years ago

You’re either ignorant or being deliberately obtuse with your “defund the police” statement. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-09/what-does-defund-the-police-actually-mean/12335028.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

The fairer race are by a country mile the least racist of all human scum.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

Hehheheeeeheheeehheee

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
6 years ago

Malaysia is fucked up and its something like 60 % Malay 30% Chinese and 10% Indian.
The Malays are lazy and headbutt the floor boards 5 times a day, but they were there first, so wrote the rules making them at the top of the totem pole.
The Chinese have all the money but when the economy goes to shit they are the ones to get their shops burnt down by the board knockers.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

Me too
Same view
Its so fuked up

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
6 years ago

In the actual movie footage they have to be on logs because it’s almost impossible for a beginner to sit on a short board and not fall off.
Poor Leonidas can barely get his arm around that board and the wax is on the wrong side. Not much surf in Greece I suppose.

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
6 years ago

Is your name Gerard by any chance?

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

No police brutality here on the nthn beaches
Quite the opposite in fact
https://youtu.be/WxP5hqAKKj8

Owen Wright's Brains
Owen Wright's Brains
6 years ago

who’s gonna protect me from the muzzies?!

Otto
Otto
6 years ago

Thanks Brother

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

Straight to netflix

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

Ban fake tan!!
Not the cops

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
6 years ago

A while ago, a friend of mine, Dave, was employed for a day to look after a celebrity who was holidaying in Bali. Celebrity had informed his minders that he wished to go surfing in the famed waves of Uluwatu. Dave arrives at the hotel, meets and greets, asks how much experience celeb has. Is told by all present that celeb is a regular surfer in California. He sees the boards the guy has and figures he knows what he is doing, so down the bamboo ladder they go. Waves are about one and a half times head high with the occasional double head high wave coming through.

Realises pretty quick that the dude is not as capable as has been advertised. They get out after getting washed down towards Padang. After they get back to Inside Corner, Dave asks the guy how he is going. Gets a spiel about how celeb has been in bigger, scarier waves and is looking forward to taking off on a few. Dave is confused, given celeb doesn’t seem interested in catching any waves that come through where they are sitting.

After about an hour of sitting and being told how good the celeb can surf, how many famous women the guy has shagged, etc, Dave is no longer confused. Dave can see the guy is shitting himself, although is hiding that fear through ‘acting’. After another 30 minutes of stories, Dave asks the guy if he wants to go in. The guy says; “Yeah, the surf is pretty shitty today huh?” Dave paddles the celeb in. Dave was happy because he got paid.

He wouldn’t tell me who it was, but my guess has always been Matthew McConaughey.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

I was at clovelly yesterday
Chicks everywhere
There was a group of great lookin gals with their tits out.
My young bloke kept pointing
I kept looking.

Otto
Otto
6 years ago

Uluwatu? Matthew McConaughey? Dave should have taken him to a break that’s all right, all right, all right.

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

come on, everyone knows McConaughey OWNS the lefts at Bob Hall Pier

Otto
Otto
6 years ago
Reply to  Joe Deal
Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

The Devil can’t scare me with Hades said Sam, “I was married for FOUR years …”

frank
frank
6 years ago

I always appreciated Owen Wilson way more than MM (but they are still easy for me to mix up!):
https://m.youtube.com/watch…

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  frank

Can’t believe he tried to neck himself.

frank
frank
6 years ago

Wow, I had no idea I just looked that up
It took me a while to translate that from Oz English
hope he’s better

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  frank

Over Kate Hudson…
Not cool.

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
6 years ago

She is hot as hell. Almost as hot as that Aussie chick that used to be your old Disqus avatar photo.

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
6 years ago

I was thinking it was Matthew M about halfway through your story too, being that he was from California and claimed to surf regularly.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

Rob Lowe. Delusional.

Did your friend also fuck the celebrity?

@surfads
@surfads
6 years ago

Didn’t know Felipe was considered to be a Hollywood celeb but i guess surfing is pretty mainstream these days

Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
6 years ago

Surely it was Dan Blitzern or whatever he is called.
Edit- just had an entertaining browse through Dan’s feed and low and behold he is photographed with surfboards with a swim/surf coach called Dave!

Justin Housman
Justin Housman
6 years ago

Is he a celebrity?

Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
6 years ago
Reply to  Justin Housman

That bar is set very low these days, and as you and I both know who he is, I guess he is a celebrity

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
6 years ago

Can you post a link? I’ll do a ID check. I’m not prepared to look directly at anything by Dan Bitzcoin.

Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
6 years ago

I don’t think I can post it, it’s from 1st August 2017. https://www.instagram.com/p…

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
6 years ago

Not the Dave I know. Doesn’t look like Bali either, although that is my birthday. (Start saving now!)

Gino
Gino
6 years ago

Those Emery boards must be pretty good that Chris Hemsworth rides, but if I was up at Byron I’d be riding a McCoy.

FelipesFrontFoot
FelipesFrontFoot
6 years ago
Reply to  Gino

I guess the difference there is he was a surfer before he became a famous Kent

Mapski
Mapski
6 years ago
Reply to  Gino

I am surprised McCoy doesn’t get more recognition or reverence with his singular design theories. His volumes and rolled dome vee still seem futuristic in this ride anything age.

Gino
Gino
6 years ago
Reply to  Mapski

I’ve had a few.
So well made.

Owen Wright's Brains
Owen Wright's Brains
6 years ago
Reply to  Gino

emery makes boards like 90s slater rode.

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
6 years ago

So when they read this and are shamed into buying a CI mid-length, what’s your cut?

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

This place is dipping a toe into the commercial pool…. first a resort ad, then multiple ads for a pool in Palm Springs, now a CI mid length ad or twelve, how about a real estate tour…. If only they could monetize sharks?

Soon, there will be Derek’s fashion tips and Chas’ buying guide for the summer. Then we will come to find that the WSL bought both BG and STAB out and relocated their site offices to the same building in Colorado.

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

You sell Art for a living right?

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

I’m commissioned to design temporary environments… Like you will need if your chick ropes you in…

SectionSB
SectionSB
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Wow…..if you can deal with that sort of stress, you can probably deal with anything. haha.
.The tales you could tell? Memoirs someday?
” he just ruined our magical day, and we paid him so much money” Freak failure due to stoned laborers doing the tent math wrong…Winds? uh? (semi-true story I witnessed)

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  SectionSB

Remember the party on your lawn… Santa Barbara Magazine July 2017?

So much drama until time to take credit for my work, then effusive praise as I drove away out your service gate.

SectionSB
SectionSB
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

haha…nope not me at Lotusvillle.I’m just a feral serf, found an estate to sponsor me in ’78….so here I am still. Kind of a mini Lotus tho. Your trade is one of those kind….do it well, noone really notices (you know what I mean) but screw up some small detail and ballistics ensue) Not for the faint hearted! Heres hoping people get back to having big sessions again.

Most of the BG discussions involve disguised names and I have no clue whats going on. Is John a tent guy here in SB? My story was from Vermont wedding, they get some crazy weather there. Tent lifted off the center pole. Abit chaotic, but people were pretty stoked so no one cared. Low budget affair.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  SectionSB

One guess SectionSB…. Tent Merchant?!!!!!

Poor John, good Kiwi heart but will promise anything and gets into trouble on game days.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

The women in our industry eat him alive.

Zero Wedge
Zero Wedge
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

You forgot tourniquets.
They can be found down the ‘Shark-adjacent’ aisle

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

-are you carping this spiel from old Dora letters to Surfer Mag ???

sounds nearly identical though the quality’s not really there either …

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  Joe Deal

I loathe Surfer Mag and Dora, so no.

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

don’t like the national enquirer or materialists eh? could be a hippy after all, and we all know Flower Children Rule …

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  Joe Deal

Hey Joe, why don’t drop the punchline?

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

yep, a hippy jr, you can tell as most are very testy for peaceniks …

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
6 years ago
Reply to  Joe Deal

Needs more logarithmic logs on linear scale.

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago

digital dora is the new Quicksilver virtual assistant … he steals your e-wallet while you try on the hundred dollar trunks … just as good as the analog miki …

Shore pound
Shore pound
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Imagine Chas and Ashton lounging in the same co-working space!

Karl Von Fanningstadt
Karl Von Fanningstadt
6 years ago

Because they suck and were convinced by their surfing pal, and “Greatest Athlete Ever*,” Laird Hamilton or Kelly Slater who tell them it’s easier to learn and start off on boats in return for some proximal attachment with said celebrity. Additionally, the celebrity watched North Shore once and internalized the teachings of Chandler, who made Rick start on that old plank, which they thought was wise and led to them to fetishize big boards. They are also told that they are actually surfing, even though they’re still working through their eight step popup, which they’ve cut down from 11 over the past three years.
*the celebrities don’t watch sports, so they promote this stance to make themselves seem quirky chic and/or faux wise.

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago

Check out “Chandler’s” eyes up close in virtually any scene in the film- he is so blazing rails the entire time, big re-hab check in followed right after the wrap … also if you can find it somewheres on YT check out Gregory Harrison trying to back-hand Restaurants and making zero drops … could have used a blast before that sesh but those South Pacific drug laws are pretty scary …

Otto
Otto
6 years ago

Cocaine + Surfing: A Love Big Rails Story

@surfads
@surfads
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Welcome To Paradise Now Go To Hollywood

Otto
Otto
6 years ago
Reply to  @surfads

Due to his proximity to the Ollie North story, I wonder if Chas was responsible for the “Ollywood” prank. Chas? Care to take credit?

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Ollie’s Point in Nicaragua, f ing dredging rights and hot commie chicks too …

Joe Deal
Joe Deal
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

oh, you did see North Shore then ?


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