"What the heck does this have to do with George Floyd or police brutality?"
Oh these are wild days by any stretch, what with a novel virus still lingering on warming (northern hemisphere) air, social distancing the norm, face masks de rigueur, school out for summer, school maybe out forever.
Add to this riots breaking out all over the United States of America in protest of another unarmed black man murdered at the hands of police officers. A collective sob rippling through city after city as police precincts burn, police cars get smashed, mayors attempting to ease through curfew, National Guard mobilize.
Will all this violence lubricate the gears of justice that seem to have frozen?
Hope springs eternal, but, unfortunately, over-enthusiastic, volume-craving bad apples are taking advantage of the social breakdown, smashing into surf shops and stealing mid-length surfboards.
Yesterday, San Clemente stand-out Nate Yeomans posted an Instagram video of the action.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA36NOZhmNA/
Condemnation from surfers everywhere was swift, as it should have been, but shame and sympathy also imbued my personal rage.
Shame because I know I’m part of the problem, having just filled the mid shaped hole in my heart with a gorgeous Channel Islands MID, talking very much about it and surfing it quite exceptionally.
Sympathy because I know, intimately, the unique thrill.
Mid-length guru Devon Howard said, “What the heck does this have to do with George Floyd or police brutality? If you see these on Craig’s list please DM me. They are clear Takayamas, made with epoxy, small ‘Howard special’ logo on decks.”
Keep your eyes peeled.
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Antifa protesters have long been masked for a reason, and it’s not prepping for Covid. Do you support throwing scissors and rocks into a crowd containing children? They’re not just in Charlottesville, they’re misleading youth and the far left in every major city. It’s ironic because of their inability to have a discussion so instead they violently shut down the oppositions platform. It’s more fascist than anything they combat! #hypocrites
Antifa is not about being anti fascist, that’s their misleading nature. They don’t fight fascism. They violently shut down peaceful demonstrations because they disagree and are to weak to debate. They simply label their opposition as fascists etc so they can feel justified throwing rocks scissors and bottles into their crowds.
It’s the Patagonia store on 4th St.
A president designates an anti fascist ideology as domestic terror.
What does that make the president?
Fascist is the answer.
Said president then characterizes his nationalists as “good people”.
He is being very transparent amigos. As transparent as he will be.
bet that they only pulled the boards off the racks ‘to protect them’ from non~surfin’ looters.
they’ll give ’em back when things quiet down, un~waxed nor ridden, of course!
chaz is princess of the kooks
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
KARMA BAD – Some one in the water may recognize the BOARDS and then …..
nothing will happen and no one will notice. It’s fucking LA and the kook that ends up with the board will never know it’s origin.
Probably carries a ‘purse’…
The real crime we seemed to have missed, is that the second person in that video is not even bothering to wear a mask
Has Chas and his mid length bias articles normalised this activity so much that these people no longer feel the need to hide in shame, practice this once forbidden, (rightly) ridiculed activity only under the cover of darkness?
A slippery slope indeed
Does Chas only surf his new board at night?
As much as that Howie bloke seems quite an ‘un’guru-like cockgobbler who surfs in a pansy fashion, it sucks that there’s no trigger happy cops around to quell these thieving scumbags…
Wrong colour. Cunt would probably just get a free ride home with those heavy looking boards
He is a surfer, you do know that…. he tells you anytime he describes himself so he must surf.
Except the two times he staged his own beach citations during quarantine which were both non surfing violations and voluntarily unnecessary. The search for street cred drives men to do odd things if they own a surfing blog.
The “collective sob” isn’t for police stations and squad cars being burned. It’s for the destruction and looting of private businesses, many of them family owned. Protesting Mr. Floyd’s murder is a fine and noble activity. The looters and Antifa scumbags are lowly pieces of shit.
Antifa? You’re buying that load of crap?
Club meeting tonight hippy! Treasurer must attend!
I’m out of work so dunno if I can swing the treasurer gig.
Hope that you can and you invest in a good keg for the meeting.
Not quite sure what’s more embarrassing, Antifa being made into this large, well connected and dangerous force on the right, or liberals still seeing Vladimir Putin behind every homegrown American disturbance.
So now you’re suggesting surfers snitch?
Come on Chas, pick a side.
He may be a little upset that he was unable, despite his best efforts, to inspire surfers to enact the type of behaviour we are now seeing, over the pandemic lockdown
Had he been beaten down by that cop on the beach…held down for ten minutes with a knee to the neck by the smug cunt…then died, he likely would have achieved his goal
Serious lack of commitment to the cause I would say
Serious lack of commitment…. LOL….
Always faking some outrage or another. War against ELO when he doesn’t even watch the contests. Baking cakes he won’t deliver. Let’s not forget the decision to travel on the verge of pandemic lock down dragging a small child with him (though very well dressed, large wardrobe).
Maybe the above, just proves that people who ride mid-lenghts– really are criminals……..
PS. Chas, in this article, even found a way to ‘name drop’ (advertise) the mid-length he got recently. That ‘is’ criminal also. Does he get ‘kick-backs’ from the maker every time he mentions one.
he got a free fucking board to review, Freerider. Channel Islands gets free advertising, Chas gets a free board. We all get it. Who gives a shit? It’s not criminal in the slightest.
I think your taking the word “criminal”a little too literally. The below post is from 2 weeks ago (and not the only one) that tried to put 2 & 2 together. Why single me out, go after them also.
COL Bill Kilgore
14 days ago
Beach Grit’s infomercial for Channel Islands is now complete…Even heard how on the podcast/infomercial that Dane is really back into surfing because he has this new CI board that is just inspiring him…Wait so Dane wasn’t stoked on surfing before and couldnt rip before he found this great new stick. Next podcast Chaz and the boys will be telling us how good this new rag is to clean things…..The Shamwow!!! View —
Advertising, whether it’s a trade for a review or straight up cash, is part of media. If you want to read free content, be prepared to have a few ads thrown your way. And if you don’t like Channel Islands, don’t buy a CI board. Just shut the fuck UP. You are the most active complainer on the internet.
You guys down-voting should start sending cash directly to Chas and Derek if you don’t want to read a few advertorials. They’re giving you free shit to read. You want them to do that out of the goodness of their hearts?
Mr. Dangleberry,
The comments are the main act…
Cheers
Freerider might struggle with the basics but piece by piece in the jigsaw and he’ll be able to reveal who killed JFK eventually.
“Struggle” may be putting it mildly.
You did notice that the only surf trip he has ever taken turned into a daily post advertisement for the resort that “hosted” him and introduced the surfing world to the term “Quid pro quo”.
Left to his own desires, Mr Smith would rather sail or take his daughter to quarantined continents as vacations.
LOL!
So, are you saying getting something, (somewhat expensive), would not change someone’s point of view? Why not just give them some free ‘advertising space’ for a week or 2 in exchange, without having to get someone’s personal opinion ( which could be influenced) involved. Wouldn’t that be a more fair way. They could even have ‘reviews’ from the (‘actual’ ‘paying’) guests, in the ad.
Yes, writing Ad Copy and disguising it as editorial is a fine art.
An “Advertorial”? Yes, disguising it would be a fine art– one it seems Chas has not mastered………
c’mon he tries hard!
George don’t surf.
First thing I thought when I saw these videos was “Fucking Chas“. Totally your fault for jumping the shark to the Mid-Length surfboard.