The horror, the horror.
Wild times, weird times etc. when all of a sudden everything is scary. Two ostensibly senile old men are running to be president of the United States, the one currently leading more senile and older than the one in office, but since when were senile old men ever scary?
They are today.
Also, a virus very closely related to the common cold has killed thousands of people and is pushing the world’s economy to the brink of collapse. The common cold, even in an uncommon form, has never been scary until now and now it is terrifying.
Three-foot waves breaking over sandy ocean bottoms?
Positively the scariest thing ever and let us watch as the World Surf League’s Chief Executive and his Commissioner of the Women’s Championship Tour ditch their boards in terror underneath its shadow*.
CEO Erik Logan and Comish Jessi Miley-Cyrus are there on the inside as the shoulder-high monster approaches. Too late to panic paddle over the gently sloping shoulder they do what any one of us would in these wild, weird times etc. and sacrifice their boards to a slightly foamy rinse.
Thankfully, no one appears to have been paddling behind them but if someone had been, her broken nose, his dislocated eye, would have been well deserved.
Very spooky.
*The wave does not appear big enough to have a shadow.
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Wow, that is scary stuff! I hope she and her family are safe and well.
Only just discovered beachgrit. Wish I hadn’t
Just wait for next shark story and you will be well and truly fucking hooked!!!
Not to justify bailing ones board but I surfed just down the beach from the Mb pier this morning and it was a 0 ft low tide so you could basically walk out to the line up and I think you can see that he’s actually standing when he bails
So your suggestion is if your feet can touch bottom it’s ok to bail?
Not at all. I’ve tried to duck dive in water only a couple of feet deep. Usually doesn’t end well depending on how big the surf is. If the water is waste deep which it looks like in the photo duck diving is going to be tricky. But letting your board bail behind you is also bad
Wait, where’s the video of Chas getting hurt riding that artificial wave that does the same thing over and over again?
Oh and I did the math about Beirut, so you won’t have to:
Timothy McVeigh used 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate to blow up the Federal building in Oklahoma City.
Apparently the explosion in Beirut was 2700 metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored for six years.
And if my math is right, that is 5,952,481 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
Not sure how that measures out in explosive power, but I’ll bet that building that was right next to the explosion is 100% gone.
Somebody is in big big trouble.
P.S. Okay I found this about Oklahoma City: “It was estimated that the explosion had a yield equivalent to approximately 1.8 Mg (4,000 lb) of TNT”
So the Beirut explosion was 1000+ times as explosive?
The shoulder destroying wave is on U-tube. Its not a cover up Ben, Chas wrote articles about it also.
There having a blast In Beirut!
Too soon I know but I’m going hell anyhow
Look, I’m going to put my head on the cutting board but it does look pretty shallow to try and duck dive, especially a broken wave. In that situation I’ve always gone for the jump over the top – dorky but practical!
I more appalled by that guy NOT catching that wave.
SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Couldn’t care less about ELo bailing his board: kooks gonna kook.
CB, good to see you back.
Cheers ‘Top.
He knows that he’s on the naughty list of Sandy Claws.
Horse before Cart Chas…. are we sure that Erik Logan knows what the term “duck diving” means?
Pretty hard on a 4″ thick 8’0″ with a paddle for fucks sake.
True, true, if he’s been riding a Sup for years, he’s probably never tried a duck dive–as it’s basically impossible on a 4″ thick 8 or 9 foot board.
you`d be amazed at the kind of shit surf that guys will record themselves on around here
Fucking hell, a shoulder high wave does not maketh three foot.
Credit due:
I saw a photo of Cyrus Miley in red spandex spread out on a floor and I”m here to tell y’all that little muskateer has one heckofva Taco.
Lick lick
Red spandex ya say….Doritos taco?
the only variety I enjoy and being phased out….. .?
that things gunna bite your fucking head off together with your tongue!!!
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Given her above photo and her surfing photo with Elo..
Would it not be fair and reasonable to award her the woman big wave title?
Sure she’s never successfully rode a wave but hey
Neither did the last winner!
Uummmm
But it’s the ONLY book in the Amazon Yemen Travel Guides section…
Ya, that’s what I was gonna say. How many people you hear say “me n the missus and our babies going to Yemen for some fun in the sun!”
Does Miley Cyrus beat shark for clicks?
Let’s see!
I hope the WSL survives this and we can watch competitive surfing again.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.
BREAKING news: WSL chief denies reports of embarrassing corporate bail out
HA!
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Not sure how the book reviews are going, but at least is is the #1 book in the Amazon Yemen Travel Guides section.
Wildly glowing. Like the reviewer actually got it. Weird!
Rory hasn’t had a chance to write a scathing review yet it would seem!
He’ll get on it! This one was also from legit, normally cantankerous, publication!
Looks like he is running for election in Kaui – https://www.civilbeat.org/2…
Hahaha
all well and good but who got priority?
I would’ve bailed.
Me three.
Elo continuing to flaunt the long held rules of surfing, he’s a rebel without a clue