We need The Club.
And the center has not held. Remember, six months ago, there were VALs and there was us and the twain only met at World Surf League events when Chief-Executive-Officer Erik Logan said various things?
Well, times have changed.
According to a just-released TMZ story, “surfing (is) exploding during pandemic SHOPS CAN’T KEEP BOARDS IN STOCK!!!
JS Industries — “More beginners entered the market than almost ever before due to surfing being one of the few activities deemed safe and accessible during COVID.”
Channel Island Surfboards in CA — “Surfing has doubled this year because it’s a social distancing activity and it’s free.”
Surf Station in FL — “There has been a definite increase. I can’t even put a timeframe for board requests.”
And I must preface by saying that I hope Peter Schroff, Matt Parker, Dane Hantz and every other wonderful shaper I know are each buying mansions in the hills next to Matt Biolos’s and/or San Pedro.
Then I will say, “Shit.”
The core is peanut-sized, the Wavestorm horde is already massive and now we can add VALs on JSs bogging turns and being lame in the impact zone.
Can we form up our own Da Hui but have it be international and also not culturally appropriated and, I guess, socially distanced?
What can we name it and what sort of thing can we do besides punching teeth out of heads?
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Only thing left to do for the “core” crew is to wear speedos at every chance and hope that surfing suffers the same fate as rollerblading did in the 90s
Let’s start wearing yellow beanies and punch them in the face. Da Goggie
Wavestorm invasion. Never seen anything like it. Irritating.
Where am I going to learn about the comings and goings of Qanon without
Fantasy Surfer? Fuck you, Derek. I need to know what pizza shop is housing our potential voters and why it’s okay to cheer on a deranged malignant narcissist. This is important to me!
I haven’t surfed for 2 months.
You’ll probably listen to it later.
This surf game is pretty rad!!
https://youtu.be/zE7zfKi43kY
Told you guys this last week. Boards and wetsuits off the charts in sales. Clothes still meh.
mid summer devon howard said on chas’ pod, that 7 out of 10boards are sold before being made. fuck me..
It has to be made common knowledge that we are all bisexual and we fluff about the beach mainly trawling for schlong of the newly converted and waves are just a bonus.
We will be known as the Schlong Brethren.
That should scare a few off.
The new guy is the pivot
Lottsa waves on my stretch mid week.,
No wuckas
Tuff shit legends
My favorite is the 4 non socially distanced, top down wetsuited bro’s walking from parked car with potato chip 5-9- pins and squashes heading to the most gutless thigh high wind slop beach in the area. Just would love to have watched those boards being sold.
The Covid kook influx is fucking killing me.
epidemic.
I just dropped in on sponger with a go pro in his mouth. Should have asked for the footage.
I constantly see dudes surfing 2 foot absolute slop with those whistle cameras in their mouths, crews of them. Wish to drown them all without going to jail
BG is already a ‘hui’.
It really just means meeting and coming together etc, which we do here everyday.
And seeing as we’re all spread across the world and therefore social distancing anyway it’s actually quite an advanced hui already…
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere innocent beginners clutching CI Mids are drowned.
(Or eaten by sharks)
(With any luck)
I’m starting to get a complex about owning a CI Mid.
You are too talented to ride such a concession board Negs.
The reality is, Blake Howard would surf a barn door well. We have a few guys that specialize in riding pigs and it’s best not to copy their handicapping of themselves.
Your giving yourself away as a CI employee.
fuck no, they burned me…. never again.
Dude, I’m far from talented. I got it for the bigger fatter days on the Point.
But truth be told, every time I’ve ventured away from riding high performance sticks. I end up regretting the time wasted as I crawl my skill set back from the brink of lateral surfing that only alternative or long boards can give you.
But who can just ride normal performance boards 24/7 and not be left feeling bored from the doing the same repetitive manoeuvres that stopped getting better after 35?
…just try switchfoot for awhile, every other wave….it will make you feel better about all those skills you are losing. Good for some laughs too….
My board length (still unpurchased) seems to increase like 6 inches every 6 months. I think I’m past the midlength now, back into 8 ft range…too short to longboard, too long to carve.
I went through a phase of switchfoot surfing in Indo in my 20’s. Could never really master turns but got pig dogging barrels on lock so still can pull it out of the bag for a laugh or a poser hang 5 on the middy.
Only advice I can muster about increasing length is keep on mixing it up with the shortboard before that part of your surfing is just a distant memory!
Maybe you just need a change of scenery so that your turns don’t all feel the same.
I get that your point is home, but I’ve found that mixing up venues is damn fun and makes things fresh. I could give you ideas but Astro will fuck with me, rightfully so. I got some photos that would make you drool and within a drive for ya.
Anytime things feel stale, I hop a plane. Well, not now, but it worked for 40 years. Come to think about it, everything used to work. Fuck fires, slides and Covid, btw.
Yeah, hitting the road always helps. But yeah fuck Covid sums it up really.
I’m just waiting for the day (coming soon) where I can get a CI Mid “perfect condition, ridden once” on Craigslist for $500. As long it is not that ugly orange color. Or Maybe an Almond Surfboards Plez Fez or a Christenson Flat Tracker for half the normal $1200. Beautiful surf craft, but that is a bunch of cash to spend at full price. Chas, tell those shapers to sock that money under their mattress (bought at your favorite San Clemente mattress shop), as the day of foot high order forms will not last long.
wait till the masses realize that 6 weeks means 15 weeks before they see their new mid length while Costco has racks filled with Wavestorms.
LOL. My son has a college project to do a short podcast on a critical issue facing society…. I tried to have him share the plight of his old man with the 800% growth of Wavestorm boards in the North San Diego county surf, but he did not feel that professors at the University of Arizona would appreciate my pain. To the contrary, Zonies are the exact perpetrators of much of this evil doing.
I grew up surfing Oceanside, parents owned a home near the Buccaneer.
Empty open spaces, even the harbor wasn’t crowded. My last visit, I turned away in disgust.
I think the way to dissuade Wavestorms is simple. Start a Facebook rumor that the foam boards are manufactured in Wuhan and contain particles of Covid 19 that are released when a person doesn’t stand up quick enough and falls. Maybe require riders to wear masks to prevent the gas from affecting them?
All you need are some russian hackers/meme writers and we can end this pandemic now.
Oceanside may also be the mid-length capital of the world. I don’t think I’ve seen a shortboard being ridden by anyone over the age of 16.
That is a horrible thing to ponder.
I just wish people explored width, thickness and length personally through customs instead of fads.
The whole “double ender” thing leaves me empty.
Can we please refer to all soft boards now as “Gerry Lopez’s”? Because that’s what Costco sells now, no longer Wavestorms.
Just had an 8’0 Maurice cole pop up on gumtree (Aus Craig’s list) … looks fun but they want $1200!
Tell ’em they’re dreeeeaming
Complex just doubled. Mine is orange.
Oh, it looks good on you though…
In all honesty I’d like to try one!
They work well for men of our age and girth.
and so it is, we finally agree…
CMM – most nihilistic award for now and ever. Love it.
Punk rock and hot humid weather don’t mix.