A very great artist…
There will be no bad things said about Kai Lenny, the daring twenty-seven-year-old multi-discipline surfer with sea-spray eyes shaped like pecans, skin the colour of buttered cocoa and lips as red as if he’d just applied a fresh coat of pomegranate lipstick.
His legend grows each day, and was furthered two days ago when he released harrowing POV footage of being caught inside at Nazaré, a wave now closed to surfing.
Kai, who is wearing a flotation vest, is whipped into a wave, gets steamrolled, held under for eight seconds, gets two waves on the head, each hit ten or so seconds underwater, third wave keeps him under for fifteen and brave little Kai surfaces just in time to get wave number four on the head.
His screams for his driver upon surfacing after each wave, except for the third, will chill your blood.
As is the case with POV cameras, the waves looked about fifty times smaller than real life.
Even so,
Fuck that,” wrote Joel Parkinson on Kai’s IG.
Rafael Moura, a photographer wrote, “I heard from @pedroscooby when he tried to rescue you that you wouldn’t let the Gopro go away and the only thing you actually cared while being smashed by those huge waves was to make sure that there were no water drops on your Gopro lens… Just watching the video I can see you checking it all the time 😂 I understand you, from a photographer perspective. But doing it while taking huge Nazaré on the head? Haha that’s insane.”
“That is true,” wrote Kai.
Watch and do a little sympathetic breath-holding for added effect.
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That will toughen you up, fighting off 200lb frat bros clawing at your red lifeguard bikini. They are probably still reminiscing about that day.
“Let me see the back of your head!?”
They are your worst nightmare unless you are ready when you approach them as they are panicking. They will literally try and climb up you to get themselves out of the water and push you under at the same time. Now you have two drowning victims. Good that you knocked some sense into her her with your elbow and got her to listen to you. Another technique is to swim down underwater to get away from them. They never want to follow you down.
Ya did good Pfff !
Amazing what some people will do for fun or just as importantly in this case – for a paycheck
Amen!
When I was 17 … 60kg dripping wet I managed to save a bloke , 90kg , who literally stepped off the side of a shallow sand bank into the rip bowl …… 1 hour to make the 3 Steps back onto the bank and 1/2 hour to walk him into the shore …. Stuck to me like a go pro mounted on a pole .
Just wait a minute!
I’m forty nine damn years old
And still sixty keg!
My mate’s dad , a character and former publican in Newcastle , then at the beautiful Star Hotel on the Banks of the Nambucca River at Macksville , visible from the Highway , just before the bend onto the bridge , would have described you as « There’s Eddie …. All Dick and Ribs «
A variation
My old man would throw around
Was All Prick and Ribs
Don’t forget the BBQ sauce with the Ribs !
Eddie should GO !
to the fridge … ?
To be a star among the Stars …..
Pretty Rad
« The only thing permanent in life is impermanence. « Thor
So …. Not Waving but Drowning
Inspired
……….Not Drowning Waving
and now performance artist / go pro pole dancer, Kai Lenny’s Opus
.
……Filming Not Drowning , Waving plus Screaming ….
If only he had a can of DRedFull in his other hand ….. he could have got his wings and flew up to the sun ,like a modern day Icarus….. ( Hubris Now ! )
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream ….. !
I find it sad he was more concerned about getting the footage than his own life.
2020 a shit year that keeps giving.
If only he could have held up a red bull sign in his other hand while slowly drowning.
Surfing in 2020. It just can’t get any more commercialized/ worse.
Can it ???
I was gonna post something snarky. But that 4th wave… legit. Kai Lenny is ok by me. Nazare, on the other hand, I’m done with.
It’s either a translation thing or some high art sniping from Rafael.
But holding a GoPro pole through all that is insane.
Job taught him everything he knows
It might be surgically attached.
He could be surfing’s first Bionic Man and he’ll never find himself up the creek without a paddle …. ?
Insane?? Or just stupid?
Kai is lucky that he had his luciously gorgeous golden Fabio locks cropped, as a stray hair may have ruined his gopro glory.
In other POV camera news..
If they make things look 50 times smaller than in real life, some modern porn is really quite frightening, and my cock must be as big as the ‘Eye-full’ tower….
Just as I imagined it
Ooh la la ….. Your Penis may be sporting a MONSTER decal before you can say …. Awful ….oops Eiffel ?
Which reminds me of the young man who just got married and Got his wife’s name tattooed on his schlong …… Anyway
During the Honeymoon in the Caribbean , the couple are having a wonderful time and after dining out at a local restaurant the young man goes off to the gents …. while he is pissing in the trough a very large local Rastafarian take out his dreadlocked cock and starts to piss next to him ….. Breaking the golden rule of polite public standup pissing the young man looks at the the Rastafarian’s member , which resembles a baby’s arm , and sees a W Y tattoo in the exactly same spot as he has on his own member ……
Young dumb and adventuresome , the young man says « wow we both have WY tattoos on our pricks ! Does yours say Wendy too , it’s my wife’s name ….? The Rastafarian says gently « No brother mine says WELCOME TO BARBADOS , HAVE A NICE STAY …… «
My buddy left his newly bride on the shores of “Soup Bowl”back in early 90’s. To later come walking up the beach to see said Rasta chatting her up. He said he couldn’t figure out what he was holding from a distance? As he got closer Rasta was standing in a loin cloth with special sleeve/sheath attached covering said engraved sword hanging past his quads.
Luckily the Pen-is mightier than the Sword ….. who am I kidding ? Giggles
That reminds me of mushy trip I had once!
Gold Topped utopia or dystopia ….. I ended up coming back to a tent to bags floating ( which turned out to be for the worse as they were literally floating after a downpour on the Mid North Coast ) ,after giggling for 3 hours non stop while my mate was repeating “ just imagine Heroin “ ….
could’ve been me.
#fuckcovid
I have made myself a Tshirt
RICMATIC WOULD GO*
* Nature permits , Culture forbids …..
Let’s change it to “could”
What about “ might “ ? I could always get shopping or drinking or whoring printed on the back or ,god forbid , Golfing …. ?
Let’s go with “could” but didn’t cuz of Covid-19 .
Catchy!
Your Word , is my Command ….
Ricmatic Could GO ! ( exclamation mark or question mark …. ? )
….but didn’t cuz of Covid-19
just got off the phone with market research, here’s where we’re at..
“ricmatic could go, but did’nt cuz of stinking covid.
and Bicko probably would’ve have gone too.but he couldn’t get a visa”
I mean, who would’nt wear that t shirt?
Catch 22 … Waves , we won’t .
You only have to catch 3 wavs to qualify it as a session.
Looked like 3 foot curly.
Hurley Burleigh …. 3ft Curly .
I had a fun surf there in 86 but I forgot to bring my life vest , jet ski , helicopters , Camera Crew and slippery go pro pole …. and a can of DredFull ….. No wonder I am Nobody ?
Would be cooler if he were carrying a rock on the bottom Like he was trained to do
A few Taco Bell 🛎 burritos will help take the edge off
Floatation vest, multiple jet skis, and a go-pro selfie stick? I mean it could have been worse…..
Laird handing him his creamer