"To hell with that!"
But does a two week stretch get any more action-packed in our surf world? Any more exciting? The last fourteen days saw the kickoff of the World Surf League’s championship tours, women’s and men’s, in Honolua Bay and at the Banzai Pipeline respectively. The Honolua event was cancelled after a fatal shark attack. The Banzai event was suspended after WSL CEO Erik Logan admitted to contracting the novel Coronavirus.
A cone of silence descended.
The women’s event was moved to the Banzai, the men’s event was allowed to resume, the cone of silence was temporarily lifted, history was made as the women carved, occasionally got pat, John John Florence won his very first Pipe Masters.
In the middle of all this, famous mixed-martial arts fighter and mayor pro tem of Huntington Beach Tito Ortiz spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally in town and decried both mask wearing and the just-released Covid-19 vaccine cementing Surf City as “ground zero for rebellion against Coronavirus restrictions” according to the Orange County Register and whoa.
Who would have ever imagined Surf City becoming the ground zero of anything save the famed “Huntington Hop?”
Certainly not me but let’s watch Ortiz’s December 13 speech together, as surfers, in our ancestral home.
The Register reached out to Ortiz for clarification about his anti-mask stance and he responded, via text, “Wearing masks actually drops the oxygen levels required by the U.S. government, making (the) City of HB libel (sic) for dangerously low air intake levels!”
It does take much oxygen to do the Huntington Hop, that I know from experience, as I once became very winded hopping from middle pier all the way to the shore.
Whew.
Surf City, USA.
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Both of those posts take a very complicated, multi-variable issue and remove all the variables except mass usage vs infection rates.
Maybe you should look at some non-biased scientific sources instead of only highly politicized ones?
https://www.nature.com/arti…
Comment of the year. Glad you’re ok, that sounded seriously fucked up.
one too many bell rings for ol tito. traumatic encephalopathy is a frustrating mess.
MMA is gay
You can be famous for being a Moronic Male Adult? Or is he just famous for the time being?
Haha, don’t go outside, unless you’re flying somewhere.
Those in the know, know. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
You’d be surprised how much of that is cargo, general aviation and private aviation.
That is surprising.
Cargo has been the biggest growth in flights.
One of my customers who used to fly only regional jets just got their third 737 that they are flying for Amazon.
My neighbor got laid off from British Airways and he’s now working for a cargo company that does most of it’s flying for Amazon.
Even before this someone once told me that FedEx is a huge airline that just so happens to deliver packages.
Your fascination with the United States is astounding Bex. Perhaps you could write the Donald and receive an honorary citizenship. Better hurry up though, you only have a few weeks left for him to provide you the favor.
Yeah I heard you the first time which was about 5 times ago
What’s that big hole with no planes over the middle right side of the US?
It looks like a glory hole.
Land of the free, home of the douche.
Why are people still so butt hurt about masks? Maybe I’m the moron, but I don’t feel like my freedoms are being taken away by wearing a mask.
…and merry saturnalia!
Rocked you like a hurricane!?
(slow clap)
There’s medicine for that, too.
I guess none of you were here for the HB riots!? Oh well, there is significance to wear/what Tito is doing.
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How’s that Kool Aid tasting?
Livin la vida loca!!
Nature is awesome!!
Just drove past Main Street HB. Most restaurants are still open for outdoor dining even though there is a county-wide ban on such (State-wide?). Sidewalks, pier area, crowded, no masks. If Cali was a country, it would be third in new cases. I guess it’s a hoax until grandma dies.
Grandmas are in the business of dying brother, and business is goooood
Well, they stopped using the mercury, (Thimerosal), in vaccines in 2001, so there is that truth to continue to not acknowledge.
Holy shit VONR.
Thanks be to modern medicine.
I’m glad we haven’t lost you.
Darwin is calling, Mr Ortiz
Such a pity that you have already likely passed-on your genetic material to new round of congenital fuckwits.
Blame the other sheep, not the wolves surrounding the farm.
I sentence him to live in Huntington Beach.
Have Americans always been this dumb and it’s just social media that has exposed it?
There is no excuse for being an American and being that clueless.
The proles are over breeding.
Which court do you provide over?
“provide over”
“preside over?”
“Which court do you preside over?”
Have you been drinking?
I think Kelly and Wave Co should create a wave pool that replicates – and even improves on – Velzyland: Just as random, all those double ups, late drops, barrels, huge cutbacks.
A left just as V-land as the right?
If you could catch that lightning in a bottle, you would be golden.
That would be insanely popular, but I suspect randominity is expensive.