Premium surf magazine severely bullies plucky bodyboard website but remains entirely mum when challenged by world’s biggest surf blog; Police likely being called!

Chas Smith

By

When will this cultural sickness end?

Earlier today, it was revealed that premium surf magazine Stab had unleashed an expletive-laced invective on small but wonderful bodyboard website Infoamed after it dared challenge a supposition that those standing on surfboards had the right to drop in on those laying down.

A classic bullying move much discussed, and frowned upon, in our modern times but also historically.

Nobody likes a bully.

The world’s largest surf blog, BeachGrit, deeply feeling the injustice, interjected, daring Stab to fight as near its weight class as possible.

Difficult to be in weight class as Stab appears to enjoy many California burritos.

Much plate lunch.

Stab’s response?

Silence.

Utter quiet across multiple platforms.

The classic bullying move, to attempt harm on the littles then cowering when called out.

But when will this cultural sickness end?

Tomorrow, BeachGrit begins training in the anti-bullying art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Police on standby.

More as the story develops.

Premium surf magazine unleashes rage-filled, expletive-laced tirade on plucky bodyboard website: “We couldn’t give a flying f*ck about what you ride!”

Chas Smith

By

Tantrum time.

Earlier this morning, premium surf magazine Stab became extremely agitated and let fly a barrage of venomous insults toward a plucky bodyboard website.

The troubles began when Infoamed published an article challenging a recent Stab caption in which dropping in on bodyboarders was encouraged. Per the piece:

In lineups of consequence, you will generally find a complete mutual respect between surfers and bodyboarders, and a vast majority of the professional surfing community (those that are any good), respect the bodyboarding community. Why? Because surfing actually owes a lot to the bodyboarding community.

Let’s not forget the amount of big wave discoveries that were championed by bodyboarders, or pushing the limits of what is considered rideable or paddleable. Not to mention aerial surfing actually owes a lot to the progressive bodyboarding days of the 1990s and early 2000s. 

I believe peaceful action is required by both the bodyboarding and surfing community to stamp out these forms of discrimination. If you see it, please call it out for what it is.

It was then posted for its 1,800 Instagram followers to enjoy.

Stab, incensed, quickly responded, animosity boiling over, “We couldn’t give a flying fuck about what you ride. Sure, some waves are more boog friendly than others but you’re still the only folk to paddle The Right. Respect. We started in the same fucking office as the Movement legends. This is a non-story, boys.” Then added, “Honolua Bay is one of the world’s easiest roll-ins. No place for the software.”

At this time, it is still unclear why the one-time Venice-adjacent publication became so enraged so quickly, or why it was loitering on a small bodyboard account, and it would be unethical to speculate.

Police are on standby, waiting for the call from Stab that it has been assaulted.

More as the story develops.

Opportunity: Bid for a piece of surf history guaranteed to soon join Dr. Seuss, Lana Del Rey, on cancelled list!

Chas Smith

By

Three words: Pacific Systems Homes.

The other day, I just so happened to be walking past the living room bookshelf when a title caught my eye. Six by Seuss. I hadn’t noticed it before, slid it from its place, wondering what the “six” were. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Horton Hatches the Egg, The Lorax, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.

A chill ran up my spine.

Hadn’t Mulberry Street just been cancelled? It certainly had and for racist depictions, I believe.

I raced to the window, making sure no progressives were in the bushes, observing me with their all-seeing third eyes, then went to the computer to see how much Mulberry Street is currently fetching on the open market.

$850.

A hushed whistle escaped my lips.

Not that I would ever profit off anything tawdry but you can for in a very short few weeks, for then the California Gold Surf Auction and let us read the press release together.

An exciting array of unique, rare surfboards and memorabilia are on the auction block. The California Gold Surf Auction theme is “Guns, Wood and More…”. Prime elephant guns by Dick Brewer, Mike Diffenderfer, and Greg Noll lead the way. Jaw-dropping wood, including boards by Richard Gomez, Barry Kanaiaupuni, and Pacific Systems Homes, highlight the wood category. The auction offers something for every serious board collector including a Greenough Edge Board, Paipos and a selection of small Waikiki Rotary Club boards. All bidding takes place online. On April 16th at 5pm PST the California Gold Surf Auction lots begin closing and lots close every two minutes.

Exciting is right but do you know what those Pacific Systems Homes surfboards were called?

Swastikas.

Bid low, re-sell high.

You’re welcome.

Still ok to catch Tigers, howevs, like this big un, caught off Tweed Heads, NSW. | Photo: Facebook/Geoff Brooks

Australian deckhand fined $12,500 for taking selfies with two dead Great White sharks in act judge brands as “barbaric” and “vulgar”!

Derek Rielly

By

No animals deliberately killed, important to note.

If further proof was necessary of the sanctity of the Great White Shark, and I doubt it is, well here y’go.

A Western Australian judge has booted an Albany deckhand from his job for one year and fined him twelve-and-a-half-gees for posing with two Great Whites after dragging ’em, dead, out of his nets.

Tyrone Leigh Harding, who is thirty four, pleaded guilty to one count of taking a protected fish in April 2019 after he and his skipper James Stewart Tindall pulled in the two Great Whites after they became tangled in their gill net in April, 2019.

Both animals were dead before they were pulled on deck.

No animals deliberately killed, important to note, I think.

And, my reading of the law is you gotta throw ’em back in the drink, even if dead.

Harding and Tindall took a few selfies and videos and hacked out the jaws, something that’d prove to be their undoing.

Fisheries officers were put on the case after someone reported finding severed sharks in a nearby river one month later.

Cops got onto Harding, searched his joint, found the jaws, the photos and the videos.

Harding’s defence lawyer said Harding and Tindall were three-and-a-half clicks off the coast when the Great Whites got caught in the nets.

Cutting the net away from the Whites, he said, would’ve risked the crew’s safety and the net would’ve drifted into the ocean, environmental nightmare etc, so the pair dragged ‘em in, cut ‘em up, souvenired the fangs.

Magistrate Dianne Scaddan described the pair posing with the Great Whites as “barbaric” and “vulgar”, two hitherto unknown offences.

The skipper returns to court April 1.

Watch: Humble Florida man has wave of day posted to Surfline, gets called out by world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater for dodging barrel!

Chas Smith

By

It's a cruel world.

If you know anything about the great state of Florida, then you know its South Beach is famous for many things (a vibrant LBGTQ+ community, The Raleigh Hotel, Phil Collins) but not famous for waves.

That all changed yesterday when a magical run of swell hit those white sandbars and flared.

Barrels etc.

One man named Dustin Richardson, Florida born, and described as “humble and hardworking,” was in position to snag one and snag he did, a glimmering tube, his effort being caught on camera by 17-year-old Peyton Willard from St. Augustine and subsequently posted to Surfline’s Instagram account for each and every of its nearly 2 million followers to ooh and ahh.

Dreams, as they say, do come true.

Except.

One of Surfline’s nearly 2 million followers just so happens to be the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater and he was not so convinced that Richardson had actually been barreled, writing “Small kine” and including a shrugging emoji, laughing emoji, teeth gritting emoji and tagging the very funny account @barrel_dodgers_anonymous.

Dreams, as they say, can quickly sour and become shameful burdens to bear especially if the 11x World Champ is anywhere near that dream with his patented quick-action desire to cut anyone down to size.

It’s a cruel world.

Photo: Justin Jay/@justinjayphoto
EAT BEACHGRIT SPAM!
It's Daily!