Strange days.
Of all the places surfing could, might, have gone in these fraught-with-trouble times, the very bleeding edge of mental health was certainly a surprise.
But here we are.
Strange days with surf coaches, instructors, now so in demand that there is a push to get them in the same category as Xanax and Ativan.
Prescribed doctors.
Kris Primacio, the CEO of the International Surf Therapy Organization, has just launched the first-ever year-long pilot study to compare and analyze the benefits of surf therapy on various types of conditions. The findings will be presented to the medical community, which she says will be a major step toward prescribable surf therapy.
“Community is exactly what is happening in surf therapy programs,” Primacio recently told Spectrum 1 News. “We’re creating safe spaces.”
According to the report, it is these safe spaces that make surf therapy what it is. While anyone can go surf, recreational surfing is not surf therapy.
“Unlike regular surfing, which is usually done solo, surf therapy takes a structured approach and is always done with trained staff members whose goals are to foster healing.”
It is assumed that recreational surfing is, in point of fact, the opposite of surf therapy where furious women and men scream “GET OUT OF THE WAY, KOOK!” at vulnerable adult learners, further traumatizing.
And would you change your angry ways if it meant becoming a controlled substance with much street value?
Something to think about.
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Surely they could’ve done some quick research around these parts and found out that surfing is actually a cause and symptom of many mental health disorders, and not the cure or healing process they think it is…
I reckon Jack robbo has the best surf therapist
Ive been washed over the therapy curve and just best to paddle in.
My VAL-GAL does a excellent Surf Therapy program and is a part of The International Surf Therapy Association.
Fortunately for the participants, I help by keeping at least 100m away from the program.
Can you bring your therapy coach on a plane with you?
option 2 ☑️, drugs it is doc…
You can get your surf coaches delivered like a pizza.
“Would you like that coach deep dish or thin crust?”
Just so raw that you could step on it 3 times and it’d still be John blaze
They need to discover a large shit on the bonnet of their car post surf to balance the universe again.
I need therapy every time I go attempt to surf. Is there a ‘post-surf therapy therapy’ practice I could attend?
It’s called the pub
Sadly, am a non-drinker now.
therapy programs are all the rage.
I see the national party here are about to undertake empathy training…there really is such a thing?
I could put a great program together for them
burn their houses down so they can empathise with bushfire victims, bash them so they can empathise with victims of assault…take all their money and stop paying them so they can empathise with poor people?
Did you see the voter suppression act in Georgia being signed under a painting of a legendarily brutal plantation?
And the arrest of a black politician who dared knock on the door as it was being signed?
You need an ID to:
– purchase alcohol
– drive a car
– get a job
– adopt a dog from the shelter
– cash a check
Requiring an ID to vote is common sense.
As far as the guy getting arrested, sounds like he got caught up in the left’s new definition of “insurrection”. They should be more careful.
They told the bitch to fuk off at least 3 times before they dragged her Whiny ass away
Um, try to keep up Otto. It was a women Representative that was arrested.
And, I’ll assume you accidentally left off buying an assault weapon from the ID requirement list?
There’s no such thing as an “assault rifle”. Sounds more scary than saying semi-automatic rifle. If you walked into a gun store and asked for an ” assault rifle”, the clerk would not have any useful information provided by you that would assist in a purchase that even remotely resembles whatever scary thought you’ve cooked up in your scared mind.
You need an ID AND must pass a background check before purchasing a firearm from an FFL Dealer. That’s common sense. Just like requiring an ID to vote is common sense.
Well actually to earn the right to drive a car you need to show that you have the ability to do so. One would expect no less to purchase and possess a firearm. And you are required to register the vehicle. But let’s not let facts get in the way now.
Which all goes to show just how user-friendly the ID requirement for voting laws is. It’s not voter suppression no matter how much you bitch and whine that it is
Which assumes the delusion that Trump lost based on the absurd idea that over 8 million people voted “illegally.” Please, if you will, explain why poor, ethnic neighborhoods have long lines to vote, which in turn make it harder to actually vote? COVID inadvertently allowed many more US citizens to vote, which is never good for the right. Again, facts Otto, facts.
A Judge in Michigan found that the Secretary of State violated Michigan law when she changed State voting guidelines, exceeding her powers. State legislature makes laws, State Executive Branch enforces those laws. Absentee ballots with signature verification is best. When state officials removed signature verification, coupled with mass mail-in ballots sent to unverified voter rolls, they hurt election integrity. Safeguarding elections from concerns that Democrats, Republicans etc. have once election results come in is imperative. Waiting in line does not suppress voters. It actually provides every voter reassuring means by which they know their vote counted. Mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting, and lack of signature verification deprived voters of assurances that their vote will be counted.
The vague situations you noted may have hurt the perception of voting integrity but even Trump’s handpicked stooge William Barr declared there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud, right before he resigned in embarrassment. How is it possible, based on your set of facts, that the problems only occurred in blue states that voted against Trump? Couldn’t it be possible that Trump actually got beat by more but the count was off due to republican cheating?
I didn’t say the problems only occurred in blue States. The issue of mail-in ballots being mailed out to voters who did not request the ballot is troublesome. Covid does not give justification in perpetuity to keep changes to state voting laws that were not lawfully changed by those state legislatures. Even Mexico requires an ID to vote. The argument that these laws suppress voters is patently untrue.
Otto, what right do you have to tell a Sturm Gewer that identifies as a assault rifle that they/them can’t?
Ha! No one wants to lose $40K+ risking catastrophic gnarling of a Sturm Gewehr accidentally. Replacement parts are near impossible to find. I remember hearing some outfit was bringing a replica to market. But I think they got tied up in a lawsuit.
The Germans sure had a knack for developing crazy scary weapons platforms.
I deliberated over whether to add that then we should tie them up and fuck them up the arse…so they know how the rest of us feel…but I am too polite
Always the victim
I’m led to believe that some people quite like that sort of thing so I’m loathe to suddenly prescribe it as a punishment lest it denigrate those that seek it as pleasure.
But metaphorically, yes. But literally yes with a burning stick of phosphorus.
This is A++++
cheers dogs
Sounds like a lotta Labor
which is…?? How’s ya Lib mates ?
I understand why you love them so much , sexual deviates, rapists, misogynists ….
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Stop being an anonymous little bitch Bex.
she can’t help it….and while I’m here neg…..my memory is sorta fucked now….was I supposed to make you a board????
Yeah! Derek offered me a board from a shaper of my choice. Picked you, two years ago!
do you still want one….??
Hell yeah. Did you and Derek have a arrangement?
You first.
Googling “who is Bex Vedina from Beachgrit” doesn’t offer much insight.
Try Little bitch bex
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I found him in wet snoring mess in the middle of the day in an overheated Kombi bus. Slapped him on the butt which awoke this snarling mess of swinging arms and spewing threats of “I almost knocked my wife out for doing the same by waking me like that!! You fucker!”
haha , got ya searching for dirt…….I an completely wired different because of my upbringing…one of my conditions called PTSD , is that if someone trys to wake me suddenly, I nearly knocked out RCJ also , I will protect myself….it’s called a reflex action……next ask me what happened to Reno after his bullshit story…he threatened me , and called me out , shaped up to me ….and then shit himself…..very sad as Timmy Patterson witnessed the whole incident…..Reno has been an ice addict for more than 10 years….so fucken sad….but I have no problems airing any of my past antics….thats why you are the enemy , as you remind me of colonial value cunts from the past!
Is the that why he tripped out over Matt Warshaws EOS entry?
yeah , sad but Reno has his own version of history , especially when it comes where his place is now in surfing…..
I spent a lot of time trying to help him as Timmy did….Timmy lent him a Skil planer , never got is back , I took him to dinner so he could eat and gave him $20 for w eek or so for petrol..till I saw him go into a bar…with the $20…..I bought signed photo’s of him for $20 a hit……fuck he was one of my best friends….he helped me out shaping wise and even came and visited me in Ararat prison…….to watch him spiral down for the last 20 yrs is fucken heart breaking!
PMS more likely
fuck I can see you now having a wank over me having PMS!
U wish
Chas, I believe we “eskimo brother’ed” our news segment re: officially recognized mental health therapy and surfing. I was laid forlorn by the segment. So beneath your other gripping blockbuster report of a British TV personality being savaged, I commented:
this is rad. last evening, a heart-warming segment came on the local news about a group of people who would like surfing to be included in the medical canon as a form of therapy for addicts, those suffering PTSD, etc. so they showed this lady down by El Porto claiming to be the world’s 1st surf therapist and she had with her that fine day a client who claimed that surfing saved his life. he does it everyday now, and has been for the past year-and-a-half. he wants to visit the “North Shore of Hawaii where the waves are big and challenging” one day, maybe even “next year with more practice.”
he had tucked under his arm the traditional 2+1 yellowed longboard of the VAL set, and he talked about the “skegs” as they pointed outward, away from his body, during his jog with said 2+1 longboard set up out to the lineup with his therapist near. then the news segment showed a good 90 seconds or so of water footage. dude couldn’t even paddle. looked like a starfish on his 2+1, legs all askew, nose of board pointing way up, zigging and zagging like a sailboat’s tact. a few “turtle rolls” shot from a water angle. neither could the therapist lady advocating for official recognition. there were absolutely zero shots of an ATTEMPT at sliding a wave, clearly saving them the embarassment that befell our friend across the pond. during the segment, i become slightly roused, telling my girlfriend, “look at this shit…look at this shit, they’re not gonna even TRY to show these kooks surf….look at this shit!”
for the first time, she turned and looked into my eyes. softly grasping my hand, in hushed tones she saddeningly + compassionately offered understanding and remorse: “i finally get it now, why you get so aggravated by surfing.”
I’m just happy to be Eskimo bros with you.
it’s not exactly ultra-hard, but it’s assuredly anti-depressive