"My clients & team don’t deserve to be targeted & made fun of."
A much-loved surf-based fitness studio in New York City has slammed the world’s biggest surf network as VAL-phobic after a recent post, or repost if you wanna be accurate, on Instagram.
BeachGrit’s social media director, the noted author Chas Smith (buy Cocaine and Surfing, here, Welcome to Paradise Now Go to Hell, here, Reports from Hell, here) had, without permission, shared a short video from @surfsetnyc with the caption “World Surf League.”
Although quickly reported by @surfsetnyc and the video subsequently removed by Instagram, BeachGrit commenters were unable to resist the urge to make fun of the WSL and therefore blind to the joy of New Yorkers riding their SURFSET® Board (Rip SurferX), a “6-foot long surfboard on top of three balance balls, designed to mimic the feeling of being on water.”
Early this morning, BeachGrit received the following missives.
“We are a small family business trying to survive. We got hit very hard by Covid & have been closed for 14 months with no income for our family and our kids. This video is from the first day we opened after 432 days. We support the surfing community, respecting more experienced surfers & educating beginners, so everyone is safer in the water. My clients & team don’t deserve to be targeted & made fun of. Please take it down.”
And,
“A commenter has says that leashes should be put around our necks. This implies a noose or something an enslaved person would wear. Take. This. Video. Down. Now.”
All fair charges, I think, although the connection between a legrope and slavery a little tenuous, a very long bow to draw.
SurfSet NYC’s story is a good one, inspirational etc.
Per the website,
“Aaron Thouvenin and Diana Garrett are two of the world’s first SURFSET® Fitness Master Trainers & Ambassadors. They started their SURFSET® journey as students when the company launched in 2011. Not only did they study directly with the SURFSET® Fitness founders to best understand the company’s vision and fitness method, but they also had the unique opportunity to work with some of the top spinning, bootcamp, TRX®, kickboxing, barre, yoga, pilates, and dance trainers in New York City to learn creative new ways to workout on the board.”
SurfSet NYC’s studio is on 64 East 4th Street, 4th Floor between Bowery & 2nd Ave.
A drop-in class costs twenty-five dollars or unlimited sessions for one hundred and ninety-nine dollars per month.
An unlimited membership also offers ten percent off “Epic Beach Day Surf & Epic Pool Day Surf Getaways.”
And watch, Vic Secret’s Model Martha Hunt, at SurfSet NYC here.
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God this is too good.
I’ve got so many insults they are just percolating.
But I’ll tone it down to this..How many times you reckon a yuppie can be stung for the price of a foily to “ride the wild balls”? I suppose there is enough wanna be surfer types in New York to justify this wholesome family biz. So good luck to em eh.
Needn’t worry bruh, readers of beach grit are as far from being your customers as that long drawn bow of noosery
I’m scared to click on that one cuz…
I want my $2.00!!
Charges of leashes = nooses but no mention of ol’ Brad in the photo culturally appropriating a ridiculous double shaka while standing on a trumped up indo board?
SURFING IS NOW UNQUESTIONABLY THE KOOKIEST THING YOU CAN DO.
QUIT.
I remember someone on here saying something like: in the eyes of a non-surfer, there’s no difference between what these people are doing, SUPing, or riding a yellowed SurfAds style thruster in overhead waves
In 8th grade I built a half pipe in my backyard AND bought the flyest Stussy and Jimmy’sz threads with my paper route cash. These days a 14 year old can’t even have a paper route and are forced to sell dispensary weed to their friends.
The Haha Shaka, nice
Very gracious of you Derek. You are a fine example for us (minus the Zionophilia, of course.)
This was the last bit of the feed I saw before the link was broken.
Chris looks pretty stoked with his final form.
Not sure how many surfers will survive with their souls and sanity intact to attempt to make the Olympics.
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this was towards the end in the Masters class. Pretty tough line-up. Not sure anyone surfvived.
Last lady in blue clearly charges
I think this article directly following the Russian dwarf fight is potentially peak Beach Grit.
Good to hear they’ve still surfing after their first lesson in 2011 though. Very core.
There’s a Nero’s Rome vibe around here at the moment. You feel it?
Oh year it’s great. Just putting finishing touches on something that might bring it down a notch though. Or perhaps up, depending on your perspective
Their faces are smiling but their eyes show this lurking darkness of shame, dread, and regret.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
“A drop-in class costs twenty-five dollars”
That’s obviously a specific session where you learn to snake people, right?
are the classes sand-bottom? Or do I need to purchase booties?
Fuck me
What would they do if they came out of the studio, and found a street sign in their windshield?(Cliffs circa 90’s) I don’t care if they ever touch the Ocean, but they need that real surfer vibe…
waxed windshield. flat tires. robbed. Not that I ever witnessed any of that in the late 80’s early 90’s.
I returned from fieldwork about 5 years ago and was in a rental car with Arizona plates (‘Zonies’ are hated in CA). Surfed a kinda localized spot in La Jolla and when I got out someone flattened all4 four of my rentals tires. Gave me a good laugh.
That placement of that “leash cord(?)” in the (front?), is f’n me up. Are they all goofy foot by introduction, or is it a NY thing?
At least if they were enslaved that VAL energy would get put to good use.
ensVALed.
I feel like my pop up is very similar to the lady in the red top’s pop up..