Fingers crossed.
And oh how the pressure is ON. As you know well, surfing will make its official Olympic debut in mere weeks’ time. Many, save Jordy Smith, are very excited but will it be a grand coming out or a total fizzle?
Well, it depends on the waves I suppose.
And Gabriel Medina vs. Italo Ferriera.
But if the waves are good, and if Gab + Italo perform, then one of the oldest, largest news organizations in the world suggests that Olympic boogie, longboard, SUP may follow.
Per a just released Reuters missive:
There are two gold medals up for grabs in Tokyo, one each for men and women using shortboards. Should these competitions provide the spectacular drama and visuals usually associated with the sport, other events such as longboards, bodyboards and stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) may be included at future Games.
And later…
At approximately 1.8 metres in length, the shortboards usually have three small fins on the underside and a pointed nose, which gives skilled riders the freedom to carry out tight turns and dynamic changes of direction that are harder to pull off on larger boards.
Shortboard supremacy coming to an end?
That depends, again, on Brazil.
The irony.
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Is that Chas wearing the beanie and smoking the fag watching one devochka snort coke off the chest of the other devochka?
Do any of his wives read this page?
FWIW Body boards outsell surfboards 6-1 . Kipapa has always been the dominant style.
Surfing in the Olympics still seems weird to me
Hell no!! I love that place but definitely not from there.
I always have a boog and fins in the car just in case
They mean the Special Olympics. Right?
Japan is awesome, but fuck me the surf sucks without a typhoon.
Can you legally bet on the Olympics? Asking for a fiend.
The guy is a kook. Looking to push foiling as the next big thing
Who is “you guys”?
It’s a chain reaction, support pro surfing– the Wsl and Fernando prospers, the Wsl and Fernando prospers–and surfing winds up in the Olympics and all over the mainstream–and boogies and Sups follow.
It starts with you.
How do i start it and what am i starting – can we make money?
I got in a pissing match with the head of USA surfing. Doubtfull we’ll ever field a team. We tried for the panamerican games, which will absolutely have bodyboarding in them. Its not something any if us who run boogie events really care about though. Were just trying to focus on our own tour.
But p.s. I handle all professional bodyboarding contests in continental North America.
Tahiti Skins 2000, that one nuts Shark Island comp from back in the day, scoring epic Pipe during their comps, Canary Islands too… def some rad bodyboard events i can think of and it all still seems core. How stoked is bodyboarding that they don’t have an Elo…
Para olympics I assume?
Morey on the story, as it developes…
Pretty slick!
It’s almost as if you’re disregarding the Suisse team. And the mighty Hungarians.
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and I’m gunning for gold. Willing to represent any country. For inquiries, get a surf bike peloton and @ me. Also bar mitzvahs
Can they do break dancing on that? Maybe another new Olympic sport.
The very small but proud kneeboarder coalition wants in. Or maybe half-men should in the Special Olympics?
My bad back and artificial hip are sending me back to my beginnings on a boogie, eh, at least I can provide comic relief for the kids.
No shame in that! Enjoy it!
I’d still burn him.
This entire attempt to include surfing is going to go down as an epic failure. There are 10 men included who have any reason to be involved, the rest might as well not show up. The waves are going to be shit and nobody (except maybe Longtom) is going to sit through watching heats, its way too boring for the mainstream viewer. One and done if you ask me.
Except they have already committed to have surfing on the Paris 2024, in Teahupoo, which will be moooore than entertaining.
fuck yeah. I wanna see some eastern european and southwest asian teams get scarred
This is the Olympics we are talking about. Money takes precedent over EVERYTHING. If this proves to be a total failure they will pull it. That said, Teahupoo may be the difference maker. Certainly would be quite interesting to watch the Russians, Germans, etc get launched into the stratosphere though.
When you posted the Danny Kim article a few days back it got me wondering what a bodyboarding contest held at Surf Ranch would look like. Or more importantly, would the go-to spin to win strategy be tossed aside to herald in the return of twin fin bodyboards.
More as the sorry develops.
Come to think of it I’ve never seen a clip of a bodyboard at Lemoore. Is the Surf Ranch board-ist?
They did let that hippy dippy skimboard guy in there. Can’t remember his name but not Blair Conklin.
Brad Domke? Hé’s the guy that does step off’s at huge Escondido. Seems like it would be pretty hard to make a wave on a skimboard at the ranch,
Just looked it up, it was that itchy scratchy looking bugger Austin Keen.
All those guys look like they need a good delousing
Austin Keen
I haven’t either. Having thought about it, I actually think Surf Ranch is a wave specifically designed for bodyboarding. It might be one of Kelly’s Kelly’s*. Stole ADS’ time to bask in the glory of a Championship, AND trolled bodyboarding building a wave that, well shit, let’s face it, is a wave more suitable for bodyboarding than surfing.
*”Kelly’s”, meaning “oh dang, Kelly done gone and Kelly’s us again
Its about as boring and lame as you would imagine…
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It’s as boring as everything else there.
“The Blue sled of dred.”-Chas
But you do get a fat blue viagra pill cheering you on!!!!
Stewart rode it, but he wasn’t the first lidder. Someone that was working there early on, that was also a bodyboarder, was gifted one wave from Kelly. From memory neither seemed to stoked on it
That’s cause his boogie didn’t have a twin fin set up.
Remember when the subclass twin fin boogiers got more flack than spinning cause that was winning?
Vaguely. Spinners have to be the worst manoeuvre ever
Theres been a bunch. Mike stewart, bobby kithcart, Flume booged there as well as steph gilmore. Its a shit wave for bodyboarding though. BSR pool or surflakes are far better for the boog
Don’t you mean ‘Morey’ as the story develops ?