Wait, what?
Surfing’s grand Olympic debut is now, officially, one for the record books what with the Tokyo Olympics turning out the lights after two-weeks of heady excitement. The man responsible for getting our favorite pastime into the Games, International Surfing Association chief Fernando Aguerre, was drunk, as we all were, on the hope, the promise, the glory of global acceptance but now comes the hangover.
In a lightly depressing interview to the Associated Press, Aguerre reveals oh what might have been as “an eight-day Olympic Surfing Festival was supposed to ‘revolutionize the Olympic experience” because “it was designed to be an initiation to both the beloved niche sport and its famous laid-back lifestyle.”
And we all know that the surfing lifestyle is as essential to the overall experience as the surfing itself. Cocaine (buy here), talking to strangers about solutions to very challenging problems in beach-adjacent bars at surf movie premiers, riots when inland hordes invade with flat brimmed caps driven crazy by suggestive messages written on underaged bodies etc.
Alas what might have been.
“It was a view of the lifestyle and the culture of surfing,” Aguerre told the AP, “So there was yoga, there was environmentalism, classes on how to be environmentally sound as a person. It was a surf initiation. For me, it’s very sad because this was a very, very new idea. This is not something that happens at Olympic events.”
Yoga, environmentalism and classes on how to be environmentally sound as a person?
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I often wonder do seagulls hate crows ?
So when I go to France, I’m Alain Piquel, and when I go to Oz I’m Alan Pickle?
“ Yoga, environmentalism and classes on how to be environmentally sound as a person”. Sounds like most of the fuckwits at the beaches near my joint. The one thing the cunts don’t do is surf!
Heck I might change to that name full time.
It sounds like the sort of beer that Joe Dîrté would drink…
Fernando sounds like that guy who continually corners you at a bbq and won’t stop telling stories about himself ripping.
It really is
I’m pro bono
I like the ‘natural set’ greek yoga and honey with some raw oats. Sometimes molasses instead of honey.
do you wear socks with your sandals?
When it’s cold I wear socks with my Briars gardening slip-ons, which are a bit like Crocs without the holes or heel strap.
I occasionally forget and actually wear them to Coles to do shopping in the evening.
I honestly don’t give a fuck. I’m so far down the path of not appearing cool to anyone no matter what I wear.
I will probably bump into down the path. I have been lost down there for some time.
Just don’t do any flashing near your neighbourhood children.
It’s almost as frowned upon as exacerbating in front of them…
Fuck their parents must be even bigger fuckwits than I first imagined.
First Kanoa, and now Keanu.
I wonder if many Polynesian parents give their kids Japanese names when born cos they want them to grow up to be Sumo champions ?
Surfing is a plastic hallway full of hood shitting, door handle pissing, drug pushing, carbon burning, waste making, boozing, smoke huffing, selfish and territorially paranoid dorks who take an otherwise very healthy pastime to levels of obsession which riddles them with with a broad spectrum of ills. There is also a really negative side.
+ for ‘plastic hallway’
I’m a big fan.
well you eith aguerre or dis-aguerre with his vision of a woke-lympics.
Women love the Coke….Cannabis not so much.
Ice opens every door.
Including the freezer😜
Settle down Chief. https://c.tenor.com/lYai64X…
Geisleman lost so the earliest time he could be on the world tour is May 2023. I know you don’t follow this stuff that close. I think Bicko and me are the only ones that do.
We’re all kooks. All of us. Including you and DHMF. It’s just that some kooks are tougher than others. It’s environmentally sound.
I want to see the comment.
It was Jack Burlow? or something close to that.
“They’re the kooks!”
He deleted it. I’ve never understood self-censor maneuver. Defeatists.
WE’RE THE KOOKS!
Not that hard.
The visual version in his mind he thought hard, but he must have car trouble or somethin’ cause that delivery was disjointed, down right hen peck keyboard typing, all flustered and shit
Pills/poison shots f people’s heads up.
He woke up feeling awkward.
There’s a bad smell here lately.
Mapski had Lotus Thai.
BG shld sponsor a booth at a future gamez. Pic at booth is ashton slapping chas. Booth populated by Scorn, LGR, Otto, Bexy, and Ben Marcus. They share stories of hazing kooks. This now ruins surfing for a generation and we all win. Bickerton and LT livestream comments on interactions in the booth.
Maybe, Kolohe, Robbo, Lakey, etc are already there.
Not Sure I understand the question, but Barra is on unless they cancel it at the last second. The pros are already down there.
It’s about time you gave up flogging your coke book.
Have you tried heroin/smack/hammer Chas ?
You’ll find that it’s far more in tune with the laidback surfing yoga lifestyle you long for.
P.S.
Just be careful to only smoke it, and not to have it too often.
It can be very bad for your health…
He’s scared of Coke but shoots up plastic.
beach grit, ultra hard health advice.