Strange days indeed.
Strange days we are living in what with surf groupies worshiping at the beautiful, I’m near certain, feet of Jonah Hill. Wildfire chewing through the land. Everyone, and I mean everyone, clamoring over mid-length surf craft. Looking for funboard in all the traditionally high-performance shortboard places.
Jon Pyzel, creator of the Ghost and Phantom now also has a Midlength Crisis.
Hayden, who brought us the Hypto Krypto, a Mid Length Glider.
JS does the Big Barron, Stretch the Jon Wayne Freeman, Firewire the Sunday, Chili the Midstrength and on and on and on it goes.
Oh, there are no rocks sailing from my glass house. I was introduced to the lifestyle just over a year ago by the very man responsible for the craze. One Devon Howard. The handsome 47-year-old put me on a 6’10 CI Mid and I enjoy much, though must say, I only ride when head high and only occasionally.
Horses for courses.
But what do you think? Are you swayed by the masses or hunkered down, shaving volume, adding fins?
Howard, in any case, joined David Lee Scales and I just days ago to discuss midlengthing, fatherhood, Joel Tudor and the resurgent longboard world tour.
A fine program, all things considered.
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No, sorry Dane. The phrases “California grown” and “premier cannabis” should’ve signaled that I was referring to ounces. But I could probably swing an 1/8th lb. of Mexican dirt weed his way for roughly the same price, haha.
Because your getting smarter everyday!
Jesus fuck. I used to be a fan of this podcast, what happened? Admittedly I haven’t listened in a while because it went downhill, but it’s off the fucking charts shit now!
Thought I’d give it a go because I like Devon Howard but couldn’t make it through 15mins. I’m amazed I made it through the first 3mins of the Worst Podcast Advert Ever for athletic greens. I’ll avoid buying them on principal now.
The tone and inflection of DLS cuts through me like a paring knife.
I’m willing to bet Chas is a good cunt IRL but his schtick is unbearable. Dang? Fucking dang? How can you wind people up so much on a personal level but still have such a puritanical hangover that you need to use words like “dang”?
As for DLS and his weepy father-to-be shite… You’d think he was the first man to father a child.
Get on Mumsnet you cunt. You’re supposed to be running a surf podcast.
Fuck sake.
Those 4” count when you’re a baby whale 🐋
Where you surf mostly in Oki? When this clusterfuck ends and travel starts up, me and the wife and kids will be straight down there and Ishigakijima
Just totally give in and get a soft top and a stupid fuckin shirt
DLS not a reader, very surprising.
All of that. Well All Right. Etc.
Sitting in the skeleton of the Johnson’s condos being built off East Cliff Drive, watching the storm rage and Third Reef pop off and sailboats wash up, hoping the sand would form a bar at the Rivermouth and in the Harbor.
Listening to Sea of Joy.
It’s not the 90s I pine for, it’s the 70s.
Better soundtrack than now, that’s for damned sure.
Someone asked Eric Clapton “What’s it like to be the greatest guitarist of all time?”
To which he replied: “I don’t know, go ask Prince.”
My guitarist friends say that’s not far from wrong.
I like Blind Faith, anyway.
Prince was an INCREDIBLE guitarist, and Clapton is a total shithead.
Clapton’s just a human being doing the best he can.
If a certain type of board works for you then ride the fucker , its not rocket science.
Steve Jones
The bloke in the middle of Chas and the other twit looks remarkably like Richie Cunningham crossed with Bert Kirchner.
Not exactly the type of guy you’d want to emulate in the surf or get a board off.
Ever…
I had a 6’10 swallow tail fish that I rode as a twin with a trailer fin. Great board, caught anything but it went to a new home in the great purge of 2018.
Yep, just fini watching it. Too bad Hawaii is out by only 1 run. We’re still a LL powerhouse.
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I have a giant fish. 6’8” or something. Goes like a piece of shit but it is good for your surfing and keeping fit when it’s rubbish.
Can’t we partner up with Shane Herring and start an elf shoe movement? I’m fucking over giant fun boards and fuckwits on them in good waves. It’s defeatism and accepting mediocrity.
You seen some of the boards he’s shaping?
I’m assuming much volume. But of course I want something of yesteryear.
Does a 7’2 Vouch Mid Vish count?
fuk dat Inertia shit
Ya wants some Tia? Here ya go
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Thank you Huli ! Any more?
We can only hope Travis. what a freakin babe …
Definitely better than those mugs!
For Devon…
By the time I was 2, I was 20kg… and most of that was head.
I never crawled because I would just face-plant and then be anchored to the ground.
I used to shuffle round on my arse. Mum had to sew linoleum into the seat of my pants so I didn’t wear them out.
My parents could always find me at Dee Why beach by following the turtle track.
Or worse..
Byron, bae….