Very satisfying.
Kurtis Loftus, hailing from Jacksonville Beach, Florida achieved the unthinkable, yesterday, and shattered what has long been held an unbreakable record by surfing a whopping 638 waves during a 31-hour marathon session.
The 60-year-old goofy foot, wearing what appeared to be a 3/2 wetsuit, gloves and Vans surf boots, surfed all day, all night, and six hours of the next day ending sometime in the afternoon, getting bathed in cheers from family, friends and amazed onlookers.
“I need to get some carbs, some protein and some other things in me, but rest, family and just be grateful,” Loftus told Jacksonville’s NBC affiliate after his last wave. “I mean, what we had, it was extraordinary. We couldn’t have asked for better weather, better support, and I have just enough stubbornness in me to make sure that I’m going to meet these goals.”
The ostensible reason for shredding so hard, so long, was to raise money for the non-profit Deck the Chairs which “promotes the arts and fosters community pride and involvement through a creative display of public art featuring lighted iconic lifeguard chairs” every holiday season in Jacksonville.
The real reason I imagine, though, was WHOOP.
Imagine the fitness gains after surfing 638 waves.
The strain meter pinned to the ceiling.
Very satisfying.
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where’s the sharks when you need one
where’s the footy of him at 3 am?
Yes, I’d like to see some video of him catching these waves every 3 minutes, as it looked pretty flat.
What does that look like?
A Brazilian soccer star sandwiched between a surfing champ and his model wife/girlfriend?
🙂
His quad performance longboard went unreal out there. Shaper?!?!?!?!?!
That’s about the shittest cause I’ve ever heard of.
Only a surfer would do some so utterly pointless to raise money for something so utterly shite.
Bravo.
“benefiting the human foundation”
Lots of kids in Florida have cancer and stuff from bad water sources etc. But no let’s surf for art.
I surf for bad art.
GIVE ME 700 KRUSTY BURGERS!
Not that impressive. Try dedicating 3/4 of a lifetime to surfing in successively shittier condition with increasing regularity, eschewing all other societal responsibilities, to the point where you’re lying to family/friends/loved ones/work/yourself to justify having your fifth surf in two days in two foot slop
Self reflection’s a bitch
Onya Kurtis, Dale Webster would have been proud, I’m sure!
He’s lucky some Riverside thugs didn’t take his waves! BUT I suspect he had Jacob Szekely guarding the lineup for him as that dude is one badass MOFO…and of course he has a mighty pretty mouth!
Okay, maybe my math is off, but I think that equals one wave every 3 minutes.
Is that do-able?
In the dark at night also?
I heard Dirk Ziff has his own wavepool in the basement of his house and just shreds all night.
Yep, 20 waves per hour for that long a period of time is quite a high average.
Other things in me is code for dick. Wave pig
638! Now, that’s lofty!
One wave every 3 min. Would be more impressive if there was actually some surf.
Welcome to the East Coast.
Not to throw any shade here, but I really can’t see someone catching one way every 3 minutes, even over a 5-hour period.
And catching one wave every 3 minutes in the dark?
And he was ‘standing up’ on on every wave?
And you get lulls between sets, of 5 minutes or more easy.
And I’m sure this guy had to take some types of breaks to hydrate and maybe use the restroom.
Just saying.
100%
I didn’t see it specify he was taking set waves. 1ft, big board, he probably just racked up the score by hopping on and of waves in knee deep water. not to detract anything from his achievement. I would last about 20minutes in those conditions and then decide the whole exercise is pointless and got to the pub.
Do you take surfing breaks to “use the restroom”, Sam?
Cause that’s super fucking weird.
Yeah cuz taking a huge cookie dough detox shit in my wetsuit really ups the resale value
You shit in your wetsuit? I did it once(involuntarily) it wasn’t fun.
It’s fucking gross with a hood on.
I tried in vain to dissipate and flush. Ended up naked and reeking in the carpark covered in brown flakes, perfect time for a walker to emerge from the bush. Put that wetsuit through the wash 3 times and could still smell it months later.
I just assumed most functioning humans (in fine health) could schedule bowel movements around surfing!
for two days straight? you must be at the genius level of bowel control C-man?
Easy!
You ever seen Florida? I use to surf 20 minute heats and would regularly be docked for points because I caught 15 waves halfway thru. People here count getting to your feet as riding a wave.
Looks like Kurtis is off his meds again.
Where is shark when needed?
The new Floridian GOAT is crowned. Time to tear down that awkward Slater statue and replace it with a Loftus
I guess that’s impressive, yet I couldn’t care less
Next segment: HB man agrees with Florida man full at everything.
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