Breaking: Hawaiian surf icon and former
world #4 fighting for his life in ICU after being attacked at Ala
Moana Beach Park! “Hawaii has changed dramatically. Drugs and crime
are now everywhere. It’s getting worse… sad!”
By Derek Rielly
One of the very best in the game.
The North Shore legend, former world tour shredder and
influential surfboard shaper, Reno Abellira, is reportedly fighting
for his life after being attacked at the Ala Moana Beach
Park.
From Instagram,
Reno Abellira was Attack While Sleeping at Ala Moana Beach
Park and He as kind of been homeless lately. They are Saying That
He’s In A Coma? Please send some prayers to him and if anybody know
anything new you can update or leave a comment.
Okay the latest update he is in Queens Hospital In ICU he’s
in serious condition but stable but not conscious. As of Sunday 9:15 PM
Abellira, who is seventy-one, has had what you might call a
wild, wild life.
His daddy was a middleweight boxer who was shot dead in a
Chinatown pool hall where he worked as a “strong arm”; he beat Jeff
Hakman at thirty-foot Waimea Bay to win the 1974 Smirnoff (he’d win
it again three years later) and his twin-fin design convinced Mark
Richards to make a version of it and subsequently dominate the
world tour for half a decade.
In 1992, he was indicted, according to a letter to
BeachGrit from Reno “for three counts for the
Federal crimes of racketeering (the RICO Act) specifically
Possession with Intent to distribute of four kilos of Cocaine and
over 27 pounds of marijuana that had been control delivered by
the U.S Postal Service and D.E.A agents to an address in suburban
Honolulu.”
National Scholastic Surfing Assoc.
advertises upcoming airshow with women getting half as much prize
money as men, boys; surf feminist hero Lucy Small swings into
action: “You love progression, what about progression on gender
equality!”
By Chas Smith
Cha-ching.
The National Scholastic Surfing Association, or
NSSA, stepped right in it yesterday by advertising an upcoming
“airshow” for men, women, children in Huntington Beach, California
to take place today. The post, on Instagram, was captioned “we love
progression! Let’s go kids!”
All not great though the real kicker was the boldly announced
prize purse. The winner of the men’s division set to receive $1000.
Winner to the “juniors” or boys division also $1000. Winner of the
women’s $500, exactly half as much, enough to cover dinner for 10
at the local Olive Garden.
“Cha-ching” was written above and adorned with rocket ship
emojis and flying stacks of cash.
One might imagine how this bald-faced show of inequality might
be ill-advised in this day and age. One might also imagine how this
sort of business easily slides under the radar.
Thankfully, we have surf feminist hero Lucy Small.
You will certainly recall how she bravely called contest
organizers out from the stage after winning half as
much as the men in an Australian longboarding competition. You
should also remember how she bathed Dirty
Water with her charm and wit.
And into the NSSA comments she swung, declaring, “Equal pay for
equal play is written into California State law! You love
progression, what about progress on gender equality?”
The NSSA, of course, quickly deleted the post leading Small to
wonder if it was disappeared because the situation is going to be
rectified or simply because the association did not want the
scrutiny.
Very fine point and I believe the scrutiny is well-deserved.
NSSA?
Equal pay or will the 1950s continue to guide decision
making?
More as the story develops.
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Look! Friendly ocean creature!
Surfing’s pre-eminent journalist slams
Sixty Minutes’ child-like take on Australia’s Great White crisis!
“What would you do if you swam into … Jaws?”
By Derek Rielly
“We’re to blame for the surprising boom in shark
bites…”
The world’s pre-eminent surf journalist Sean Doherty, a
man who will crumble bones and drink blood in the pursuit of a
story, has come out swinging at tabloid current affairs show 60
Minutes for its child-like take on Australia’s Great White
Crisis.
When 60 Minutes tweeted, “Dr Nathan Hart, a world-leading animal
neurologist, puts the increase in shark encounters down to one
simple fact: humans are sharks are mixing more than ever
before,
Doherty responded,
“One simple fact? More people? All recent fatalities have been
victims of White shark attack. White sharks have been protected in
Australian waters for 20 years. Breeding cycle 12-15. Your reporter
just nodded his way blithely through this claim.”
Doherty knows.
He grew up surfing the NSW mid-north Coast and has seen that
dreamy lil stretch of surf heaven turn into a superhighway for
Great Whites.
Growing up in Forster and surfing during the ‘80s and ‘90s,
I never really encountered sharks, not whites anyway. We’d catch
whalers outside while fishing, but you never saw sharks while
surfing. This was the heyday of the Tuncurry Bar, half a mile out
to sea off Tuncurry Beach at the mouth of Wallis Lake, one of the
best right-handers on the east coast. When the Bar broke, nobody
ever thought twice about sharks. They were never front of
mind.
But that’s changed in recent years. With the white shark
protected since 1999, and the primary east coast breeding ground
just down the coast, they’re regular visitors. When the NSW
Department of Primary Industries began their trial of Smart
drum-lines in the area back in 2017, they immediately confirmed
what many local surfers already knew. The DPI picked up 65 white
sharks in six months between the town beaches of Tuncurry and
Burgess, most of them juveniles between two and three
metres.
Obvious questions.
Will the conversation, as it’s called, turn specifically to
Great Whites or stick to “sharks” thus muddying the debate with
platitudes like more sharks are killed by humans than vice-versa,
cue photos of sharks being finned, and when will any of the
supposed experts, none of whom appear to surf, arrive at a number
for the current population of Great Whites?
And, to the point of more people surfing ergo more attacks, I’d
suggest the numbers of swimmers off Perth has dwindled to almost
zero, most of ’em swimming so close to shore they almost hit the
sand with their arm strokes, and at known Great White haunts surfer
numbers are down dramatically.
Or I’m wrong.
Tell me.
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Later, VAL.
Tybee Island, Georgia’s most popular surf
spot, experiencing horrific surge of headless roosters, cups of
blood being left on beach as experts wonder if voodoo is being
practiced to cull herd of VALs!
By Chas Smith
The answer?
The VAL-pocalypse is truly upon us, each and
every one, but how many brand new adult learners do you see around
your local lineups each day? Ten? Twenty? Fifty? Seventy wouldn’t
be out of the question and we surfers, we proud few who first
paddled out before the age of twelve, are left with a real
quandary.
What then shall we do?
Well, a brave soul in Georgia may have stumbled upon the
answer.
Voodoo.
Georgia, directly above Florida and much like it except with a
good college team, is not known for its surf but certainly has some
and mostly on Tybee Island. Many surf schools there. Much soft top
though also headless birds left on the beach and cups of blood.
Someone is leaving what appears to be animal sacrifices on
the beach at Tybee Island. Channel 2 Action News has learned that
police have found headless birds on the beach five times in
2021.
“I touched one, but it sure looks like blood to me,” said a
witness on police body camera video. “Yeah, those would be
roosters,” replied the officer.
Police said two headless roosters and six red plastic cups
with dried blood were found on the beach in late
September.
“Oh, cups of blood! No, I don’t know if they were performing
some type of ritual or what, but I don’t like it,” said Stephanie
Keeler of O’Fallon, Illinois, who was visiting Tybee Island’s
beach.
Channel 2 Action News filed an open records request with the
City of Tybee Island and learned that headless birds were found on
the beach five times in 2021.
“We don’t know exactly why it keeps happening. The way
appears to be ritualistic, but we don’t know whether it’s part of
organized religion or what the intent might be,” said Lt. Emory
Randolph with the Tybee Island Police Department.
I think brilliant.
I think if we, each and every one, purposed to leave headless
birds and cups of blood on our favorite VAL infested spots we’d
soon clean it all up.
No?
A better idea?
Well, spill those beans.
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The bad old days.
Reaching peak abundance of caution, New
Zealand lifeguards ordered to wear masks when plucking drowning
swimmers, surfers from Davy Jones’ Locker!
By Chas Smith
So long, CPR.
It is summertime in beautiful New Zealand, or
almost summertime, and the beaches are filled with happy locals who
have spent much of the last year-plus locked indoors. They are out
now, and free, but maybe too free flocking to beaches and
forgetting how to swim, surf.
There were two mass rescues,
yesterday. One in Raglan after hundreds of people got
sucked out to sea in a giant rip tide. Fourteen souls were saved
and none lost. Another in Auckland where thirteen souls were
snatched from Davy Jones’ Locker and none lost.
Lifeguards, brave and bold, hoisting dripping wet, gasping men
and women into boats, helping them to shore.
Lifeguards, courageous and resolute, pumping chests and not
performing CPR with their mouths because their mouths and noses are
covered with abundant caution.
Yes, New Zealand became the first country to require its
lifeguards to wear masks whilst on duty. Raglan’s patrol captain
Molly Abrams told Radio New
Zealand that all lifeguards had been given cotton
masks to wear “when practicable” but that “saving lives was still a
priority.”
