Forward foot thinking!
History will look back on the 2020s as Kai Lenny Time and boy has it ever been. The Maui local, Jaws maven, is currently ubiquitous across our landscape. From creating a Metaverse with Facebook founder, and world’s 5th richest man, Mark Zuckerberg to announcing his upcoming twins will be girls at the aforementioned Jaws to appearing on the very popular podcast Dirty Water, the handsome waterman has been everywhere.
Deserving.
Can you imagine a better statesman for our fallen kind?
No and never and now Kai, and his brother Ridge, are vowing to change transportation forever.
In an explosive Wall Street Journal feature, the two discuss how they plan to change the very idea of transportation by making foils as ubiquitous in the ocean as electric scooters are on land.
I skimmed the story then got logged out and left crying behind the paywall but if you are a Wall Street Journal subscriber you can, and should, read every bit here.
Lachlan Murdoch will thank you.
If not a subsriber, what I recall is that Kai Lenny and his brother Ridge made a foil company, Kai “commuted” around very crowded Manhattan Island easier on a foil than on land.
How they want to maybe have others do the same.
I don’t know.
I was very busy dancing ballet today.
Great idea though as long as none of them are pretending to surf.
Commuting in Chicago etc.
The Gold Coast.
Manhattan Beach.
No?
I defy you to disagree.
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F#ck Kai Lenny. He can hold his breath very longly and strongly, but f#ck him and f#ck foils. F#ck Joe Rogan. F#ck Kelly Slater. F#ck private equity. F#ck me.
And F#ck Zuckerberg. Does that assh#le own Disqus too? FU.
I’m so mad.
Hey there are a few in the private equity or investment banking game who are likeable
Kai is enthusiastically unlikeable. Maybe it’s because he has used up all of the possible likings for him himself. I reckon the guys screams his own name when he cums before congratulating and thanking himself in a heartfelt manner.
Can you imagine a better statesman for our ‘fallen’ kind?
I resent that!
Timothy Leary said surfers were– Evolutionary Throw–Aheads.
Sups and Foils seem to be the Neanderthals…and hopefully they will go the way of the dinosaurs–and become extinct.
Ooof….fuck Kai Lenny! Why is there a small group of surfers that seem determined to fuck the surf experience for everyone just to make a name for themselves. We can just hope that he is so bogged down with baby duties that this girl dad never achieves this and many of his other terrible ideas.
It’s like when Lard tried to sell off those golf-carts you stand on soo you can “surf” the green…
I watched “take every wave” the laird doc the other day and he is the exact same personality type as Kai. These guys are pioneering some incredible feats no doubt but rather than enjoy the experience they have to document and blast their persona to the world in order to receive fulfillment. Laird was laughable when he described the zoo that jaws has become. Motherfucker you built the zoo. Then he went to teahupoo and did it all over again.
I got in early on the inflatable carrot sail. I assume its going to take off anytime soon and I can sign a deal on that super match I have my eye on.
not match, yatch. fucking autocorrect.
I think you’ll find that Dirk Ziff is the world’s greatest waterman.
Ha
What side of the shoreline (road) do you drive a foil on in the US?
Jonah’s foiling now.
Nothing more appealing than navigating floaters in the Hudson(aka dead people for you SoCali bois), in the middle of winter, just like Sully did years ago. That water is so warm and appealing in January while wearing an Armani suit…
Imagine all the daily rescues and drownings, collisions and so on.
We will need webcams and daily Vegas betting lines to watch the show. I’ll sell my company and watch this all day long…with a bottle of good sipping tequila, shrooms and blow to enhance the entertainment!
uhhh… it’s cold AF in the water in NYC from nov to may. narry a chance of commuting via foil.
I ride some stupid boards but foils have no place in crowded lineups. They need a rule like jet skis where they’re not allowed within 50 metres of swimmers and surfers.
I just pray I’m not involved in the incident that forces the rule. God knows I’ve been close. The sight of a 150kg man hurtling towards you on a SUP foil in full safety stance, only just in control, keen wet blade glistening in the morning sun like some unwitting samurai sword, is as scary a visage you’re ever likely to see.
TL/DR fuck off Kai
Errrrr, hey…. Sorry about that brah 🤙🤙
Foil’real tho!
Lenny and Laird–the two Rodney Dangerfield’s of surfing..
“No respect!” lol
Yeah? No.
That would be an immense legacy for Kai. For his foil invention to over run and ruin surf zones, much like scooter kids at skate parks. Also, while he obviously rips anything, his taste in friends is pretty questionable.
Combine this foil idea with Telsa and Facebook somehow and you might just create the 4th horseman of the surfpocalypse.
Don’t care to comment on whatever was written here, as I’ll wait to discuss… err, disqus Kai once Th(e)-Foiler airs in Feb… I’m really more concerned with the recent announcement from the WSL that they’re going to take the only get-the-Top 8-guys-and-Top 4-women-and-put-them-on-a-boat-to-sail-around-and-surf-primo-locations-to-determine-a-World-Champ idea and run with it. Rumor has it that Kelly and Mr. Toppenberg have gone all in on a pirate theme… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I read Elo in the SpongeBob pirate voice
🎵 who lives in a… 🎵
Kelly has now descended to be a penis with an eye patch. Brilliant.
Japs eye patch.
Get a grip Kai!!! You got twin girls on the way! Soon, you ain’t gonna have time to do shit!!! Just you wait,
yepp. we’ll find out first hand how “selfish cunt” he really is. Cuz like you said with twins on the way time will be a precious commodity.
He will pull in a yaya or the like to take the pressure off his PYT. That’s “Pretty Young Thing” for you non Jackson aficionado’s..
I disagree