Topsy-turvy times.
David Lee Scales and I met today, remotely as unfortune (the Kung-Flu) would have it, as is our habit in order to record the much-loved podcast our own Party Pete is storing for a later binge listening. Nearly 200 episodes worth and he is certainly in for a treat. Top of discussion today, of course, is the video clip that has gone viral-adjacent featuring surfing great Kelly Slater calling a 14-year-old charger into a Kandui bomb only to have an elder, replete with trucker cap, drop out of the sky in front of him causing the boy to straighten out and get drilled into the reef.
I, along with the 11x world champion, imagined the usurper would get called out and deeply shamed but, as it turns out, the idea of “grom abuse” is alive and well amongst core surfers.
Watch again here.
Sentiment, it seems, is that the kid deserved his whipping and is surfing the last remaining frontier of this sort of business?
I’d think much shock in the mainstream where any -ism, including grom-ism and/or child abuse, is exceedingly frowned upon.
Have you re-thought your position on the matter?
Well, no time for that now as David Lee and I pivoted quickly to World Surf League CEO Erik Logan’s explosive interview with the Lipped podcast wherein he claimed that women can’t surf Pipeline and the specific instances where wood paneling an automobile is acceptable.
Topsy-turvy times.
Listen here.
Who Daniel Duane? Can’t be bothered w google
Its hearsay but what do I expect from a Silverback?
You know you watch on the DL. All good Tony, we all do
From Tony Big Island, to Freerider, to SamWaters, to some surfer and a few monikers in between I can’t recall…who is your fantasy pick for J-Bay?
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hold up
The real question is……. Did Kelly see the ‘older gentleman’ paddle ultra committed to catch said wave, and still told the 14 year-old to go for it, while pulling back himself to avoid the fate which then was shoved on the young kids’ neck….
In which case… no wonder Kelly was so busy online trying to cover up his sadism
I accidentally semi-burned a local ripper grom the other day and felt terrible.
not sure i have it in me to blatantly, savagely burn anyone*, let alone a kid.
i’m an old softy though.
* back at my old local though I would happily burn the odd cunt.
Any boat better than my current leaky 12′ dinghy
“6 months in a leaky boat…lucky just to keep afloat!”
‘TELLY WOULD GO BUT NOONE WOULD KNOW’
You can just about make out the signature cigar. What a playa. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
D00d had great hair, until he didn’t.
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Welcome to my world.
What a mug!
So is this part of the Christianity you are espousing? Indulgent cruelty to youth? Sounds about right for a someone who I can only assume by their posts is an Anglo US evangelical; Protective rules for a self-selecting group of white men (even fewer if they’re wealthy) everyone else has to suffer.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
I think I have your number, buddy.
The surfing part is irrelevant. You hypocrisy is the thing I’m discussing.
Dont paint yself into a corner
My signature move
In a lineup full of all the same color people you still have the same dynamic. Someone is going to be at the bottom of the pecking order. Why do dark skined people always default to its about race… Yawn
Because generally speaking it’s known as ‘Structual Inequality’.
Being short, stupid, or ugly is a form of structural inequality also. Snowflake mumbo-jumbo baby talk excuses for not having any balls. The oppressor is in the mirror.
Did you somehow avoid the “rites of passage” that most everyone from everyplace no matter who or what you were if you’re aged ohhhh 35 give or take years of age had to endure and work through to find their place in the surfing hierarchy? Maybe you started surfing later in life?
Not sure exactly what you’re talking about but I’m a white American and I grew up either watching the shit getting kicked out of someone by the locals at my local or (if I was lucky) getting screamed at by said locals for being so bold as to look at one of them riding a wave from 50 yards away…not that I agree with TonySamRider…but the locs at the pier came in all shapes and forms and races but the one thing that bound them together is they’d all to a man kick the living shit out of anyone, including groms for any (non) reason. I started going to the North Shore every year in winter starting at 14 and was fortunate enough through my connections in Fla to get intro’d to Nelson Sadoy who started shaping my boards and intor’d me to Perry Dane amongst other heavies and although I saw some heavy handed localism esp at V-land and Pipe, nothing compared to the carnage I witnessed at Lake Worth(less) pier. Not sure what my point is but I’m drinking and playing poker online while watching baseball and so yeah no yeah…what?
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An ark?
Edit: actually your probs better building a bunker! The way the world is going.
Already in NZ…
I’ll back him up.
Most of Australia seems to be wreathed in a miasma of greed, enjoyed only by property developers and their ilk. So tacky.
I’ve got nothing against drug-addled sport heroes. The crass noveau riche can go fucking jump though.
So I’m confused; you complain about ‘druggies’ etc. yet you complain about the WSL ‘cleaning up surfing’.
Make up your mind.
It’s about balance. I don’t mind the odd toke on a doobie but I’ll also chop mumsy a load of wood. Balance.
mmmm…Drugs!
greztit…with hooters/
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Damn Dane, youre looking good these days, keep up the good work.
no need for over-exposure…can’t sing, ain’t pretty…legs are thin…
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Fuck yeah, onya Dane
I pictured you looking something like this…no?
wilson don’t surf!
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Bright future ahead as brian wilson in a beach boys tribute act – the beach buoys or something
VTA County Fair 2022
Is that really you Dane? If so, no wonder your posts are senility personified…and I mean that as a brother from another mother who is losing a million brain cells per…you’re the man brotha
Telly wouldn’t have stood for it.
But then, he was a loner. Off on adventures, away from the crowd.
When they begin testing for performance enhancing drugs than they will have cleaned up pro surfing.
Until than it’s just a charade
How did surfing become so fucking conservative? I look around at other sports and I see characters and personalties. We got so boring. Why the fuck is a drop in news? Should be a normal occurrence. We’re a bunch of dull cunts.
I know what you mean, the world is generally soft place now. I blame the internet. This story does has it all through! GOAT’s, Grom abuse, cranking lefts, + GOAT outrage! It’s really an all star of a story.
Kelly wanting to nark/dox the antagonist is classic.
haha it really is. Master of shade, ahheemm I mean “Slade”
At least three more posts on the way!
Just needed some rarely seen deep-sea hasn’t been eaten by the Indo people type of shark to jump through the wave and decapitate the villain…whoever that is…Kelly?
Ballet is so rad!!
Cmon man!! Not joking.
how good was Black Swan
Its the emblem of DYFC
So, very very good
There’s a sick twisted pleasure in watching people get burned like that.
And that i guess is the essence of clickbaiting, which in turn modestly helps to fund chas’ bohemian lifestyle.
But seriously if there was a drop in reel, a tuberiding reel and a wipe out reel from that day, which one would you watch first?
I was blessed to be raised by assholes in the water. So, at this age I was already “spear qualified”. WTF? Blast that f pos!