A low down dirty shame.
Imagine being a next level 14-year-old surfer out sharing an Indonesian lineup with the world’s greatest athlete Kelly Slater. Then, dream on, he shouts you into an absolute bomb. He having position, you getting the call. Paddle, paddle, paddle, drop barrel beginning to lay out before you when, suddenly, out from the sky, an elder man wearing what appears to be a baseball hat and/or trucker hat drops forcing you back into the lip in order to be pounded upon the reef.
Harsh!
This nightmare-cum-dream sequence, though, happens to be a reality and one commemorated to film for all the world to see.
Filmmaker Shane Kreutzer captured the moment that was thus reprised by snowflake publication The Inertia.
Being snowflake, the aforementioned refused to name and shame the elder man but Kelly Slater, brave and bold, had no such compunction, ordering the spineless SUP enthusiasts to “tag him” and providing the handle @captain_kook_berry_crunch which just so happens to belong to belong here.
Comments were very harsh toward the dropper inner with many declaring that would be the last wave he would catch in Indonesia, that he should fly home etc.
But what is your read?
Kelly obviously a saint, young charger going for it but elder a life endangering menace?
I stand with Slater, and rage, per the usual.
Please weigh in with your thoughts.