Putting the K in Karma.
The World Surf League’s much-ballyhooed Final’s Day is but hours away and, thus, Surfline, the official forecast partner, has released its calculation.
Usually cocksure in predicting never-before-seen, historically-significant, twenty-foot-plus swells with other ideal conditions ahead of each tour stop, Surfline has gone noticeably tepid in front of Trestles, declaring, “Hurricane Kay a major wildcard for waves, wind and weather Thursday – Sunday,” adding “uncertainty exists on exact details for wind speed and direction” even though Thursday and Friday will see “7 foot sets.”
The prognosis only extends through September 12 with the waiting period lasting all the way to the 16th and so all is not lost but surfers decapitated by the controversial “mid-season cut,” rolled out for the first time this year, must be wondering if “Kay” actually stands for “Karma.”
The pop interpretation of the Hindu belief posits that future beneficial effects are drawn from past beneficial actions but most vindictive westerners really enjoy the darker side of nasty effects drawn from nasty actions.
Walk an old lady across a street, win the lottery, sure, but deprive professional surfers of their livelihood, cop a hurricane, better.
What are your thoughts on eastern religious philosophy, in general, and how it pertains to the World Surf League, specifically?
Discuss at length.
Meh
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7 foot waves do not exist. It’s 1-2 foot, 3 foot, 4-5 foot, 6-8 foot etc
What about small, overhead and pretty big?
Five foot exists?
BLASPHEMER!!!
THE GERMAN MALE LOWER LEG REIGNETH SUPREME UNTO THE MEASUREMENTH OF WAVESTHTHTH!!!
Good find. I missed that the 1st time.
Haha, what a stupid way to run a sporting event.
Can’t even let the fans know what day it’s gonna be on so they can plan ahead, (call in sick).
Other sports–1pm sharp on Saturday, no ifs ands or butts, ( if it’s raining we’ll just close the roof).
Surfing–well, maybe, Thursday, or Friday or Saturday–but we still have to wait for first light, to see what it looks like and which way the winds blowing before we can tell you for sure that it’s on.
Sure way to get a big world audience.
Not!
I guess surfing was maybe just never meant to be a dignified sport.
How lucky you don’t care about it!
“7 foot sets” Should be the slogan for the WSL.
sorry, I missed this, should have added below as my comment…to reiterate, there is no such thing as a 7 foot wave.
Or 3 German lower legs.
WWJD
What would Jonah do?
Eat a cheeseburger and the vomit. It’s the Malibu way.
As Bodhisatva is believed to have said, “Why are you always looking to me for answers, when those answers are within you, unless you’re stupid. And if you are stupid, life is full of irony.”
Soon we will all be Chinese Buddhists. The Japanese want to be American while the Chinese seek to destroy us…in surf competition if not global politics. They are disciplined and driven, moreso than Jack Robinson. And really good in small surf, per Felipe. Meet the (eventual) new boss.
https://youtu.be/WzkGalX_vQ4
Only if you believe the ‘pictures from Space.’
I remember an impasse with a Balinese taxi driver who didn’t understand my question about getting angry at other driver’s antics. I thought it was the language barrier, but I think he just genuinely didn’t understand the notion of anger with another’s actions. Remarkable. But aspirational? Well, their infrastructure is rooted and corruption is rife, so perhaps there’s great benefits to anger and this-life retribution. Also, I remember being chased down the road by an angry extended family for reneging on a Bintang tee negotiation. In other news, I think the family Florence is about to score Florence XL Fiji. Perhaps some fine-worthy edits.
Any odds you’ll be in Indo end of this month, or again in October?
Slim. The kind of odds JP would bet his child’s education on. You goin?
Popping my cherry. A little intimidated, tbh. Only surfed reefs a few times in my life, and I hate crowds, too.
Oh yew! Nice one. Enjoy. The crowds will be insane, but boardies and only concerns the swell might get too big (solid 7 foot +), you can’t top that. Some notes: There is no natural water source on the Bukit, so all the places out there are an affront. The advice to ‘smile and be friendly’ to the locals has typically come from good looking, talented surfers. For the average to poor in ability and looks, beware. Many of the women who look like they are learning and therefore highly burnable, are surfing with paid local very unburnable guides.
Best advice I can give you is head away from Bali. Reefs aren’t too bad. For the most part you can choose where you are paddling into the wave and decide where is too heavy and where isn’t. The waves are more predictable.
Lombok is a short hop away and has fun waves without anywhere near as many kooks/crowds. Plenty of good places to stay and eat. My last trip there, I landed in Bali, had one shitty surf with a crowd at Airport Lefts, jumped the boat to G-Land for 6 days, came back to 2 shitty days in Bali, went to Lombok for 5 days. Lombok was the highlight.
Thanks! Yeah just 3 days 2 nights in Bali and that will be it. Have to do it for seeing Bi more than anything else. Def will go other spots in the future. Good to hear about Lombok. Malaria a concern there?
I was never any more concerned with malaria there than Bali. The one I was more aware of was Dengue, which is less likely in Lombok than Bali due to being on the good side of the Wallace line.
Ahhh, sorry about delay. Last weeks of term and no time to play internet games….
Not really a problem in Lombok. Because it’s dryer, mosquitos aren’t anywhere near the problem they are in Bali/the west of Lombok. The Wallace line is the point that the monsoon rains don’t pass too often and it just so happens to pass in between Bali and Lombok. Well, you could argue that the southern part of Bali is also on the other side as well…
“I am groot??” and “I am groot!!!!”
Massive tool Massive tool Massive tool Massive tool Massive tool!
I prefer to envision Coomer, Cibs, Chinky and the other losers feverishly masterbating in a circle on the fabled cobblestones of Lower Trestles. An anti-swell ceremony. Sorrow in their eyes for what could have been yet anger in their chanting and howling for what their curse will bestow upon finals day. Verbally and physically encouraging each other until completion. Very shortly, the WSL will too have a soggy biscuit it will have to swallow.
Only thoughts on religion and wozzle are no thoughts whatsoever. They both seem to exist for those who can’t figure things out for themselves.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
LFG!!!!
LMB
…wheres lgr?
Working hard he says. No time for the silly bidness of BG currently.
working is silly…
I know. Such a common and filthy thing to do.
Hold on, I need to call my butler to have him scratch my arse…
Being is nothingness, nothingness is being, and Surfline just said there will be ‘7 foot sets’
Time for humans to dissolve their ego self and fold as one back into the primordial soup from whence we came.
What is time?
It’s ahh.. ten past nine, mate.
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Fuck. When will those surfline Kook’s realise they get instant Kook status when they say 7 foot. We have cultural rules that our elders established way back in yesteryear. It’s either
flat
1ft
1-2
2-3
2-4
3-4
3-5
now we go even’s only for a bit…
4-6
6-8
8-10
10-12
beyond that it doesn’t really matter but if you’re asking…
12-15
15-20
20+
7 foot just feels wrong eh? Who ever heard of a 7 foot wave? Doesn’t Smurfline know the rules?
Warshaw’s History of Surfing book (thanks for the gift wifey!) makes the same point re: our culture’s odd wave height scaling convention.
Knee, chest, head, overhead, double-overhead.
Quadruple-overhead, brown-wetsuit sized…
Hear hear, but what if you’re bodysurfing? Everything is overhead!
12 to 15 isn’t a thing…
East coast the other day – it’s literally 1/2 knee high slop and the MoMos call it waist high even chest. These same MoMos will be looking for something else to do this weekend when hurricane Earl swell is head high+.
805
I’ve planned my entire life around finals day…how will I cope if it is anything short of Code Red?
All your life,
you were only waiting,
for this moment to arrive.
https://youtu.be/TREsFhJbPrY
If only I still had the massive rolling paper from inside the sleeve of the Cheech and Chong album to roll up right now and fire up while listening to this gem!